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| Author | : Frank Garibaldi |
| Publisher | : Author House |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2012-01-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1463440820 |
Las Vegas Scammers, Schemers and Dreamers is a behind the scenes, inside look at life in another world: The Casino. What goes on in this world within a world? How do people really act? What does it take to get escorted out and told not to come back? What does it take to have the police or the Gaming Commission called? My very first call from Surveillance came on my second day on the job. I was informed that a customer (for lack of a printable word) pulled out hair from his arm and put it on his eggs. After I was convinced this was not a joke, I became shocked, angry, and curious all at the same time. I couldnt believe someone would do this to get out of paying for their $1.99 Steak & Eggs special. My normal thinking for the past twenty years had been I wonder if well have any problems today. A very short time later, it changed to I wonder how many well have today. The stories youre about to read couldnt possibly be made up. They were written with a sarcastic and humorous tone. Because if I took them to heart, you would be visiting me at the home. Youll also read stories about gambling problems, including my own, which are not so funny. Thats the reason I need you to buy this book. I just might be able to break even. I can almost guarantee that you too are going to be shocked and amazed at human behavior in a casino. I can also almost guarantee that if you have even the slightest sense of humor, youll be laughing and enjoying this book. Frank Garibaldi
| Author | : Richard J. Warren |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2014-06-15 |
| Genre | : Fraud |
| ISBN | : 9780692232200 |
When hearing that someone fell victim to a scam the initial reaction is often to wonder how anyone could have fallen for such a thing. The next thought is that it would never happen to them. Unfortunately it happens to everyone without regard to education, income level or social status. Scammers, Schemers and Dreamers follows a fictional middle-class, well-educated family as they fall victim to common, and very real, versions of consumer fraud. The narrative clearly illustrates that no one is immune in today's society. Written by Elisabeth Daniels, former Chairperson of the Fight Fraud Nevada Taskforce, and Richard J. Warren, consumer columnist for The Vegas Voice, the book tells a cautionary tale for all consumers. Part Two provides information on how to evaluate home-based business opportunities that are proliferating today and avoid becoming involved in something that is not suitable. Part Three provides tips and resources for consumers and highlights the most common scams.
| Author | : Richard Warren |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2015-08-07 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780692504048 |
Restaurateurs say "you sell the sizzle, not the steak." The sizzle is usually what those seeking a home business buy only to find the steak too tough to digest. So many people try their hand at network marketing and the overwhelming majority of them fail. Yet if you listen to the people promoting the opportunities or read the books touting the millions you can make you would think that it's easy money. It's not. People are often introduced to network marketing by friends or family. If they do any research at all it's generally by doing an internet search and often discovering the answers they want to find. The information you encounter online consists of people who are doing the opportunity praising it, those doing something else bashing it and still others telling you would succeed beyond your wildest dreams if only you would sign up for their training program. Listening to any of them is akin to believing the shill in a three-card-Monte game with similar results. So how can you tell if a home-business opportunity is worth pursuing or simply worthless? You determine doing a careful (and unbiased) evaluation of the company, its product or service, and the opportunity itself. The vast majority of them are not worth pursuing and some are outright scams. This book will help you sort through the clutter to find that rare opportunity that might actually work for you. The step-by-step evaluation process described here will help you choose a program that will provide you with a real chance of success, but first you have to take the blinders off.
| Author | : Maxine Cass |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9780762712533 |
Provides practical information to guide motorists through unfamiliar routes, signs, traffic laws, and parking. Hundreds of attractions are described in detail, together with recommendations for shopping, dining, and accommodations.
| Author | : Miles Harvey |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2020-07-14 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 0316463582 |
The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, "perfect for fans of The Devil in the White City" (Kirkus) A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the Midland Authors Annual Literary Award A Michigan Notable Book A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Year "A masterpiece." —Nathaniel Philbrick In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism. In the wake of the murder of the sect's leader, Joseph Smith, Strang unveiled a letter purportedly from the prophet naming him successor, and persuaded hundreds of fellow converts to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan, where he declared himself a divine king. From this stronghold he controlled a fourth of the state of Michigan, establishing a pirate colony where he practiced plural marriage and perpetrated thefts, corruption, and frauds of all kinds. Eventually, having run afoul of powerful enemies, including the American president, Strang was assassinated, an event that was frontpage news across the country. The King of Confidence tells this fascinating but largely forgotten story. Centering his narrative on this charlatan's turbulent twelve years in power, Miles Harvey gets to the root of a timeless American original: the Confidence Man. Full of adventure, bad behavior, and insight into a crucial period of antebellum history, The King of Confidence brings us a compulsively readable account of one of the country's boldest con men and the boisterous era that allowed him to thrive.
| Author | : Tom Garvey |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2020-11-20 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
The Secret Apartment is an unintended memoir. It began as a way to amuse friends as a diversion in the early days of stress, isolation, and fear in the spring of 2020 and the Pandemic caused by the deadly Covid-19 Virus. We had no way of knowing how bad things were going to be or how long isolation and social distancing might last. It was a frightening time and my only intention was to provide friends with a momentary diversion and some entertainment in hard times. Favorable encouragement pushed me into half-forgotten memories and these stories came tumbling out. My "diversion" came to life as something I have to share with others. I began working on The Secret Apartment as a memoir to be presented as a collection of short stories Though fanciful, these are true stories based on actual events. This is not the product of my imagination. I didn't have to make anything up. I didn't have to and everything presented is both true and correct.I hope you enjoy these stories as much as I enjoyed living them.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1552 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Adrienne Sharp |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2018-04-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062684817 |
From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl—the daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl—growing up in golden-age Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early days. Esme Silver has always taken care of her charming ne’er-do-well father, Ike Silver, a small-time crook with dreams of making it big with Bugsy Siegel. Devoted to her daddy, Esme is often his "date" at the racetrack, where she amiably fetches the hot dogs while keeping an eye to the ground for any cast-off tickets that may be winners. In awe of her mother, Dina Wells, Esme is more than happy to be the foil who gets the beautiful Dina into meetings and screen tests with some of Hollywood’s greats. When Ike gets an opportunity to move to Vegas—and, in what could at last be his big break, to help the man she knows as "Benny" open the Flamingo Hotel—life takes an unexpected turn for Esme. A stunner like her mother, the young girl catches the attention of Nate Stein, one of the Strip’s most powerful men. Narrated by the twenty-year-old Esme, The Magnificent Esme Wells moves between pre–WWII Hollywood and postwar Las Vegas—a golden age when Jewish gangsters and movie moguls were often indistinguishable in looks and behavior. Esme’s voice—sharp, observant, and with a quiet, mordant wit—chronicles the rise and fall and further fall of her complicated parents, as well as her own painful reckoning with love and life. A coming-of-age story with a tinge of noir, and a tale that illuminates the promise and perils of the American dream and its dreamers, The Magnificent Esme Wells is immersive, moving, and compelling.
| Author | : T. C. Bradley |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2018-01-29 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781984351968 |
Inside this groundbreaking book by Best Selling Author TC Bradley, you'll find: - How TC was able to place a tiny ad in the USA Today on a Christmas day and signed up the gentleman who would become the #1 income earner in that business. - How TC was able to build a multi-million dollar company within 6 months, only to lose it to a bad partnership, and then completely recover within 2 years. - How TC was able to sell over a million dollars of product with his first website, and within 2 years beat Oprah in website traffic, knowing very little about the internet, and with a $1,500 a month marketing budget. - How a friend used a spiritual law to increase his income to over 100k a month within 6-9 months. - The life-altering spiritual law that propelled a single mom from barely surviving to owning her own waterfront resort, and massive success. - How that the first book TC ever wrote hit the Best Seller list, beating out notable names like Joel Osteen and TD Jakes for a day or two on the Amazon Best Seller list. - How someone used this powerful spiritual law to generate $25,171 in 21 days on Facebook with no advertising spend or joint ventures. "Your life can be touched, moved and inspired and bank accounts can be transformed if you learn the Spiritual Laws that lead to Supernatural Success! TC Bradley
| Author | : Mary C. WATERS |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 431 |
| Release | : 2009-06-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780674044944 |
The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters, however, tells a very different story. She finds that the values that gain first-generation immigrants initial success--a willingness to work hard, a lack of attention to racism, a desire for education, an incentive to save--are undermined by the realities of life and race relations in the United States. Contrary to long-held beliefs, Waters finds, those who resist Americanization are most likely to succeed economically, especially in the second generation.
