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Poems
This breathtaking collection of poems by award-winning Nevada poet Gailmarie Pahmeier explores the many facets of a woman's experience....
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A Nevada Memoir
Phyllis Barber grew up in Las Vegas, in the midst of a devout Mormon family. As a small child, she began to feel uneasy with her faith’s all-pervasive certainty and righteousness....
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(a novel)
by Oscar Lewis
Oscar Lewis sets his first novel in mid-1850s San Francisco. An “authorized biography” of a California entrepreneur has just been published, but James Horton is scarcely recognizable to those who knew him....
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A comparative study of ethnic identity in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Peru, the United States, and Uruguay that illustrates the effects of globalization on the daily lives of Basques abroad....
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A City in Fiction
by David Fine
The literary image of Los Angeles has evolved since the 1880s from promotional literature that hyped the region as a New Eden to contemporary visions of the city as a perplexing, sometimes corrupt, even apocalyptic place that reflects all that is wrong with America....
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Aulestia takes a scholarly and in-depth look at the art of the bertsolari and introduces this Basque art to the English-speaking world....
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Poems
In his poetry, writer and mountaineer C. L. Rawlins evokes the natural world and the American West in exciting detail....
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Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle
Las Vegas, says William Fox, is a pay-as-you-play paradise that succeeds in satisfying our fantasies of wealth and the excesses of pleasure and consumption that go with it....
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