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100 year old man novels volume 2
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When a hot air balloon ride ends with a sea landing and an unexpected rescue from a North Korean ship, one hundred-year-old Allan Karlsson and his sidekick Julius find themselves in the middle of a diplomatic crisis of epic proportions.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DONOGH 2019
1 available
FICTION DONOGH 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DONOGH 2019
2 available
FICTION DONOGH 2019
2 available
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A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to Nice, where he plans to look into his own mother's wartime activities after uncovering a handful of puzzling photographs from her wartime years.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION BOYNE 2022
1 available
FICTION BOYNE 2022
1 available
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BOYNE 2022
1 available
FICTION BOYNE 2022
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BOYNE 2022
1 available
FICTION BOYNE 2022
1 available
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
LP FICTION BOYNE 2022
1 available
LP FICTION BOYNE 2022
1 available
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“You can’t prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel.” —John Irving, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The World According to Garp “Exceptional, layered and compelling…This book moves like a freight train.” —Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of In Love From the New York Times bestselling author John Boyne, a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins...
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Singaporean mysteries volume 1
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY YU 2013
1 available
MYSTERY YU 2013
1 available
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After losing her husband, Rosie Lee could have become one of Singapore's "tai tai," an idle rich lady. Instead she is building a culinary empire from her restaurant, Aunty Lee's Delights, where spicy Singaporean meals are graciously served to locals and tourists alike. But when a body is found in one of Singapore's tourist havens and one of her guests fails to show at a dinner party, Aunty Lee knows that the two events are likely connected. The murder...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GAINES 2009
1 available
FICTION GAINES 2009
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
YA CD FICTION GAI 1994 UNABRIDGED
1 available
YA CD FICTION GAI 1994 UNABRIDGED
1 available
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Presents the life story of Miss Jane Pittman, who was born a slave on a Louisiana plantation before the Civil War and who lived to be 110 years old.
Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines’s now-classic novel—written as an autobiography—spans one hundred years of Miss Jane’s remarkable life,...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY COONEY 2020
1 available
MYSTERY COONEY 2020
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY COONEY 2020
1 available
MYSTERY COONEY 2020
1 available
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"Clementine Lakefield leads a simple life in her retirement community in Sun City, South Carolina. But while she plays cards, substitute teaches, and has learned to text with her niece and nephew, Clemmie is not who she says she is. Behind her carefree facade, she is hiding a lifetime of secrets. When Clemmie's curmudgeonly neighbor goes missing, Clemmie suddenly finds herself at the center of a dangerous conspiracy. From international bestselling...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STOPPS 2021
1 available
FICTION STOPPS 2021
1 available
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"Grace, Meg and Daphne, all in their seventies, are minding their own business while enjoying a cup of tea in a café, when seventeen-year-old Nina stumbles in. She's clearly distraught and running from someone, so the three women think nothing of hiding her when a suspicious-looking man starts asking if they've seen her. Once alone, Nina tells the women a little of what she's running from. The need to protect her is immediate, and Grace, Meg and...
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"An unlikely friendship between a curmudgeonly old man and a desperate young woman delivers a funny and uplifting message about the power of human connection and how it's never too late to be the person you wanted to be. Eighty-eight-year-old Duffy Sinclair wants the last leg of his bachelor life to be strictly predictable, so Centennial Assisted Living is perfect: low-sodium meals, off-key sing-alongs, and the company of his best pal and roommate,...
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Sophie Kimball mysteries volume 4
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY EATON 2019
1 available
MYSTERY EATON 2019
1 available
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An Arizona retirement community is a pastime paradise—until someone gets sent to the great beyond—in this mystery by the author of Booked 4 Murder. As if bookkeeping for a private detective agency didn’t give her enough to do, Sophie “Phee” Kimball is once again getting dragged into the drama at her mom’s retirement community. A new board member wants to get rid of two golf courses and replace them with eco-friendly parks, and some of...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LYONS 2020
1 available
FICTION LYONS 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LYONS 2020
1 available
FICTION LYONS 2020
1 available
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Wanting to organize an assisted death on her own terms, world-weary octogenarian Eudora Honeysett forges an unexpected bond with exuberant ten-year-old Rose, who drags her to tea parties, shopping sprees, and other social excursions.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BACKMA 2015
1 available
FICTION BACKMA 2015
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BACKMA 2015
1 available
FICTION BACKMA 2015
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BACKMA 2015
1 available
FICTION BACKMA 2015
1 available
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Britt-Marie cant stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. She begins her day at 6 a.m., because only lunatics wake up later than that. And she is not passive-aggressive. Not in the least. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. She is not one to judge othersno matter how ill-mannered, unkempt, or morally suspect they might be....
12) Celine: a novel
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER 2017
1 available
FICTION HELLER 2017
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER 2017
1 available
FICTION HELLER 2017
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER 2017
1 available
FICTION HELLER 2017
1 available
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"From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, spine-tingling novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past"--
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Dr. Paiboun novels volume 1
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY COT 2004
1 available
MYSTERY COT 2004
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY COT 2004
2 available
MYSTERY COT 2004
2 available
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The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over this former French colony. Most of the educated class has fled, but Dr. Siri Paiboun, a Paris-trained doctor whose late wife had been an ardent Communist, remains. And so this 72-year-old physician is appointed state coroner, despite the fact that he has no training or even supplies to use in performing his new task. What he does have is curiosity and integrity. At his age he is not about to let a bunch of ignorant...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PATRIC 2016
1 available
FICTION PATRIC 2016
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PATRIC 2016
1 available
FICTION PATRIC 2016
1 available
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Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before. What follows...
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCBRID 2020
1 available
FICTION MCBRID 2020
1 available
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3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
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Elder lady volume 1
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. Ever since her darling father's untimely death, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg, Sweden,...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BARBER 2008
1 available
FICTION BARBER 2008
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BARBER 2008
1 available
FICTION BARBER 2008
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.
We are in an elegant hotel particulier in the center of Paris. Renee, the building's concierge, is short, ugly, and plump. She has bunions on her feet. She is cantankerous and addicted to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she is everything...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY HEALEY 2014
1 available
MYSTERY HEALEY 2014
1 available
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When Maud, an aging grandmother who is slowly losing her memory, is convinced that her best friend Elizabeth is missing and in terrible danger, she becomes obsessed with saving her beloved friend despite the fact that no one believes her.
19) Emily, alone
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ONAN 2011
1 available
FICTION ONAN 2011
1 available
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Newly independent widow Emily Maxwell dreams of visits by grandchildren and mourns changes in her quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood before realizing an inner strength to pursue developing opportunities.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOOPER 2015
2 available
FICTION HOOPER 2015
2 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOOPER 2015
1 available
FICTION HOOPER 2015
1 available
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Embarking on a more than 3,000-kilometer walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory and reality.