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The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account
The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account Bartolomé de Las Casas 9780801844300 Nonfiction Johns Hopkins University Press Johns Hopkins University Press Five hundred years after Columbus’s first v...
Las Mamis: Favorite Latino Authors Remember Their Mothers
Las Mamis: Favorite Latino Authors Remember Their Mothers Esmeralda Santiago and Joie Davidow 9780375726873 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House A marvelous new anthology from the editors of Las C...
Er Doc’s Las Vegas Reunion
Er Doc’s Las Vegas Reunion Denise N. Wheatley 9781335595270 Fiction Harlequin Medical Romance Larger Print Harlequin Enterprises Limited Will She Roll the Dice on a Second Chance When She’s Reunited w...
The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel
The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel Chris Abani 9780143124955 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winnin...
The Las Vegas Book Festival
The Las Vegas Book Festival Historic Fifth Street School Las Vegas Nevada
Las Madres
Las Madres Esmeralda Santiago 9780307962614 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race...
A Max le gustan las munecas
A Max le gustan las munecas Zetta Elliott 9781519748348 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Max desea visitar una hermosa boutique donde venden vestidos y muñecas, pero le preocupa que otros niños se ...
Multicultural Bookstore Las Vegas
Multicultural Bookstore Las Vegas Las Vegas NV We provide a diverse repertoire of multicultural books of all genres. Besides, we devote ourselves to providing educational and community programs for yo...
Alyssa Reynoso-Morris
Alyssa Reynoso-Morris NONE Alyssa Reynoso-Morris is a queer Afro-Latinx/e writer, mother, and community organizer from The Bronx. She currently resides in Philadelphia and has been recognized with mu...
A’ja Wilson
A’ja Wilson NONE A'ja Wilson, two-time MVP and professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces, is a gold medalist with the USA Women’s National Team. Off the court, she runs the A'ja Wilson Fo...
Author Nation
Author Nation Horseshoe Las Vegas Las Vegas Nevada Author Nation is the world’s largest indie author conference.
Act Like an Author, Think Like a Business Conference
Act Like an Author, Think Like a Business Conference Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino Las Vegas Nevada If your publishing success is just as important to you as your writing success, then instead of going...
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3 J.M. Benjamin 9781622864904 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. In Las Vegas, Nevada, also known as Sin City, anything goes. This is why the Double Gs have ch...
Insignificant Others 2: Erotic Novellas
Insignificant Others 2: Erotic Novellas Pynk and Carol Taylor B00IT2MS38 Fiction Insatiable Press Insatiable Press Two novellas in one hot volume. EROTIC CITY: LAS VEGAS from Pynk continues the story ...
Christina Benton
Christina Benton NONE Christina Benton is a Las Vegas-based crime author, forensic anthropologist, and bookstore owner. She penned the debut novel featuring Noel Patterson, a forensic anthropologist ...
Daria Peoples
Daria Peoples NONE Daria Peoples-Riley is a children's book author-illustrator, known for works like 'This Is It' and 'I Got Next'. She advocates for children to unapologetically express their dreams...
Javon Johnson
Javon Johnson NONE Javon Johnson is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and director of African diaspora studies. He authored 'Killing Poetry' (2017) and is a renowned spok...
R.D. Talley Books
R.D. Talley Books Las Vegas NV Now Open at Fashion Show Mall Las Vegas, 2nd Floor, near Dillard’s, next to Brad’s Toys & Windsor
L.A. Lewis
L.A. Lewis NONE Bestselling author L.A. Lewis from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is known for her Dirty Little Secrets series. She's a contributing writer for Motherhood Diaries and a member of M-LAS writi...
Tamara Shiloh
Tamara Shiloh NONE Tamara Shiloh, a Northern California native, owns the Multicultural Bookstore and Gifts in Richmond. She is a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother residing in Point Richmond,...
Rutina Wesley - The "How She Move" Interview
Rutina Wesley - The "How She Move" Interview Kam Williams Interview Get Ready for Rutina! After studying at the Las Vegas Academy of Performing Arts, Rutina Wesley attended the University...
Southern New Mexico Book Festival
Southern New Mexico Book Festival Doña Ana Community College, East Mesa Campus Las Cruces New Mexico The goal of the Southern New Mexico Book Festival is to connect authors, writers, readers, publishe...
Cold Hard Cash Vol. 1: A Martha Chainey Escapade
Cold Hard Cash Vol. 1: A Martha Chainey Escapade Gary Phillips 9781684974498 Fiction ABLAZE ABLAZE Former Las Vegas showgirl Martha Chainey is a statuesque woman of color with a penchant for martial a...
Keeping the Faith: A Memoir of Family, Race, and Social History of New Orleans
Keeping the Faith: A Memoir of Family, Race, and Social History of New Orleans Ronald Gauthier 978keepingthe Nonfiction Jon Batiste Publishing Jon Batiste Publishing Jon Batiste is a musical prodigy a...
Reel Love
Reel Love Addie Woolridge 9780593899311 Fiction Delacorte Romance Penguin Random House Two teens must keep their working—and romantic—relationship a secret from their grandmas, who are longtime social...
Vegas Valley Book Festival
Vegas Valley Book Festival Las Vegas Nevada The Vegas Valley Book Festival, now in its fifteenth year, is a celebration of the written, spoken, and illustrated word. The festival has networked togeth...
A Woman of Endurance
A Woman of Endurance Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa 9780063062221 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history—the Puerto Rican ...
Last Call for a Deadly Diva
Last Call for a Deadly Diva Flo Anthony 9781954161665 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Five years ago Valerie Rollins became a widow after her husband, electronics and ra...
The Bittersweet Science: racism, racketeering and the political economy of boxing
The Bittersweet Science: racism, racketeering and the political economy of boxing Gerald Horne 9780717808298 Nonfiction International Publishers International Publishers Based upon exhaustive research...
The High Desert Book Festival
The High Desert Book Festival Hesperia Civic Plaza Park Hesperia California Our annual High Desert Book Festival is where authors and book lovers meet to celebrate the written word amidst Joshua Trees...
The Reluctant Bid: Distinguished Gentlemen Series
The Reluctant Bid: Distinguished Gentlemen Series Sheryl Lister 9781733867009 Fiction Sheryl Lister Sheryl Lister A favor for the one person he can’t refuse brings architect Romeo Alexander back to th...
The Eventide Hour: City of Sin
The Eventide Hour: City of Sin Ursula Sinclair 9781979596848 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC My name is A’eron. I am Aos Si. Some might call me dark fae. But what I am is a prince without...
Full Figured 11: Carl Weber Presents
Full Figured 11: Carl Weber Presents Treasure Hernandez 9781622864676 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Once again, Carl Weber brings together two literary divas to give readers what they’ve...
The Cartel series is back...and more deadly than ever.
The Cartel series is back...and more deadly than ever. Troy Johnson Article Ashley & JaQuavis are New York Times bestselling authors of over 30 novels. They are the youngest Black writers to ...
The Cartel 6: The Demise
The Cartel 6: The Demise Ashley Antoinette and JaQuavis Coleman 9781250066992 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Read more about this AALBC.com bestselling novel. The Cartel series is ...
Calling Her Bluff
Calling Her Bluff Kaia Danielle 9781682810323 Nonfiction Entangled Publishing Entangled Publishing Romance author Kamaria Wilson came to Las Vegas with nothing to lose. A one-night stand with a delici...
She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks
She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks M. NourbeSe Philip 9780819575678 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Brilliant, lyrical, and passionate, this collection from the...
Pleasures & Treasures
Pleasures & Treasures Naleighna Kai B00NBA6QA4 Fiction Macro Publishing Group Macro Publishing Group Six members of M-LAS, including national bestselling and award-winning authors, share their body of...
Firecracker
Firecracker Gar Anthony Haywood 9781941298466 Fiction Cutting Edge Publishing Cutting Edge Publishing Eight months ago, knockout PR exec Reece Germaine spent a wild weekend in Las Vegas with football ...
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, And Death
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, And Death Colson Whitehead 9780385537056 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whitehead’s hilarious memoir of his sea...
Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.’s Most Notorious Drug Lord
Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.’s Most Notorious Drug Lord Seth Ferranti 9780980068771 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gorilla Convict Publications To many in his hometown of Washington, D.C., ...
Homecoming Weekend: A Novel (Zane Presents)
Homecoming Weekend: A Novel (Zane Presents) Curtis Bunn 9781593094294 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. If you thought Las Vegas was where “what happens” stays, you have not been to homecom...
Shyt List 4: Children of the Wronged
Shyt List 4: Children of the Wronged T. Styles 9780984303038 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications What happens when the devil s daughter visits Sin City? Drama occurs of biblical proportion...
Twisted
Twisted Ni’cola Mitchell 9780983346111 Fiction NCM Publishing NCM Publishing “I have to do what’s best for me” has been Dionni’s motto since the horrible night she found her finance Dale entangled bet...
Camo Girl
Camo Girl Kekla Magoon 9781416978046 Fiction Aladdin Simon & Schuster, Inc. Set in a suburb of Las Vegas, Ella and Zachary, called Z, have been friends forever, but Z has always been “the weird kid” i...
Art of Disappearing
Art of Disappearing Ivy Claire Pochoda 9780312650995 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Ivy Pochoda’s spellbinding and cinematic storytelling seamlessly fuses timeless magic to modern-da...
A Card For The Players
A Card For The Players Roland S. Jefferson 9781450706377 Fiction VTrust Valurez Trust & Co Jefferson’s novel is about the Las Vegas Scene in the 1980’s. An alienated loser assembles a team of high sta...
Sticks & Stones
Sticks & Stones Eric Pete 9781601622013 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Ten years. A decade. Time enough for a high school graduate from a small, sleepy southern town to move on and become...
Empire Of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle
Empire Of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle Chris Hedges 9781568584379 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group We now live in two Americas. Onenow the minorityfunctio...
Somewhat Saved
Somewhat Saved Pat G’Orge Walker 9780758218902 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In her most soulful and side-splitting send-up of church life yet, Pat G’Orge-Walker’s hilarious cast of paris...
Black Widow: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original)
Black Widow: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original) Nikki Turner 9780345493873 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House #1 bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with an explosive new novel about a...
Every Woman’s Got a Secret
Every Woman’s Got a Secret Brenda L. Thomas 9780743497060 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. LIVIN’ THE LIFE… One of the hottest young veejays to hit music television, Caroline Isaacs is a p...
Vegas Bites: A Werewolf Romance Anthology (Noire Allure)
Vegas Bites: A Werewolf Romance Anthology (Noire Allure) Leslie Esdaile Banks, J. M. Jeffries, Seressia Glass, and Natalie Dunbar 9781600430015 Nonfiction Parker Publishing Parker Publishing What howl...
Count On This (Arabesque)
Count On This (Arabesque) Niobia Bryant 9781583146484 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited In a sequel to the ever-popular CAN’T GET NEXT TO YOU, wild and adventurous April...
The Trophy Wife Network
The Trophy Wife Network D.T. Pollard 9781424135882 Fiction PublishAmerica PublishAmerica Golfer’s wife reports to prison for involvement in drug ring. Prosecutors have said the two-time major champion...
Intimate Apparel/Fabulation
Intimate Apparel/Fabulation Lynn Nottage 9781559362795 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group “Lynn Nottage’s work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities...
In Black And White: The Life Of Sammy Davis, Jr
In Black And White: The Life Of Sammy Davis, Jr Wil Haygood 9781845131067 Nonfiction Aurum Press Ltd Aurum Press Ltd Sammy Davis, Jr was one of the most recognisable showbiz entertainers of the twenti...
Chasin’ It
Chasin’ It Tony Lindsay 9780974363677 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. A fast-paced, no-holds-barred story of life on the streets follows ex-convict and junkie Terri Parish, a former ...
The Salt Roads
The Salt Roads Nalo Hopkinson 9780446533027 Fiction Warner Books Hachette Book Group - Hopkinson made her debut with "Brown Girl in the Ring (Aspect, 1998), receiving the John W. Campbell Award for Be...
Crumbs From The Table Of Joy And Other Plays
Crumbs From The Table Of Joy And Other Plays Lynn Nottage 9781559362146 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group This collection includes Lynn Nottage’s best known work, Crumb...
La Resaca
La Resaca Enrique A. Laguerre 9781563283413 Fiction Editorial Plaza Mayor Editorial Plaza Mayor La resaca presenta la atmósfera social, económica y política de la vida isleña durante las últimas tres ...
The ’K’ Chronicles: What A Long Strange Strip It’s Been
The ’K’ Chronicles: What A Long Strange Strip It’s Been Keith Knight 9781891830303 Fiction Top Shelf Productions Top Shelf Productions .html by Keith Knight Described as a combination of Calvin & H...
Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Randall Kenan 9780679737889 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House "A meaningful panoramic view of what it means to be h...
Rebel for the Hell of It: The Life of Tupac Shakur
Rebel for the Hell of It: The Life of Tupac Shakur Armond White 9781560251224 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Tupac Shakur has been deified as a Renaissance man in gansta rap. Paralleling...
If I Stop I’ll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor
If I Stop I’ll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor John A. Williams and Dennis A. Williams 9781560250623 Fiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Though it would be hard to imagine an Americ...
Janco Books
Janco Books Las Vegas, Nevada 89102 NV “I want this to be a community hub—a place that’s warm and welcoming…” —Christina Benton, Author and Owner of Janco Books
The Analog Dope Store
The Analog Dope Store Las Vegas NV The Analog Dope Store is a Black woman-owned and operated business. We offer a lovingly curated selection of books and vinyl records centered in Black culture. Our b...
Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson 0000000084289358 Acclaimed author Nalo Hopkinson, known for her debut novel 'Brown Girl in the Ring', is a winner of multiple awards including the Locus Award and John W. Campbell Awar...
Preston L. Allen
Preston L. Allen NONE Preston L. Allen, a Boston and Miami native, is an award-winning author known for his engaging short stories. A recipient of the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in...
Montague Kobbé
Montague Kobbé NONE Montague Kobbé, a Caracas-born ambilingual author, is known for his novels “The Night of the Rambler” and “On the Way Back.” He also co-edited “Crude Words: Contemporary Writing ...
Shaquille O’Neal
Shaquille O’Neal 0000000073666496 Shaquille O’Neal is one of the world’s most successful athletes-turned-businesspeople, whose accomplishments on and off the court have translated into his highly so...
Michael Gordon Bennett
Michael Gordon Bennett NONE Author, actor, and entrepreneur Michael Gordon Bennett, born in 1958, is known for his book “7-10 Split: My Journey As America’s Whitest Black Kid.” He's also the CEO of B...
Kamau Brathwaite
Kamau Brathwaite 0000000109373020 Edward Kamau Brathwaite, born in Barbados (1930-2020), was a key voice in Caribbean literature, a professor at NYU, and co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement....
Abel Garcia
Abel Garcia NONE Dallas-based artist Abel Garcia, inspired by The Bible, hip-hop, graffiti, and the high renaissance, creates unique art using screen printing, acrylic and oil painting. Recognized as...
Mayra Santos-Febres
Mayra Santos-Febres 0000000079758949 Mayra Santos-Febres, born in 1966, is a celebrated Afro-Puerto Rican author, poet, and literature professor. Her work, translated into numerous languages, explore...
Janice Pernell
Janice Pernell NONE Janice Pernell, a prestigious editor for multiple bestsellers, transitioned into writing with her debut in “Baring It All: The Ins and Outs of Publishing” and her first fiction “N...
Jennifer Rahim
Jennifer Rahim 0000000122103674 Jennifer Rahim is an awarded critic, poet, and short-story writer with four volumes of poetry and a collection of short stories to her credit. Co-editor of two essay c...
Kathy Strahs
Kathy Strahs NONE Kathy Strahs, creator of the top-rated blog Panini Happy, left her corporate career to follow her passion for cooking. Her innovative recipes and stunning food photography have been...
Tyler Merritt
Tyler Merritt NONE Tyler Merritt is a multi-talented actor, musician, comedian, and activist known for The Tyler Merritt Project. With a career spanning 20 years, he has worked in TV shows like ABC's...
Montaysia Yuneek Sims
Montaysia Yuneek Sims NONE Montaysia Yuneek Sims is an illustrator and Art Activist who creates from a place of community and encouragement. Besides children's books, Montaysia enjoys drawing for the...
Julian Mims
Julian Mims NONE Julian Merrell Mims was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1979, the eldest son of Anthony Ronald Mims, a college football coach, and Virginia Mims, an elementary school teacher. ...
Roderick D. Talley
Roderick D. Talley NONE Roderick D. Talley created this company as a hub for positive-oriented books and artwork, while fostering a welcoming environment for all people. A firm believer in “practici...
Smokin’ Aces
Smokin’ Aces Kam Williams smokin13.jpg Film Review Hit Men Aplenty in Overplotted Mafia Comedy Smokin’ Aces (2007) Rated R for sexuality, female frontal nudity, pervasive p...
Black Girl You Are Atlas
Black Girl You Are Atlas Renée Watson Excerpt at•las | \ ’at-les \ from Merriam-Webster Dictionary 1 capitalized: a Titan who for his part in the Titans’ revolt against the gods ...
Janet Jackson - The “Why Did I Get Married Too” Interview
Janet Jackson - The “Why Did I Get Married Too” Interview Kam Williams Interview Born in Gary, Indiana on May 16, 1966, Janet Damita Jo Jackson entered show business at the tender age of 7 whe...
Ne-Yo - The "Red Tails" Interview [2012]
Ne-Yo - The "Red Tails" Interview [2012] Kam Williams Interview Yo! Ne-Yo! Shaffer Chimere Smith, aka Ne-Yo, was born in Camden, Arkansas, but raised in Las Vegas, Nevada by his mom, a musi...