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Current reads and all-time faves from three Las Vegas authors

"It’s super pulpy, gory crime stories. It’s bad people meeting bad ends.”

  • Legendary investigative reporter and author Carl Bernstein will discuss his new book.

  • The essays are full of existential questions. In one piece, Barber asks, “Does a grain of sand have a name? Or a drop of water? ...

  • I had to push myself to read through those final pages, for reasons beyond the obvious.

  • New books by Megan Edwards, Paul W. Papa and more.

  • “We need one another, and we need to rely on and depend on and support one another,” she says. “I hope the book encourages them ...

  • For its 20th anniversary, the October event has announced an outstanding literary lineup.

  • What else were you gonna do, make sourdough bread?

  • From 1952 to 1996, the Sands was at the center of the Strip’s constant evolution, hosting the likes of John F. Kennedy and the Rat ...

  • Just because we can't get together to talk about books doesn't mean we can't still read them … or hear authors talk about them in ...

  • The self-published Bicycle Man: Life of Journeys allows avid readers to plow from beginning to end, and casual ones to sample stand-alone stories.

  • ‘How to Be an Antiracist,’ ‘Station Eleven,’ ‘The Vanishing Half’ and more.

  • Browse hundreds of discounted titles online—and pick them up in a safe, contact-free transaction.

  • Howard Hughes, the PEPCON disaster, a poetry collection and more.

  • Titled The Sky Cracked Open, it’s a fun and uplifting collection, and she made it while battling cystic fibrosis.

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