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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RUFFIN 2019
1 available
FICTION RUFFIN 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RUFFIN 2019
1 available
FICTION RUFFIN 2019
1 available
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"In a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedure that boasts unprecedented success rates. In a society plagued by racism, segregation, and private prisons, this operation saves lives with a controversial method--by turning people white. Like any father, our unnamed narrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. But in order to afford...
2) Homegoing
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GYASI 2016
1 available
FICTION GYASI 2016
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GYASI 2016
1 available
FICTION GYASI 2016
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GYASI 2016
3 available
FICTION GYASI 2016
3 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION GYASI 2016
1 available
CD FICTION GYASI 2016
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
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Longlisted for the National Book Award
A New York Times Notable Book
The moving, multi-generational debut novel from the author of On the Rooftop, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
“Brilliantly juxtaposing World War II, the '80s and post–Katrina present, Sexton follows three generations of a Black New Orleans family as they struggle to bloom amid the poison...
A New York Times Notable Book
The moving, multi-generational debut novel from the author of On the Rooftop, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
“Brilliantly juxtaposing World War II, the '80s and post–Katrina present, Sexton follows three generations of a Black New Orleans family as they struggle to bloom amid the poison...
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION EKWUYA 2020
1 available
YA FICTION EKWUYA 2020
1 available
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An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FLOURN 2015
1 available
FICTION FLOURN 2015
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FLOURN 2015
2 available
FICTION FLOURN 2015
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FLOURN 2015
1 available
FICTION FLOURN 2015
1 available
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"A powerful, timely debut, The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the American family. The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone--and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. The house still stands despite abandoned lots, an embattled city, and the inevitable shift outward to...
6) Passing
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LARSEN 2020
1 available
FICTION LARSEN 2020
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LARSEN 2020
1 available
FICTION LARSEN 2020
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LARSEN 2021
1 available
FICTION LARSEN 2021
1 available
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Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, Nella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today. Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past after deciding to "pass" as a white woman. Clare's childhood friend,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.896 RANKIN 2020
1 available
305.896 RANKIN 2020
1 available
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"At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how can humans best approach one another across our differences? Taking the study of whiteness and white supremacy as a guiding light, Claudia Rankine explores a series of real encounters with friends and strangers - each disrupting the false comfort of spaces...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES 2011
1 available
FICTION JONES 2011
1 available
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"With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist, author Tayari Jones unveils a ...story about a man s deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them...
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In Processing - 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...
10) Red at the bone
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
CD FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
LP FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
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An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. "Red at the Bone is falls hottest novel."Town & Country. Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRIS 2015
1 available
FICTION MORRIS 2015
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRIS 2015
1 available
FICTION MORRIS 2015
1 available
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • This fiery and provocative novel from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused...
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused...
12) Mrs. Everything
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WEINER 2019
1 available
FICTION WEINER 2019
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WEINER 2019
2 available
FICTION WEINER 2019
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WEINER 2019
1 available
FICTION WEINER 2019
1 available
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WEINER 2019
1 available
CD FICTION WEINER 2019
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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 WEINER 2019
1 available
LP FICTION WEINER 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WEINER 2019
1 available
LP FICTION WEINER 2019
1 available
Description
"A smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places--and be true to themselves--in a rapidly evolving world. Mrs. Everything is an ambitious, richly textured journey through history--and herstory--as these two sisters navigate a changing America over the course of their lives"--
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.8009 LUKASI 2017
1 available
305.8009 LUKASI 2017
1 available
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White Like Her: My Familys Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasiks mothers “passing,” Gails struggle with the shame of her mothers choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mothers decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mothers fear and shame,...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.8 HOBBS 2014
1 available
305.8 HOBBS 2014
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENNET 2020
2 available
FICTION BENNET 2020
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENNET 2020
2 available
FICTION BENNET 2020
2 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
LP FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
LP FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
Description
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...