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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO OWUSU 2021
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BIO OWUSU 2021
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"Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world--from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala. When her mother abandoned her when she was two years old, the rejection caused Nadia to be confused about her identity. Even after her father died when she was thirteen and she was raised by her stepmother, she was unable to come to terms with who she was since she still felt motherless and alone. When Nadia went to university in America when she was eighteen...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CHUNG 2018
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BIO CHUNG 2018
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CHUNG 2018
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BIO CHUNG 2018
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Chung investigates the mysteries and complexities of her transracial adoption in this chronicle of unexpected family for anyone who has struggled to figure out where they belong.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO ZAUNER 2021
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BIO ZAUNER 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO ZAUNER 2021
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BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO ZAUNER 2021
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BIO ZAUNER 2021
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6 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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The Japanese Breakfast indie pop star presents a full-length account of her viral New Yorker essay to share poignant reflections on her experiences of growing up Korean-American, becoming a professional musician and caring for her terminally ill mother.
"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO GELLER 2021
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BIO GELLER 2021
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"After Danielle Geller's mother dies of alcohol withdrawal while homeless, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her mother's home--the Navajo reservation. Geller masterfully intertwines...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO CHANG 2020
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BIO CHANG 2020
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CHANG 2020
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BIO CHANG 2020
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Full of grace, candor, grit, and humor, Eat a Peach chronicles Chang’s switchback path. He lays bare his mistakes and wonders about his extraordinary luck as he recounts the improbable series of events that led him to the top of his profession. He wrestles with his lifelong feelings of otherness and inadequacy, explores the mental illness that almost killed him, and finds hope in the shared value of deliciousness. Along the way, Chang gives us a...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
928.1 CAO 2020
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928.1 CAO 2020
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Family in Six Tones speaks both to the unique struggles of refugees and to the universal tug-of-war between mothers and daughters. The journey of an immigrant--away from war and loss toward peace and a new life--and the journey of a mother raising a child to be secure and happy are both steep paths filled with detours and stumbling blocks. Through explosive fights and painful setbacks, mother and daughter search for a way to accept the past and face...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 KOH 2020
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813.6 KOH 2020
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 KOH 2020
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813.6 KOH 2020
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"After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji's parents return to Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in the family's new California home. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself in a world made strange in her mother's absence. Her mother writes letters over the years seeking forgiveness and love-letters Eun Ji cannot understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box. The letters lay bare the impact of her...
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO BRINA 2021
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BIO BRINA 2021
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"A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her father a Vietnam veteran, her mother an Okinawan war bride--and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO CHO 2021
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BIO CHO 2021
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO CHO 2021
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BIO CHO 2021
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"Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her Korean mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, TASTES LIKE WAR is a hybrid text about a daughter's search through intimate and global history to understand herself...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WONG 2018
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BIO WONG 2018
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In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the “woo-woo”Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woos sinister...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.5409 ALEXIE 2017
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818.5409 ALEXIE 2017
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.5409 ALEXIE 2017
1 available
818.5409 ALEXIE 2017
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.5409 ALEXIE 2017
2 available
818.5409 ALEXIE 2017
2 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP 818.5409 ALEXIE 2017
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LP 818.5409 ALEXIE 2017
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP 818.5409 ALEXIE 2017
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LP 818.5409 ALEXIE 2017
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Presents a literary memoir of poems and essays that reflect on the author's complicated feelings about his disadvantaged childhood on a Native American reservation with his siblings and alcoholic mother.
A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.