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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GAILEY 2018
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FICTION GAILEY 2018
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GAILEY 2018
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FICTION GAILEY 2018
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In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. This was a terrible plan. Contained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo...
2) Boneshaker
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Clockwork century volume 1
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Inventor Leviticus Blue creates a machine that accidentally decimates Seattle's banking district and uncovers a vein of Blight Gas that turns everyone who breathes it into the living dead. Sixteen years later Briar, Blue's widow, lives in the poor neighborhood outside the wall that's been built around the uninhabitable city. Life is tough with a ruined reputation, but she and her teenage son Ezekiel are surviving--until Zeke impetuously decides that...
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Clockwork curandera volume 1
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Resurrected by her brother using a forbidden combination of alchemy and engineering, apprentice curandera Cristina vows to protect the Republic of Santander against the lechuzas terrorizing immigrants and plaguing the country.
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Shadow novels (Lila Bowen) volume 2
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BOWEN 2016
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SCIENCE FICTION BOWEN 2016
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"The sequel to Wake of Vultures, where a rich, secret world is hiding beneath the surface. Nettie Lonesome made a leap -- not knowing what she'd become. But now her destiny as the Shadow is calling. A powerful alchemist is leaving a trail of dead across the prairie. And Nettie must face the ultimate challenge: side with her friends and the badge on her chest or take off alone on a dangerous mission that is pulling her inexorably toward the fight...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5 VANLEN 2006
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741.5 VANLEN 2006
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In 1873 Arizona, the continuous battle between a Native American tribe and white settlers is halted when an alien spaceship lands in the desert with plans to conquer Earth.
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"St. Louis in 1880 is full of ghosts, and Jacob Tracy can see them all. Ever since he nearly died on the battlefield at Antietam, Trace has been haunted by the country's restless dead. The curse cost him his family, his calling to the church, and damn near his sanity. He stays out of ghost-populated areas as much as possible these days, guiding wagon trains West from St. Louis, with his pragmatic and skeptical partner, Boz. During the spring work...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD WESTERN 808.83 DEAD 2014 UNABRIDGED
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CD WESTERN 808.83 DEAD 2014 UNABRIDGED
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The weird, wild west--an American frontier populated by gunslingers, rattlesnakes, outlaws, zombies, aliens, time travelers, and steampunk! Twenty-three of science fiction and fantasy's hottest and most popular authors create all-new tales, written exclusively for this anthology. Aliens and monsters, magic and science are introduced to the old west, with explosive results.
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Dark Tower volume 2
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION KING 2016
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CD FICTION KING 2016
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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A chilling tale of Roland--the world's last living gunslinger--follows the renegade gunman as he is thrust into the drug-and-crime-ridden world of the twentieth century and a dark uncertainty.
Now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba. The second volume in Stephen Kings #1 bestselling Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three is an “epic in the making” (Kirkus Reviews) about a savage struggle against underworld...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRI 2007
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FICTION PRI 2007
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10) An easy death
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Gunnie Rose novels volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2018
1 available
FICTION HARRIS 2018
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2018
1 available
FICTION HARRIS 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2018
1 available
FICTION HARRIS 2018
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION HARRIS 2018
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CD FICTION HARRIS 2018
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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#1 New York Times bestseller Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse mysteries, True Blood, Midnight Crossing) delivers the first thriller in a new trilogy that presents a chilling alternate history of the United States where everyone believes in magic--but no one is sure whether they can trust it. Gunnie Lizbeth Rose has been hired by a pair of Russian sorcerers as both their local guide and muscle through the small towns of East Texas as they search...
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Good luck girls volume 1
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North Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION DAVIS 2019
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YA FICTION DAVIS 2019
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"The country of Arketta calls them Good Luck Girls--they know their luck is anything but. Sold to a "welcome house" as children and branded with cursed markings. Trapped in a life they would never have chosen. When Clementine accidentally kills a man, the girls risk a dangerous escape and harrowing journey to find freedom, justice, and revenge in a country that wants them to have none of those things. Pursued by Arketta's most vicious and powerful...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
WESTERN GOOD 2023
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WESTERN GOOD 2023
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"Gunslingers. Lawmen. Snake-oil Salesmen. Cowboys. Mad Scientists. And a few monsters. The Old West has never been wilder! THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UNCANNY presents sixteen original and never-before-published adventures by some of today' s most visionary writers who have spun wildly offbeat tales of gunmen, lawmen, magic, and weird science. Saddle up with Josh Malerman, Scott Sigler, Keith DeCandido, Cullen Bunn, R.S. Belcher, Greg Cox, Jeffrey...
13) The gunslinger
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Dark Tower volume 1
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION KING 2003
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CD FICTION KING 2003
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6 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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In the first book of this brilliant series, now expanded and revised by the author, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues the man in black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New...
14) The haunted mesa
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LAM 1987
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FICTION LAM 1987
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LAM 1987
1 available
FICTION LAM 1987
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LAMOUR 1987
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FICTION LAMOUR 1987
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"Likely to be the debut novel of the year." - San Francisco Chronicle. Named one of the most anticipated books of 2020 by The Millions, The Week, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Electric Lit, Vogue.com, Medium, Paste Magazine, and more. An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape-trying not just to survive but to find a home. Ba dies in the night; Ma...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KATSU 2018
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FICTION KATSU 2018
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KATSU 2018
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FICTION KATSU 2018
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"A retelling of the fate of the Donner Party, with a Walking Dead style twist"--
Tamsen Donner must be a witch. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the pioneers to the brink of madness. They cannot escape the feeling that someone--or something--is stalking them. Whether it was a...
17) In the distance
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"A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great push to the West. Driven back over and over again on his journey through vast expanses, Håkan meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre (travel narratives, the bildungsroman,...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
WESTERN DAVIDS 2017
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WESTERN DAVIDS 2017
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"Deftly written and utterly addictive, this Western literary horror debut will find a home with fans of authors like Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and Anne Rice. One night in 1980, a man becomes a monster. Haunted by his past, Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texas honky-tonks. What he does with them doesn't make him proud, just quiets the demons for a little while. But after Travis crosses paths one night with a mysterious...
19) The Native Star
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In the tradition of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, this brilliant first novel fuses history, fantasy, and romance. Prepare to be enchanted by M. K. Hobson’s captivating take on the Wild, Wild West.
The year is 1876. In the small Sierra Nevada settlement of Lost Pine, the town witch, Emily Edwards, is being run out of business by an influx of mail-order patent magics. Attempting to solve her problem with a love spell, Emily...
The year is 1876. In the small Sierra Nevada settlement of Lost Pine, the town witch, Emily Edwards, is being run out of business by an influx of mail-order patent magics. Attempting to solve her problem with a love spell, Emily...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
WESTERN NORTH 2021
1 available
WESTERN NORTH 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
WESTERN NORTH 2021
1 available
WESTERN NORTH 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
WESTERN NORTH 2021
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WESTERN NORTH 2021
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"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...