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"Adam, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Will he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people he interviews is his flatmate Sala, who is stoic, determined, and funny-and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement,...
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"The Lion City has gone by many names and is famous for many things—its decadent street food, its world-class shopping, its lush gardens that burst with tropical blooms. But paradise is always hiding a snake. For Dara, a workaholic lawyer from the UK, Singapore is opportunity. Every day, brokering deals for her firm’s wealthy clientele, she gets closer to her ultimate goal: making partner. For Amaka, a sharp-tongued banker from Nigeria, Singapore...
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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"How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father’s strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman and poet. Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat...
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4 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
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"A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette, Eleanor Oliphant, Rosie, Ove . . . meet Amazing Grace Adams, the funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink―who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled―the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she’s really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BLUME 1998
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FICTION BLUME 1998
3 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BLUME 1998
1 available
FICTION BLUME 1998
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3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION BLUME 1998
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LP FICTION BLUME 1998
1 available
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • “Summer Sisters is a book to return to again and again.”—Colleen Hoover
“As warm as a summer breeze blowing through your hair, as nostalgic as James Taylor singing ‘How Sweet It Is.’ You remember. So does Judy Blume. How sweet it was.”—Chicago Tribune
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“As warm as a summer breeze blowing through your hair, as nostalgic as James Taylor singing ‘How Sweet It Is.’ You remember. So does Judy Blume. How sweet it was.”—Chicago Tribune
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"A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories. When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life—a beautiful lake...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ROWLEY 2023
1 available
FICTION ROWLEY 2023
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ROWLEY 2023
1 available
FICTION ROWLEY 2023
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ROWLEY 2023
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FICTION ROWLEY 2023
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP FICTION ROWLEY 2023
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LP FICTION ROWLEY 2023
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A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselves—by the bestselling and beloved author of The Guncle. It’s been a minute—or five years—since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ADJEIB 2023
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FICTION ADJEIB 2023
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3 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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"Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black. She felt their eyes, all those executioners… Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
SCIENCE FICTION STERLI 2023
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SCIENCE FICTION STERLI 2023
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
SCIENCE FICTION STERLI 2023
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SCIENCE FICTION STERLI 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
SCIENCE FICTION STERLI 2023
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SCIENCE FICTION STERLI 2023
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"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION BROWN 2023
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FICTION BROWN 2023
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"A warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family curse, and one very complicated year of heartache, miscommunication, and learning to let go Generations of Montrose women—Augusta, Victoria, Willow—have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between...
11) Maame
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION GEORGE 2023
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FICTION GEORGE 2023
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION GEORGE 2023
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FICTION GEORGE 2023
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4 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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""An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys--and the guilt--of trying to find your own way in life." --Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Meeting Maame feels like falling in love for the first time: warm, awkward, joyous, a little bit heartbreaking and, most of all, unforgettable." --Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means...
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4 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable.
From the publisher. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAYS 2022
2 available
FICTION HAYS 2022
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6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for...
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"An utterly enchanting, immersive novel about an irrepressible young heroine who becomes an undercover agent during World War II-a sparkling debut, by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking. One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, all whales belong to the King, but twelve-year-old Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household and their guests-her sister, Flossie (known affectionately...
15) Solito: a memoir
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO ZAMORA 2022
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BIO ZAMORA 2022
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO ZAMORA 2022
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BIO ZAMORA 2022
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO ZAMORA 2022
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BIO ZAMORA 2022
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3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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"A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this "gripping memoir" (NPR) hailed as "an absolute masterpiece" (Emma Straub) LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • "If there's any justice, Solito will someday be considered a classic."٬٢٠١٤؛Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago-"one day,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FORD 2022
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FICTION FORD 2022
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FORD 2022
2 available
FICTION FORD 2022
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION FORD 2022
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FICTION FORD 2022
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"Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression...
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7 copies, 42 people are on the wait list.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP FICTION ERLICK 2022
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LP FICTION ERLICK 2022
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP FICTION ERLICK 2022
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LP FICTION ERLICK 2022
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Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy....
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ELWARD 2022
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FICTION ELWARD 2022
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ELWARD 2022
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FICTION ELWARD 2022
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"It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate. As their lives begin to take different paths,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
CD FICTION VANPEL 2022
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CD FICTION VANPEL 2022
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
CD FICTION VANPEL 2022
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CD FICTION VANPEL 2022
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18 copies, 117 people are on the wait list.
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13 copies, 114 people are on the wait list.
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13 copies, 114 people are on the wait list.
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"AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER by: Chicago Tribune * The View * Southern Living * USA Today “Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut. . . . Memorable and tender.” — Washington Post For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces...
20) Memphis: a novel
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STRING 2022
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FICTION STRING 2022
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STRING 2022
1 available
FICTION STRING 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STRING 2022
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FICTION STRING 2022
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's trajectory,...