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Las Vegas Book Briefs for July 24-30, 2014

Literary highlights this week include a promotion to give free ‘Chicken Soup’ books to patrons who adopt pets at The Animal Foundation.

Reader-submitted photos and adoptable pets, July 24-31, 2014

View Neighborhood News readers send photos of their pets and everyday lives, and View features photos of pets ready for adoption each week. To submit a photo, email View copy editor Anne King at aking@viewnews.com or mail to View, C/O Anne King, 1111 W. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas, NV 89125. Photos cannot be returned, and due to the high volume, they are often scheduled a month or two in advance.

Literary Las Vegas: Sarah Hoover

“If my dirty shoes could fly, I would help all the mommy birds feed their baby birds. One by one, I would give them a worm. I could loop-the-loop like bumble bees or twirl just like a pinwheel. Wwwhhheeeee!” writes Henderson author Sarah Hoover in her new children’s book.

Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in a class of its own

Nevada is home to 23 state parks, the majority with only one unique feature. But Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park is in a class of its own, as it features not only a well-preserved historic mining town but also remains of the ancient ichthyosaur (pronounced ICK-thee-o-saur), our state fossil.

New book shares stories of unheralded figures in black history

After grad school, Joel Christian Gill did a series of paintings that he says “freed” him from the racism that his father and grandfather endured. But something was missing. That’s when he turned to comics to tell stories of “obscure black history.”

Newsmakers, July 24-30, 2014

Army PV2 Thomas Snow graduated from basic training and Airborne School at Fort Benning, Ga. He is stationed in Alaska. Snow is the son of Philip and Jeannette Snow of Las Vegas and is a 2013 graduate of Northwest Career and Technical Academy.