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1) Alias Grace
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATWOOD 1996
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FICTION ATWOOD 1996
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The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time). • A Netflix original miniseries.
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress.
Some believe Grace is innocent; others think...
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress.
Some believe Grace is innocent; others think...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EBERSH 2000
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FICTION EBERSH 2000
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EBE 2000
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FICTION EBE 2000
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EBERSH 2000
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FICTION EBERSH 2000
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Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable...
3) The dig
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRESTO 2007
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FICTION PRESTO 2007
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRESTO 2007
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FICTION PRESTO 2007
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"A succinct and witty literary venture that tells the strange story of a priceless treasure discovered in East Anglia on the eve of World War II. In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DONOGH 2014
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FICTION DONOGH 2014
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DONOGH 2014
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FICTION DONOGH 2014
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION DONOGH 2014
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LP FICTION DONOGH 2014
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION DONOGH 2014
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LP FICTION DONOGH 2014
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"Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALVARE 1994
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FICTION ALVARE 1994
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALV 1994
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FICTION ALV 1994
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Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo." (Concepción de León, New York Times)
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Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize
One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Decade
One of the Top 10 Books of 2014 – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
A “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard, Red...
One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Decade
One of the Top 10 Books of 2014 – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
A “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard, Red...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GREENW 2018
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FICTION GREENW 2018
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Traces the story of the eleven-year-old kidnapping victim whose 1948 abduction inspired Nabokov's "Lolita," recreating in detail Sally Horner's exploitation and assault by predatory former inmate Frank LaSalle.
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"...Sublimely ties together the drama of high school football, gender politics, and the impact of war on a small town in Texas." – Sports Illustrated
A 2019 One of the Best Books So Far—Newsweek.com
A cross between Friday Night Lights and The Atomic City Girls, When The Men Were Gone is a debut historical novel based on the true story of Tylene Wilson, a woman in 1940's Texas who, in spite
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOOD 2019
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FICTION WOOD 2019
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Emma Trimpany is just seventeen when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne quintuplets: five tiny miracles born to French farmers in hardscrabble Northern Ontario in 1934. Emma cares for them through their perilous first days, and when the government removes the babies from their francophone parents, making them wards of the British king, Emma signs on as their nurse. Over six thousand daily visitors come to ogle the identical "Quints"...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RAMZIP 2019
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FICTION RAMZIP 2019
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A tale based on true events finds a misfit journalist, a forger, and a street urchin joining a band of resistance fighters who risk their lives to publish a satiric newspaper mocking the Nazis.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION CLAYTO 2019
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FICTION CLAYTO 2019
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CLAYTO 2019
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FICTION CLAYTO 2019
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A tale inspired by the Kindertransports of World War II finds a Jewish teen’s life shattered by the Nazi takeover before he joins a member of the Dutch resistance in a life-risking effort to escape Germany
The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See , centering on the Kindertransports that carried...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FURST 2019
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FICTION FURST 2019
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FURST 2019
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FICTION FURST 2019
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"After the Nazi victory over Poland in 1939, thousands of Poles were sent to Germany as slave laborers. From inside enemy territory, they found ways to get valuable information to resistance fighters in France. Paul Ricard, a French writer of detective novels, is drawn in to working in the resistance, as a spy against the Reich, and is charged with getting the information from the Polish prisoners to the Allied forces. Alongside him in the fight against...
13) The convert
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HERTMA 2019
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ROMANCE HERTMA 2019
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"The Middle Ages have just begun when Vigdis Adelaïs, a young woman from a prosperous French family, falls in love with David Todros, a student at the city's yeshiva, and the son of a rabbi. To be together, they must flee their city, Vigdis renouncing a life of privilege and comfort. Pursued by her father's knights and in constant danger of betrayal, the lovers embark on a dangerous journey to the south of France, only to find their brief happiness...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HORAN 2007
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FICTION HORAN 2007
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Publisher description: I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARGRA 2020
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FICTION HARGRA 2020
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARGRA 2020
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FICTION HARGRA 2020
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this "perfectly told" 1600s parable of "a world gone mad" (Adriana Trigiani). Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ORRING 2019
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FICTION ORRING 2019
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ORRING 2019
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FICTION ORRING 2019
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"The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped...
17) Beautiful exiles
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CLAYTO 2018
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FICTION CLAYTO 2018
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Key West, 1936. Headstrong, accomplished journalist Martha Gellhorn is confident with words but less so with men when she meets disheveled literary titan Ernest Hemingway in a dive bar. Their friendshipforged over writing, talk, and family dinnersflourishes into something undeniable in Madrid while theyre covering the Spanish Civil War. Martha reveres him. The very married Hemingway is taken with Marthaher beauty, her ambition, and her fearless spirit....
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, a tainted bolt of cloth from London carries bubonic infection to this isolated settlement of shepherds and lead miners. A visionary young preacher convinces the villagers to seal themselves off in a deadly quarantine to prevent the spread of disease. The story is told through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY SCHMID 2017
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MYSTERY SCHMID 2017
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY SCHMID 2017
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MYSTERY SCHMID 2017
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY SCHMID 2017
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MYSTERY SCHMID 2017
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"See What I Have Done, Sarah Schmidt's "eerie and compelling" (Paula Hawkins) debut novel, is a wholly unique reimagining of the infamous true story of Lizzie Borden, who gained celebrity status after being tried and acquitted for the murders of her father and stepmother. On the morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden calls out to the maid: Someone's killed father. The brutal axe-murder of Andrew and Abby Borden in their house in Fall River, Massachusetts...
20) Cilka's journey
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION MORRIS 2019
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FICTION MORRIS 2019
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRIS 2019
2 available
FICTION MORRIS 2019
2 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
CD FICTION MORRIS 2019
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CD FICTION MORRIS 2019
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly...