Son of a Gambling Man

Son of a Gambling Man
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9781250012463
ISBN-13 : 1250012465
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Son of a Gambling Man by : Bob Miller

A memoir of growing up in mob-run Sin City from a casino heir-turned-governor who's seen two sides of every coin When Bob Miller arrived in Las Vegas as a boy, it was a small, dusty city, a far cry from the glamorous, exciting place it is today. Driving the family car was his father Ross Miller, a tough guy—though a good family man—who had operated on both sides of the law on some of the meaner streets of industrial Chicago. The Miller family was as close and as warm as "Ozzie and Harriet," as long as you knew that Ozzie was a bookmaker and a business acquaintance of some very dubious criminal types. As Bob grew up, so did Vegas, now a "town" of some two million. Ross Miller became a respectable businessman and partner in a major casino, though he was still capable of settling a score with his fists. And Bob went on to law school, entering law enforcement and eventually becoming a popular governor of Nevada, holding office longer than anybody in the state's history. And the Miller family's legacy continues. Bob's own son is presently serving as Secretary of State. A warm family memoir, the story of a city heir, with just a little bit of The Godfather and Casino thrown in for spice, Son of a Gambling Man is a unique and thoroughly memorable story.

George Wingfield

George Wingfield
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Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0874179297
ISBN-13 : 9780874179293
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis George Wingfield by : C. Elizabeth Raymond

Banker, hotel owner, and political powerhouse George Wingfield (1876-1959) was one of the most significant figures in Nevada’s history. He was the prime force behind the start-up of its tourism and gambling industries. Raymond’s biography details every step of his remarkable climb to power, his staggering fall into bankruptcy, and a phoenix-like rise with a second fortune in gold mining.

The Man Book

The Man Book
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0312383126
ISBN-13 : 9780312383121
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis The Man Book by : Otto DeFay

"The Man Book" is an essential life-skills handbook--a manual for everything a modern man needs to know, such as Things Never to Say During Sex, Hottest Animated Women, Fly Fishing, and much more.

Nevada

Nevada
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Publisher : MCD x FSG Originals
Total Pages : 288
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780374606626
ISBN-13 : 0374606625
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Nevada by : Imogen Binnie

One of Vogue's Best Books of 2022 So Far, Buzzfeed's Summer Books You Won’t Be Able To Put Down, Book Riot's Best Summer Reads for 2022, and Dazed's Queer Books to Read in 2022 "[Nevada] is defiant, terse, not quite cynical, sometimes flip, addressed to people who think they know. It is, if you like, punk rock." —The New Yorker "Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip. Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. She takes random pills and drinks more than is good for her, but doesn’t inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen, because she’s trans. Everything is mostly fine until Maria and Steph break up, sending Maria into a tailspin, and then onto a cross-country trek in the car she steals from Steph. She ends up in the backwater town of Star City, Nevada, where she meets James, who is probably but not certainly trans, and who reminds Maria of her younger self. As Maria finds herself in the awkward position of trans role model, she realizes that she could become James’s savior—or his downfall. One of the most beloved cult novels of our time and a landmark of trans literature, Imogen Binnie’s Nevada is a blistering, heartfelt, and evergreen coming-of-age story, and a punk-smeared excavation of marginalized life under capitalism. Guided by an instantly memorable, terminally self-aware protagonist—and back in print featuring a new afterword by the author—Nevada is the great American road novel flipped on its head for a new generation.

Burning Book

Burning Book
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 376
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781416928249
ISBN-13 : 1416928243
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Burning Book by : Jessica Bruder

Jessica Bruderis a reporter for theOregonian.Her writing has also appeared in theNew York Times,theWashington Post,and theNew York Observer.She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Nevada

Nevada
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 258
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781504081467
ISBN-13 : 1504081463
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Nevada by : Zane Grey

In the suspenseful classic western sequel to Forlorn River, a rider returns to the life of an outlaw to fight evil on the Southwestern frontier. Ben Ide has come to Arizona with his family for the sake of his mother’s health, but also to find his missing partner and buy a cattle ranch along the frontier. Unfortunately, the ranch sits in a region known for cattle rustling. Ide eventually struggles to control his horses and cattle and becomes unsure of whom to trust. Nevada, a man who’s seen—and committed—his share of evil, hoped to ride away from his past. He yearns to return to the woman he loves and lead a simple life, but fate intervenes. Gangs are running rampant. Now Nevada must risk everything to protect the people he cares about . . .

Time

Time
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 814
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433081662540
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Time by : Edmund Hodgson Yates

The Curious Life of Nevada's LaVere Redfield: The Silver Dollar King

The Curious Life of Nevada's LaVere Redfield: The Silver Dollar King
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 193
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781625852366
ISBN-13 : 1625852363
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The Curious Life of Nevada's LaVere Redfield: The Silver Dollar King by : Jack Harpster

LaVere Redfield was a prolific hoarder. When he died in 1974, his estate was estimated at more than $70 million. Executors found 680 bags of silver coins and 407,000 Morgan and Peace silver dollars in his Reno mansion. A local Reno legend, Redfield gambled regularly in Virginia Street casinos. He survived robbery and burglaries of his home, which contained false walls to store millions of silver dollars. Hating banks and paper money, as well as big government, Redfield opted to serve a prison term for income tax evasion rather than pay his debts from his ample fortune. Join author Jack Harpster for this first book-length study of this unconventional man behind the folklore and the myth.

Crossing Nevada

Crossing Nevada
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 228
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1546454160
ISBN-13 : 9781546454168
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Crossing Nevada by : David Wight

Crossing Nevada begins as a family road trip across the Nevada desert. From there, the story continues over decades as a journey depicting the struggle of the family trying to come to grips with disability, death, love, and heartbreak. At various crossroads in his life, the boy, now a young man, returns to Nevada again and again in search of sanctuary, healing, and renewal. Parts of the story are based on true events. Other parts are fiction.

Nevada Rose

Nevada Rose
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1884167152
ISBN-13 : 9781884167157
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Nevada Rose by : Marc McAndrews

Scattered around the state of Nevada in unassuming little desert towns, prostitution is thriving. Nevada Rose is an extraordinary peephole into this legal, albeit secretive, world of fantasy and theatre, which takes readers inside the 29 'ranches' in and around towns. Readers will meet the managers and the madams, the kitchens and the cooks, laundry rooms and lounges, personal bedrooms and pets.