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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO DOYLE 2020
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BIO DOYLE 2020
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO DOYLE 2020
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BIO DOYLE 2020
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO DOYLE 2020
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BIO DOYLE 2020
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"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO RICHARDS 2018
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BIO RICHARDS 2018
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"From Cecile Richards--the president of Planned Parenthood, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women's March on Washington, and "the heroine of the resistance" (Vogue)--comes a story about learning to lead and make change, based on a lifetime of fighting for women's rights and social justice. Cecile Richards has been an activist since she was taken to the principal's office in seventh grade for wearing an armband...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO RICHARDS 2018
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BIO RICHARDS 2018
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"From Cecile Richards--the president of Planned Parenthood, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women's March on Washington, and "the heroine of the resistance" (Vogue)--comes a story about learning to lead and make change, based on a lifetime of fighting for women's rights and social justice. Cecile Richards has been an activist since she was taken to the principal's office in seventh grade for wearing an armband...
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LEVY 2017
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BIO LEVY 2017
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"A gorgeous, darkly humorous memoir for readers of Cheryl Strayed about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention, as well as a portrait of a generation used to assuming they're entitled to everything--based on this award-winning writer's New Yorker article 'Thanksgiving in Mongolia'"--
"In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured it out: she was married, pregnant, successful...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO ALTMAN 2019
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BIO ALTMAN 2019
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"Elissa and Rita have forever struggled to find their place in each other's worlds. Rita, an overreaching, makeup-addicted, narcissistic Manhattan singer couldn't be more different from Elissa, her gay, taciturn New England writer daughter. Stuck in an outrageous maelstrom of codependency, mother and daughter cannot seem to extricate themselves from the center of each other's lives. Motherland is their universal story: a kaleidoscopic journey built...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO ANDERS 2017
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BIO ANDERS 2017
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"Carol Anderson grows up in a fundamentalist Christian home in the '60s, a time when being gay was in opposition to all social and religious mores and against the law in most states. Fearing the rejection of her parents, she hides the truth about her love orientation, creating emotional distance from them for years, as she desperately struggles to harness her powerful attractions to women while pursuing false efforts to be with men. The watershed...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.7663 SHAPLA 2020
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306.7663 SHAPLA 2020
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"While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman named Annemarie-letters that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters' language-but does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her. And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of McCullers's life: she...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WIZENBERG 2020
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BIO WIZENBERG 2020
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The Fixed Stars is a taut, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire, identity, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce, coming out to family and friends, learning to co-parent a young child, and realizing a new vision of love. The result is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals...
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One of Purewow’s “Best Beach Reads of Summer 2018”
Winner for Best Book of 2018 of the Fresh Fiction Awards!
New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins is beloved for her heartfelt novels filled with humor and wisdom. Now, she tackles an issue every woman deals with: body image and self-acceptance.
Emerson, Georgia, and Marley have been best friends ever since they met at a weight-loss camp as teens....
Winner for Best Book of 2018 of the Fresh Fiction Awards!
New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins is beloved for her heartfelt novels filled with humor and wisdom. Now, she tackles an issue every woman deals with: body image and self-acceptance.
Emerson, Georgia, and Marley have been best friends ever since they met at a weight-loss camp as teens....
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
248.843 HOLLIS 2018
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248.843 HOLLIS 2018
3 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
248.843 HOLLIS 2018
2 available
248.843 HOLLIS 2018
2 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
248.843 HOLLIS 2018
1 available
248.843 HOLLIS 2018
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP 248.843 HOLLIS 2019
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LP 248.843 HOLLIS 2019
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With wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality and founder of TheChicSite.com founder Rachel Hollis helps readers break free from the lies keeping them from the joy-filled and exuberant life they are meant to have. Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Chic Media, Rachel Hollis has created an online fan base of hundreds of thousands of fans by sharing tips for living a better life while...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BERG 2013
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FICTION BERG 2013
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION BERG 2013 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION BERG 2013 UNABRIDGED
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION BERG 2013
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LP FICTION BERG 2013
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"Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul, Minnesota, complete with a big front porch, a wild garden, a chef's kitchen--and three roommates. The four women are different ages, but all are feeling restless, and want to take a roadtrip to find again the people and things they miss. One woman wants to connect...
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Nearly a decade after the debut of her best-selling, life-changing classic A Year by the Sea, Joan is so busy helping other women search for their true selves and taking care of several generations of her family that she doesn’t even realize how out of control her life has become. Ironically, she finds she needs to listen to her own advice more than anyone else does. The Second Journey chronicles Joan's quest to restore her own equilibrium and
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