Author: Bob LitwinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781880325186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Last Bookmaker
Author: Bob LitwinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781880325186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Bookmaker
Author: Kerri LynnPublisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039133436
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Lyric Murphy has been trying to keep her imagination from running away with her. She knows it makes her family uncomfortable when she sees things they don’t. But before she can get a handle on it, she finds herself face to face with two runaway words. They belong to the Bookmaker, a mythical being who lives in a world that exists just out of sight of her own. When the two words disappear again, Lyric sets out on an adventure to help the Bookmaker find them. It doesn’t take long for Lyric to realize she’s no ordinary girl no matter how hard she tries to put her imagination away. As she’s pulled deeper into the Bookmaker’s story, she realizes it’s no ordinary tale either. In fact, how it turns out will determine the fate of her world and the Bookmaker’s forever.
The Bookmaker
Author: Michael J. AgovinoPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061982806
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
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.
The British Bookmaker
Author: Printer and Bookmaker
Author: American Printer and Bookmaker
Author: The Bookmaker's Daughter
Author: Shirley AbbottPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557288216
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
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.
British Bookmaker
Author: Book Reviews
Author: Betting on Horse Racing For Dummies
Author: Richard EngPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0764578405
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
How to enjoy a day at the races-and bet to win! The last two years have seen a record number of Americans tune in for climatic Triple Crown races featuring Smarty Jones and Funny Cide; in 2004, television viewership jumped a whopping 61 percent over the record set in 2003, and the Belmont Stakes race itself drew a record crowd of more than 120,000! This easy-to-understand guide shows first-time visitors to the track how to enjoy the sport of horse racing-and make smart bets. It explains: what goes on at the track what to look for in horses and jockeys how to read a racing form and do simple handicapping how to manage betting funds and make wagers that stand a good chance of paying off. Complete with coverage of off-track and online betting, it's just what anyone needs to play the ponies-and win! Richard Eng (Las Vegas, NV) is a racing writer and handicapper for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a columnist for the Daily Racing Form, and the host of a horseracing radio program in Las Vegas. He was formerly a part of the ABC Sports team that covered the Triple Crown.