Here’s a pair of authors who turned the adage “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade” into two sweet reads.Books: Two intimate portraits of the gambling life

‘Autumn Blue’ by Karen Harter. Center Street, $12.99 . ‘Con Ed’ by Matthew Klein.Shelf Life: What’s new at the bookstores

Excerpted from Jackpot Nation Rambling and Gambling Across Our Landscape of Luck Here’s something I more or less promised in the beginning and it more or less happened this way and is more or less legal.What happened when one author took $100,000 to a Las Vegas sports book.