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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
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Description
"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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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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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEE 2021
1 available
FICTION LEE 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEE 2021
1 available
FICTION LEE 2021
1 available
Description
"From the award-winning author of NATIVE SPEAKER and ON SUCH A FULL SEA, a brilliant, exuberant and entertaining story of a young American whose life is transformed when a Chinese-American businessman suddenly takes him under his wing on a global adventure"--
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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
2 available
FICTION NG 2014
2 available
Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION NG 2014
1 available
FICTION NG 2014
1 available
Description
"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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Series
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
Checked Out
3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"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...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHUNG 2019
1 available
FICTION CHUNG 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHUNG 2019
1 available
FICTION CHUNG 2019
1 available
Description
Determined to conquer the Riemann hypothesis despite cultural discrimination against women intellectuals, a genius mathematician uncovers a mysterious theorem's unexpected World War II link to her family.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RAO 2018
1 available
FICTION RAO 2018
1 available
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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.
8) Pachinko
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEE 2017
2 available
FICTION LEE 2017
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEE 2017
1 available
FICTION LEE 2017
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEE 2017
1 available
FICTION LEE 2017
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE YANG 2020
1 available
ROMANCE YANG 2020
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE YANG 2020
1 available
ROMANCE YANG 2020
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE YANG 2020
1 available
ROMANCE YANG 2020
1 available
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD ROMANCE YANG 2020
1 available
CD ROMANCE YANG 2020
1 available
Description
Thieving allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen, and, most importantly, to attract the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. But when Ivy's mother discovers her trespasses, punishment is swift and Ivy is sent to China, and her dream instantly evaporates. Years later, Ivy has grown into a poised yet restless young woman, haunted by her conflicting feelings about her upbringing and her family. Back...
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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
Description
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,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KWOK 2019
2 available
FICTION KWOK 2019
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KWOK 2019
1 available
FICTION KWOK 2019
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KWOK 2019
1 available
FICTION KWOK 2019
1 available
Description
Three women from a Chinese immigrant family navigate complicated secrets when an elder daughter goes missing while visiting her dying grandmother in the Netherlands.
12) Severance
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MA 2018
1 available
FICTION MA 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MA 2018
1 available
FICTION MA 2018
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MA 2018
1 available
FICTION MA 2018
1 available
Description
A survivor of an apocalyptic plague maintains a blog about a decimated Manhattan before joining a motley group of survivors to search for a place to rebuild, a goal that is complicated by an unscrupulous group leader. -- NoveList
Maybe its the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Mas offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. Candace...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WASHBU 2020
1 available
FICTION WASHBU 2020
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WASHBU 2020
1 available
FICTION WASHBU 2020
1 available
Description
"A groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NGUYEN 2020
1 available
FICTION NGUYEN 2020
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NGUYEN 2020
1 available
FICTION NGUYEN 2020
1 available
Description
"The multigenerational tale of the Trà̂n family, set against the backdrop of the Vit Nam War. Trà̂n Diu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Ni, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the H Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that will tear not just her beloved...
15) The bride test
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Series
Kiss quotient novels volume 2
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HOANG 2019
1 available
ROMANCE HOANG 2019
1 available
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
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"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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Series
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, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"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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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
Description
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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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEE 2014
1 available
FICTION SEE 2014
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 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
1 available
Description
"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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEE 2017
1 available
FICTION SEE 2017
1 available
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate--the first automobile any of them have seen--and a stranger arrives. In...
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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
On Shelf
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION TAN 1995
1 available
LP FICTION TAN 1995
1 available
Description
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.