Nevada Towns and Tales
Author : Stanley W. Paher
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780913814413
Author : Stanley W. Paher
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780913814413
Author : Richard Moreno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1461747279
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.
Author : Stanley W. Paher
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Nevada
ISBN :
Author : Dario Diofebi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1635576210
“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.
Author : Joe Oesterle
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781402739408
A travel guide to Las Vegas that also focusses on the neglection of its historic places.
Author : Diane Siebert
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2003
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0618096736
A poem describing the rise and fall of Rhyolite, a town in the desert of southwestern Nevada which grew from one gold claim to a town of 10,000 people, then, a few years later, was deserted.
Author : Stanley W Paher
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN :
Author : Janice Oberding
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 2013-08-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 081175295X
The Silver State's most bizarre and creepy stories of paranormal activity.
Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307527948
For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Ghost Town: Seven Ghostly Stories from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. In the old towns of the Wild West, there’s more to hear than the paint peeling from the deserted storefronts, more than the tumbleweeds somersaulting down the empty streets. If you listen hard, you can hear voices whispering stories. Stories like the one about the lost mine in Maiden, Montana, or how Wyatt Earp won the shoot-out at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. And don’t forget about the Bad Man from Bodie, California—he’s still searching for his lost finger! Can you hear them? “An entertaining collection.” –School Library Journal “Combining history and mystery…[Ghost Town: Seven Ghostly Stories] recalls classic campfire tales.” –Booklist “A well conceived (and titled) collection…[of] chilling short stories.” –Kirkus Reviews
Author : Janice Oberding
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1493073478
Time has all but forgotten the tragic tales of those who have passed through Nevada, but their spirits remain. As arguably the most haunted state in the nation, Nevada has more than its share of ghosts with intriguing stories and historical connections. Among them is the unfortunate gangster, Bugsy Siegel who died in Beverly Hills only to return to his old stomping grounds, the Flamingo Las Vegas; Julia Bulette, the ill-fated prostitute who was slaughtered in her bed on a cold January morning in 1867; and the many haunted houses in Reno, their owners forever tied to their homes, refusing to depart.