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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION PALMA 2023
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FICTION PALMA 2023
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION PALMA 2023
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FICTION PALMA 2023
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"Since his wife died, Hugo Contreras's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. His world in Miami has shrunk. He shuffles between his efficiency apartment, La Carreta (his favorite place for a cafecito), and a botanica in a strip mall wherehe works as the resident babalaawo. One day, Hugo's nemesis calls. Alexi Ramirez is a debt collector who has been hounding Hugo for years, and Hugo assumes this call is just more of the same. Except...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ARIAS 2023
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FICTION ARIAS 2023
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"A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias “An exciting new voice with a prowess for lyricism.” ―Publishers Weekly MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023: CrimeReads, Debutiful, Library Journal, Zibby Mag, The Mary Sue, and more! Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company’s most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CANAS 2023
1 available
FICTION CANAS 2023
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CANAS 2023
1 available
FICTION CANAS 2023
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CANAS 2023
1 available
FICTION CANAS 2023
1 available
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda. As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead. Something that once attacked Nena...
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Warring gods volume 1
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
SCIENCE FICTION ROMERO 2023
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION ROMERO 2023
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"When Reina arrives at Aguila Manor, her heart stolen from her chest, she's on the verge of death-until her estranged grandmother, a dark sorceress in the Don's employ, intervenes. Indebted to a woman she never knew, and smitten with the upper-caste daughter of the house, Celeste, Reina will do anything to earn-and keep-the family's favor. Even the bidding of the ancient god who speaks to her from the Manor's foundations. To save the woman she loves,...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION MORENO 2023
1 available
FICTION MORENO 2023
1 available
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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.
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman's hidden powers. “No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia؛Kiersten White, #1 bestselling author of Hide ONE OF THE MOST...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CASTRO 2023
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FICTION CASTRO 2023
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"A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this ravishing and provocative horror novel"--
"Alejandra no longer knows who she is. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. Nor can they see what Alejandra...
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"From Patricia Engel, whose novel Infinite Country was a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick, comes an exquisite collection of ten haunting, award-winning short stories set across the Americas and linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise. Two Colombian expats meet as strangers on the rainy streets of New York City, both burdened with traumatic pasts. In Cuba, a woman discovers her deceased brother’s bones...
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Series
Luna Sisters volume 1
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
ROMANCE DELARO 2023
1 available
ROMANCE DELARO 2023
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE DELARO 2023
1 available
ROMANCE DELARO 2023
1 available
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"A marriage of convenience between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd London politician makes for a scandalous Victorian bargain-and a love that will eclipse the burdens of ambition and duty. Ana Maraia Luna Valdaes has strived to be the perfect daughter, theperfect niece, and the perfect representative of the powerful Luna familia. So, when Ana Maraia is secretly sent to London with her sisters to seek refuge during the French occupation of Mexico, she...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FIGUER 2021
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FICTION FIGUER 2021
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After their mother’s death, two siblings in a tourist town deal with depression and try to make enough money performing for the wealthy visitors to afford a plane ticket out while dealing with the ghosts of their ancestors.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DEROBE 2021
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FICTION DEROBE 2021
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"From the acclaimed author of Cantoras comes a mystical and heartening tale about seeking justice and the power of memory In his modest home at the edge of town, the former President of a Latin American country receives a journalist in his iconic gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SPANISH FICTION DEROBE 2022
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SPANISH FICTION DEROBE 2022
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En su modesta casa en las afueras de la ciudad, el ex presidente de un pais latinoamericano no identificado recibe a un periodista en sus famosos jardines para hablar sobre su legado y las terribles circunstancias que amenazan la democracia en todo el mundo. Una vez conocido como el presidente mas pobre del mundo, su reputacion es un mito: un ex guerrillero que fue encarcelado por incitar a la revolucion antes de convertirse en el rostro de la justicia,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ALLEND 2023
1 available
FICTION ALLEND 2023
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ALLEND 2023
2 available
FICTION ALLEND 2023
2 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ALLEND 2023
2 available
FICTION ALLEND 2023
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4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht--the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
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La aclamada autora de Soñar en cubano nos entrega la continuación de su novela, donde le sigue la pista a cuatro generaciones de la familia del Pino a través de los tumultuosos panoramas contemporáneos de Cuba, Estados Unidos, Alemania y Rusia.
Celia del Pino, matriarca de una extensa familia cubana, ha visto a sus descendientes migrar a todas partes del mundo, luchando por comprender sus identidades transnacionales y las tensas relaciones entre...
14) Vanishing maps
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION GARCIA 2023
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FICTION GARCIA 2023
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION GARCIA 2023
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FICTION GARCIA 2023
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"Celia del Pino, the matriarch of a far-flung Cuban family, has watched her descendants spread out across the globe, struggling to make sense of their transnational identities and strained relationships with one another. In Berlin, the charismatic yet troubled Ivanito performs on stage as his drag queen persona, while being haunted by the ghost of his mother. Pilar Puente, adrift in Los Angeles, is a struggling sculptor and the single mother of a...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ACEVED 2023
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FICTION ACEVED 2023
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ACEVED 2023
1 available
FICTION ACEVED 2023
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ACEVED 2023
2 available
FICTION ACEVED 2023
2 available
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor--inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch--decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. Has she foreseen her...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FRANQU 2022
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FICTION FRANQU 2022
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From the outside, Elena Vega’s life appears to be an easy one: the only child of two professional parents, private school, NYU. But her twenties are aimless and lacking in connection. Something has always been amiss in her life: her father, the brilliant but deeply troubled Santiago Vega. Born in rural Puerto Rico, Santiago arrived in New York as a small child. His harsh, mercurial father returned to the island, leaving Santiago to be raised by...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DEGOLL 2023
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FICTION DEGOLL 2023
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"A masterful debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love, and a curse. The tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional collapse and is dying; eldest son Gonzalo's marriage is falling apart; daughter Dina, beleaguered by the fear that her nightmares are real, is a shut-in. When Gonzalo digs up a strange...
18) Witches: a novel
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LOZANO 2022
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FICTION LOZANO 2022
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LOZANO 2022
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FICTION LOZANO 2022
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Journalist Zoé comes to the town of San Felipe to learn about the famous healer Feliciana, who has the ability to heal the soul as well as the body, and about the murder of Feliciana's teacher, Paloma.
Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORENO 2022
1 available
FICTION MORENO 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORENO 2022
1 available
FICTION MORENO 2022
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORENO 2022
1 available
FICTION MORENO 2022
1 available
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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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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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION MORENO 2022
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LP FICTION MORENO 2022
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Description
Carlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. An outcast who assists Dr. Moreau with his experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas and plentiful coffers. The...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GONZAL 2022
2 available
FICTION GONZAL 2022
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GONZAL 2022
1 available
FICTION GONZAL 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GONZAL 2022
1 available
FICTION GONZAL 2022
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....