My Week at the Blue Angel
My Week at the Blue Angel

Author: Matthew O'Brien

Publisher: Huntington Press Inc

Published: 2011-03

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13:

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A savage journey into the heart of Hunter S. Thompson's Las Vegas with the Good Doctor as tour guide. A Lord-of-the-Rings-like adventure in the city's underground flood channels. A seven-day stay at a seedy motel on East Fremont Street. The stories in My Week at the Blue Angel aren't about Steve Wynn, Cirque du Soleil, or how to play poker, and they aren't set in Caesars Palace, XS Nightclub, or a 2,000-seat showroom. They're about prostitutes, ex-cons, and the homeless, and they're set under Caesars Palace and in trailer parks and weekly motels. In this creative nonfiction collection, Matthew O'Brien--author of Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas--and veteran photographer Bill Hughes show a side of the city rarely seen. A side beyond the neon lights, themed facades, and motel-room doors. A side beyond the barbwire fences, No Trespassing signs, and midnight shadows.

Angel in Vegas
Angel in Vegas

Author: Norma Howe

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2009-11-10

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0763639850

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A demoted guardian angel whose previous "assignment" was Princess Diana now finds himself enjoying the oddball diversions of Las Vegas in the body of a teenage boy, with a teenage girl as his newest charge.

Mindfreak
Mindfreak

Author: Criss Angel

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0061137618

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The star of the groundbreaking hit television series "Criss Angel Mindfreak "is considered to be the most influential name in magic today. From "Burned Alive" to "Bullet Catch," Angel explains the mindset that makes each demonstration successful, and reveals the personal illusionary twist he adds to each one.

Wicked Angel
Wicked Angel

Author: Sawyer Bennett

Publisher: Big Dog Books, LLC

Published: 2019-08-06

Total Pages: 150

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First there was pain, and now there is just… nothing. No one can ever understand the losses I’ve suffered. A solitary existence that consists of my work and the empty house that serves as a constant reminder of all I have lost. After months of paralyzing emptiness, I turn to The Wicked Horse so I can feel something. Anything, really. Any shred of emotion that will explain why I’m still here. Any justification for why my life was spared and theirs were not. It’s all in vain. Not even the debauchery of the notorious sex club can fill the hollowness that consumes me. Until she walks in. Absolutely perfect. Gorgeous and bends to my will. Gives me her body willingly, while expecting nothing more from me than the pleasure I offer her. And the more she gives, the more I find myself wanting to take. Wanting to crawl out of my personal hell for this wicked angel.

Beneath the Neon
Beneath the Neon

Author: Matthew O'Brien

Publisher: Huntington Press Inc

Published: 2007-03-07

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0929712390

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Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O’Brien’s adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it’s least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.

Dark Days, Bright Nights
Dark Days, Bright Nights

Author: Matthew O'Brien

Publisher: Central Recovery Press

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1949481433

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A vivid and enlightening oral account of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of re-entering mainstream society. Are you aware that hundreds of people live underground in the flood channels of Las Vegas? Few people were until Matthew O'Brien grabbed a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton for protection and explored the storm-drain system in depth. This research resulted in his landmark book Beneath the Neon. Now the drains have been covered by CNN, Fox News, NPR, Dr. Phil, the New York Times, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and many other media outlets. They have even found their way on to popular TV shows, including CSI, Criminal Minds, and into mainstream movies. But the fact that several of these drug- and gambling-addicted tunnel dwellers have clawed their way out of the drains and turned around their lives has received far less attention. Dark Days, Bright Nights shares their harrowing stories and provides a unique perspective on one of America's most fascinating cities. It also paints a larger picture of homelessness and recovery in America. These stories are the happy (though not Hollywood) ending to the infamous tunnel tale. The narrative is complemented by bios and stark, black-and-white images of the survivors, putting a scarred, knowing face to the unblinkingly honest accounts.

Weird Las Vegas and Nevada
Weird Las Vegas and Nevada

Author: Joe Oesterle

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9781402739408

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A travel guide to Las Vegas that also focusses on the neglection of its historic places.

Zero Pucks Given
Zero Pucks Given

Author: Jessa York

Publisher: Jessa York

Published: 2021-05-20

Total Pages: 4

ISBN-13:

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They're both driven to succeed--at all costs. But neither of them expects that to include wedding vows... Beau Being captain of my team has always been a dream of mine since I first stepped out on the ice. When Gigi slams into my life, everything I’ve known is shaken. I’ve never been in a fake relationship before—especially with someone who hates me. But if it means finally reaching my goal, I’ll do just about anything. That is, if I can keep my eyes—and my hands—off her. Gigi I’ve dreamed of marrying Beau Moreau—superstar hockey forward—for as long as I can remember. Now I dream about punching him right in the junk. After he ticks me off and breaks my heart—all while ogling my chest—my girlhood crush on this older man is officially over. I think.

The House of Broken Angels
The House of Broken Angels

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2018-03-06

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0316516252

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In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. "All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death." In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. "Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining." -- New York Times Book Review"Intimate and touching . . . the stuff of legend." -- San Francisco Chronicle"An immensely charming and moving tale." -- Boston GlobeNational Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year from National Public Radio, American Library Association, San Francisco Chronicle, BookPage, Newsday, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Literary Hub

Drenched in Grace
Drenched in Grace

Author: Lizette Larson-Miller

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2013-06-26

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1621897532

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The importance of baptism within Christian history, theology, and practice is of the first order. Rooted in Christian Scripture, baptism is initiation into Jesus Christ and the sacramental beginning of engagement with the church, the body of Christ. In recent decades, the relationship between baptismal theology and ecclesiology has changed. Rather than focusing solely on the implications of baptism for individuals, the center of theological conversation has moved increasingly to the nature of baptism as formative of the church. One of the pioneers in exploring this theological issue in the United States has been the Rev. Dr. Louis Weil, who, from the time he helped author the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, has advocated for an approach called "baptismal ecclesiology." In a number of essays since the 1980s, Dr. Weil has encouraged an increasingly ecumenical conversation around this particular approach to ecclesiology. This ecumenical collection of essays by a distinguished and international group of sixteen scholars continues the conversation on liturgy and ecclesiology begun by Fr. Weil.