Download or read book Nevada written by Imogen Binnie and published by Picador. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria, a trans woman in her thirties, is going nowhere. She spends her aimless days working in a New York bookstore, trying to remain true to a punk ethos while drinking herself into a stupor and having a variety of listless and confusing sexual encounters. After her girlfriend cheats on her, Maria steals her car and heads for the Pacific, embarking on her version of the Great American Road Trip. Along the way she stops in Reno, Nevada, and meets James, a young man who works in the local Wal-Mart. Maria recognizes elements of her younger self in James and the pair quickly form an unlikely but powerful connection, one that will have big implications for them both. This hilarious, groundbreaking cult classic inspired a whole literary movement, and is now published in the UK for the very first time.

Download or read book Neon Nevada written by Peter Laufer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no neon to match Nevada’s. The combination of Wild West mythology and the remaining untamed pitch-black nighttime landscape, replete with real cowboys and real gambling, makes the Silver State a unique and appropriate canvas for neon art. Modern Nevada began with a nonstop desire for riches. It continues for many as a state of dreams often vividly expressed through exploding neon. Neon Nevada brings all this alive. Cameras in hand, authors Sheila Swan and Peter Laufer embarked on their first Nevada neon trek in the 1970s. They followed this up with a second nocturnal treasure hunt in the early 1990s—and a third in 2010, in the course of which they discovered that neon is fading fast; most notably on the Las Vegas Strip. Most of all, though, they realized that their passion for the art and craft of neon had not waned. A compelling blend of full-color photographs and absorbing prose, Neon Nevada takes us on a literal and figurative journey not only down the Las Vegas strip but also down quiet two-lane roads punctuated occasionally with neon signs, those glittering beacons of civilization against the desert night sky. The authors talk with sign owners, with those who created and maintained the neon, and those who collect it.

Download or read book Nevada Our Home written by and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Paradise Nevada written by Dario Diofebi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Diofebi is an irreverent and audacious new voice.”- Susan Choi, National Book Award-Winning author of TRUST EXERCISE "Vegas has been right there forever, waiting for a great novelist, and Dario Diofebi has come dealing nothing but aces."--Darin Strauss, NBCC Award-Winning author of HALF A LIFE From an exhilarating new literary voice--the story of four transplants braving the explosive political tensions behind the deceptive, spectacular, endlessly self-reinventing city of Las Vegas. On Friday, May 1st, 2015 a bomb detonates in the infamous Positano Luxury Resort and Casino, a mammoth hotel (and exact replica of the Amalfi coast) on the Las Vegas Strip. Six months prior, a crop of strivers converge on the desert city, attempting to make a home amidst the dizzying lights: Ray, a mathematically-minded high stakes professional poker player; Mary Ann, a clinically depressed cocktail waitress; Tom, a tourist from the working class suburbs of Rome, Italy; and Lindsay, a Mormon journalist for the Las Vegas Sun who dreams of a literary career. By chance and by design, they find themselves caught up in backroom schemes for personal and political power, and are thrown into the deep end of an even bigger fight for the soul of the paradoxical town. A furiously rowdy and ricocheting saga about poker, happiness, class, and selflessness, Paradise, Nevada is a panoramic tour of America in miniature, a vertiginously beautiful systems novel where the bloody battles of neo-liberalism, immigration, labor, and family rage underneath Las Vegas' beguiling and strangely benevolent light. This exuberant debut marks the beginning of a significant career.

Download or read book Literary Nevada written by Cheryll Glotfelty and published by Western Literature and Fiction. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 200 writings about Nevada with selections from Native American tales to contemporary writings on urban experience and environmental concerns. This book includes sections on cowboy poetry, wild Nevada, travel writing, and nuclear Nevada; and narratives about rural life and life in Las Vegas and Reno.

Download or read book Twenty Miles From A Match written by Sarah E. Olds and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty Miles From a Match, originally published in 1978, is the autobiography of an indomitable woman and her family’s twenty years of adventures and misadventures in a desert wilderness. In 1908, a venturesome woman named Sarah Olds packed up her brood and went homesteading in the deserts north of Reno, west of Sutcliffe on Pyramid Lake. Her ailing husband said, welcoming her to their new home, "There, old lady. There’s your home, and it’s damn near in the heart of Egypt." Olds tells of the hardships, frustrations, poverty, and other tribulations her family suffered from shortly after the turn of the century until well into the Great Depression. Through it all, however, runs a thread of humor, cheerfulness, and the ability to laugh at adversity. The foreword is by her daughter, Leslie Olds Zurfluh, the fourth of Sarah and A. J. Olds's six children.

Download or read book Blind Descent written by Nevada Barr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Park ranger Anna Pigeon is enjoying the open spaces of Colorado when she receives an urgent call. A young woman has been injured while exploring a cave in New Mexico?s Carlsbad Cavern Park. Before she can be pulled to safety, she sends for her friend Anna. Only one problem: a crushing fear of confined spaces has kept Anna out in the open her whole life.

Download or read book Beneath the Neon written by Matthew O'Brien and published by Huntington Press Inc. This book was released on 2007-03-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O’Brien’s adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it’s least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.

Download or read book Track of the Cat written by Nevada Barr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-06-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIRST ANNA PIGEON NOVEL—WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD. The fascinating hero of Nevada Barr’s award-winning series—park ranger Anna Pigeon—has brought an unyielding love of nature and sense of fair play to the mystery genre. Track of the Cat is the acclaimed novel that first introduced readers to Anna, as a woman looking for peace in the wilderness—and finding murder instead… Patrolling the remote West Texas backcountry, Anna’s first job as a national park ranger is marred by violence she thought she had left behind: the brutal death of a fellow ranger. When the cause of death is chalked up to a mountain lion attack, Anna’s rage knows no bounds. It’s up to her to save the protected cats from the politics and prejudices of the locals—and prove the kill was the work of a species far less rare…

Download or read book Blood Lure written by Nevada Barr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this mystery in Nevada Barr’s New York Times bestselling series, District Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is betrayed by nature itself, as a most unnatural evil stalks its prey in the pristine West… Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park—Anna’s home away from home when she is sent on a cross-training assignment to study grizzly bears. Along with bear researcher Joan Rand and a volatile, unpredictable teenage boy, Anna hikes the back country, seeking signs of bear. But the tables are turned on their second night out, when one of the beasts comes looking for them. Daybreak finds the boy missing, a camper mutilated, and Anna caught in a grip of fear, painfully aware that her lifelong bond with nature has inexplicably snapped...

Download or read book Nevada Place Names written by Helen S. Carlson and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and researcher Helen Carlson spent almost fourteen years searching for the origins of Nevada’s place names, using the maps of explorers, miners, government surveyors, and city planners and poring through historical accounts, archival documents, county records, and newspaper files. The result of her labors is Nevada Place Names, a fascinating mixture of history spiced with folklore, legend, and obscure facts. Out of print for some years, the book was reprinted in 1999.

Download or read book Nevada written by Jon Christensen and published by Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Photographer Deon Reynolds brings to life the spectacular scenery in this large-format, photo-essay book."--Page 2 of cover.

Download or read book Mysteries and Legends of Nevada written by Richard Moreno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mystery of a U.S. Senator’s death (was he kept on ice until after the election?) to a haunting of the Governor’s mansion, this selection of fourteen stories from Nevada’s past explores some of the Silver State’s most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.

Download or read book Crossing Nevada written by Jeannie Watt and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the attack that ended her modeling career, Tess O'Neil wants only to feel safe. She thinks she's found a sanctuary on a Nevada ranch, where she can live in solitude. Too bad rancher Zach Nolan isn't getting the message. The single dad wants to lease her land, and he won't quit until she says yes. That means he's always around! Letting the cowboy with the see-right-through-her baby blues into her life is too dangerous. Almost as dangerous as the wild hope and yearning Zach and his three daughters are awakening in Tess. She's already risked so much. Maybe it's time to take the biggest gamble of all on the one thing she never dreamed she'd find—a home.

Download or read book Nevada Grown written by NevadaGrown and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional flavors and methods on display from the unexpected yet bountiful regions of Nevada.

Download or read book Ill Wind written by Nevada Barr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this breathtaking suspense novel by Nevada Barr, park ranger Anna Pigeon is faced with a sinister mystery that threatens the visitors of Mesa Verde. As a strange and deadly disease spreads through the park, Anna must unravel the source and put an end to the evil wind that carries it. With gripping twists and turns, Ill Wind transports readers to the atmospheric landscape of Mesa Verde, immersing them in the heart-pounding action as Anna races against time to uncover the truth. Fans of Nevada Barr's thrilling storytelling and gripping mysteries won't be able to put this book down.

Download or read book Nevada Wilderness Act of 1985 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, Reserved Water, and Resource Conservation and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: