Download or read book What Disappears in Vegas written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy investigates the disappearance of the bride while attending the wedding of her friends Bess and George's cousin Veronica's wedding to the owner of local extreme sports complex in Las Vegas.
Download or read book What Disappears in Vegas written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy investigates the disappearance of the bride while attending the wedding of her friends Bess and George's cousin Veronica's wedding to the owner of local extreme sports complex in Las Vegas.
Download or read book Awake Big City Nights Book 1 written by Elise Daniels and published by Elise Daniels. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wade Donovan's wicked grin changed everything in her quiet life. Erin Cassidy thought she had it all. Wealth, a faithful best friend and more than a few boys to choose from as she comes to the end of her last year in college, but something has always been missing inside her since losing her mother as a girl. When she meets Wade, the insanely sexy fiance of her lifelong nemesis, Tori Wexler, she starts to feel whole again, but Wade Donovan is forbidden fruit. Erin’s father and Tori’s father run a billion dollar business together and a scandal like this one could rock its foundation, destroying not just Wade and herself, but everything her father has spent a lifetime building. An old betrayal crashes into her new desire. Erin knows that some decisions last forever. Keywords: Alpha male, New Adult, Contemporary Romance, Urban, Kinda Maybe, Bad Boy, Big City Nights Series, romance suspense, steamy romance, contemporary, secrets, summer romance, Los Angeles, Las Vegas
Download or read book Viva Witch Vegas The Marshal of Magic written by Chris Lowry and published by Grand Ozarks Media. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens in Vegas… well, you know. Sin. Decadence. Bright lights and neon soaked nights. No one would notice a couple of spells going off. A few more dead bodies showing up in the morgue. Hell, no one would even notice them if they came from the city’s homeless population. But when a witch summons a demon to feast on societies unwanted, it starts a war with the undead. And the Marshal of Magic lands right in the middle of it. He’s supposed to find the witch and stop her. After all, she’s there because of his mistake. First, he’s got to head off the escalating tension between the vampires that rule the desert night and magic users. He can’t trust the woman picked to guide him. And his trusty sidekick is fading fast unless he can save him. The tin star can only take him so far in Viva Witch Vegas. Fans of Dresden and the Iron Druid are going to love the Marshal of Magic because smart ass wizards get in a lot of trouble.
Download or read book In what Disappears written by John Brandi and published by White Pine Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling new collection by this well-known poet/traveler from the American Southwest.
Download or read book Mensah written by Gbontwi Anyetei and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mensah is a London Noir. A crime novel with a difference set in the deprived streets of Hackney amongst the African community, a stone throw away from affluent and gentrified parts of the borough and Islington. It pays homage to Raymond Chandler and introduces us to the charismatic Mensah, a black hero for our times. Mensah is the kind of man you go looking for when you have a problem. He might cause mayhem and carnage on the way but he will get the job done. So when a would-be African pop star disappears her rich husband puts Mensah on the case. Soon things start to go wrong and Mensah finds he is the one being hunted. The mean streets of Hackney spell danger for him. Mensah is set in an African city in the heart of London.
Download or read book The Biggest Bluff written by Maria Konnikova and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book “The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can't. And she certainly brought something to the table, including a Ph.D. in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of work on human behavior and how to hack it. So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold'em, their initial end point the following year's World Series of Poker. But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel's guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read, not just her opponents but far more importantly herself; how to identify what tilted her into an emotional state that got in the way of good decisions; and how to get to a place where she could accept luck for what it was, and what it wasn't. But she also began to win. And win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like "How one writer's book deal turned her into a professional poker player." She even learned to like Las Vegas. But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way.
Download or read book So Damn Lucky written by Deborah Coonts and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casino fixer Lucky O'Toole's search for a missing magician is complicated by a confrontation with The Big Boss, the hopeful advances of coworker Paxton Dane, and a blisteringly amorous French chef.
Download or read book Venom by Rick Remender written by Rick Remender and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a portal to the underworld opens in the middle of Las Vegas, Venom must join Red Hulk, Ghost Rider and X-23 on a crusade to stop the spread of Hell on Earth. Can these tarnished heroes wrestle free of their own personal demons and band together to save the world in its darkest hour? Then, Venom faces a gauntlet of doom as Crime-Master unites Jack OLantern, the Human Fly, Toxin and more to destroy him! Crime-Masters diabolical plan brings war to Flash Thompsons family and friends and in this war, there will be victims! Meanwhile, Venom joins the Secret Avengers, but whats left of Flash to join the team? Even with the symbiote under control, Flashs dark secrets put everything at risk especially when the original Venom host, Eddie Brock, comes calling! Collecting VENOM (2011) #13, #13.1-13.4 and #14-22.
Download or read book In Search of Bernardina written by Amadeo Hernandez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Bernardina: A Book to Make Think Bernardina Hernandez 1926–2001 Daughter of Andres and Viviana Guevara freshly arrived from Spain to start a new life in El Salvador in the early 1890s, Bernardina was married to Francisco Hernandez on March 15, 1952. They had four children: Julio, Manuel, Amadeo, and Modesto. In Search of Bernardina is a chronological narration of a series of events starting January 20, 2001. This book describes in specific detail the desperation and feelings of impotence felt by the author at having his mother go missing in a Las Vegas casino and the experience of not knowing who else to turn to after all avenues with local and state authorities in the state of Nevada and California were exhausted to no avail. This sad tale takes place after the author’s parents arrive from El Salvador to the United States to spend the holiday season in the city of Los Angeles, and it reflects the initial joys of a family reunion after decades apart as well as the pride felt by the author at finally being able to bring his folks to experience the wonders of this great country. After Amadeo Hernandez’s older sibling decides to take their parents for a weekend getaway in Las Vegas so they could enjoy what is known as fun capital of the world, things change at vertiginous speed to transform what was originally conceived as a pleasure trip into a macabre nightmare. Their mother disappears without a trace and never to be seen again at approximately four fifteen in the afternoon at the Nevada Landing Casino, located in the outskirts of the city of Las Vegas. This book takes the reader through the many possible theories of why this gentle elderly woman went missing, such as the possible overcrowding inside the casino, which prompted her to go outside for some fresh air and ultimately ended in her tragic loss. But mainly, it narrates the extensive yet unproductive search through shelters, churches, hospitals, morgues, and even various states. This book speaks of the heartless bureaucracy of having to wait twenty-four hours to get the police system into gear to look for someone, of being told of their mother’s disappearance three hours after the fact, and of the overwhelming sensation of knowing how the person who brought you into this world is somewhere out there—lost, alone, and confused—helpless. As the search extends throughout the states of Nevada, California, and even Tijuana and El Salvador, it takes the reader through the dark paths, which even prompted the author to pursue answers in unexplored venues such as psychics only to try and find an answer—any answer. Things he had never in his life considered before. More than a book, In Search of Bernardina is a diary of the anguish and desperation that filled the author’s every hour for several months, the tale of a struggle against a storm for a man to find his mother, a detailed narration of the days and the hours of pain, refusing to surrender in order to find his mother, who had gone missing in the desert.
Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1986-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Download or read book Rhetorics of Names and Naming written by Star Medzerian Vanguri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes up rhetorical approaches to our primarily linguistic understanding of how names work, considering how theories of materiality in rhetoric enrich conceptions of the name as word or symbol and help explain the processes of name bestowal, accumulation, loss, and theft. Contributors theorize the formation, modification, and recontexualization of names as a result of technological and cultural change, and consider the ways in which naming influences identity and affects/grants power.
Download or read book Historical Gazetteer of the United States written by Paul T. Hellmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 1666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first place-by-place chronology of U.S. history, this book offers the student, researcher, or traveller a handy guide to find all the most important events that have occurred at any locality in the United States.
Download or read book Living among Free Range Humans written by Sharon May and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-12-22 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living among Free-Range Humans: A Collection of Humor on the Species is a collection of her readers? favorite columns over the six years since author Sharon May began writing her humor column for the Hurricane Valley Journal, a newspaper serving the fast-growing southern Utah community of the Hurricane Valley, doorway to the Grand Circle of National Parks of the Southwest. The book?s eight chapters focus on the ordinary craziness of life that we all experience, such as modern life?s droll ironies, the universally humorous scuffles in the female-male relationship, the not-always delightful whimsy of Mother Nature, the weirdness of pet behavior, a witty take on the holiday experience, the sometimes peculiar regionalisms encountered in moving to and taking up life in small-town southern Utah, a comic look inside the high school classroom, and the laughable personal foibles we can all relate to, not the least of which is encountering the disconcerting changes of middle age?all delivered in an entertaining mix of intelligent wit and gentle sarcasm. This is a book that is universal in its appeal to both genders and to all ages. You are bound to recognize something of your own experiences in its pages, something sure to elicit a knowing chuckle, brighten your outlook, and keep a grin on your face.
Download or read book Gun Control written by The New York Times Editorial Staff and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the spate of mass shootings in schools and crowded public venues in recent decades, gun control in the United States has become a perennial topic in the national conversation. Conflicts in the debate on gun control include the Second Amendment, the NRA, common sense gun laws, public safety, and more. Through this collection of articles, readers will witness how the discussion of gun control has evolved from the 1960s through today, from the political assassinations of significant figures such as John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. to the Orlando nightclub massacre and the school shooting in Parkland, Florida in 2018.
Download or read book The Dissolution of Place written by Shelton Waldrep and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture: glass boxes built in urban locales as so many interchangeable, generic anti-architectural cubes and slabs. This book extends this debate beyond the modernist/postmodernist rivalry to situate postmodernism as an already superseded concept that has been upended by deconstructionist and virtual architecture as well as the continued turn toward the use of theming in much new public and corporate space. It investigates architecture on the margins of postmodernism -- those places where both architecture and postmodernism begin to break down and to reveal new forms and new relationships. The book examines in detail not only a wide range of architectural phenomena such as theme parks, casinos, specific modernist and postmodernist buildings, but also interrogates architecture in relation to identity, specifically Native American and gay male identities, as they are reflected in new notions of the built environment. In dealing specifically with the intersection between postmodern architecture and virtual and filmic definitions of space, as well as with theming, and gender and racial identities, this book provides provides ground-breaking insights not only into postmodern architecture, but into spatial thinking in general.
Download or read book Relicts of a Beautiful Sea written by Christopher Norment and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World
