The Gambler S Daughter

Author : Shirlee Smith-Matheson
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781554886418

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The Gambler's Daughter by Shirlee Smith-Matheson Pdf

Short-listed for the 1997 Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice On the run from the authorities and the angry townspeople of Weasel City, British Columbia, in the early 1940s, teenage Loretta and her younger brother, Teddy, travel with their gambling stepfather, "Bean-Trap" Braden, as he strikes out in search of a good poker game in the Canadian and American West. Loretta and Teddy try to adjust to life on the run as they shuttle from ghost town to ghost town, jumping borders and stowing away on trucks, sleds, and trains. As the children make friends in places like Butte, Montana; Spokane, Washington; and Ferguson, British Columbia, Bean-Trap creates enemies wherever they go. Loretta and Teddy try to persuade their father to keep on the straight and narrow, but instead Bean-Trap schemes to stay one step ahead of all the sore losers who are right behind him and hot on the trail of his gold.

Author : Annette Dunlap
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438444390

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The Gambler's Daughter by Annette Dunlap Pdf

In exploring her father's own gambling addiction, the author uncovers a hidden history of gambling in the Jewish community. Screening calls from her fathers creditors, hiding his mail from her motherbeing the child of a compulsive gambler wasnt easy, and Annette B. Dunlap thought for years that her experience was a singular one. In early adulthood, she was fortunate enough to learn that she was not unique, that other children had grown up with parents (usually fathers) addicted to gambling. But when she learned, shortly before her mother died, that her grandfather had also been involved in gambling, she realized the extent to which gambling was a part of her family history. As she delved further into the subject, she also discovered the extent to which gambling is, in her words, a peculiarly Jewish addiction. Framing the issue of gambling in both historical and sociological terms, Dunlap examines the struggle between the official Jewish communityJewish leaders have long either condemned or ignored the evils of gamblingand the significant number of everyday Jews who continue to gamble, many at a level that would be considered addictive. Gambling continues to be a serious problem within the Jewish community, Dunlap argues, regardless of whether the person is Orthodox or a Jew in name only. The Gamblers Daughter is both a personal story of a fathers gambling addiction and a more general inquiry into the hidden history of gambling in the Jewish community. Readers who either live or have lived with an addictive family member will find the book useful, as will those students of Jewish social history interested in a long-ignored facet of American Jewish life.

Author : J.R. Roberts
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628158366

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The Gambler's Girl by J.R. Roberts Pdf

WANTED WOMAN Howard Haskell's beautiful daughter, Beatrice, has disappeared, and his old friend Clint Adams is on the case. But when the Gunsmith finally locates the headstrong heiress in San Francisco, he's not so sure he wants to separate her from her poker-playing paramour. Bea admits she has her doubts about the cardsharp's intentions. So does Clint, for that matter. But it's her decision. After all—as he can't help but notice—she is a full-grown woman... Now her furious father is on his way from Texas—with a gun strapped over his shoulder. And following right behind is a ranch hand who's sweet on Bea himself. By the time this mess is over, at least one man will wind up dead. Clint just hopes it won't be him...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024107155

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Daughters. A novel. By the author of “The Gambler's Wife” [i.e. Elizabeth Caroline Grey], etc by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stacey Goodwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798739327482

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The Girl Gambler by Stacey Goodwin Pdf

The story of a young girls entrapment in gambling addiction. The true advert for problem gambling and how it controlled her every movement, her every thought and almost took her life. How the guilt and shame that go hand in hand with addiction stopped her from reaching out for help for 8 years as she didn't feel it was 'OK' for a young female to be a problem gambler. How she believed it was a male dominated problem. And how eventually, she did find the tools that enabled her to become free of her addiction.

Author : Emma Casey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134779758

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Women, Pleasure and the Gambling Experience by Emma Casey Pdf

Drawing on a broad range of historical and sociological literature, this book traces the everyday gambling experiences of a diverse group of women. It provides fascinating and original insights into the pleasures afforded to women through their gambling participation and draws on a variety of feminist literature to understand women's motivations and experience of play, and to examine the ways in which women negotiate their right to gamble without reprimand. Since gambling tends to be framed within moral discourses of danger and excess, this book offers a defence of women's decisions to gamble against an often hostile backdrop. It rewrites claims that gambling is 'meaningless' and reckless spending, by pointing instead to the highly complex strategies that women who gamble employ. Importantly, it adds to contemporary feminist debates about women's leisure by showing how women seize control of their lives in order to carve out a time and space for the pursuit of pleasure.

Author : Jillian Chantal
Publisher : Desert Breeze Publishing In
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612521619

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Gambler's Inheritance Book One: The Gambler by Jillian Chantal Pdf

In 1937, Dirk McSwain, known as The Gambler, makes his living on the turn of a card. When his family home is in jeopardy of being lost, he boards the Queen Mary ocean liner, playground of both royalty and the wealthy alike. He hopes to win big to save his property. He meets three beautiful, unchaperoned, Irish sisters the first day at sea and determines to deprive them of some of their fortune. What he doesn't count on is an obnoxious passenger accusing him of cheating at cards and then dying the next morning. At the captain's request, he teams up with one of the sisters to try to solve the mystery of the man's death and gets more than he bargained for in the process.

Author : Mrs. Grey (Elizabeth Caroline)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101067299923

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The Gambler's Wife by Mrs. Grey (Elizabeth Caroline) Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Caroline Greig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HX51QM

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The Gambler's Fate, Or The Doomed House by Elizabeth Caroline Greig Pdf

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041805037

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The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky Pdf

In the fictional town of Roulettenberg, Germany, a Russian tutor to the children of a seemingly wealthy general is enticed to play roulette at the local casino. First playing for others (including his beloved Polina Alexandrovna), he soon gets a taste for the experience himself, which can lead in only one direction. Dostoevsky wrote this story based at least partially on personal experience. After his second marriage (and the successful publication of Crime and Punishment) he and his wife took a honeymoon in Baden-Baden, where Dostoevsky lost large quantities of money at the roulette table. To get his financial situation back to normal he then set up a wager with his publisher: they’d have the right to publish his work for free for nine years if he couldn’t deliver this novel by November 1866. He succeeded in this, and was able to move on to writing The Idiot. The Gambler has been translated to screen and radio, and was even turned into an opera by Prokofiev. This edition is the 1915 translation by C. J. Hogarth.

Author : Charlotte Fabiansson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317083290

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Pathways to Excessive Gambling by Charlotte Fabiansson Pdf

Pathways to Excessive Gambling draws upon extensive empirical research amongst young people and problem gamblers in Australia, comparing it with situations in other territories, to shed light on social, recreational gambling and the ways in which this can lead to excessive gambling. It highlights the relationship between the local community, sports clubs, governments, social recreation, economy and regulation of gambling venues, identifying the social indicators that typify situations which commonly lead to excessive gambling. By developing a 'society-based' perspective, this volume recognizes problem gambling as an issue for the whole society rather than just the individual, focusing on the availability of gambling and identifying its capacity, as a construct, to encourage or restrict the behaviour of the individual. As such, this book will be of significance to social scientists with interests in gambling, young people, social problems, and the sociology of leisure and culture.

Author : Sharon Sala
Publisher : Avon
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061081981

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Lucky by Sharon Sala Pdf

Experience the glamour and glitz of Las Vegas with Lucky Houston, the youngest daughter in a family full of girls, in this unforgettable romance.

Author : Irene Saunders
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451163338

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The Gambler's Daughter by Irene Saunders Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Fairies
ISBN : WISC:89094592490

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Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World by Anonim Pdf

Stories include "Tom Connors and the Dead Girl," "Maurice Griffin and the Fairy Doctor," "The Ghost of Sneem," "Tom Moore and the Seal Woman," "The Blood-Drawing Ghost," and many more.

Author : Harry Hazelton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000591666

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The Gambler's Last Pledge: a Revolutionary Tale by Harry Hazelton Pdf