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North Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION MILLS 2016
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YA FICTION MILLS 2016
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In interweaving stories of sixteen-year-olds, modern-day Jesse tries to cope with the ramifications of her brother's death on 9/11, while in 2001, Alia, a Muslim, gets trapped in one of the Twin Towers and meets a boy who changes everything for her as flames rage around them.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PYNCHO 2013
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FICTION PYNCHO 2013
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New York City, 2001. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and discovers there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left of the tech bubble.
3) Dear John
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SPARKS 2006
1 available
FICTION SPARKS 2006
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION SPA 2006 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION SPA 2006 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION SPA 2006 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION SPA 2006 UNABRIDGED
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John, a high school dropout, enlists in the Army not knowing whatt else to do with his life. While in the Army he meets Savannah, they fall in love and she awaits his return from the Army. After 9/11 John feels it's his duty to re-enlist. During their long separation Savannah falls in love and marries someone else.
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MESSUD 2006
1 available
FICTION MESSUD 2006
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOER 2005
1 available
FICTION FOER 2005
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOER 2005
1 available
FICTION FOER 2005
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOER 2005
1 available
FICTION FOER 2005
1 available
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Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined.
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"September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries...and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she's made. Will what she learns...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DEL 2007
1 available
FICTION DEL 2007
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DEL 2007
1 available
FICTION DEL 2007
1 available
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION DEL 2007 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION DEL 2007 UNABRIDGED
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DeLillo traces the way the events of September 11 kindled or rekindled relationships and reconfigured Americas perceptions of the world in a novel that is beautiful, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, redemptive.
8) Freedom
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FRANZE 2010
1 available
FICTION FRANZE 2010
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FRANZE 2010
1 available
FICTION FRANZE 2010
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FRANZE 2010
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FICTION FRANZE 2010
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION FRANZE 2010
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LP FICTION FRANZE 2010
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The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DUB 2008
1 available
FICTION DUB 2008
1 available
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Explosive elements coverge one early September night in a Florida men's club revealing the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed.
10) good life
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5 SPI 2004
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741.5 SPI 2004
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
YA 741.5 SPI 2004
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YA 741.5 SPI 2004
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION KING 2009 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION KING 2009 UNABRIDGED
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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In this collection of short stories, King takes listeners beyond the safe haven of daylight and into a dark realm where anything is possible--and where no one is safe. With startling tales bearing the celebrated author's unmistakable imprint, "Just after sunset" proves a terrifying treat.
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCCANN 2009
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FICTION MCCANN 2009
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A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE GIFFIN 2020
1 available
ROMANCE GIFFIN 2020
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE GIFFIN 2020
1 available
ROMANCE GIFFIN 2020
1 available
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"It's 2 AM on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar on New York's Lower East Side, questioning her life. Feeling lonesome and homesick for the Midwest, she wonders if she'll ever make it as a reporter in the big city--and whether she made a terrible mistake in breaking up with her longtime boyfriend Matthew. As Cecily reaches for the phone to call him, she hears a guy on the barstool...
15) memory of things
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOSHFE 2018
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FICTION MOSHFE 2018
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her...
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • "Netherland tells the fragmented story of a man in exile—from home, family and, most poignantly, from himself.” —Washington Post Book World
In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, and left alone after his English wife and son return to London, Hans van den Broek stumbles
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In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness — a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.
These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy")....
These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy")....
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September 11th series volume 1
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KINGSB 2003
1 available
FICTION KINGSB 2003
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Jake is a New York City fireman and devoted family man. Eric is climbing the corporate ladder at the expense of his wife and children. On a fateful Tuesday in September, two strangers meet for a startling moment in a smoke-filled stairway. Only one will leave the Twin Towers alive. Will he find his way home?
The last thing Jake Bryan knew was the roar of the World Trade Center collapsing on top of him and his fellow firefighters.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COLE 2011
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FICTION COLE 2011
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“Cerebral and capacious, Teju Cole’s novel asks what it means to roam freely.”—The New York Times (One of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years)
“Influential . . . makes you think about what kind of city is revealed to us based on where we cannot go.”—Katie Kitamura, bestselling author of Intimacies
ONE OF THE TEN BEST...
“Influential . . . makes you think about what kind of city is revealed to us based on where we cannot go.”—Katie Kitamura, bestselling author of Intimacies
ONE OF THE TEN BEST...