The Winning Ticket

Author : Nic Stone
Publisher : Ember
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781984829658

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Jackpot by Nic Stone Pdf

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dear Martin--which Angie Thomas, the bestselling author of The Hate U Give, called "a must read"--comes a pitch-perfect romance that examines class, privilege, and how a stroke of good luck can change an entire life. Meet Rico: high school senior and afternoon-shift cashier at the Gas 'n' Go, who after school and work races home to take care of her younger brother. Every. Single. Day. When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she--with some assistance from her popular and wildly rich classmate Zan--can find the ticket holder who hasn't claimed the prize. But what happens when have and have-nots collide? Will this investigative duo unite...or divide? Nic Stone, the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out, creates two unforgettable characters in one hard-hitting story about class, money--both too little and too much--and how you make your own luck in the world. "Funny, captivating, and thoughtful." --The Atlantic.com

Author : Richard Lustig
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Gambling
ISBN : 9781452077468

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Learn How to Increase Your Chances of Winning the Lottery by Richard Lustig Pdf

In his book, Richard discusses the ins and outs and dos and don'ts of buying lottery tickets to increase your chances of winning. He has created a method that he and members of his family use that has enabled them to WIN several lottery game GRAND prizes. This is a very easy to use method and will work with any type lottery games (scratch tickets or number games) in any state or country. Here are some quotes from people who have used his method: "My husband and I used Richard Lustig's lotto method and within months of starting the method we hit a Mega Money jackpot for 2 million dollars! It was really easy to follow. You only play what you can and you can still win! Shaun and I will only play lotto from now on using these strategies." -Jennifer and Shaun, Florida "Since we've been using your method, we have definitely been winning more that we used to. It's easy to follow" -Dale, Florida "I just wanted to let you know that my husband and I read through your lottery method last night. It seems great. It seems to be just simple logic and makes sense." -Kate, Illinois

Author : Rob Sand,Reid Forgrave
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781640125353

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The Winning Ticket by Rob Sand,Reid Forgrave Pdf

The Winning Ticket is an inside look at one of the most complicated yet seat-of-your-pants financial investigations and prosecutions in recent history. Rob Sand, the youngest attorney in his office, was assigned a new case by his boss, who was days away from retirement. Inside the thin accordion binder Sand received was meager evidence that had been gathered over the course of two years by Iowa authorities regarding a suspicious lottery ticket. No one expected the case to go anywhere. No dead body, no shots fired, and no money paid out. Why should they care? There was no certainty that a crime had even been committed. But a mysterious Belizean trust had attempted to claim the $16 million ticket, then decided to forgo the money and maintain anonymity when the State of Iowa demanded to know who had purchased the ticket. Who values anonymity over that much money? Both a story of small-town America and a true-crime saga about the largest lottery-rigging scheme in American history, The Winning Ticket follows the investigation all the way down the rabbit hole to uncover how Eddie Tipton was able to cheat the system to win jackpots over $16 million and go more than a decade without being caught—until Sand inherited the case. Just as remarkable as the crime are the real-life characters met along the way: an honest fireworks salesman, a hoodwinked FBI agent, a crooked Texas lawman, a shady attorney representing a Belizean trust, and, yes, Bigfoot hunters. While some of the characters are nearly unbelievable, the everyday themes of integrity and hard work resonate throughout the saga. As the case builds toward a reckoning, The Winning Ticket demonstrates how a new day has dawned in prosecuting complex technological crimes.

Author : Reid Forgrave
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781643751092

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Love, Zac by Reid Forgrave Pdf

"Love, Zac is not just a vital contribution to the national conversation about traumatic brain injury in athletes, it’s so beautifully written it belongs on the shelf alongside classic works of literary journalism.” —Jeanne Marie Laskas, New York Times bestselling author of Concussion In December 2015, Zac Easter, a twenty-four-year-old from small-town Iowa, decided to take his own life rather than continue his losing battle against traumatic brain injuries he had sustained as a high school football player and which led him to develop chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). For this deeply reported and powerfully moving true story, award-winning writer Reid Forgrave was given access to Zac’s own diaries and was able to speak with Zac’s family, friends, and coaches. He explores Zac’s tight-knit, football-obsessed Midwestern community; he interviews leading brain scientists, psychologists, and sports historians; he takes a deep dive into the triumphs and sins of the sports entertainment industry; and he shows us the fallout from the traditional notions of manhood that football instills. For parents wondering about whether to allow their kids to play football, for players, former players, and fans, for anyone concerned about concussions and sports, this eye-opening, heart-wrenching, and ultimately inspiring story may be one of the most important books they will read.

Author : Chris Gudgeon
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781551523286

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Luck of the Draw by Chris Gudgeon Pdf

Money. Gobs of it. In the blink of an eye - or the drop of a ball— it's all yours. Everyone dreams about striking it rich by winning a lottery. We all feverishly line up to purchase our tickets, and watch TV or scan the newspapers to see if we have won, even though the odds are better that we will be struck by lightning. Still, we perservere, because no matter what else happens this week, you can be sure that someone, somewhere, will win the big one. Lotteries are an unparalleled popular phenomenon. But what happens after the winners are revealed, and the checks have been issued? How does winning a lottery change one's life? Luck of the Draw profiles past winners of big lotteries, and how their windfall impacted their lives, mostly for the better, but interestingly sometimes for the worse, such was the case of a Florida widow who won $5 million in 1984; three years later, she lost her mansion and fancy cars, and owed the IRS $500,000 for back taxes. Eventually she was arrested for trying to hire a contract killer to take out her daughter-in-law, whom she blamed for her lottery misfortune. The book also depicts the past, present and future of lotteries in North America and the world over, and includes a special chapter on the revived phenomenon of big-time TV game show winners. Who wants to be a millionaire? Seemingly, everyone. In a country where eighty percent of adults have played a lottery, creating a multi-billion dollar industry, Luck of the Draw is an insightful inside look at lotteries, its winners, and its losers.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726649680

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The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov Pdf

And here comes the winning ticket! The numbers are... When Ivan Dmitritch reads the newspapes, he sees that the winning numbers from the lottery are very much the same as his wife’s ticket. They immediately start to daydream about all the things they can buy now and the life they are going to have from now on. And it is exactly because of this that they fail to notice the obvious problem. Enjoyable and amusing, "The Lottery Ticket" is one of those stories of Chekhov that can be grouped under the general "stories with a twist". A recommended read, by all means. A prolific writer of seven plays, a novel and hundreds of short stories, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is considered one of the best practitioners of the short story genre in literature. True to life and painfully morbid with his miserable and realistic depictions of Russian everyday life, Chekhov’s characters drift between humour, melancholy, artistic ambition, and death. Some of his best-known works include the plays "Uncle Vanya", "The Seagull", and "The Cherry Orchard", where Chekhov dramatizes and portrays social and existential problems. His short stories unearth the mysterious beneath the ordinary situations, the failure and horror present in everyday life.

Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 148444289X

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Jackpot by Gordon Korman Pdf

Griffin Bing and his friends are trying to locate Mr. Fielder's missing thirty million dollar lottery ticket, and thwart the local bully, Darren Vader, who wants to find it for himself--and Mr. Bing's latest invention may help.

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726647778

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The Lottery Ticket by Jules Verne Pdf

Jules Verne’s “The Lottery Ticket” is a story about a message in a bottle with a twist. Hulda Hansen’s husband-to-be Ole embarks on a journey with a fishing boat with the hope to get rich and provide for his future family. However Ole never returns. The only thing left of him is a bottle with a note to Hulda and ... a lottery ticket. Is it a winning one? What will Hulda win and is it going to be worth it if Ole is really dead? Verne masterfully weaves conflict, intrigue, and a strange chain of events around something as small as a piece of paper. Jules Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French author, whose works are thought to have seen the beginnings of the science-fiction genre. During his career, Verne wrote more than 60 novels, 54 of which were part of the ‘Extraordinary Voyages’ series. Many f his famous works have been adapted for film and television, including ‘The Invisible Man,’ starring Elizabeth Moss,’20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,’ starring James Mason, and ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth,’ starring Brendan Fraser.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0848825756

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Short Stories by Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Pdf

Author : Michael D Goodman
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468900200

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The Lottery Ticket by Michael D Goodman Pdf

There have been several break-ins around the town and the Campbell Family are going on holiday. The house is broken into whilst they are away. Along with a number of prize items the thieves steal two lottery tickets. One of these is the winning ticket and the gang who did the break-in claims the first prize of over £4m pounds. The police have a officer in league with the gang. Things do not go well with the officer who acts as the fence for the gangs stolen goods and this leads to the officer chasing the gang leader.

Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher : The Creative Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 158341584X

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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Pdf

A seemingly ordinary village participates in a yearly lottery to determine a sacrificial victim.

Author : Tony Eldridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1521220700

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The Lottery Ticket: a Novel by Tony Eldridge Pdf

Seventeen year old Jason Breezey lost his mother when he was eight. Now, he loses his father just months before graduating high school. But unknown to him, his father may have purchased the winning ticket to the largest undivided jackpot in lottery history just days before his death.Unfortunately for Jason, Martin Chesterfield, The CEO of the firm his father worked for, finds out about the winning ticket. Fueled by greed and power, Martin will stop at nothing to find the ticket and claim the historic prize for himself.Before long, others join in the hunt for the mysterious ticket, a hunt that leaves everyone's life hanging in the balance. In this mystery/thriller, loyalties are tested, alliances become fluid and scruples are put to the test for everyone. Only one thing remains certain... everyone is set on being the one to find The Lottery Ticket.

Author : Rob Sand,Reid Forgrave
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781640125346

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The Winning Ticket by Rob Sand,Reid Forgrave Pdf

Named a "Favorite Book of 2022" by the Washington Independent Review of Books The Winning Ticket is an inside look at one of the most complicated yet seat-of-your-pants financial investigations and prosecutions in recent history. Rob Sand, the youngest attorney in his office, was assigned a new case by his boss, who was days away from retirement. Inside the thin accordion binder Sand received was meager evidence that had been gathered over the course of two years by Iowa authorities regarding a suspicious lottery ticket. No one expected the case to go anywhere. No dead body, no shots fired, and no money paid out. Why should they care? There was no certainty that a crime had even been committed. But a mysterious Belizean trust had attempted to claim the $16 million ticket, then decided to forgo the money and maintain anonymity when the State of Iowa demanded to know who had purchased the ticket. Who values anonymity over that much money? Both a story of small-town America and a true-crime saga about the largest lottery-rigging scheme in American history, The Winning Ticket follows the investigation all the way down the rabbit hole to uncover how Eddie Tipton was able to cheat the system to win jackpots over $16 million and go more than a decade without being caught--until Sand inherited the case. Just as remarkable as the crime are the real-life characters met along the way: an honest fireworks salesman, a hoodwinked FBI agent, a crooked Texas lawman, a shady attorney representing a Belizean trust, and, yes, Bigfoot hunters. While some of the characters are nearly unbelievable, the everyday themes of integrity and hard work resonate throughout the saga. As the case builds toward a reckoning, The Winning Ticket demonstrates how a new day has dawned in prosecuting complex technological crimes.

Author : Rob Sand,Reid Forgrave
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781640123717

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The Winning Ticket by Rob Sand,Reid Forgrave Pdf

The Winning Ticket follows the true-crime investigation of how America’s largest lottery-rigging scam was uncovered and prosecuted, as well as its too-good-to-be-true cast of characters, including a crooked judge, an ethical fireworks dealer, and yes: Bigfoot hunters.

Author : Maryrose Sawicki
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781257047598

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The Lottery Ticket by Maryrose Sawicki Pdf