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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION QUADE 2021
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FICTION QUADE 2021
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION QUADE 2021
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FICTION QUADE 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION QUADE 2021
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FICTION QUADE 2021
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"From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans....
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CASARE 2019
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FICTION CASARE 2019
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"From the acclaimed author Brownsville and Amigoland--a stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican-American family in a Texas border town who reluctantly become involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. Brownsville, Texas, has a dangerous reputation: it sits on the U.S. side of the bridge into Matamoros, Mexico, a city controlled by notorious cartels. But that isn't why 12-year-old Orly doesn't want to visit. Though he's still grieving...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLEND 2021
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FICTION ALLEND 2021
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION ALLEND 2013 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION ALLEND 2013 UNABRIDGED
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After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to the remote island of Chiloe, off coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. Maya, a young American on the run records in her diary her adjustment to a new country, her drug problems, her romantic...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DIAZ 2007
1 available
FICTION DIAZ 2007
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DIAZ 2007
1 available
FICTION DIAZ 2007
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Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Oscar, an overweight Dominican from a New Jersey ghetto, dreams of becoming a writer and finding love, but a Fuku curse has haunted his family for generations, and may well prevent him from attaining his desires.
5) Dominicana
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - World Languages
SPANISH FICTION CRUZ 2021
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SPANISH FICTION CRUZ 2021
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"On the last day of 1964, fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion marries Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, in the Dominican countryside. The following day she becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a one-bedroom in Washington Heights. Juan is unfaithful, abusive, and controlling, he even forbids her from learning English. After a failed escape, Ana learns she is pregnant. Both her mother and husband compare her pregnancy to winning the lottery, her child will have...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CIS 1991
1 available
FICTION CIS 1991
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The author of The House on Mango Street gives voice to characters on both sides of the Mexican border, from a young girl harboring special secrets to a witch woman circling above her village
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VASQUE 2021
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FICTION VASQUE 2021
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"A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence -- sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing -- but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire, and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces. A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic past that an elegant woman, a fellow guest staying at a...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ENGEL 2021
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FICTION ENGEL 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ENGEL 2021
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FICTION ENGEL 2021
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Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogota.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORENO 2020
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FICTION MORENO 2020
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORENO 2020
1 available
FICTION MORENO 2020
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORENO 2020
1 available
FICTION MORENO 2020
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The acclaimed author of Gods of Jade and Shadow returns with a darkly enchanting reimagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a spirited young woman discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico"--
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome thug, and the mystery of the missing woman that brings them together. 1970s Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger. Her next-door neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful...
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Keys to love volume 1
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From the USA Today bestselling authorof West Side Love Story, an acclaimed romantic comedy series with its own set of complex family dynamics set in Key West, Florida filled with humor, fake dating, Latinx culture, and perfect for summer beach reading...
Goodreads, Bookish, & Glitter Guide Best Of & Most Anticipated Books | Kirkus Reviews, Bookpage, Booktrib,...
Goodreads, Bookish, & Glitter Guide Best Of & Most Anticipated Books | Kirkus Reviews, Bookpage, Booktrib,...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARCIA 2021
2 available
FICTION GARCIA 2021
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARCIA 2021
1 available
FICTION GARCIA 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARCIA 2021
1 available
FICTION GARCIA 2021
1 available
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"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE CLEETO 2018
1 available
ROMANCE CLEETO 2018
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE CLEETO 2018
1 available
ROMANCE CLEETO 2018
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE CLEETO 2018
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ROMANCE CLEETO 2018
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"After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution... Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest--until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary......
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ANAYA 1972
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FICTION ANAYA 1972
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
FICTION ANAYA 1972
1 available
FICTION ANAYA 1972
1 available
Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
FICTION ANAYA 1972
2 available
FICTION ANAYA 1972
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Description
Chronicles the story of an alienated New Mexico boy who seeks an answer to his questions about life in his relationship with Ultima, a magical healer.
Ultima is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, and she joins Antonio Marez's family when he is six years old, teaching him the magical secrets of the pagan past.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CIS 2002
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FICTION CIS 2002
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CIS 2002
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FICTION CIS 2002
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CIS 2002
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FICTION CIS 2002
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Description
Lala Reyes' grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl-makers. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala's possession. The novel opens with the Reyes' annual car trip—a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels—from Chicago to "the other side," Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family's...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OLDER 2019
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FICTION OLDER 2019
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"The spirit of Marisol, who vanished during the Cuban Revolution, visits her nephew, Ramon, in modern-day New Jersey, and her presence prompts him to investigate the story of his ancestor, unaware of the forces driving him on his search"--
17) Afterlife
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALVARE 2020
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FICTION ALVARE 2020
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALVARE 2020
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FICTION ALVARE 2020
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"A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"--
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HENRÍQ 2014
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FICTION HENRÍQ 2014
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HENRIQ 2015
1 available
FICTION HENRIQ 2015
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HENRIQ 2015
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FICTION HENRIQ 2015
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Named a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book, an NPR Great Read, The Daily Beast's Novel of the Year, and a Mother Jones, Oprah.com, School Library Journal, and BookPage Best Book of the Year. When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, its not long before...
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - World Languages
SPANISH FICTION DIAZ 2008
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SPANISH FICTION DIAZ 2008
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Una crónica familiar que abarca tres generaciones y dos países, La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao cuenta la historia del gordiflón y solitario Oscar de León en su intento de convertirse en el J.R.R. Tolkien Dominicano y su desafortunada búsqueda del amor. Pero Oscar sólo es la última víctima del fukú--una maldición que durante generaciones ha perseguido a su familia, condenándoles a vidas de tortura, sufrimiento y amor desdichado....
20) Cantoras
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"From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find each other as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family. In 1977 Uruguay, a military government has crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In an environment where citizens are kidnapped, raped, and tortured, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression. And yet,...