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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FERREL 2021
1 available
FICTION FERREL 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FERREL 2021
1 available
FICTION FERREL 2021
1 available
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"Dear Miss Metropolitan tells the fragmented story of Fern, Gwinnie, and Jesenia, three girls abducted by a monster who calls himself Boss Man and held captive in a decaying house in Queens for a decade. Inspired by real events, the tale is inventively revealed by multiple narrators before, during and after their ordeal. Documents, newspapers, excerpts from books, photographs, interviews, and other forms of media piece together the larger story. By...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2019
2 available
FICTION WHITEH 2019
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2019
1 available
FICTION WHITEH 2019
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2019
2 available
FICTION WHITEH 2019
2 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WHITEH 2019
1 available
CD FICTION WHITEH 2019
1 available
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GALCHE 2021
1 available
FICTION GALCHE 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GALCHE 2021
1 available
FICTION GALCHE 2021
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RIMMER 2021
3 available
FICTION RIMMER 2021
3 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Set during World War II in Poland, a novel based on real-life heroes follows Elzbieta Rabinek over the course of the war, her involvement with the Resistance, and her love for a young man imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto whose passion leads him to fight in the Warsaw Uprising.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY LEONAR 2021
1 available
MYSTERY LEONAR 2021
1 available
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"Gathering intel, chasing leads, and cracking heads are all part of a day's work for Detective Chief Superintendent William Melville, bodyguard to Queen Victoria's son and heir to the throne, Prince Albert. But when the Queen dies, prompting most of Europe's royalty to converge on London for the funeral, Melville receives a tip about a planned attempt on the German Kaiser's life led by a mysterious anarchist known as Akushku. As Melville and his German...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHIAVE 2021
1 available
FICTION CHIAVE 2021
1 available
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Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SAMSON 2021
1 available
FICTION SAMSON 2021
1 available
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An 18-year-old woman reeling from her mother’s death arrives at a proto-commune of poets, painters and musicians on the Greek island of Hydra where she has her ideas about art, relationships and her own innocence tested.
"In this novel based on real events and people, a young woman arrives on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960 and falls in with a bohemian group of poets, painters, and musicians, including the young Leonard Cohen and his beloved...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION JENOFF 2021
1 available
FICTION JENOFF 2021
1 available
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JENOFF 2021
1 available
FICTION JENOFF 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JENOFF 2021
1 available
FICTION JENOFF 2021
1 available
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Inspired by the harrowing true stories of those who hid from the Nazis in the sewers, this emotional testament to the power of friendship follows Ella, an affluent Polish girl, as she helps Sadie and her pregnant mother survive despite the worsening dangers of the war.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CARTER 2021
1 available
FICTION CARTER 2021
1 available
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1940. A train carrying exiled German prisoners from a labor camp arrives in southern France. Within moments, word spreads that Nazi capture is imminent, and the men flee for the woods, desperate to disappear across the Spanish border. One stays behind, determined to ride the train until he reaches home, to find a woman he refers to simply as "her." 1937. Leonora Carrington is a twenty-year-old British socialite and painter dreaming of independence...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
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"The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MARTIN 2021
2 available
FICTION MARTIN 2021
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MARTIN 2021
1 available
FICTION MARTIN 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MARTIN 2021
2 available
FICTION MARTIN 2021
2 available
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"August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler's forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and drawn curtains that she finds on her arrival are not what she expected. And she certainly never imagined she'd wind up working at Primrose Hill, a dusty old bookshop nestled in the heart of London. Through blackouts and air raids as the Blitz intensifies, Grace discovers the power of storytelling...
12) The lamplighters
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STONEX 2021
1 available
FICTION STONEX 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STONEX 2021
2 available
FICTION STONEX 2021
2 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STONEX 2021
1 available
FICTION STONEX 2021
1 available
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"Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from a remote tower miles from the Cornish coast--and about the wives who were left behind. What strange fate befell these doomed men? The heavy sea whispers their names. Black rocks roll beneath the surface, drowning ghosts. And out of the swell like a finger of light, the salt-scratched tower stands lonely and magnificent....
13) Send for me
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
ROMANCE FOX 2021
1 available
ROMANCE FOX 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE FOX 2021
1 available
ROMANCE FOX 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE FOX 2021
1 available
ROMANCE FOX 2021
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
CD ROMANCE FOX 2021
1 available
CD ROMANCE FOX 2021
1 available
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"An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family. Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents’ popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and...
14) Dangerous women
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY ADAMS 2021
1 available
MYSTERY ADAMS 2021
1 available
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"Nearly two hundred condemned women on board a sailing ship bound for Australia. One of them is a murderer. London, 1841. One hundred eighty Englishwomen file aboard the Rajah, embarking on a three-month voyage to the other side of the world. They're daughters, sisters, mothers-and convicts. Transported for petty crimes. Except one of them has a deadly secret, and will do anything to flee justice. As the Rajah sails farther from land, the women forge...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RUTLED 2021
1 available
FICTION RUTLED 2021
1 available
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"An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America. “Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes…” Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers....
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKIN 2021
1 available
FICTION WILKIN 2021
1 available
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Three very different women navigate the complexities of trust, friendship and motherhood in turn-of-the-millennium Iraq, in a debut novel inspired by the author’s experiences as an award-winning foreign correspondent in Baghdad during the regime of Saddam Hussein.
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION MACALL 2021
1 available
FICTION MACALL 2021
1 available
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"1855: Virginia Reeve is summoned by an eccentric Brit with a compelling offer. Lady Jane Franklin wants her to lead a dozen women into the Arctic in search of the ships of her husband's lost expedition, and she's willing to pay handsomely. All four search attempts Lady Franklin has sponsored have failed. She has decided only a radical new approach can succeed: let women make the decisions. Lady Franklin will disavow all knowledge of the expedition...
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Captain Jim Agnihotri novels volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY MARCH 2020
1 available
MYSTERY MARCH 2020
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY MARCH 2020
1 available
MYSTERY MARCH 2020
1 available
Description
"In 19th century Bombay, Captain Jim Agnihotri channels his idol, Sherlock Holmes, in Nev March's Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut. In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lays in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to read but newspapers. The case that catches Jim's attention is being called the crime of the...
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A curator at Italy's National Archives, a secretary working for the Italian Fascist government, and an underworld black marketer join forces to repel their Nazi occupiers in 1943 Naples in a novel inspired by a true historic uprising.
20) Grown: a novel
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION JACKSO 2020
1 available
YA FICTION JACKSO 2020
1 available
Sparks Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION JACKSO 2020
1 available
YA FICTION JACKSO 2020
1 available
Description
"When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point...