Download or read book The Bookie s Daughter written by Heather Abraham and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bookmaker s Daughter written by Shirley Abbott and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly detailed with family anecdotes, feminist insight, history, sociology, and Southern mythology, this memoir chronicles Abbott's volatile relationship with her father, a bookie at an illegal gambling house. "A moving attempt to understand . . . how a bitter failure of a man was also the father of a real maker of books".--Valerie Sayers, New York Times Book Review.
Download or read book Bookmaker 39 s Daughter a Memory Unbound p written by Shirley Abbott and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bookie s Daughter written by Thomas L Goodman and published by . This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cure for cancer is finally discovered after years of intense investigative research by a collaborative team led by a brilliant and courageous female physician, Molly Moravian. She perseveres despite numerous fiendish attempts by greedy big Pharma, the desperate aims of rogue colleagues, and the Mafia to steal her intellectual property. The plot is woven with history, intrigue, romance, and humor. The story opens during the last half of the 20th century in the crumbling New England seaport of New Bedford. Molly's childhood explores influences from the dual ethnic background of her Armenian and Jewish grandparents. She shares time with her father, Eddy, at his luncheonette, with its back-room numbers racket, as he becomes trapped and controlled by the New England Mafia. A key Mafioso protects Eddy and becomes an integral character throughout the lives of his family. As a student intern in the Ivory Coast, Molly learns something unusual about cancer that transforms her career focus as a medical researcher. During her medical training, she and a fellow student, Aaron, have an unplanned, passionate scene in the laboratory cold room, resulting in a broken agar plate that leads them to challenge the enigmas of cancer and its causes. They grow together, personally and professionally, and eventually marry. The narrative moves into its final setting of Boston, M.I.T., and Harvard Medical School. Molly painstakingly assembles a diverse collaborative team of researchers in their pursuit of a cancer cure. The team's detailed scientific methods and state-of-the-art techniques in the laboratory are highlighted over several years, tracing the intricacies of their quest toward a realistic and believable journey...the cure for cancer. Molly's groundbreaking team survives numerous disappointments, devastating setbacks, and mistakes, which only serve to strengthen the mettle of this strong and dedicated female oncology investigator. Woven throughout the scientific/medical advances on the march to a cure are true-to-life, heartwarming struggles of cancer patients and their loved ones, including Molly's best friend and a kind-hearted gangster. A surprise ending ties together this tender, emotional, ethnically charged story.
Download or read book The Gambler s Daughter written by Annette Dunlap and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Westing Game written by Ellen Raskin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Medal Winner For over thirty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires-it all depends on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, a game involving blizzards, burglaries, and bombings! Ellen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense. Winner of the Newbery Medal Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award An ALA Notable Book A School Library Journal One Hundred Books That Shaped the Century "A supersharp mystery...confoundingly clever, and very funny." —Booklist, starred review "Great fun for those who enjoy illusion, word play, or sleight of hand." —The New York Times Book Review "A fascinating medley of word games, disguises, multiple aliases, and subterfuges—a demanding but rewarding book." —The Horn Book
Download or read book Bookie written by K A Hanson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. N. Hayden and her three-year-old daughter brings three new books to you! Bookie (aka: Will You Marry Me) is written by a three-year-old girl and her mother. It is about different animals asking the question and their funny answers! It's Time to Go to Sleep is a great book to read to your little one as a good night story. Animals and the alphabet are incorporated in the pages. The Itsy Bitsy Monkey is a brand new take on the classic Itsy Bitsy Spider, with a surprising ending.
Download or read book The Gambler s Daughter written by Annette B. Dunlap and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screening calls from her father's creditors, hiding his mail from her mother—being the child of a compulsive gambler wasn't 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 community—Jewish leaders have long either condemned or ignored the evils of gambling—and 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 Gambler's Daughter is both a personal story of a father's 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.
Download or read book DisOrganized Crimes written by Heather Abraham and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Heather measured her family life against The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family, popular sitcoms with parents who modeled the ethics and social norms they wished their children to follow.But when your father is a bookie and your mother is a trigger-happy alcoholic, ethics and social norms be damned. Children of crime not by choice, but by birthright, Heather and her sister were born into a life of crime, where gambling, police raids and midnight runs for illegal goods were commonplace. Disorganized Crime grabs readers by the seat of their pants and drags them into the dysfunctional and uncivilized existence of the Abraham family. Join Heather as she provides a glimpse inside the wild and crazy childhood that shaped her character, but never broke her spirit.
Download or read book The Bookie s Son written by Andrew Goldstein and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-04-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1960 and the place is the Bronx. All twelve-year-old Ricky Davis wants to do is play stickball with his friends and flirt with the building super's daughter. But when his father crosses gangster Nathan Glucksman and goes into hiding, Ricky has to take over his father's bookie business and figure out a way to pay back his debt—before the gangsters make good on their threats. Meanwhile, Ricky's mother, Pearl, a fading beauty of failed dreams, plots to raise the money by embezzling funds from one of her boss's clients: Elizabeth Taylor. Fast-paced, engrossing and full of heart, The Bookie's Son paints the picture of a family forced to decide just how much they're willing to sacrifice for each other—and at what cost.
Download or read book The World According to Fannie Davis written by Bridgett M. Davis and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride). In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers racket out of her home. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, and granddaughter of slaves, Fannie ran her numbers business for thirty-four years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, sent her children to the best schools, bought them the best clothes, mothered them to the highest standard, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: "Dying is easy. Living takes guts." A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" and provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time.
Download or read book Gambling on the Duke s Daughter written by Diana Bold and published by Tracy Liebchen. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Dylan Blake has spent the last decade fighting for his country. Desperate for a little peace, he sells his commission and returns to England but soon finds himself angry and adrift in London Society. When an old nemesis challenges him to a wager -- he must get Lady Natalia Sinclair to dance with him twice in one evening -- he is willing to play along. The daughter of a duke, Lady Natalia Sinclair fears her enormous dowry is the only thing that draws her many suitors. But heroic Captain Blake seems different. Unfortunately, she soon realizes his smile is false, his interest superficial. Dylan sees Natalia's rejection as a challenge, and the stakes increase when he discovers his elder brother Michael is wooing the duke's daughter as well. Passed over for Michael too many times, he's determined to prove he can be first in somebody's heart. As the lines between the wager and attraction blur, can Dylan and Natalia find the courage to take the biggest gamble of all -- love?
Download or read book A Bookie s Odds written by Ursula Renee and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one messed with Georgia Mae Collins unless they wanted to deal with Nicholas Santiano. For sixteen years he protected her as if she was family. But the day he no longer saw her as a skinny girl was the day he faced his biggest fight…his growing feelings for the woman he should not desire. As far as petite Georgia was concerned, she did not possess the qualities Nicholas looked for in a woman – she was definitely not his type and she knew it, so she never considered him to be anything more than a friend. But when her father is viciously attacked and Nicholas's sister is also hospitalized, Georgia and Nicholas are forced to turn to each other for comfort and discover the attraction is stronger than either one of them had imagined. But can their parents accept this new relationship?
Download or read book Memoir of the Bookie s Son written by Sidney Offit and published by Beckham Publications. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this slim, elegant memoir, Sidney Offit -- novelist, teacher, and curator of one of the nation's most prestigious journalism awards -- explores with warmth and humor, the complexities of this extraordinary father-son relationship. As moving as it is unique, "Memoir of the Bookie's Son" is a family portrait that will make you think, make you laugh, make you cry.
Download or read book Big River s Daughter written by Bobbi Miller and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised by her pirate father on a Mississippi keeler, River is a half-feral river rat and proud of it. When her powerful father disappears in the great earthquake of 1811, she is on the run from buccaneers, including Jean Lafitte, who hope to claim her father's territory and his buried treasure. But the ruthless rivals do not count on getting a run for their money from a plucky slip of a girl determined to find her place in the new order. Filled with down-home humor, raucous hijinks, and one-of-a-kind characters, this historical novel captures the Mississippi River at a time when its denizens were as untamed as its waters.
Download or read book Jimmy The Weed written by Jimmy Donnelly and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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