The Bookmakers

Author : Ze'ev Chafets
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307799735
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bookmakers written by Ze'ev Chafets and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when he finally comes up with a fabulous idea for a novel about a burnt-out writer who decides to commit suicide, Mack Green discovers that his publisher, who thinks that the book works better as nonfiction, has hired a hit man to insure that idea.

Author : Michael J. Agovino
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061982806
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bookmaker written by Michael J. Agovino and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the debut of a gifted new writer, The Bookmaker teems with humanity, empathy, humor, and insight. At the heart of Michael J. Agovino's powerful, layered memoir is his family's struggle for success in 1970s, '80s, and '90s New York City—and his father's gambling, which brought them to exhilarating highs and crushing lows. He vividly brings to life the Bronx, a place of texture and nuance, of resignation but also of triumph. The son of a buttoned-up union man who moonlighted as a gentleman bookmaker and gambler, Agovino grew up in the Bronx's Co-op City, the largest and most ambitious state-sponsored housing development in U.S. history. When it opened, it landed on the front page of The New York Times and in Time magazine, which described it as "relentlessly ugly." Agovino's Italian American father was determined not to let his modest income and lack of a college education define him, and was dogged in his pursuit of the finer things in life. When the point spreads were on his side, he brought his family to places he only dreamed about in his favorite books and films: the Uffizi, the Tate, the Rijksmuseum; St. Peter's, Chartres, Teotihuacán. With bad luck came shouting matches, unpaid bills, and eviction notices. The Bookmaker is both a bold, loving portrait of a family and their metropolis and an intimate look into some of the most turbulent decades of New York City. In elegant and soaring prose, it transcends the personal to illuminate the ways in which class distinctions shaped America in the last half of the twentieth century.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bookmakers written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Duggan
Publisher : Poolbeg Press Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beat The Bookies written by John Duggan and published by Poolbeg Press Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Irish love our sport and we also love a flutter. We all want to ‘Beat the Bookies’, to experience the joy of winning money and having our judgement vindicated. John Duggan, who has been putting his neck on the line every week for eight years by tipping on national radio, guides you through the big events of the sporting calendar. From Cheltenham to the Champions League, from Augusta to the All Ireland Finals, John has experienced all the highs and lows of sports betting. There have been wins and losses, and now there are reasons. Beat the Bookies opens the door to the rewards and pitfalls of this very Irish pastime. This book tells you what you need to know to maximise profits and beat the bookies at their own game!

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1220 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journals and Printed Papers of the Parliament of Tasmania written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shirley Abbott
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557288216
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bookmaker's Daughter written by Shirley Abbott and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly detailed with family anecdotes, feminist insight, history, sociology, and Southern mythology, this memoir chronicles Abbott's volatile relationship with her father, a bookie at an illegal gambling house. "A moving attempt to understand . . . how a bitter failure of a man was also the father of a real maker of books".--Valerie Sayers, New York Times Book Review.

Author : New South Wales. Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1208 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joint Volumes of Papers Presented to the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly written by New South Wales. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes various departmental reports and reports of commissions. Cf. Gregory. Serial publications of foreign governments, 1815-1931.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reform Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1468 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by New Zealand. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ed Hawkins
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408169967
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy written by Ed Hawkins and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling and powerful journey to the very core of India's illegal bookmaking industry that exposes the scale of corruption and the match-fixing that now runs rife throughout world cricket. For several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India's illegal bookmakers - men who boast turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars per cricket match - as well as the corruption officers of the International Cricket Council who are trying to shut them down. It's a shady world and rumours abound. But then Hawkins receives a message that changes everything and he decides it is time to expose the truth behind match-fixing.Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy is a story featuring politicians, governing bodies, illegal bookmakers and powerless players - as well as corruption, intimidation and even suicide. It is a story that touches all cricket-playing nations around the world. It is a story that every cricket fan must read. You might never again watch a cricket match without suspicion...