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1) Wildcat
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRIS 2022
1 available
FICTION MORRIS 2022
1 available
Description
"Amelia Morris's Wildcat is an uproariously funny, surprisingly touching story of one woman's journey through motherhood and female friendship, in a society that plays fast and loose with information. New mother, aspiring writer, and former shopgirl Leanne has lost her way. As she struggles with both her grief and the haze of motherhood, it also becomes clear that her best friend, the default queen of East Side Los Angeles, Regina Mark, might not...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NG 2017
1 available
FICTION NG 2017
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NG 2017
1 available
FICTION NG 2017
1 available
Description
When a custody battle divides her placid town, straitlaced family woman Elena Richardson finds herself pitted against her enigmatic tenant and becomes obsessed with exposing her past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both families.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JERKIN 2021
1 available
FICTION JERKIN 2021
1 available
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An ambitious college student gives birth to a baby girl destined to be raised by an important Harlem family, who believe the infant will restore their prosperity.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENNET 2016
1 available
FICTION BENNET 2016
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENNET 2016
2 available
FICTION BENNET 2016
2 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENNET 2016
1 available
FICTION BENNET 2016
1 available
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"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REID 2019
2 available
FICTION REID 2019
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REID 2019
1 available
FICTION REID 2019
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REID 2019
2 available
FICTION REID 2019
2 available
Description
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOLLOY 2018
1 available
FICTION MOLLOY 2018
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOLLOY 2018
2 available
FICTION MOLLOY 2018
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOLLOY 2018
1 available
FICTION MOLLOY 2018
1 available
Description
A group of new moms go to increasingly risky lengths to help one of their own when her six-week old baby is kidnapped and the traumatized mother is subjected to invasive questions.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION AUDRAI 2021
1 available
FICTION AUDRAI 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION AUDRAI 2021
1 available
FICTION AUDRAI 2021
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION AUDRAI 2021
1 available
LP FICTION AUDRAI 2021
1 available
Description
"A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting, supportive mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter--Violet...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VUONG 2019
1 available
FICTION VUONG 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VUONG 2019
1 available
FICTION VUONG 2019
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VUONG 2019
1 available
FICTION VUONG 2019
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 5 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
"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KUSHNE 2018
1 available
FICTION KUSHNE 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KUSHNE 2018
1 available
FICTION KUSHNE 2018
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KUSHNE 2018
1 available
FICTION KUSHNE 2018
1 available
Description
"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley....
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WROBEL 2020
1 available
FICTION WROBEL 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WROBEL 2020
1 available
FICTION WROBEL 2020
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WROBEL 2020
1 available
FICTION WROBEL 2020
1 available
Description
"In her compulsive, sharply-drawn debut, Stephanie Wrobel peels back the layers of the most complicated of mother-daughter relationships. For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair and practically lived at the hospital. Neighbors did all they could, holding fundraisers and offering shoulders to cry on, but no matter how many doctors, tests, or surgeries,...
11) Red at the bone
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On Shelf
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
On Shelf
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
CD FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
On Shelf
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
LP FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
Description
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 MAKKAI 2018
1 available
FICTION MAKKAI 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAKKAI 2018
1 available
FICTION MAKKAI 2018
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic...
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Series
Amgash novels volume 1
On Shelf
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STROUT 2016
1 available
FICTION STROUT 2016
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STROUT 2016
1 available
FICTION STROUT 2016
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STROUT 2016
4 available
FICTION STROUT 2016
4 available
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION STROUT 2016
1 available
CD FICTION STROUT 2016
1 available
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION STROUT 2016
1 available
LP FICTION STROUT 2016
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION STROUT 2016
1 available
LP FICTION STROUT 2016
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION STROUT 2016
1 available
LP FICTION STROUT 2016
1 available
Description
Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two...
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Description
"An emotional novel about motherhood--about a woman who has never thought she wanted to become a mother, and how she does or does not decide to go ahead and have a child"--
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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
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 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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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARCIA 2021
2 available
FICTION GARCIA 2021
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARCIA 2021
1 available
FICTION GARCIA 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARCIA 2021
1 available
FICTION GARCIA 2021
1 available
Description
"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BRODER 2021
1 available
FICTION BRODER 2021
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Transitioning from her Jewish faith to dieting to maintain an illusion of existential control, Rachel bonds with an Orthodox woman at a frozen yogurt shop before embarking on a journey of food, desire and spiritual fulfillment.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE WASHIN 2020
2 available
ROMANCE WASHIN 2020
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE WASHIN 2020
1 available
ROMANCE WASHIN 2020
1 available
Description
Japanese-American chef Mike and Black daycare teacher Benson begin reevaluating their stale relationship after Mike departs for Japan to visit his dying father and Benson is suddenly stuck with his visiting mother-in-law, who becomes an unconventional roommate.
19) The other woman
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
Description
A blissful romance between Adam and Emily is challenged by Adam's manipulative mother, who resorts to dire measures to keep all other women out of her son's life.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILSON 2019
1 available
FICTION WILSON 2019
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILSON 2019
1 available
FICTION WILSON 2019
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILSON 2019
1 available
FICTION WILSON 2019
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
"Kevin Wilson's best book yet--a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with remarkable and disturbing abilities... Lillian and Madison were the unlikeliest of roommates at their elite boarding school: Madison, the daughter of a prominent Atlanta family, being groomed for greatness; Lillian, a scholarship student, plucked out of nowhere based solely on her intellect and athletic...