Author: Melanie Dobson
Publisher: David C. Cook
Keywords: novel, broke, going
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 1589190939
ISBN-13: 9781589190931

The first time Leia pulled the lever on the slot machine she hadn’t felt much, other than maybe a twinge of guilt, knowing how much her husband despised any kind of gambling. After all, she’d just been killing time while nursing a busted leg at the slopes. Several months, thousands of clicks and tens of thousands of dollars later, she’d long since replaced the rush of adrenaline that came with a win with the roiling realization that she’d gone too far. The last time she pulled the lever, she hung on for dear life, knowing that without a win, a very big w

Author: Tom Wilson II
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Keywords: broke, ziggy
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2010-04-06
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0740791532
ISBN-13: 9780740791536

He’s never had hair. Never owned shoes. Never even sported a pair of pants. No one would blame you for thinking that lovable everyperson Ziggy is broke. But there is one thing Ziggy does have--heart. And plenty of it, as cartoonist Tom Wilson reminds us in Ziggy Goes for Broke, a charming full-color collection of daily Ziggy comic strips.In Ziggy Goes for Broke, the lovable Ziggy is back to take on our sometimes-indifferent world. As always, Ziggy is armed only with warm feelings, good intentions, and a homespun philosophy that reminds us that we’re all in this together.Ziggy Goes

Author: Brandon Adams
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: novel, poker, broke
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2006-03-30
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0595377297
ISBN-13: 9780595377299

“Excellent, entertaining, and extremely well written … I couldn’t stop reading!” —Phil Hellmuth, poker icon and author of Play Poker Like the Pros Forget Wall Street—America’s best and brightest now seek their fortune at the poker tables. Broke: A Poker Novel follows the lives of three talented young poker players as they seek fame and fortune in a world fraught with addiction. Raf Verheij is a twenty-five-year-old math prodigy who likes to think that his current situation is unique: Poker pulled him out of a deep hole instead of leading him into one. Robert Thompson is a

Author: Howard Blum
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: mob, broke, fbi, gangland
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2002-04-02
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0671900153
ISBN-13: 9780671900151

A behind-the-scenes look at how the FBI brought down John Gotti covers the contributions of C-16 leader Bruce Mouw, the tactics used to gain information, and the stories of people who had direct Mafia connections. Reprint.

Author: Garet Garrett
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: world, broke, bubble
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-11-01
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1605209732
ISBN-13: 9781605209739

The names of the players are different, but these cautionary essays about massive national debt-written in the long wake of World War I and as the Great Depression was starting to make its horrible power fully known-are still fully applicable today. A powerful libertarian voice of the early 20th century, Garet Garrett, writing originally in the Saturday Evening Post, warned about the extension of American credit to a Europe staggering under a massive debt leftover from the financing of World War I... a situation echoed, if reversed, today as the overextended United States continues her ram

Author: Beth Pattillo
Publisher: GuidepostsBooks
Keywords: novel, heart, broke, darcy
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2010-02-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0824947932
ISBN-13: 9780824947934

Claire Prescott is a sensible woman who believes in facts and figures, not fairy tales. But when she agrees to present a paper to a summer symposium at Oxford on her ailing sister’s behalf, Claire finds herself thrown into an adventure with a gaggle of Jane Austen-loving women all on the lookout for their Mr. Darcy. Claire isn’t looking for Mr. Anyone. She’s been dating Neil -- a nice if a bit negligent -- sports fanatic. But when a tall, dark and dashing stranger crosses her path, will the staid Claire suddenly discover her inner romantic heroine? Her chance meeting with a m

Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: broke, radio, yellow
Number of Pages: 177
Published: 2000-07
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1564782387
ISBN-13: 9781564782380

"Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women. A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry and the most powerful of cattlemen shed his head to the Executioner’s swine." And so begins the HooDoo Western by Ishmael Reed, author of MUMBO JUMBO and one of America’s most innovative and celebrated writers. Reed demolishes white American history and folklore as well as Christian myth in this masterful satire of contemporary A