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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TRIGAN 2015
2 available
FICTION TRIGAN 2015
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TRIGAN 2015
1 available
FICTION TRIGAN 2015
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TRIGIA 2015
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FICTION TRIGIA 2015
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION TRIGIA 2015 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION TRIGIA 2015 UNABRIDGED
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION TRIGIA 2015
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LP FICTION TRIGIA 2015
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION TRIGIA 2015
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LP FICTION TRIGIA 2015
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"The movie business is booming in 1935 when twenty-one-year-old Loretta Young meets thirty-four-year-old Clark Gable on the set of The Call of the Wild. Though he's already married, Gable falls for the stunning and vivacious young actress instantly. Far from the glittering lights of Hollywood, Sister Alda Ducci has been forced to leave her convent and begin a new journey that leads her to Loretta. Becoming Miss Young's secretary, the innocent and...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
FICTION HARPER 2019
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
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Reimagines the life of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt as the reluctant and bullied bride of the Duke of Marlborough before she finds the inner strength to fight for women's equality.
Before there was Meghan Markle, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American Duchess. Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “The Wedding of the Century” to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind “the glitter...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph—a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy.
From her
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION THORNT 2020
1 available
FICTION THORNT 2020
1 available
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"An unforgettable portrait of the iconic life of Jackie O as she transforms herself into an American legend from acclaimed author Stephanie Marie Thornton. Millions fell silent, stricken by grief and disillusionment, as news of President Kennedy's assassination streaked across the globe. Where were you when it happened, they asked? But for one woman the answer has always been the same--for every step, every victory, and every defeat--she was right...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ROMANO 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION ROMANO 2021
1 available
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"Annie Oakley's Wild West Americana and time travel come together in this genre-defying novel that explores trauma and the cost of female revenge. Ruth McClintock is obsessed with the past. For nearly a decade, she has been studying Annie Oakley, convinced that the legendary sharpshooter experienced a scarring event in adolescence that led her to fight for the right of every American woman to own and operate a gun. This fruitless search has cost Ruth...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCCANN 2020
1 available
FICTION MCCANN 2020
1 available
Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCCANN 2020
1 available
FICTION MCCANN 2020
1 available
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"Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet meant to quell unruly...
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"The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe Now a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson In one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated celebrity, and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GABLE 2021
1 available
FICTION GABLE 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GABLE 2021
1 available
FICTION GABLE 2021
1 available
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Desperate for money, struggling young author Nancy Mitford takes a job managing the Heywood Hill bookshop, where she meets a mysterious French officer who has a compelling story to tell.
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEVY 2021
1 available
FICTION LEVY 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEVY 2021
1 available
FICTION LEVY 2021
1 available
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A novel inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry follows a penniless Irish girl who adopts the identity of a boy in order to enter medical school, and embracing the freedom of living life as a man, becomes one of the most well-respected physicians in nineteenth-century Cape Town.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LITTLE 2020
1 available
FICTION LITTLE 2020
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Antoinette and Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel know they're destined for something better. Abandoned by their family at a young age, they've grown up under the guidance of nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers. At night, their secret stash of romantic novels and magazine cutouts beneath the floorboards are all they have to keep their dreams of the future alive. The walls of the convent can't shield them forever, and...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LAWHON 2020
1 available
FICTION LAWHON 2020
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LAWHON 2020
1 available
FICTION LAWHON 2020
1 available
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"A novel based on the real life story of socialite spy Nancy Wake, about the astonishing woman who killed a Nazi with her bare hands and went on to become one of the most decorated women in WWII"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOOPER 2020
1 available
FICTION HOOPER 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOOPER 2020
1 available
FICTION HOOPER 2020
1 available
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"In the 1928 Olympics, Chicago's Betty Robinson competes as a member of the first-ever women's delegation in track and field. Destined for further glory, she returns home feted as America's Golden Girl until a nearly-fatal airplane crash threatens to end everything. Outside of Boston, Louise Stokes, one of the few black girls in her town, sees competing as an opportunity to overcome the limitations placed on her. Eager to prove that she has what it...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAHER 2020
1 available
FICTION MAHER 2020
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"Some women make headlines; an icon defies them. A vivid reimagining of the exhilarating and sensationalized life of Princess Grace of Monaco from the acclaimed author of The Kennedy Debutante. Hungry for her art and hopeful for the future, young Grace Kelly has the world at her feet. MGM's rising queen is poised to win the Oscar, but she chafes at the studio's increasing restrictions on her life. When an unexpected friendship develops between her...
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A reimagining of the life of Marie Curie is told through two parallel timelines, including one that reflects her real-world achievements and another that explores how the world might be different had she made other choices.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OFARRE 2020
2 available
FICTION OFARRE 2020
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OFARRE 2020
1 available
FICTION OFARRE 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OFARRE 2020
1 available
FICTION OFARRE 2020
1 available
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HIGGIN 2016
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FICTION HIGGIN 2016
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1864, Washington City. One has to be careful with talk of secession, of Confederate whispers falling on Northern ears. Better to speak only when in the company of the trustworthy. Like Mrs. Surratt. A widow who runs a small boardinghouse on H Street, Mary Surratt isn't half as committed to the cause as her son, Johnny. If he's not delivering messages or escorting veiled spies, he's invited home men like John Wilkes Booth, the actor who is even more...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CUNNIN 1998
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FICTION CUNNIN 1998
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CUNNIN 2019
1 available
FICTION CUNNIN 2019
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In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ARLEN 2021
1 available
FICTION ARLEN 2021
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"Marion Crawford can remember each of the wonderful sixteen years when she was governess to the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Marion had been a vital part of their lives; someone they confided in, needed, trusted, and loved. These memories will never dim, ever. In her mind, she will always be their Crawfie. But things become increasingly complicated as the young royals navigate adulthood. It is May 1945, and Princess Elizabeth-the...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALVARE 1994
1 available
FICTION ALVARE 1994
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALV 1994
1 available
FICTION ALV 1994
1 available
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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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