Author: Steve Maricic
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595407803
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Mr Lucky, a tough teddy bear from Bayonne, NJ, journeys around the world and through the tunnels of time learning over a hundred poker variations from many fascinating characters.
Mr. Lucky's Favorite Poker Games
Author: Steve Maricic
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595407803
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Mr Lucky, a tough teddy bear from Bayonne, NJ, journeys around the world and through the tunnels of time learning over a hundred poker variations from many fascinating characters.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595407803
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Mr Lucky, a tough teddy bear from Bayonne, NJ, journeys around the world and through the tunnels of time learning over a hundred poker variations from many fascinating characters.
Defense Mechanism
Author: Steven J. Maricic
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1628159693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
At night, on a cliff in the Arizona desert, Colonel Sam Sawyer asks Rita Kelly, "Do you love me, Rita?" Once they were engaged to be married, but Native American Johnnie Lonetree, Sam's best friend, shattered that. Now all three are together again at Altamura Air Force Base. As a thunderstorm roars, Sam hears Rita's answer. Within seconds she loses her balance and tumbles down the side of the cliff. Is she alive? Why did she fall? Sam is Chief of Security at this crucial base which houses Selene, a supercomputer designed by Rita to control America's missile defenses. Johnnie has been sent by DARPA to test Sam's security and Rita's programming. Sam uses Selene's hidden cameras to spy on everyone on the base. With him, we learn the secrets of every character, including the psychological defense mechanisms they use to protect themselves from the slings and arrows of harsh reality. Soon Sam comes to suspect that someone, maybe Johnnie Lonetree, is plotting to destroy the US in a massive attack. Can he stop it?
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1628159693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
At night, on a cliff in the Arizona desert, Colonel Sam Sawyer asks Rita Kelly, "Do you love me, Rita?" Once they were engaged to be married, but Native American Johnnie Lonetree, Sam's best friend, shattered that. Now all three are together again at Altamura Air Force Base. As a thunderstorm roars, Sam hears Rita's answer. Within seconds she loses her balance and tumbles down the side of the cliff. Is she alive? Why did she fall? Sam is Chief of Security at this crucial base which houses Selene, a supercomputer designed by Rita to control America's missile defenses. Johnnie has been sent by DARPA to test Sam's security and Rita's programming. Sam uses Selene's hidden cameras to spy on everyone on the base. With him, we learn the secrets of every character, including the psychological defense mechanisms they use to protect themselves from the slings and arrows of harsh reality. Soon Sam comes to suspect that someone, maybe Johnnie Lonetree, is plotting to destroy the US in a massive attack. Can he stop it?
Mr. Lucky
Author: James Swain
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345475453
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Tony Valentine made his living and his name as a cop in Atlantic City–and is now known worldwide for his ability to spot the kinds of scams, grifts, and rip-offs that cost casinos billions every year. A man with a biting wit who drives a ’92 Honda, Tony is low-profile, old-school, and has seen it all–until he meets the luckiest man on earth. Ricky Smith was once a small-town loser. Then he went to Las Vegas, jumped out the window of a burning hotel, lived to tell the tale, and tore up the Strip on an incredible winning streak. Ricky didn’t just win at one slot machine or table game. He won at blackjack, roulette, and craps, and then beat the pants off the world’s greatest poker player. Tony knows that goofy, loudmouthed Ricky Smith–or anyone else, for that matter–couldn’t possibly be that fortunate. But when “Mr. Lucky” returns home to the little town of Slippery Rock, North Carolina, he keeps on winning everything from a horse race to a $50,000 lottery. Hired by a desperate casino, Tony starts to pry into Ricky’s past, his friends, and the strange little town that is benefiting from Ricky’s fame and fortune. Unfortunately for Tony, his cover is blown when he is forced to reveal a trick he has up his own sleeve: a pocket Glock he can shoot with laser-like precision. Suddenly, two men are dead, the cops are on Tony’s tail, and the investigation explodes in violence–putting the lives of Tony’s son and his young family in danger. For years, Tony’s son Gerry has dueled with his own criminal impulses. Now, the Ricky Smith case has lured Gerry through the gates of temptation and into a murderous confrontation with the Dixie Mafia. With Tony stuck on the slippery slope of Slippery Rock and Gerry fighting for his life, the Valentines are finding out just how bad good luck can get. Against a neon-tinted backdrop of adrenaline rushes, hard crashes, big money, and high-wire tension, the inimitable James Swain has set his best Tony Valentine novel yet: a funny, furious ride with an astounding array of crooks, marks, and one killer scam.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345475453
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Tony Valentine made his living and his name as a cop in Atlantic City–and is now known worldwide for his ability to spot the kinds of scams, grifts, and rip-offs that cost casinos billions every year. A man with a biting wit who drives a ’92 Honda, Tony is low-profile, old-school, and has seen it all–until he meets the luckiest man on earth. Ricky Smith was once a small-town loser. Then he went to Las Vegas, jumped out the window of a burning hotel, lived to tell the tale, and tore up the Strip on an incredible winning streak. Ricky didn’t just win at one slot machine or table game. He won at blackjack, roulette, and craps, and then beat the pants off the world’s greatest poker player. Tony knows that goofy, loudmouthed Ricky Smith–or anyone else, for that matter–couldn’t possibly be that fortunate. But when “Mr. Lucky” returns home to the little town of Slippery Rock, North Carolina, he keeps on winning everything from a horse race to a $50,000 lottery. Hired by a desperate casino, Tony starts to pry into Ricky’s past, his friends, and the strange little town that is benefiting from Ricky’s fame and fortune. Unfortunately for Tony, his cover is blown when he is forced to reveal a trick he has up his own sleeve: a pocket Glock he can shoot with laser-like precision. Suddenly, two men are dead, the cops are on Tony’s tail, and the investigation explodes in violence–putting the lives of Tony’s son and his young family in danger. For years, Tony’s son Gerry has dueled with his own criminal impulses. Now, the Ricky Smith case has lured Gerry through the gates of temptation and into a murderous confrontation with the Dixie Mafia. With Tony stuck on the slippery slope of Slippery Rock and Gerry fighting for his life, the Valentines are finding out just how bad good luck can get. Against a neon-tinted backdrop of adrenaline rushes, hard crashes, big money, and high-wire tension, the inimitable James Swain has set his best Tony Valentine novel yet: a funny, furious ride with an astounding array of crooks, marks, and one killer scam.
100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors
Author: Bernard A. Drew
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598844466
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Provide your mystery fans with background information on their favorite writers and series characters, and use this as a guide for adding contemporary titles to your collections. This book examines 100 of today's top mystery novels and mystery authors hailing from countries such as the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, South Africa, and Australia. Equally valuable to students writing research papers, readers craving new authors or more information about their favorite authors, and teachers seeking specific types of fiction to support curricula, 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies provides revealing information about today's best mysteries and authorswithout any "spoilers." Each of the accomplished writers included in this guide has established a broad audience and is recognized for work that is imaginative and innovative. The rising stars of 21st century mystery will also be included, as will authors who have won the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598844466
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Provide your mystery fans with background information on their favorite writers and series characters, and use this as a guide for adding contemporary titles to your collections. This book examines 100 of today's top mystery novels and mystery authors hailing from countries such as the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, South Africa, and Australia. Equally valuable to students writing research papers, readers craving new authors or more information about their favorite authors, and teachers seeking specific types of fiction to support curricula, 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies provides revealing information about today's best mysteries and authorswithout any "spoilers." Each of the accomplished writers included in this guide has established a broad audience and is recognized for work that is imaginative and innovative. The rising stars of 21st century mystery will also be included, as will authors who have won the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award.
D-Day
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history. D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination—what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy”—that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged. Drawing on more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion had to be abandoned, and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own initiative when they realized that nothing was as they were told it would be. The action begins at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops jumped into France. It ends at midnight June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal twenty-four hours, it moves from the level of Supreme Commander to that of a French child, from General Omar Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Field Marshal Montgomery to a German sergeant. Ambrose’s D-Day is the finest account of one of our history’s most important days.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history. D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination—what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy”—that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged. Drawing on more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion had to be abandoned, and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own initiative when they realized that nothing was as they were told it would be. The action begins at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops jumped into France. It ends at midnight June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal twenty-four hours, it moves from the level of Supreme Commander to that of a French child, from General Omar Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Field Marshal Montgomery to a German sergeant. Ambrose’s D-Day is the finest account of one of our history’s most important days.
Lucky in Nashville
Author: D. L. Compton
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595198899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A fearful woman, picked up one night by Lucky in his taxi, is chased, promised protection, dropped off safely, and is later discovered and pulled from the Cumberland river, dead. As our headstrong hero begins to poke around, he encounters hostile publicity agents, police power abuse, and imported hit men, all searching for a missing item of considerable value to everyone involved. As Lucky unravels the threads of evidence, they lead into the music business in Nashville and the huge amount of money invested in a rising star. Along the way, spend time with Lucky behind the bar, behind the wheel, and behind the scenes of Nashville.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595198899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A fearful woman, picked up one night by Lucky in his taxi, is chased, promised protection, dropped off safely, and is later discovered and pulled from the Cumberland river, dead. As our headstrong hero begins to poke around, he encounters hostile publicity agents, police power abuse, and imported hit men, all searching for a missing item of considerable value to everyone involved. As Lucky unravels the threads of evidence, they lead into the music business in Nashville and the huge amount of money invested in a rising star. Along the way, spend time with Lucky behind the bar, behind the wheel, and behind the scenes of Nashville.
What Is Addiction?
Author: Don Ross
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262513110
Category : Addicts
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
"The image of the addict in popular culture combines victimhood and moral failure; we sympathize with addicts in films and novels because of their suffering and their hard-won knowledge. And yet actual scientific knowledge about addiction tends to undermine this cultural construct. In What Is Addiction? leading addiction researchers from neuroscience, psychology, genetics, philosophy, economics, and other fields survey the latest findings in addiction science. They discuss such questions as whether addiction is one kind of condition, or several; if addiction is neurophysiological, psychological, or social, or incorporates aspects of all of these; to what extent addicts are responsible for their problems, and how this affects health and regulatory policies; and whether addiction is determined by inheritance or environment or both." --Book Jacket.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262513110
Category : Addicts
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
"The image of the addict in popular culture combines victimhood and moral failure; we sympathize with addicts in films and novels because of their suffering and their hard-won knowledge. And yet actual scientific knowledge about addiction tends to undermine this cultural construct. In What Is Addiction? leading addiction researchers from neuroscience, psychology, genetics, philosophy, economics, and other fields survey the latest findings in addiction science. They discuss such questions as whether addiction is one kind of condition, or several; if addiction is neurophysiological, psychological, or social, or incorporates aspects of all of these; to what extent addicts are responsible for their problems, and how this affects health and regulatory policies; and whether addiction is determined by inheritance or environment or both." --Book Jacket.
Lucky Bastard
Author: Deborah Coonts
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765335468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Lucky O'TooleNhead of customer relations at a premier mega-resort on the Vegas StripNthinks it's just another night in Las Vegas. But Lucky's day takes a turn for the worse when a beautiful woman with a stiletto heel embedded in an artery is found on a red Ferrari.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765335468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Lucky O'TooleNhead of customer relations at a premier mega-resort on the Vegas StripNthinks it's just another night in Las Vegas. But Lucky's day takes a turn for the worse when a beautiful woman with a stiletto heel embedded in an artery is found on a red Ferrari.
Frommer's 99 Las Vegas
Author: Mary Herczog
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780028623245
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Totally up-to-date on all the latest developments in America's favorite entertainment mecca can be found in this candid and outrageous guide to Las Vegas. Maps.
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780028623245
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Totally up-to-date on all the latest developments in America's favorite entertainment mecca can be found in this candid and outrageous guide to Las Vegas. Maps.
Betting the Rainbow
Author: Jodi Thomas
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0425268403
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Sisters Abby and Dusti Delaney want to leave their hometown and the poker tournament seems a sure bet to win big. Kieron O?ian begins to teach Dusti the game when sparks fly, but Kieron will not stand in Dusti?way of leaving town. Ronny Logan is settling into a home on Rainbow Lane and refuses to fall for anyone, regardless of the chemistry she has with her neighbor Austin Hawk -- if only they can let their barriers fall and open their hearts.
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0425268403
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Sisters Abby and Dusti Delaney want to leave their hometown and the poker tournament seems a sure bet to win big. Kieron O?ian begins to teach Dusti the game when sparks fly, but Kieron will not stand in Dusti?way of leaving town. Ronny Logan is settling into a home on Rainbow Lane and refuses to fall for anyone, regardless of the chemistry she has with her neighbor Austin Hawk -- if only they can let their barriers fall and open their hearts.