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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE STARLE 2021
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ROMANCE STARLE 2021
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Leaving Avonlea, Long Island, to attend grad school in Manhattan, Anne is shocked when her long-time archrival, Gilbert, returns from California to attend as well in this modern adaptation of the beloved Anne of Green Gables.
2) Ariadne
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SAINT 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION SAINT 2021
1 available
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe. Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid's stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice every year. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE JALALU 2019
2 available
ROMANCE JALALU 2019
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE JALALU 2019
1 available
ROMANCE JALALU 2019
1 available
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Reluctantly working as a teacher to pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle, Ayesha Shamsi finds herself falling for her cousin's conservative and judgmental fiancé.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OYEYEM 2014
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FICTION OYEYEM 2014
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In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. Elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Now Boy, Snow, and Bird...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION GRUSHI 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION GRUSHI 2021
1 available
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"Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, two children and thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION VO 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION VO 2021
2 available
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"Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCEWAN 2019
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FICTION MCEWAN 2019
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A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other: here is Ian McEwan's Brexit-era take on Kafka's Metamorphosis, centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England. An Anchor Original. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MICHAL 2022
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FICTION MICHAL 2022
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"In this beautiful, grounded, and darkly magical modern-day reimagining of J.M. Barrie's classic, one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan-who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to be-to save her daughter's life. Life is looking up for Holly Darling, granddaughter of Wendy-yes, t h a t Wendy. She's running a successful skincare company, her son Jack is happy and healthy, and the tragedy of her past is well behind her......
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHANG 2022
1 available
FICTION CHANG 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHANG 2022
1 available
FICTION CHANG 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHANG 2022
1 available
FICTION CHANG 2022
1 available
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"An acclaimed storyteller returns with "a gorgeous and gripping literary mystery" that explores "family, betrayal, passion, race, culture and the American Dream" (Jean Kwok). The residents of Haven, Wisconsin have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant's delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, happy to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. But when brash, charismatic, and tyrannical patriarch Leo Chao is found dead-presumed...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION WINTER 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION WINTER 2019
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION WINTER 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION WINTER 2019
1 available
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"Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his...
11) Gingerbread
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION OYEYEM 2019
2 available
SCIENCE FICTION OYEYEM 2019
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION OYEYEM 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION OYEYEM 2019
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION OYEYEM 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION OYEYEM 2019
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"The award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird draws on the classic fairy-tale element of gingerbread in the story of a British family whose surprising legacy and secret past are tied to a favorite recipe."--
"Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe. Perdita Lee may appear...
12) The girl in red
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION HENRY 2019
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SCIENCE FICTION HENRY 2019
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It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that served as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She was just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that didn't look anything like the one...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE GREELE 2021
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ROMANCE GREELE 2021
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"As a fussy baby, Anne de Bourgh’s doctor prescribed laudanum to quiet her, and now the young woman must take the opium-heavy tincture every day. Growing up sheltered and confined, removed from sunshine and fresh air, the pale and overly slender Anne grew up with few companions except her cousins, including Fitzwilliam Darcy. Throughout their childhoods, it was understood that Darcy and Anne would marry and combine their vast estates of Pemberley...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HENRY 2021
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FICTION HENRY 2021
1 available
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"Revisit the village of Sleepy Hollow and discover that the oldest legends can be the hungriest, in this atmospheric, terrifying new novel from the author of Alice and The Girl in Red. Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him. Not even Ben Van Brunt's grandfather, Brom Bones, who was there when it was said the Horseman chased the upstart Ichabod Crane out of town-or snuffed out Crane's life by throwing...
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Jane Cockram makes her thrilling debut with this page-turning tale of psychological suspense in which a young woman whose life is in tatters flees to the safety of a family estate in England, but instead of comfort finds chilling secrets and lies. Mirandas life and career has been a roller-coaster ride. Her successful rise to the top of the booming lifestyle industry as a social media influencer led to a humiliating fall after a controversial product...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOIBIN 2017
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FICTION TOIBIN 2017
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOIBIN 2017
1 available
FICTION TOIBIN 2017
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOIBIN 2017
1 available
FICTION TOIBIN 2017
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION TOIBIN 2017
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CD FICTION TOIBIN 2017
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From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Toibin comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra--spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling--and her children... In House of Names, Colm Toibin brings a modern sensibility and language to an ancient classic, and gives this extraordinary character new life, so that we not only believe Clytemnestra's thirst for revenge, but applaud it. He brilliantly...
17) Hyde: a novel
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY RUSSEL 2021
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MYSTERY RUSSEL 2021
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"Victorian Edinburgh. Captain Edward Henry Hyde is chief detective for the City of Edinburgh Police; as such, he is responsible for investigating all murders and serious crimes in the city. Hyde is a striking but severe-looking man who provokes unease, and often fear, in those who encounter him. Nevertheless, Edward Hyde is truly a good man … though he wrestles fiercely with his own unique demons. When Hyde finds himself at the scene of a heinous...
18) James: a novel
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6 copies, 56 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 87 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
8 copies, 87 people are on the wait list.
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FAYE 2021
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FICTION FAYE 2021
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"In this lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City, a neuro-atypical philosopher, along with his best friend Horatio and artist ex-fiance Lia, are caught up in the otherworldly events surrounding the death of his father"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRINS 2022
1 available
FICTION PRINS 2022
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRINS 2022
1 available
FICTION PRINS 2022
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRINS 2022
1 available
FICTION PRINS 2022
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"In this wickedly sharp, propulsive debut, a classicist must outmaneuver her manipulative mentor. Tessa Templeton has thrived at Oxford University, under the tutelage and praise of esteemed classics professor Christopher Eccles. Yet shortly before her thesis defense, Tessa learns that Chris has sabotaged her career-and realizes their relationship is not at all what she believed. Driven by what he mistakes as love for Tessa, Chris has ensured that...