Las Vegas Life

Author : Phyllis Carver
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781662470103

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Las Vegas Life by Phyllis Carver Pdf

After growing up in a rural area of Montana, I became an avid reader of 30 years plus! Retired in Las Vegas. Met Phyllis. Asked to read Book one of "Las Vegas Life" series. Read it in 3 days! Unlike any normal life read! Loved it! Entertaining, thrilling, informative, compelling, fun. A range of emotions! Great woman's book! Anxious for Book Two! --Norma DeVries, Business Entrepreneur I never knew of the exciting life of a Las Vegas cocktail waitress. Cece, who is "Las Vegas Life" Book One's main female character, is a strong and honest woman, who finds herself in the midst of many circumstances, including times of danger and corruption. She risks her life on a daily basis to help support her family, but always shares lessons of faith and honesty. The series of "Las Vegas Life" is exciting, fun, entertaining, and inspirational! --LAURA H. Casino life, the knowledge of Las Vegas, and the curiosity about the people living in Las Vegas have mesmerized worldwide tourists for many years. Gambling has been a part of Nevada's Wild West long before this "Silver State" joined the United States of America in 1864, yet gambling only became legal in Nevada in 1931. Book One, in the trilogy of the "Las Vegas Life" books, portrays the beginning of an exceptional lifelong love story of two, young, and beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada teenagers, Cece and Ian. Book One starts in the mid-1960s and on through their many years together in Las Vegas. The twists and turns throughout the trilogy are completely unexpected as each story continues on to unfold into the many exciting, thrilling, and emotional experiences in the couple's lives together, while continuously introducing you to their ever growing personalities, their happy and evolving love story, their futures, their family, their true friends, as well as other interesting, kind, and/or deceitful acquaintances along their life journeys in their casino environments and in their casino experiences. So sit back, relax, hold on, and enjoy!

Author : Matthew O'Brien
Publisher : Huntington Press Inc
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780929712390

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Beneath the Neon by Matthew O'Brien Pdf

Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O’Brien’s adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it’s least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.

Author : James Sie
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466859265

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Still Life Las Vegas by James Sie Pdf

When Walter Stahl was five-years-old, his mother drove away in the family's blue Volvo and never came back. Now seventeen, living in the dregs of Las Vegas, taking care of his ailing father and marking time in a dead-end job along the Strip, Walter's life so far has been defined by her absence. He doesn't remember what she looks like; he's never so much as seen a photograph but, still, he looks for her among the groups of tourists he runs into every day, allowing himself the dim hope that she might still be out there, somewhere. But when Walter meets Chrysto and Acacia, a brother and sister working as living statues at the Venetian Hotel, his world cracks wide open. With them he discovers a Las Vegas he never knew existed and, as feelings for Chrysto develop, a side of himself he never knew he had. At the same time, clues behind his mother's disappearance finally start to reveal themselves, and Walter is confronted with not only the truth about himself, but also that of his family history. Threading through this coming-of-age story are beautiful, heart-wrenching graphic illustration, which reveal the journey of Walter's mother Emily: how she left everything to chase a vision of Liberace across the country; and how Walter's father Owen went searching for her amongst the gondolas of the Venetian Hotel. In James Sie's debut novel, Still Life Las Vegas, the magical collides with the mundane; memory, sexual awakening and familial ties all lead to a place where everything is illuminated, and nothing is real.

Author : Mike Allred,Brian Michael Bendis,Ivan Brandon,Kurt Busiek,Amy Chu,Kelly Sue Deconnick,Neil Gaiman,Kieron Gillen,Mike Mignola,Mark Millar,James Robinson,Brandon Graham,Rob Williams
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781534310100

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Where We Live: Las Vegas Shooting Benefit Anthology by Mike Allred,Brian Michael Bendis,Ivan Brandon,Kurt Busiek,Amy Chu,Kelly Sue Deconnick,Neil Gaiman,Kieron Gillen,Mike Mignola,Mark Millar,James Robinson,Brandon Graham,Rob Williams Pdf

ñOn October 1, 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada suffered the worst mass shooting in modern American history, resulting in 58 deaths and over 500 injured. It broke my heart. Las Vegas is my home. I felt like something needed to be done to help in a unique way. JH WILLIAMS III, Artist and Curating Editor This "unique way" was the genesis of the WHERE WE LIVE anthology„a riveting collection of both fictional stories and actual eye-witness accounts told by an all-star line-up of the top talent working in comics today. All the creators have graciously volunteered their time and talent to help bring some sense to this senseless act and, in the process, raise money for the survivors and their families. The book will include a variety of perspectives with key themes exploring gun violence, common sense gun control, value of a compassionate society, mental health stigmatization, aftermath of tragedy and how individuals and communities persevere and an appreciation of Las Vegas as a vibrant community. 100% of the proceeds for the WHERE WE LIVE anthology will be donated to Route 91 Strong, a non-profit organization.

Author : David Littlejohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195130706

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The Real Las Vegas by David Littlejohn Pdf

Take a look beyond the bright lights to see an ever-growing human population and big business in the Las Vegas area. In-depth interviews and photo-biography reveal an unusual but quite metropolitan city that is more than just tourists. 32 illustrations.

Author : John O'Brien
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197290

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Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien Pdf

This “brutal and unflinching” novel of fleeting love in Sin City inspired the film starring Nicholas Cage and Elizabeth Shue (Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City). John O’Brien’s debut novel, Leaving Las Vegas, is an emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it; a powerful tale of hard luck, hard drinking, and a relationship of tenderness and destruction. An avowed alcoholic, Ben drinks away his family, friends, and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants of his life and heads for Las Vegas to end it all in the last great binge of his hopeless life. On the Strip, he picks up Sera, a prostitute, in what might have become another excess in his self-destructive jag. Instead, their chance meeting becomes a respite on the road to oblivion as they form a bond that is as mysterious as it is immutable.

Author : Will Cavanaugh
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477130131

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MY LIFE IN CRIME by Will Cavanaugh Pdf

MY LIFE IN CRIME is the story of one man’s career spent in the criminal justice system as a probation officer. It chronicles many of the people he knew and supervised, and includes his views about the system. Many of his opinions fly in the face of politically-correct attitudes, and his book calls for more understanding and better treatment of offenders. Criminals. Crooks. Perhaps in these pages you will see people you know--or perhaps you will see yourself.

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007596713

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive ...”’

Author : Karla Johnson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475979022

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My Life: Cursed or Blessed? by Karla Johnson Pdf

Graduated High School in 1971, three months pregnant. I left my mother’s house with my Fiancé. The only thing I took with me were the clothes on my back, the things I read in books, the things my Grandmother taught me which mainly involved cooking and cleaning, the Bible quotes and old folks tales my Grandmother used to say over and over, the few things my mother taught me during her brief and few periods of time into my life, and also a very special gift from God, which was the ability to play any musical instrument I chose to play. I thought I was grown and knew everything. What I didn't know was although I was very smart, I was also very naive. I got married in 1972 and had another baby in 1974. I worked for a police department from 1977 to 1985. I was in the Army National Guard from 1979 to 1985. So many unbelievable things happened to me during that time, both good and bad. So many more bad things happened than good that I started to think my life was cursed for some reason. It started to happen so much that finally I did not want to live any longer.

Author : Scott M. Crisci
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781662469633

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Surviving Las Vegas by Scott M. Crisci Pdf

Scott Crisci's life goes full circle as he battles a crapshoot of medical maladies and rises from a busboy to a high-stakes dealer.

Author : Dennis N. Griffin
Publisher : Huntington Press Inc
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780929712451

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Cullotta by Dennis N. Griffin Pdf

From burglary to armed robbery and murder, infamous bad guy Frank Cullotta not only did it all, in Cullotta he admits to it -- and in graphic detail. This no-holds-barred biography chronicles the life of a career criminal who started out as a thug on the streets of Chicago and became a trusted lieutenant in Tony Spilotro's gang of organised lawbreakers in Las Vegas. Cullotta's was a world of high-profile heists, street muscle, and information -- lots of it -- about many of the FBI's most wanted. In the end, that information was his ticket out of crime, as he turned government witness and became one of a handful of mob insiders to enter the Witness Protection Program.

Author : N. J. Cartner
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781911596356

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Lost in Manchester Found in Vegas by N. J. Cartner Pdf

Ricky Lever's life is thrown into despair following the break up of his long-term relationship, and with it comes the realisation that life is in danger of passing him by. Desperate for answers, he embarks on a soul-searching trip to Las Vegas with three of his oldest friends, hoping that a new direction in life will be revealed to him.In the midst of the excitement, madness and ecstasy of the city's atmosphere, life changing revelations prove to be a little harder to come by than Ricky hoped, and he is pushed to take the ultimate gamble.Bringing the city of Las Vegas to life with a killer soundtrack running throughout, this uniquely told coming of age story twists and turns through euphoric highs and emotive lows.From excessive gambling to heavy drinking, strip clubs to the desert, the biggest hotels to the lowliest bars, ride along for the trip of a lifetime as these four ordinary lads from Manchester make the most of the extraordinary world of Las Vegas.Seen through the eyes of Ricky, ';Lost in Manchester, Found in Vegas' is a hilarious, honest, and emotional journey showing how six nights in Sin City can influence a man at a crossroads in life.

Author : Konrad Zuse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3540564535

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The Computer - My Life by Konrad Zuse Pdf

Konrad Zuse is one of the great pioneers of the computer age. He created thefirst fully automated, program controlled, freely programmable computer using binary floating-point calculation. It was operational in 1941. He built his first machines in Berlin during the Second World War, with bombs falling all around, and after the war he built up a company that was taken over by Siemens in 1967. Zuse was an inventor in the traditional style, full of phantastic ideas, but also gifted with a powerful analytical mind. Single-handedly, he developed one of the first programming languages, the Plan Calculus, including features copied only decades later in other languages. He wrote numerousbooks and articles and won many honors and awards. This is his autobiography, written in an engagingly lively and pleasant style, full of anecdotes, reminiscences, and philosophical asides. It traces his life from his childhood in East Prussia, through tense wartime experiences and hard times building up his business after the war, to a ripe old age andwell-earned celebrity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : MINN:31951D02275088Q

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Art Sapanli
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595286973

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The True Art of Living in America by Art Sapanli Pdf

A Turkish immigrant's evolution from machismo to fatherhood and motherhood: The heartwarming story of how Art (Ertug) Sapanli dreamed of America as a youth, worked hard to achieve his goals and came to live the American dream. His life experiences would bring him full circle as he experienced true happiness and horrible sadness. The nightmare of his young wife's death would suddenly force Art to make dramatic changes and discover the true meaning of life with his young son, Kevin. Together they faced the challenges of life at a time when hope seemed lost.