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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHANG 2020
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FICTION CHANG 2020
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"One evening, Ma tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body, named Hu Gu Po. She hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt leaves red on everything she touches; another aunt arrives with eels in her belly. All the while, Daughter is falling for her...
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Kiss quotient novels volume 2
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HOANG 2019
1 available
ROMANCE HOANG 2019
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HOANG 2019
2 available
ROMANCE HOANG 2019
2 available
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"From the critically acclaimed author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart... Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions--like grief. And love. He thinks he's defective. His family knows better--that his autism means he just processes emotions...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OTSUKA 2011
1 available
FICTION OTSUKA 2011
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OTSUKA 2011
1 available
FICTION OTSUKA 2011
1 available
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Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEE 2014
1 available
FICTION SEE 2014
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION SEE 2014
1 available
LP FICTION SEE 2014
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"In 1938, Ruby, Helen and Grace, three girls from very different backgrounds, find themselves competing at the same audition for showgirl roles at San Francisco's exclusive "Oriental" nightclub, the Forbidden City. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family who have deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese. At times...
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In Processing - Adult Fiction
FICTION TSUKIY 2020
1 available
FICTION TSUKIY 2020
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TSUKIY 2020
1 available
FICTION TSUKIY 2020
1 available
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Women of the Silk and The Samurai's Garden comes a gorgeous and evocative historical novel about a Japanese-American family set against the backdrop of Hawai'i's sugar plantations. Daniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawai'i. He has his own reason for returning to his childhood home, but it is not to revisit the past, unlike his Uncle Koji. Koji lives with the memories of...
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Aunties (Jesse Q Sutanto) volume 1
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE SUTANT 2021
1 available
ROMANCE SUTANT 2021
1 available
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then, toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NG 2014
1 available
FICTION NG 2014
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NG 2014
1 available
FICTION NG 2014
1 available
Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION NG 2014
1 available
FICTION NG 2014
1 available
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"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RAO 2018
1 available
FICTION RAO 2018
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Forging a deep friendship with impoverished but passionate fellow weaver Savitha, motherless Poornima begins to reconnect with the beauty of the world before a devastating act of cruelty drives her friend away, compelling her to leave behind everything she knows to search for her friend in the darkest corners of India's underworld and beyond. A first novel.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
WESTERN ZHANG 2020
1 available
WESTERN ZHANG 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
WESTERN ZHANG 2020
1 available
WESTERN ZHANG 2020
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
WESTERN ZHANG 2020
1 available
WESTERN ZHANG 2020
1 available
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Likely to be the debut novel of the year." - San Francisco Chronicle. Named one of the most anticipated books of 2020 by The Millions, The Week, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Electric Lit, Vogue.com, Medium, Paste Magazine, and more. An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape-trying not just to survive but to find a home. Ba dies in the night; Ma...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TAN 1995
1 available
FICTION TAN 1995
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TAN 1995
1 available
FICTION TAN 1995
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TAN 1995
1 available
FICTION TAN 1995
1 available
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION TAN 1995
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LP FICTION TAN 1995
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The story of two sisters, one brought up in the U.S., the other in China. The American sister is contemptuous of the other's belief in ghosts until events cause her to understand what they can do.
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.6 ASGHAR 2018
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811.6 ASGHAR 2018
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Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls captures her experience as a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, while exploring identity, violence, and healing. “A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.”Booklist. an aunt teaches me how to tell an edible flower from a poisonous one. just in case, I hear her say, just in case. Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar grapples with coming of...
12) The incendiaries
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KWON 2018
1 available
FICTION KWON 2018
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KWON 2018
1 available
FICTION KWON 2018
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KWON 2018
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FICTION KWON 2018
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A young Korean-American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea and then disappears, leading a fellow student into an obsessive search for her.
13) Insurrecto
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION APOSTO 2018
1 available
FICTION APOSTO 2018
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION APOSTO 2018
1 available
FICTION APOSTO 2018
1 available
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"Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present and America's past by the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of Gun Dealer's Daughter. Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte's Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TAN 1989
1 available
FICTION TAN 1989
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TAN 1989
1 available
FICTION TAN 1989
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TAN 1989
1 available
FICTION TAN 1989
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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For readers of Amy Tan's bestselling novel, The Valley of Amazement, and her new memoir, Where the Past Begins, revisit her classic tale of mothers and daughters. Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope,...
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Kiss quotient novels volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HOANG 2018
1 available
ROMANCE HOANG 2018
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HOANG 2018
1 available
ROMANCE HOANG 2018
1 available
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"A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases--a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. It doesn't help that Stella...
16) Kitchen Chinese
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAH 2010
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FICTION MAH 2010
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAH 2010
1 available
FICTION MAH 2010
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION AKHTAR 2020
1 available
FICTION AKHTAR 2020
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION AKHTAR 2020
1 available
FICTION AKHTAR 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION AKHTAR 2020
1 available
FICTION AKHTAR 2020
1 available
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Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable -- Salman Rushdie A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KIM 2020
1 available
FICTION KIM 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KIM 2020
1 available
FICTION KIM 2020
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Margot Lee's mother, Mina, isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the tenuous invisible strings that held together her single mother's life as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KO 2017
1 available
FICTION KO 2017
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KO 2017
1 available
FICTION KO 2017
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KO 2017
1 available
FICTION KO 2017
1 available
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"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JIN 2020
1 available
FICTION JIN 2020
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JIN 2020
1 available
FICTION JIN 2020
1 available
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On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China--to her,...