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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
CD FICTION HARRIS 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
LP FICTION HARRIS 2021
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Description
"Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only...
2) Black buck
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ASKARI 2021
1 available
FICTION ASKARI 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ASKARI 2021
1 available
FICTION ASKARI 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ASKARI 2021
1 available
FICTION ASKARI 2021
1 available
Description
"For fans of Sorry to Bother You and Wolf of Wall Street: a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young black man who accidentally impresses a CEO while serving his Starbucks order, catapulting him into the opportunity of a lifetime-a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at an eccentric, mysterious, and wildly successful startup where, he will soon learn, nothing is as it seems"--
3) Luster
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEILAN 2020
2 available
FICTION LEILAN 2020
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEILAN 2020
1 available
FICTION LEILAN 2020
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEILAN 2020
1 available
FICTION LEILAN 2020
1 available
Description
Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties―sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage―with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALTON 2021
1 available
FICTION WALTON 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALTON 2021
1 available
FICTION WALTON 2021
1 available
Description
"Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can't imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job--despite her unusual looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar's amateur night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together for the fledgling Rivington...
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BUMP 2020
1 available
FICTION BUMP 2020
1 available
Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION BUMP 2020
1 available
FICTION BUMP 2020
1 available
Description
A darkly funny and heartfelt debut novel about what it means to grow up young and black on the south side of Chicago when it feels like your choices are slim to none.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEE 2021
1 available
FICTION LEE 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEE 2021
1 available
FICTION LEE 2021
1 available
Description
"From the award-winning author of NATIVE SPEAKER and ON SUCH A FULL SEA, a brilliant, exuberant and entertaining story of a young American whose life is transformed when a Chinese-American businessman suddenly takes him under his wing on a global adventure"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REID 2019
2 available
FICTION REID 2019
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REID 2019
1 available
FICTION REID 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REID 2019
3 available
FICTION REID 2019
3 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 COLE 2020
2 available
FICTION COLE 2020
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COLE 2020
1 available
FICTION COLE 2020
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COLE 2020
1 available
FICTION COLE 2020
1 available
Description
"Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she's known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community's past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block -- her neighbor Theo....
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BEATTY 2015
1 available
FICTION BEATTY 2015
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BEATTY 2015
1 available
FICTION BEATTY 2015
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BEATTY 2015
1 available
FICTION BEATTY 2015
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION BEATTY 2016
1 available
CD FICTION BEATTY 2016
1 available
Description
"Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist at Riverside Community College, he spent his childhood as the subject in psychological...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SCOTT 2019
1 available
FICTION SCOTT 2019
1 available
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"One of Esquire's Most Anticipated Books of 2019 Breathtakingly imaginative and unapologetically original, The World Doesn't Require You announces a bold, generational talent. Deftly spinning genres of his feverish literary invention, Rion Amilcar Scott creates his very own Yoknapatawpha County with fictional Cross River, Maryland. Established by the leaders of America's only successful slave revolt, the town still evokes the fierce rhythms of its...