To Vegas and Back
Title | To Vegas and Back PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Krauss |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780989452939 |
TO VEGAS and BACK is Casino meets The Burning Bed, peppered with The Glass Castle. The story begins with a twenty-six-year-old woman living the American dream in the 1960s. She was a homemaker and mother of three in the beautiful suburbs of Philadelphia. At thirty-two she gets a divorce and trades brownies and carpools for pasties and feathers as a Showgirl in Las Vegas. In a nutshell, this woman leaves her husband in 1972 and is swooped up by a rich man who wants to make her a showgirl. He moves her to Vegas and shortly after, he is murdered. Distraught, she is visited by the FBI to learn her deceased friend was a crook and ran a Ponzi scheme. She then meets a Vegas mobster who introduces her into the world of sex, drugs and the underground workings of Vegas casinos. She realizes her dream when she nails an audition and becomes one of the most sought-after showgirls of her time in the Tropicana's famous Les Folies Bergere. Finally, this woman meets a man who wants to marry her and take in her children-a man who nearly destroys them with violence, alcohol and abuse over the course of six years. The author can tell this story firsthand, because this woman is her mother.
Long Road Back to Las Vegas
Title | Long Road Back to Las Vegas PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Snel |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2018-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781949720099 |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Title | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas PDF eBook |
Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2003-04-07 |
Genre | Experimental fiction |
ISBN | 9780007161232 |
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.
A Photo Tour of Las Vegas
Title | A Photo Tour of Las Vegas PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hudson |
Publisher | Photo Tour Coffee-Table Books |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9781930495036 |
A lavish coffee-table-format tribute to the attractions of Sin City is organized geographically to cover its downtown, north strip, south strip, and "off the strip" areas, in a full-color photographic tour that is complemented by historical information. Simultaneous.
Lost in Las Vegas
Title | Lost in Las Vegas PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Greenburg |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 83 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0375833455 |
After crashing their spaceship in the Nevada desert, Klatu, Lek, and their sister Ploo go to Las Vegas in search of the one mechanic who can fix it.
Elvis in Vegas
Title | Elvis in Vegas PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Zoglin |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2020-11-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1501151207 |
“Outstanding pop-culture history.” —Newsday The “smart and zippy account” (The Wall Street Journal) of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time. Elvis’s 1969 opening night in Vegas was his first time back on a live stage in more than eight years. His career had gone sour—bad movies, mediocre pop songs that no longer made the charts—and he’d been dismissed by most critics as over-the-hill. But in Vegas he played the biggest showroom in the biggest hotel in the city, drawing more people for his four-week engagement than any other show in Vegas history. His performance got rave reviews; “Suspicious Minds,” the song he introduced there, gave him his first number-one hit in seven years; and Elvis became Vegas’s biggest star. Over the next seven years, he performed more than 600 shows there, and sold out every one. Las Vegas was changed, too. By the end of the ‘60s, Vegas’ golden age—when the Rat Pack led a glittering array of stars who made it the nation’s premier live-entertainment center—was losing its luster. Elvis created a new kind of Vegas show: an over-the-top, rock-concert extravaganza. He set a new bar for Vegas performers, with the biggest salary, the biggest musical production, and the biggest promotion campaign the city had ever seen. He opened the door to a new generation of pop/rock artists and brought a new audience to Vegas—not the traditional well-heeled older gamblers, but a mass audience from Middle America that Vegas depends on for its success to this day. At once “a fascinating history of Vegas as gambling capital, celebrity playground, mob hangout, [and] entertainment Valhalla” (Rolling Stone) and the incredible “tale of how the King got his groove back” (Associated Press), Elvis in Vegas is a classic feel-good story for the ages.
The Five Roads to Vegas
Title | The Five Roads to Vegas PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Breggar |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2017-07-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781976324611 |
Michael Breggar, the author of the popular and award winning "Auto-Magic" column in the International Brotherhood of Magicians monthly journal "The Linking Ring" brings a dozen of his favorite effects together in this volume. The tricks are sleight-of-hand free but brimming with entertaining possibilities.