Summary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SLECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sleepless 2017Summary: Years after the Raccoon City disaster, Alice is on her own. She is aware that she has become a liability and could endanger those around her and she struggles to survive and bring down the Umbrella Corporation led by the sinister Albert Wesker and head researcher Dr. Isaacs. Meanwhile, traveling through the Nevada Desert and the ruins of Las Vegas, Carlos Olivera, L.J., and new survivors...
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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 RESSummary: Ocean's 11 (127 min): New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin and the champaign fizzes. It's the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean and his 10 partners in crime, it's the perfect moment to steal millions. Danny devises a scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip, electronically rig five big casinos vaults and raid them all at the same time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY OCESummary: 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 CASFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Big Ed Deline is the President of Operations and the head of the surveillance team for the Montecito Resort & Casino. With his right-hand man, they deal with card-counting cheaters and rival casinos stealing their players. Includes all 24 episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LASSummary: A fast-paced, sexy drama that follows the elite Las Vegas surveillance team charged with maintaining the security of one of Sin City's largest resorts and casinos. Includes 23 episodes of TV's hit drama uncut and uncensored.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LASSummary: When Clark Griswold puts his mind to something, we soon realize he hasn't got one. Still, nothing stops him when the vacation bug hits. This time, he's chosen Las Vegas, the new family entertainment capital of America!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VEGSummary: Multiple Emmy Award winner Jean Smart stars as a legendary Las Vegas comedian who is forced to hire an ambitious young writer. These two talented comedic voices from different generations form an unlikely bond in this new comedy from "Broad City" alums Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky and Emmy Award winning executive producer Michael Schur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HACFoster, Kim
Summary: "James Beard Award-winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America. Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table--eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at the table? In The Meth Lunches, James Beard award-winning writer Kim Foster peers behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 FOSSummary: Best-selling author, culinary adventurer and self-proclaimed hedonist, Anthony Bourdain has carved out a distinct place as a gastronomic Indiana Jones. In this series, his journey introduces viewers to people and places far beyond the realm of food as he travels the world sampling local foods and culture. Paris: Take an unusual tour of the city of light and love as Tony ventures from a hardcore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Fischer, Steve.
Contents: That damn Kefauver Committe -- Bugsy Siegel's Flamingo -- The Havana Mafia Conference : the vote to kill Bugsy -- Fat Irish green -- Help! : we just lost the Thunderbird -- Two dumb Tonys -- A check signed by 3 Las Vegas legends -- Uncle Morrie and Aunt Audrey's Las Vegas vacation -- The story of Mr. Lucky, Tony Cornero -- History and mystery of the Moulin Rouge -- Vegas showgirls -- Frank...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkline Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 FISSussman, Jeffrey
Summary: "Sin City Gangsters is an exciting page-turner about how the mob created and controlled modern Las Vegas and then lost it to Corporate America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 SUSSummary: Whether you want to gamble in a glitzy casino on the Strip, party at a happening club, or take a side-trip to Hoover Dam or the Grand Canyon, the local Fodor's travel experts in Las Vegas are here to help! Fodor's Las Vegas guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.93 FODMcBride, 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 MCBSummary: Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living downwind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOWAllen, J. D.
Summary: Vegas PI Jim Bean is conned into leading a dangerous woman straight to her target.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLPerry, Thomas
Summary: Murder has been easy for the butcher's boy until now: It's what he was raised to do. But when he kills the senior senator from Colorado and arrives in Las Vegas to pick up his fee, he learns that he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His actions attract the attention of specialists in police agencies who watch the world of organized crime. All notice that something big is going...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERSie, James.
Summary: "Recent high school graduate and aspiring artist Walter Stahl lives with his ailing father in the dregs of Las Vegas, their lives overshadowed by the disappearance of Walter's mother, who drove off when he was five and never returned. Although Walter has never so much as seen a photograph of his mother, it doesn't stop him from keeping an eye out for her in the groups of tourists he caters to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIESummary: "Inside Wildsam Las Vegas you'll find city stories from writers past and present; illustrated maps to desert hikes, select gambling spots, steakhouses, landmark architecture, cutting-edge art and long nights out; interviews with veteran showgirls, expert gardeners, sports executives, artists, activists, rock-climbing legends and bartenders; delightful miscellany from the archives, selective...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.931 LAS VEGAS WILMichaels, Fern
Summary: When lawyer Lizzie Fox's husband, Cosmo Cricket, is left critically injured after being shot by an unknown assailant, the men of BOLO Consultants head straight for Las Vegas to comfort Lizzie - and to uncover a dangerous enemy in the City of Sin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019