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"Nurse Nellie Lester can't escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit mansion on a desolate Michigan island, convinced the island holds the secret to her mother's murky past. The only problem? Her dead mother seems to have followed her there. Nightly she's haunted by a ghostly presence that appears in her bedroom. But is it her mother or something more sinister? When the frozen body of...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION FOX 2023
1 available
FICTION FOX 2023
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOX 2023
1 available
FICTION FOX 2023
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"With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keepher in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home. The abbey is foreboding, the servants reserved and suspicious. But there is a treasure waiting behind...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PENNER 2023
1 available
FICTION PENNER 2023
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PENNER 2023
1 available
FICTION PENNER 2023
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION PENNER 2023
2 available
FICTION PENNER 2023
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""An atmospheric and evocative whodunnit steeped in suspense, mystery, and illusion." —Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestseller of The Maid From the author of the sensational bestseller The Lost Apothecary comes a spellbinding tale about two daring women who hunt for truth and justice in the perilous art of conjuring the dead. 1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist...
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Anatomy novels (Dana Schwartz) volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SCHWAR 2022
1 available
YA FICTION SCHWAR 2022
1 available
Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SCHWAR 2022
1 available
YA FICTION SCHWAR 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SCHWAR 2022
2 available
YA FICTION SCHWAR 2022
2 available
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Hazel Sinnett is a medical student in 19th century Scotland who, after being kicked out because of her gender, works with new attractive acquaintance Jack Currer to procure dead bodies to study, but they soon discover secrets buried in the heart of Edinburgh society.
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Initial insult volume 2
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION MCGINN 2022
1 available
YA FICTION MCGINN 2022
1 available
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Tress Montor murdered Felicity Turnado—but she might not have to live with the guilt for long. With an infected arm held together by duct tape, the panther who clawed her open on the loose, and the whole town on the hunt for the lost homecoming queen, the odds are stacked against Tress. As her mind slides deeper into delirium, Tress is haunted by the growing sound of Felicity’s heartbeat pulsing from the “best friend” charm around her fevered...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BROOKS 2021
1 available
FICTION BROOKS 2021
1 available
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""Eerie and addictive. . . . Like Wuthering Heights, The Whispering House is a melancholy novel, its characters filled with dark longings." ― The New York Times Book Review From the acclaimed author of The Orphan of Salt Winds It was like holding a couple of jigsaw pieces in my palm, knowing there was a whole picture to be made, if I could only find the rest. Freya Lyell is struggling to move on from her sister Stella’s death five years ago....
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOX 2022
1 available
FICTION FOX 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOX 2022
1 available
FICTION FOX 2022
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Once there was a young woman from a well-to-do New England family who never quite fit with the drawing rooms and parlors of her kin. Called instead to the tangled woods and wild cliffs surrounding her family’s estate, Margaret Harlowe grew both stranger and more beautiful as she cultivated her uncanny power. Soon, whispers of “witch” dogged her footsteps, and Margaret’s power began to wind itself with the tendrils of something darker. One...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MUELLE 2022
1 available
FICTION MUELLE 2022
1 available
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"Sara A. Mueller's The Bone Orchard is a fascinating whodunit set in a lush, gothic world of secrets and magic--where a dying emperor charges his favorite concubine with solving his own murder, and preventing the culprit, which undoubtedly is one of his three terrible sons, from taking control of an empire. Charm is a witch, and she is alone. The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DOWNES 2022
1 available
FICTION DOWNES 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DOWNES 2022
1 available
FICTION DOWNES 2022
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"Extraordinarily tense and deliciously mysterious, Anna Downes's The Shadow House follows one woman's desperate journey to protect her children at any cost, in a remote place where not everything is as it seems. A house with deadly secrets. A mother who'll risk everything to bring them to light. Alex, a single mother-of-two, is determined to make a fresh start for her and her children. In an effort to escape her troubled past, she seeks refuge in...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ODONNE 2022
1 available
FICTION ODONNE 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ODONNE 2022
1 available
FICTION ODONNE 2022
1 available
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"In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman-his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe-and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or will this bring a new kind of reckoning? Mr. Crowe was once famed for his gifts-unaccountable gifts, known...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BELFER 2022
1 available
FICTION BELFER 2022
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BELFER 2022
1 available
FICTION BELFER 2022
1 available
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When a close relative falls ill, Hannah Larson and her young son, Nicky, join him for the summer at Ashton Hall, a historic manor house outside Cambridge, England. A frustrated academic whose ambitions have been subsumed by the challenges of raising her beloved child, Hannah longs to escape her life in New York City, where her marriage has been upended by a recently discovered and devastating betrayal. Soon after their arrival, ever-curious Nicky...
12) The ruins
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WYNNE 2022
1 available
FICTION WYNNE 2022
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"Phoebe Wynne's The Ruins is a suspenseful, feminist Gothic coming-of-age tale with shades of Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca, and Atonement, pitched against the sun-soaked backdrop of a summer holiday on the French Riviera. Welcome to the Chateau des Setes, a jewel of the Cote d'Azur, where long summer days bring ease, glamour, and decadence to the holidaymakers who can afford it. Ruby Ashby adores her parents' house in France, but this August, everything...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALKER 2022
1 available
FICTION WALKER 2022
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALKER 2022
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FICTION WALKER 2022
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"The highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her "slyly subversive" (EW) cult-hit Dietland-a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up. New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Known as a recluse, she avoids all public appearances. There's a reason: she's living under an assumed identity, having outrun a tragic past....
14) Just like mother
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"Spine-chilling and sharp, Just Like Mother is a modern gothic from a fresh new voice in horror, and "is set to be one of the year's most talked-about books" (Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author). A girl would be such a blessing... The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has worked hard to build a normal life in New York City, where she keeps everything-and...
15) The hacienda
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CANAS 2022
1 available
FICTION CANAS 2022
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CANAS 2022
1 available
FICTION CANAS 2022
1 available
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches... In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solorzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife's sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the...
16) Luckenbooth
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FAGAN 2022
1 available
FICTION FAGAN 2022
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FAGAN 2022
1 available
FICTION FAGAN 2022
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"1910, Edinburgh. Jessie MacRae has been sent to a tenement building by her recently deceased father to bear a child for a wealthy man and his fiancee. The harrowing events that follow lead to a curse on the building and its residents--a curse that will last for the rest of the century. Over nine decades, 10 Luckenbooth Close bears witness to emblems of a changing world outside its walls. An infamous madam, a spy, a famous Beat poet, a coal miner...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLEND 2005
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FICTION ALLEND 2005
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLEND 1985
1 available
FICTION ALLEND 1985
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALL 2005
1 available
FICTION ALL 2005
1 available
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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A remarkably imagined tale of four generations, centered on a land- owning tyrant, and his wife, daughter and grandchild.
As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern and volatile landowner...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2017
1 available
FICTION WARD 2017
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2017
2 available
FICTION WARD 2017
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2017
1 available
FICTION WARD 2017
1 available
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"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
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