Under the Neon Sky...a Las Vegas Doorman's Story

Under the Neon Sky...a Las Vegas Doorman's Story
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0984210903
ISBN-13 : 9780984210909
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Under the Neon Sky...a Las Vegas Doorman's Story by : Jay Rankin

Under The Neon Sky is a gripping, true story about a Las Vegas doorman who works the graveyard shift at one of the major hotels on the Strip. The sights, smells, and page popping characters are unforgettable as we take a journey that will transform how we used to envision the city that never sleeps. We watch as this doorman begins to emotionally break and wonder if he will become broken seeing his friends, his wife, hotel guests, and himself cross too many boundries in this riveting, page turning story.

The Odds

The Odds
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Publisher : Da Capo Press
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9780786731046
ISBN-13 : 0786731044
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The Odds by : Chad Millman

One gambler is a manic former cokehead with an Ivy League degree. The second is a college dropout trying to make a living at the only thing he enjoyed at school -- gambling. The third, one of Vegas's most respected bookmakers, is perilously close to burning out. The Odds follows the lives of these three professional gamblers through a college basketball season in a one-of-a-kind city struggling to reconcile its lawless past with its family-friendly makeover. With a wiseguy attitude and a faultless eye and ear for the sights and sounds of Vegas and its denizens, Chad Millman has created a portrait that the Wall Street Journal called "fascinating. . . often screamingly funny." The Las Vegas Review-Journal had just one word for the book: "Superb."

The Scarlet Lake Mystery

The Scarlet Lake Mystery
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Publisher : Good Press
Total Pages : 135
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ISBN-10 : EAN:4064066410346
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Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The Scarlet Lake Mystery by : Harold L. Goodwin

"The Scarlet Lake Mystery" by Harold L. Goodwin. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Soulmate

Soulmate
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Publisher : Eminent Films
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9780989392815
ISBN-13 : 0989392813
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Soulmate by : D. L. Lowell

Soulmate is a love story set within the international arena of film and television finance. A high powered executive by day, Grace White is brilliant, beautiful and driven to be the best. A broken relationship leads her down a strange dark path to live her dreams of a ranch house and horses in Malibu. On this journey she meets Richard Ascot, who suffers the midlife demons of lost dreams. The stark contrast between her two lives establishes the context of the story. Seeds are planted for a future beyond the text.

Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 419
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ISBN-10 : 9780141904467
ISBN-13 : 0141904461
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Pattern Recognition by : William Gibson

'Part-detective story, part-cultural snapshot . . . all bound by Gibson's pin-sharp prose' Arena -------------- THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ ZERO HISTORY AND SPOOK COUNTRY FOR MORE Cayce Pollard has a new job. She's been offered a special project: track down the makers of an addictive online film that's lighting up the internet. Hunting the source will take her to Tokyo and Moscow and put her in the sights of Japanese hackers and Russian Mafia. She's up against those who want to control the film, to own it - who figure breaking the law is just another business strategy. The kind of people who relish turning the hunter into the hunted . . . A gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer. Part prophesy, part satire, Pattern Recognition skewers the absurdity of modern life with the lightest and most engaging of touches. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks won't be able to put this book down. -------------- 'Fast, witty and cleverly politicized' Guardian 'A big novel, full of bold ideas . . . races along like an expert thriller' GQ 'Dangerously hip. Its dialogue and characterization will amaze you. A wonderfully detailed, reckless journey of espionage and lies' USA Today 'A compelling, humane story with a sympathetic heroine searching for meaning and consolation in a post-everything world' Daily Telegraph 'Electric, profound. Gibson's descriptions of Tokyo, Russia and London are surreally spot-on' Financial Times

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 0007161239
ISBN-13 : 9780007161232
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by : Hunter S. Thompson

This is a reissue of the novel inspired by Hunter S. Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream: We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Five: The Last Olympian

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Five: The Last Olympian
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Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 9781423131991
ISBN-13 : 1423131991
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Five: The Last Olympian by : Rick Riordan

All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos's army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan's power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 890
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ISBN-10 : 9781439126226
ISBN-13 : 1439126224
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis The Making of the Atomic Bomb by : Richard Rhodes

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award** The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb. This sweeping account begins in the 19th century, with the discovery of nuclear fission, and continues to World War Two and the Americans’ race to beat Hitler’s Nazis. That competition launched the Manhattan Project and the nearly overnight construction of a vast military-industrial complex that culminated in the fateful dropping of the first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Reading like a character-driven suspense novel, the book introduces the players in this saga of physics, politics, and human psychology—from FDR and Einstein to the visionary scientists who pioneered quantum theory and the application of thermonuclear fission, including Planck, Szilard, Bohr, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Teller, Meitner, von Neumann, and Lawrence. From nuclear power’s earliest foreshadowing in the work of H.G. Wells to the bright glare of Trinity at Alamogordo and the arms race of the Cold War, this dread invention forever changed the course of human history, and The Making of The Atomic Bomb provides a panoramic backdrop for that story. Richard Rhodes’s ability to craft compelling biographical portraits is matched only by his rigorous scholarship. Told in rich human, political, and scientific detail that any reader can follow, The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a thought-provoking and masterful work.

Less Than Zero

Less Than Zero
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780307756466
ISBN-13 : 0307756467
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Less Than Zero by : Bret Easton Ellis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. • The basis for the cult-classic film "Possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." —The New York Times They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college, he re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark. Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!

The Last Aerie

The Last Aerie
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Publisher : Tor Books
Total Pages : 723
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ISBN-10 : 9781429913249
ISBN-13 : 142991324X
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Last Aerie by : Brian Lumley

Nestor and Nathan Kiklu are the twin sons of Harry Keogh, the Necroscope. United by blood, they also share some of their father's awesome powers--but what they do with those gifts cannot be more different! Nathan takes up the struggle against the metamorphic vampires, while Nestor, fascinated by the vampires' eerie evil, has become his twin's worst nightmare: a Wamphyri Lord! Harry Keogh's sons have become the bitterest of enemies, each determined to destroy the other. When next they meet, one will surely die! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.