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Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
With two professional assassinations in quick succession, James Bond is quickly elevated to '00' status. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios and his girlfriend, Solange. He learns that Dimitrios is involved...
3) Casino
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Language
English
Formats
Description
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 locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The true story behind the Martin Scorsese film: A “riveting . . . account of how organized crime looted the casinos they controlled” (Kirkus Reviews).
Focusing on Chicago bookie Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and his partner, Anthony Spilotro, and drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Mafia classic Wiseguy—basis for the film...
Focusing on Chicago bookie Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and his partner, Anthony Spilotro, and drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Mafia classic Wiseguy—basis for the film...
Author
Publisher
Alfred Bekker
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Casino en Sylt: Thriller insular
por Alfred Bekker
Jana Vedder es una joven abogada de Hamburgo. Se enamora perdidamente de un hombre fascinante: Micha Drewer, sensacional reportero y encantador. Drewer está investigando un dudoso casino en la isla de Sylt, donde la gente desaparece regularmente en circunstancias inexplicables. Cuando Micha Drewer viaja a Sylt para investigar el asunto, de repente deja de llamar. Jana
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the host of Comedy Central's newest program, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, comes the first paperback reprint of his funny and provocative musings on race in America and other nightly topics—updated with new material for this edition. Now boasting three new chapters and an introduction exclusive the trade paperback edition, I'd Rather We Got Casinos And Other Black Thoughts by Larry Wilmore gives Wilmore's on-screen...
11) Casino
Series
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
In an era of over-the-top glitz, Sam "Ace" Rothstein is riding high as front man for the Mob's multi-billion-dollar Las Vegas operation. To protect their "investment," the bosses send in Ace's boyhood pal, hot- headed enforcer Nicky Santoro. It's a winning hand: Ace's brain and Nicky's muscle--until sexy wild card Ginger McKenna turns up the heat.
12) The devil's casino: friendship, betrayal, and the high-stakes games played inside Lehman Brothers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ward takes you inside Lehman's highly charged offices where you'll meet beloved leaders who were erased from the corporate history books, but who could have taken the firm in a very different direction had they not fallen victim to infighting and their own weaknesses.
Author
Publisher
HUNTINGTON PRESS, INC
Language
English
Formats
Description
Plenty of gambling books explain how to play the games; that's Gambling 101. Gambling 102 takes you to the next stage, where you're playing the games in the best manner for the least amount of effort. Within these pages, gambling's "Wizard of Odds" provides the best strategies possible—along with the easiest learning curve—for all the casino games, from baccarat to video poker, from sic bo to sports betting, Caribbean stud to craps.
...14) Casino Royale
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Sir James Bond is persuaded to rejoin Her Majesty's secret service and head an operation to smash SMERSH.
Author
Publisher
Alfred Bekker
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Français
Description
Casino sur l'île de Sylt : thriller insulaire
Alfred Bekker
Jana Vedder est une jeune avocate à Hambourg. Elle tombe follement amoureuse d'un homme fascinant : Micha Drewer, journaliste à sensation et charmeur. Drewer enquête sur un casino douteux sur l'île de Sylt, dans l'entourage duquel des personnes disparaissent régulièrement dans des circonstances inexpliquées. Lorsque
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Beat the casinos at their own game! Casino gambling expert Bill Burton will teach you: The truth about the most popular casino bets. How to find the best slot machines to play. What games you should avoid at all costs. The ten smartest bets in the casino. The ten worst bets in the casino. How to get the most bang for your buck--in the pit and all over the casino. The basics of card counting, dice setting and other tricks of the trade. How to make...
17) Casino Royale
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
With two professional assassinations in quick succession, James Bond is quickly elevated to '00' status. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios and his girlfriend, Solange. He learns that Dimitrios is involved...
18) Little Casino
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In this superb novel composed of fragments of memory, Gilbert Sorrentino captures the unconventional nuances of a conventional world. A masterful collage of events is evocatively chained together by secrets and hidden truths that are almost accidentally revealed. Each episode, affectingly textured with penetrating detail, ferrets out the gristle and unconventional beauty found in the voices of the working-class inhabitants from an irretrievable, golden...
19) Casino Jack
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Jack Abramoff, the real-life Washington power player, resorted to jaw-dropping levels of fraud and corruption. High-rolling excess and outrageous escapades are all in a day's work for Abramoff as he goes to outrageous lengths to promote the Indian gambling industry, earning him the nickname 'Casino Jack.' But when Jack and his womanizing protege Michael Scanlon enlist a dimwitted business partner for an illegal scheme, they find themselves ensnared...
20) Casino Infernale
Author
Series
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Shaman Bond and his witch girlfriend attend an annual gambling gala sponsored by a shady bank involved in supernatural crime in an attempt to bring it down in the latest installment of the series following Live and Let Drood.
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