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  American Roulette: How I Turned The Odds Upside Down, My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off The World's Casinos
  

  by Richard Marcus

  ISBN 0312336012 (0-312-33601-2)
  Softcover, St Martins Pr

  
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  In American Roulette, Richard Marcus tells his never-before-heard story, of ripping off casinos. The book follows Marcus, along with several of the world's great professional casino cheaters, as he travels from Las Vegas to London and Monte Carlo, pilfering large sums of money from casinos by performing sleight of hand magic tricks with gaming chips. As skilled cheaters, they back up their moves with psychological setups to convince pit bosses that they're watching legitimate high rollers getting lucky, while in fact they're being ripped off blind.
  
  With the exploding growth of casino gambling, heightened by Indian reservation and riverboat expansion, more and more elaborate casino cheaters are illegally assaulting the green-felt, getting rich off of novice casino personnel. Richard Marcus's insider story is a window into the hidden world of intriguing personalities and tense situations he encounters as a member of expert casino-cheating teams who use their wits to turn the odds upside down and "earn" millions. American Roulette is a fascinating story not only for those who occasionally casino-gamble, but for everyone with a little larceny in their heart.
  

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    Softcover, St Martins Pr
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  The Catcher in the Rye
  

  by J. D. Salinger

  ISBN 0316769177 (0-316-76917-7)
  Softcover, Little Brown & Co

  
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  Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. [via]

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  • The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0316769487 (0-316-76948-7)
    Softcover, Grand Central Pub
  • The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0316769533 (0-316-76953-3)
    Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
  • The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0808514032 (0-8085-1403-2)
    Hardcover, Bt Bound
  • The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0553149660 (0-553-14966-0)
    Softcover, Bantam Books
  • The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0553250256 (0-553-25025-6)
    Softcover, Bantam Books
  • The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0792715160 (0-7927-1516-0)
    Softcover, Chivers North Amer
  • Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0606048871 (0-606-04887-1)
    Hardcover, Demco Media
  • The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0792715179 (0-7927-1517-9)
    Hardcover, Curley Large Print
  • Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0822070383 (0-8220-7038-3)
    Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0316769177 (0-316-76917-7)
    Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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  The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays
  

  by J. P. Steed

  ISBN 0820457299 (0-8204-5729-9)
  Softcover, Peter Lang Pub Inc

  
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  J. D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye celebrated its fiftieth anniversary of publication in 2001. The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays presents a variety of new approaches to this extremely popular and intensely influential novel, ranging [via]

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  • The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays: ISBN 0820457299 (0-8204-5729-9)
    Softcover, Peter Lang Pub Inc
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  The Catcher in the Rye
  

  by Not Available

  ISBN 055311722X (0-553-11722-X)
  Softcover, Bantam Books

  
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  Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
  

  "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."

  His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]

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  • The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 055311722X (0-553-11722-X)
    Softcover, Bantam Books
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  El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Rye
  

  by J. D. Salinger

  ISBN 8420666858 (84-206-6685-8)
  Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

  
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  Por expreso deseo del autor, no esta ermitido que la editorial aporte en su material promocional ningu tipo de texto adicional, informacio biograica, cita o resen relacionados con esta obra. El lector interesado podra no obstante, encontrar abundante informacio al respecto en internet. [via]

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  • El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 8420666858 (84-206-6685-8)
    Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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  J.D. Salinger
  

  by Harold Bloom

  ISBN 0877547165 (0-87754-716-5)
  Hardcover, Chelsea House Pub

  
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  J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye
  

  by Harold Bloom

  ISBN 0791056643 (0-7910-5664-3)
  Hardcover, Facts on File

  
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  Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas. [via]

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  • J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0791036626 (0-7910-3662-6)
    Hardcover, Facts on File
  • J. D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0791056643 (0-7910-5664-3)
    Hardcover, Facts on File
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  J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye
  

  by J. D. Salinger

  ISBN 0671006916 (0-671-00691-6)
  Softcover, Monarch Notes

  
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  Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]

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  • J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0812034074 (0-8120-3407-4)
    Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
  • J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0671006916 (0-671-00691-6)
    Softcover, Monarch Notes
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  King Dork
  

  by Frank Portman

  ISBN 0385732910 (0-385-73291-0)
  Hardcover, Delacorte Pr

  
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  In Frank Portman's dazzling debut novel, frustrated song-writer and high school student Tom Henderson finds his dead father's copy of The Catcher in the Rye, and his life changes forever. Part social satire, part mystery, with a healthy dose of rock music (and angst), King Dork is one of our must-read favorites of the year.

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  Bonus Content from Frank Portman
  
  Frank Portman (aka Dr. Frank) is not just an author, he's also a musician. We were lucky enough to get a few tracks and a few words from the man behind King Dork, his band The Mr. T. Experience, and the relationship between his book and his music.
  
  "King Dork"
  This is the "title track" for my new book. No matter how many times I say that (and I've now said it at least twice by my count) it still sounds strange...Anyhow, I wrote this song for my band, the Mr. T Experience, back in the mid-nineties (you can hear the electrified rock and roll version on the MTX album The Mr. T Experience... and the Women Who Love Them). While I was gingerly, sheepishly exploring the idea of trying to write a book, and not really knowing where to begin, Krista Marino (who was to become my editor at Delacorte) suggested that I try to turn a song into a novel as a way of getting started. I can't remember why I settled on "King Dork" as the song to "novelize," but I started thinking about the narrator/character of this song and after quite a bit of staring at a blank Word document and banging my head against the bar I eventually started typing. I didn't tell anyone at the time, but for months the file entitled "King Dork_(novel)_ms" had only the words "there's no way I can write a whole book, absolutely no way, who am I kidding?" on it. The fact that this did turn into a sort of novel in the end continues to mystify me. So this is an acoustic recording of the song that started it all, in effect. "I'm King Dork and I want you to be my Queen..."
  
  
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  "Thinking of Suicide"
  The narrator of King Dork, Tom Henderson, has a band and is trying to figure out how to play his guitar and how to write songs. He writes several songs through the course of the book, and I thought it might be fun actually to come up with the songs rather than just alluding to them in the text. The songs were written by me "as Tom Henderson," know what I mean? "Thinking of Suicide" is one of the first complete songs Tom writes. The title comes from an informational pamphlet for troubled teens handed out by the school. He likes the drawing of the girl on the cover. "This would make a pretty good song," he thinks: "all I had to do was give the girl a name and feel sorry for myself while pretending to be her. And figure out some lyrics and chords and stuff." This song, which incidentally ends up echoing through and complicating his family life, his social life, and his psychological life, is the result.
  
  

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  "I Wanna Ramone You"
  This one is a little hard to "set up," but I'll give it a shot. There are three strands all tangled up in this song. Strand A: Tom is doing research on the life and times of his mysteriously deceased father, and part of that involves poring over ancient texts like the Bible and The Catcher in the Rye. It's a long story, but in the course of this research he inadvertently learns that the French verb ramoner (which literally means "to scrub out a chimney") can be used as a sexual metaphor. As a rock and roller, he of course immediately thinks of the Ramones, and, voilà, a new English euphemism for sex is born - I ramone, you ramone, he, she or it ramones... (This is useful to him, as it gives him a much cooler metaphor for sex than any of the other ones available; and it proved useful to the author, i.e., me, as well, for pretty much the same reason.) Strand B: Tom is taking Advanced French, which he describes as "a form of the French language in which only the present tense is used. Primarily employed for telling time and for describing the activities of this one guy named Jean and this other guy named Claude." So in writing his song about the timeless power of love, he decides to include some sophisticated, romantic French phrases in the lyrics. Strand C: He has this pretty big crush on a girl from a neighboring town, so he writes a song about her. (As one does in those situations.) "I Wanna Ramone You" is the result, one of his first full-on love songs.
  
  

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