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81) Belle Cora
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping historical tale based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin before working as a prostitute and transforming herself repeatedly to win the love and life she desires.
Author
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
In 1888 in Victoria, Texas, for a simple job, a Chicago private eye gets caught up in the poker game to end all poker games. Shannon, a Chicago private detective, returns home to Galveston, Texas for a wedding. Galveston’s new rabbi asks Shannon to find Nathan Silverberg, gone missing along with a group of swindlers who claim to be soliciting money for a future colony of Romanian Jewish refugees. What seems to be a simple job soon pushes Shannon...
Series
Publisher
University of Nevada, Oral History Program
Pub. Date
[2003] ©2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From World War II to the early 1960s, Harolds Club was the largest casino in Nevada and probably the most widely known in the world. A Family Affair is the story of Harolds and the remarkable family that owned it. It is also a revealing chronicle of the gaming industry's colorful, vigorous, and sometimes 0utrageous youth. A semi-itinerant family of carnival game concessionaires named Smith founded Harolds Club in Reno in 1935, starting in a rented...
87) Volunteers
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
Lawrence Bourne III escapes the bookies to whom he owes $28,000 by swapping places with a friend and going to Thailand with the Peace Corps.
Publisher
KNPB Home Video
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
"In April of 1996, seven lifetime winners in the casino industry gathered to tell their stories and talk about their industry. John Ascuaga, Bill Boyd, Don Carano, Jackie Gaughan, Warren Nelson, Phil Satre, and Claudine Williams represent nearly 250 years of Nevada Gaming experience ... The gamblers share experiences as business leaders, discuss the mob in Nevada gambling, debate the pros and cons of family-owned vs. corporate gaming, and consider...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Semyon Dukach was the darling of Las Vegas. A legend at twenty-one, this hotshot was the biggest high roller in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop--a system that has never been revealed until now; that has nothing to do with card counting, wasn't illegal, and was more powerful than anything tried before. From Atlantic City to the jewel of the gambling crown, Monte Carlo, Dukach and his...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Follows a group of hard-partying frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local Missoula bar into one of the largest online poker companies in the world--and who became fugitives on the run after the Feds shut down their operation.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
“A page-flipping tale of power, brutality and glamour (Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Godfather. Played out in the underground worlds of high-stakes gambling, publishing, and the film industry, this epic thriller follows two brothers, Merlyn and Arite, as they delve into the dangerous underbelly of American life. From Las Vegas to New York to Hollywood, there is one thing that remains constant: organized crime and the law are...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When the brutal father of the woman he wants to marry sets out to kill him, cattle hand Seth Coe must fight for the love of his life while eluding a notorious tinhorn gambler, whom he cleaned out during a poker game.
Abilene, Kansas 1871, "Fresh from a successful trail drive, cattle hand Seth Coe is feeling flush, especially after a lucky streak at the poker table. But his good fortune earns him a dangerous enemy, notorious tinhorn gambler Hannibal...
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