Nevada

Nevada
Author: Imogen Binnie
Publisher: MCD x FSG Originals
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-06-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374606625

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One of Vogue's Best Books of 2022 So Far, Buzzfeed's Summer Books You Won’t Be Able To Put Down, Book Riot's Best Summer Reads for 2022, and Dazed's Queer Books to Read in 2022 "[Nevada] is defiant, terse, not quite cynical, sometimes flip, addressed to people who think they know. It is, if you like, punk rock." —The New Yorker "Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip. Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. She takes random pills and drinks more than is good for her, but doesn’t inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen, because she’s trans. Everything is mostly fine until Maria and Steph break up, sending Maria into a tailspin, and then onto a cross-country trek in the car she steals from Steph. She ends up in the backwater town of Star City, Nevada, where she meets James, who is probably but not certainly trans, and who reminds Maria of her younger self. As Maria finds herself in the awkward position of trans role model, she realizes that she could become James’s savior—or his downfall. One of the most beloved cult novels of our time and a landmark of trans literature, Imogen Binnie’s Nevada is a blistering, heartfelt, and evergreen coming-of-age story, and a punk-smeared excavation of marginalized life under capitalism. Guided by an instantly memorable, terminally self-aware protagonist—and back in print featuring a new afterword by the author—Nevada is the great American road novel flipped on its head for a new generation.

Neon Nevada

Neon Nevada
Author: Sheila Swan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2024-05-07
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 151078117X

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Nevada’s iconic art form comes to life. Sheila Swan and Peter Laufer take readers on a journey, not only along the Las Vegas Strip, but down quiet, two-lane rural roads punctuated by neon signs—those glistening beacons that represent commerce in the vast Great Basin. The photographers’ stunning work captures the argon violets, krypton purples, helium golds, and xenon blues that glow amid the nighttime desert sky. Readers will discover that neon is not just a medium for casino advertising. The colorful images of cowboys and cowgirls, animals, desert landscapes, and a myriad of other creative designs all illuminate Americana. The neon sign helps define Nevada and its businesses, from bars and casinos to the stores, restaurants, motels, and theaters that line the streets of the Silver State’s cities and towns, and those rural areas that are barely a blip on the map. With a compelling blend of striking full-color photographs and fascinating historical commentary, this book celebrates an art form that wholly embraces the state’s unique personality. First published in 1994, this newly updated and expanded edition of Neon Nevada explores the resurgence of this art form during the last decade, which has resulted in an appreciation of Nevada neon that will never fade. This survey of neon casts the new edition as a defining source for neon scholars and attracts neon aficionados to what can only be defined as a medium as distinctive and interesting as Nevada itself.

Nevada Place Names

Nevada Place Names
Author: Helen S. Carlson
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Total Pages: 633
Release: 1974-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0874174031

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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.

Weird Las Vegas and Nevada

Weird Las Vegas and Nevada
Author: Joe Oesterle
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2007
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781402739408

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A travel guide to Las Vegas that also focusses on the neglection of its historic places.

History of Nevada

History of Nevada
Author: Russell R. Elliott
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0803267150

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Maintaining the same high standards of the first edition, published in 1973, this new, revised edition is still the most comprehensive one-volume history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." In revising, Elliott summarizes the state's economic, political, and social history since 1973 and strengthens a major point he made then: that Nevada's acceptance of liberal marriage and divorce laws and of legalized gambling brought economic stability to a state singularly devoid of stable economic resources. -- from Book Jacket

Nevada

Nevada
Author: Karen Sirvaitis
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2002-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780822540953

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An introduction to the geography, history, economy, people, environmental issues, and interesting sites of Nevada.

Nevada, Our Home

Nevada, Our Home
Author:
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 262
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 142362372X

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Good Night Nevada

Good Night Nevada
Author: Adam Gamble
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1602190607

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Good Night Nevada highlights the Hoover Dam, Red Rock Canyon, Lake Mead, Natural History Museum, Virginia City, Great Reno Balloon Race, Carson City, Valley of Fire, Freemont Street, Lake Tahoe, Great Basin National Park, wildlife, and more. This charming and educational board book invites young readers to explore the scenic state of Nevada including iconic landmarks, historic sites, and fun attractions. This book is part of the bestselling Good Night Our World series, which includes hundreds of titles exploring iconic locations and exciting, child-friendly themes. Many of North America’s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these board books designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for North America's natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area’s attractions as rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place.

Nevada

Nevada
Author: Ann Heinrichs
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780756503277

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Introduces the geography, history, government, people, culture, and attractions of Nevada.

Minerals of Nevada

Minerals of Nevada
Author: Stephen B. Castor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-03-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780874178821

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The first complete guide to all the state s remarkably diverse minerals"