Book clubs, start your engines. Fall is the season for heavy hitters, and this month’s offerings contain stellar choices.
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Where to eat, drink, rock and maybe get your knuckles inked up in the coming months
Speculative fiction is often at its best when it’s weird: Just ask Philip K. Dick. Thank goodness some authors have been embracing the bizarre lately, as exemplified by three new books about mental censorship, a pocket universe inside a cosmic whale and a vampire who only preys on the lonely.
The 2025 festival at downtown’s Historic Fifth Street School will be led by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Two books by local authors were chosen by Nevada Humanities to represent the state in the 2025 Library of Congress National Book Festival in September.
The puzzle aspect of mysteries is beloved by many readers, as evidenced by a recent mini-trend of “solve-it-yourself” mysteries being published for adults.
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