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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GYASI 2020
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FICTION GYASI 2020
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GYASI 2020
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FICTION GYASI 2020
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GYASI 2020
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FICTION GYASI 2020
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION GYASI 2020
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CD FICTION GYASI 2020
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Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all...
2) Homegoing
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GYASI 2016
1 available
FICTION GYASI 2016
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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
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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"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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LAHIRI 2013
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FICTION LAHIRI 2013
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LAHIRI 2013
2 available
FICTION LAHIRI 2013
2 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION LAHIRI 2013
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LP FICTION LAHIRI 2013
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Description
Brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue vastly different lives--Udayan in rebellion-torn Calcutta, Subhash in a quiet corner of America--until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HASLET 2016
1 available
FICTION HASLET 2016
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HASLET 2016
1 available
FICTION HASLET 2016
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HASLET 2016
2 available
FICTION HASLET 2016
2 available
Description
When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. What follows is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic, and the story of how, over the span of decades, his younger siblings-the responsible Celia...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAMID 2017
2 available
FICTION HAMID 2017
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAMID 2017
1 available
FICTION HAMID 2017
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAMID 2017
1 available
FICTION HAMID 2017
1 available
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION AKHTAR 2020
1 available
FICTION AKHTAR 2020
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION AKHTAR 2020
1 available
FICTION AKHTAR 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION AKHTAR 2020
1 available
FICTION AKHTAR 2020
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Description
Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable -- Salman Rushdie A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative...
7) in our mad and furious city
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FREUDE 2019
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FICTION FREUDE 2019
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FREUDE 2019
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FICTION FREUDE 2019
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"Told from the perspective of a female physicist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a story that explores the nature of friendship, romantic love, and motherhood"--
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EMEZI 2020
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FICTION EMEZI 2020
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EMEZI 2020
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FICTION EMEZI 2020
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Description
One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and...
10) Red at the bone
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOODSO 2019
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FICTION WOODSO 2019
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
FICTION WOODSO 2019
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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
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CD FICTION WOODSO 2019
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WOODSO 2019
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LP FICTION WOODSO 2019
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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 WATTS 2017
1 available
FICTION WATTS 2017
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WATTS 2017
1 available
FICTION WATTS 2017
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A tale inspired by The Great Gatsby is set in the contemporary South and follows the difficulties endured by an extended black family with colliding visions of the American dream. A first novel by the author of We Are Taking Only What We Need.
12) The unseen world
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY MOORE 2016
1 available
MYSTERY MOORE 2016
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY MOORE 2016
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MYSTERY MOORE 2016
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Description
"Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980s-era Boston. Home-schooled, Ada accompanies David to work every day; by twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. The lab begins to gain acclaim at the same time that David's mysterious history comes into question. When his mind begins to falter, leaving Ada virtually an orphan, she is taken in by one of David's colleagues....