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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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Senior Center Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
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Marie Mitchell, a Cold War FBI intelligence officer, joins an undercover task force to undermine Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary Communist president of Burkina Faso, who she secretly admires and comes to love, in a novel inspired by true events.
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION MACALL 2021
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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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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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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WINGAT 2017
1 available
FICTION WINGAT 2017
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WINGAT 2017
1 available
FICTION WINGAT 2017
1 available
Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION WINGAT 2017
1 available
FICTION WINGAT 2017
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WINGAT 2018
1 available
CD FICTION WINGAT 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WINGAT 2018
1 available
CD FICTION WINGAT 2018
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WINGAT 2017
3 available
LP FICTION WINGAT 2017
3 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WINGAT 2017
1 available
LP FICTION WINGAT 2017
1 available
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"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY NESBIT 2020
1 available
MYSTERY NESBIT 2020
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY NESBIT 2020
1 available
MYSTERY NESBIT 2020
1 available
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From the bestselling author of The Wives of Los Alamos comes the riveting story of a strangers arrival in the fledgling colony of Plymouth, Massachusettsand a crime that shakes the divided community to its core.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARMEL 2020
1 available
FICTION HARMEL 2020
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
CD FICTION HARMEL 2020
1 available
CD FICTION HARMEL 2020
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 28 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 28 people are on the wait list.
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As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. Sixty-five years later, a book...
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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 - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION MORRIS 2019
2 available
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
1 available
CD FICTION MORRIS 2019
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 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...
10) 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...
11) Dangerous women
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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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EBERSH 2000
1 available
FICTION EBERSH 2000
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EBE 2000
1 available
FICTION EBE 2000
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EBERSH 2000
1 available
FICTION EBERSH 2000
1 available
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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...
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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...
14) 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
1 available
FICTION PRESTO 2007
1 available
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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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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY ANAPPA 2020
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MYSTERY ANAPPA 2020
1 available
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"Based on a true story--Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality police shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she gets the best grades), and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants and together they draw up lists of people...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
FICTION WALSH 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
LP 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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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GALCHE 2021
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FICTION GALCHE 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GALCHE 2021
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FICTION GALCHE 2021
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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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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ORRING 2019
1 available
FICTION ORRING 2019
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ORRING 2019
1 available
FICTION ORRING 2019
1 available
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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...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BEANLA 2020
2 available
FICTION BEANLA 2020
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BEANLA 2020
1 available
FICTION BEANLA 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BEANLA 2020
1 available
FICTION BEANLA 2020
1 available
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"Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to "America's Playground" and move into the apartment above their bakery. The apartment is where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence, and, despite the cramped quarters, it still feels like home. Now Florence has returned from college, determined to spend the summer training to swim the English Channel, and Fannie, pregnant again...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DONOGH 2014
1 available
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...