Bohjalian, Chris
Summary: Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.McBride, Laura
Summary: Fun-loving and rebellious, twenty-one-year-old June Stein abandons the safe world of her New Jersey childhood for edgy 1950s Las Vegas. For the next 60 years, June will dare to live boldly. She will upend conventions, risk her heart and her life, rear a child, lose a child, love more than one man, and stand up for more than one woman. June's story will intertwine with those of three unlikely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBMcBride, Laura
Summary: Four women from diverse backgrounds find their lives intersecting at a Las Vegas casino nightclub where they each experience a life-changing moment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBLand, Jon
Summary: Once an orphaned farm boy in his native Sicily, Michael Tiranno made millions by mastering the intricate world of high finance, and is now the fabulously wealthy owner of Las Vegas' The Seven Sins, the grandest and most extravagant casino in the world. But he also has secrets that he and Naomi Burns, his driven corporate attorney and confidante, have gone to great lengths to bury. When an enemy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANDeWitt, Amanda
Summary: "Some people join chess club, some people play football. Jack Shannon runs a secret blackjack ring in his private school's basement. What else is the son of a Las Vegas casino mogul supposed to do? Everything starts falling apart when Jack's mom is arrested for their family's ties to organized crime. His sister Beth thinks this is the Shannon family's chance to finally go straight, but Jack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DEWWinslow, Don
Summary: Danny Ryan, former Irish mob soldier, buried his past and is now a respected casino mogul. But when a land buy triggers a war with Vegas power brokers, he must return to the ruthless fighter he once was.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel with known casino owner Willy Bank in Las Vegas, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal by the loathsome Bank. Bank even goes so far as to find amusement in Tishkoff's misfortune when the double crossing lands Reuben in the hospital because of a heart attack. However, Danny and his crew won't...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Ocean's 2007Summary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED PG-13Summary: Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs thrives in the high-stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground of Las Vegas. But when a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs' teenage son. In one sleepless night he will have to rescue his son, evade an internal affairs investigation and bring the kidnappers to justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sleepless 2017Summary: Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CASGiles, L. R. (Lamar R.)
Summary: Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GILSummary: Joe is a great con artist and dice hustler who makes a lot of money from working the tables at Las Vegas casinos. He and his girlfriend Janice have a pretty good life. But then Joe gets a call from the institution where his son, Joe Jr., lives. Joe Jr., who has Down Syndrome is being too disruptive at the institution. Joe doesn't know how to take care of his son and this new change in his life...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF YONKellerman, Faye.
Summary: Detective Romulus Poe of Las Vegas investigates the murder of a show girl whose mutilated body was found in the desert. The probe pits Poe against the owner of a casino.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow and Co. 1998