Bingo Books

The pinball book you have been waiting for is finally here! From those fabulous '50s & '60s, Jeffrey Lawton, Bingo Pinball Historian, presents 290+ photos, including original promotional brochures and advertisements, that showcase a fantastic collection of Bally*r Bingo pinball machines, along with a history of the evolution and excitement that surrounds this compelling hobby. All who grew up with street cars, slot machines, pinball machines, pool halls, and diners will enjoy this book tremendously! If you buy only one pinball book, this is the one to have.

Bing-O-Cards
Publisher: United States Games Systems
		Bingo player's delight! Bingo pad sheets enable players to select their own numbers before playing the game, or use regular bingo boards. The game is complete with 75 numbered cards and 8 Quick Bingo cards.

Buzzword Bingo Book
Lara Stein
		If you read only one book in your lifetime, stop reading this and go read Buzzword Bingo. I laughed, I cried, I wet myself. No other literary work so accurately captures the American psyche as well as this monumental tome of business life...

Gambling Times Guide to Bingo
Roger Snowden
		This is still the best over-all book available about Bingo, the game, it's history and origin, the odds and how to play. Written by Roger Snowden, president and founder of the Bingo Bugle.

The Basics of Winning Bingo
Avery Cardoza
		This easy-to-read primer shows readers how to play the many different versions of bingo and gives them an inside look at how to win money at this immensely popular game. More than 25 winning patterns are shown.

The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown
by Betsy Byars
		Introducing Bingo Brown, a young man ready for the first big step into adulthood--if only someone would tell him what to do. "Byars does a superb job of presenting a boy just on the edge of maturity. Witty, offbeat, yet beautifully real, Bingo's story scores."--ALA Booklist. A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.

Beyond Bingo
by Joan Drummond Miller, Julie Houy, Carolyn Livingston
		Several "little old ladies" in Pacific Grove encourage one another to grasp life anew and act a bit outrageous. They begin by finding and supplying marijuana (for medicinal purposes) to a rich friend suffering from cancer. When the friend dies and leaves them cars and money, the ladies branch out: they still provide "medicinal" brownies but catch the attention of the law--and suspicious others--when they discover...

Bingo Night at the Fire Hall
by Barbara Holland
		In 1990, Barbara Holland inherited her mother's summer cabin in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. She quit her job in Philadelphia, said good-bye to friends and family, and moved into a different world. On the mountain she wrestled with winter isolation, stoked the woodstove, and learned to live with bears in the trash and mountain lions on the lawn. Lonely, she found a part-time job at the...

The Bingo Palace
by Louise Erdrich
		"Immediately upon returning to his North Dakota Chippewa reservation, Lipsha Morrissey--having failed in the outside world--falls head over heels inlove with the beautiful Shawnee Ray. She is the fierce and ambitious mother of the illegitimate son of Lyman Lamartine, owner of the Bingo Palace and a powerful force on the reservation. Lyman is determined to marry Shawnee Ray, who is just as determined to elude him and go...

Bingo
by Rita Mae Brown
		The acclaimed author of Rubyfruit Jungle returns to Runnymede for an outrageous story of small-town fun. A cast of lovable eccentrics such as avowed lesbian Nickel Smith and the lusty ninety-year-old Hunsenmeir sisters weave their way through the trials and tribulations of romantic encounters and weekly bingo in this sequel to the bestselling Six of One.