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Book cover for "Elvis in Vegas".
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Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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The story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time. The conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal overdose. But in Elvis in Vegas, Richard Zoglin takes an alternate view, arguing that Vegas is where the King of Rock and Roll resurrected his career, reinvented...
Book cover for "Elvis: The Story of Viva Las Vegas".
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Publisher:
A360 Media, LLC
Language:
English
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Elvis Presley made 31 films during his career—almost all of which were wildly profitable and, creatively, mostly the same: simple romantic plots, campy humor, lots and lots of music. Released in 1964, Viva Las Vegas was built to follow the same formula for success. Yet the results were iconically different: It not only became the highest grossing film to feature Elvis, it propelled the career of costar Ann-Margret and widened the appeal of Sin

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Book cover for "Live from Las Vegas".
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Publisher:
RCA
Pub. Date:
[2005]
Language:
English

4. Elvis

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Jailhouse rock: A young man is sent to prison when he accidentally kills a man in a barroom brawl. This is Elvis: A definitive biography of the King which contains interviews from the many people who knew Elvis best, including Presley's family members, his friends and employees, and Colonel Tom Parker. It happened at the World's Fair: A couple of bush pilots find themselves grounded in Seattle at the annual World's Fair. they help an abandoned girl...
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Blue Pie
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Book cover for "Live From Las Vegas".
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Publisher:
Machete Music
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Book cover for "Elvis 2nd to none".
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Publisher:
RCA
Pub. Date:
[2003]
Language:
English
Book cover for "What really happens in Vegas".
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English
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"What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas--until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through true stories of excess, drama, and hope. In What Really Happens in Vegas, full of surprises for both newcomers and Las Vegas regulars, James Patterson and Vanity Fair contributing editor Mark Seal transport readers from the thrill of adrenaline-fueled vice to the glitter of A-list celebrity and entertainment." --Goodreads.
Book cover for "Elvis and the Dearly Departed".
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Publisher:
Kensington Books
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
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From a USA Today–bestselling author: First in the mystery series filled with "pure southern lunacy of the best possible kind" (Laurien Berenson).

They say you can't get to Heaven without passing through the Eternal Rest Funeral Home. And no one gets into Eternal Rest without passing muster with Elvis—the basset hound who's convinced he's the reincarnation of the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Brewing up a big ol' pitcher...
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Publisher:
Warner Home Video
Language:
English
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Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix. At least, he will be ready to race once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough, but loses it when a pretty swimming pool manager takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both the race and the girl. His problems don't get any easier when rival Elmo Mancini, a fellow racer and womanizer, gets in the way.
Book cover for "3000 miles to Graceland".
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Publisher:
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date:
2001
Language:
English
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A gang pulls off a daring Las Vegas casino heist while disguised as participants in the town's International Elvis Week. On the way to change out the marked money for spendable money, the marked money is stolen.
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Paris James has come to Las Vegas to take the sting off turning the dreaded "Three-O." But one glass of bubbly leads to another -- and when the redhead wakes up the next morning, she finds to her astonishment she's in bed with ... Elvis! The good news is it's the young, sexy Elvis. The bad news is there's a diamond ring on her finger. Sometime during the evening she actually married The King of Rock 'n' Roll! Well, what happened in Vegas better stay...
Book cover for "Being Elvis".
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Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic end. A godlike entity in the history of rock and roll, this twentieth-century icon with a dazzling voice blended gospel and rhythm and blues with country to create a completely new kind of music and new way of expressing male sexuality, which blew the doors off a staid and repressed 1950s America. In Being Elvis,...
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Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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It's Elvis Week in Memphis, and homicide Detective Rachel Sloan isn't sure her day could get any stranger when aging Elvis impersonator Vic Vegas asks to see her. But when he produces a photo of her murdered mother with four Elvis impersonators--one of whom had also been murdered soon after the photo was taken--she's forced to reevaluate. Is there some connection between the two unsolved cases? And could the recent break-in at Vic's home be tied to...
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Las Vegas knows how to party, and for once, event planner Liv McKay won't be entirely behind the scenes. The Dixie gang is in Sin City to celebrate Mama and Earl's rockin' Elvis-themed wedding. And between juggling the botched bachelorette party and a problem-plagued soirée back home, Liv's ready to double down on some fun. Mama & Earl's happily-ever-after seems like a sure thing, but all bets (and nuptials) are off when they get to the Burning Love...
Book cover for "Elvis Presley".
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
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This informative title covers the life Elvis Presley. Readers learn of his childhood in Tupelo, Mississippi and his family's relocation to Memphis, Tennessee. Presley's musical work is discussed, from his beginning singing Ole Shep at a state fair to his collaboration with Sam Phillips at Sun Studios in Memphis to his recording of That's All Right, and his introduction to Colonel Tom Parker to his signing with RCA and his first hits Heartbreak Hotel,...
Book cover for "Sammy Keyes and the showdown in Sin City".
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Series:
Sammy Keyes volume 16
Lexile measure:
770L
Language:
English
Description:
"When youth sleuth Sammy Keyes travels to Las Vegas to stop her mom from marrying her boyfriend's dad, she never expects she'll learn the identity of her absent father in the process"--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "The murder of Sonny Liston".
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Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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"A daring investigation into the mysterious death of Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston, set against the dawn of the 1970s, when the mob was fighting to keep control of the Las Vegas Strip, Richard Nixon was launching America's first war on heroin, and boxing was in its glory days. Las Vegas, 1970: Elvis Presley is playing two shows a night at the International. Howard Hughes is running his empire from the penthouse suite of the Desert Inn. And middle-America...
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English
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Temple Barr is a sharp and sassy public relations ace in Las Vegas whose life is finally taking a turn for the better. Hard-nosed homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina is too busy chasing after her own ex-lover, rogue L.A. cop Rafi Nadir, to pursue Temple's boyfriend, sexy magician Max Kinsella, and nobody Temple knows has been least, not in the past few weeks. Temple takes this downtime as a signal she should buy a new pair of Jimmy Choo spike heels,...

20. Elvis

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Publisher:
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Description:
Dramatizes the life of Elvis Presley from age ten to his 1969 Vegas comeback.