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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ENRIQU 2023
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FICTION ENRIQU 2023
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"In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazau Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals....
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SPANISH FICTION ENRIQU 2021
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SPANISH FICTION ENRIQU 2021
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"A father and a son cross Argentina by road, from Buenos Aires to the Iguazu Falls. It's the military regime era, there are controls of armed soldiers and tension in the environment. The son's name is Gaspar and the father tries to protect him from his destiny after his mother died in unclear circumstances"--
"El legado, el deseo de vivir, la paternidad, el horror, lo íntimo y lo político. El terror sobrenatural se entrelaza con terrores muy reales...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO HUDES 2021
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BIO HUDES 2021
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"Quiara Alegria Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother's tight South Philly kitchen, "frizzy hair cut short, bangs teased into stiff clouds, sweat glistening in the summer fog, pamper-butt babies weaving between legs." Quiara was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunted by the secrets of the family and the unspoken stories of the barrio -- even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea...
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"A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity"--
"A new book by the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity. "Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor...
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"A translated edition of H�ector Tobar's groundbreaking exploration of Latino identity in the United States"--
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.52 TAYLOR 2018
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813.52 TAYLOR 2018
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The Gatsby Affair: Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal That Shaped an American Classic, Kendall Taylor examines the dalliance between the Zelda and a French aviator, Edouard Jozan, from a fresh perspective. Drawing on conversations and correspondence with Jozans daughter, as well as materials from the Jozan family archives, Taylor sheds new light on this romantic triangle. More than just a casual fling, Zeldas tryst with Edouard affected Scott as much...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KLAUSS 2015
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FICTION KLAUSS 2015
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A tale based on the real-life inspirations for Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night finds expats Sara and Gerald Murphy sharing freewheeling days, hosting parties and hiding heartbreaking secrets in the 1920s French Riviera.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.52 HEMING 1992
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813.52 HEMING 1992
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.52 HEM 1996
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813.52 HEM 1996
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A new homeowner describes her emotional and rewarding journey over the course of a year, after she was given a colony of honeybees as a gift and learned how to care for and live alongside the fascinating creatures. A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings is a book of observation, of the irrepressible wildness of these fascinating creatures, of the ways they seem to evade our categories each time we attempt to define them. Are they wild or domestic? Individual...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
155.937 ORENST 2023
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155.937 ORENST 2023
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
155.937 ORENST 2023
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155.937 ORENST 2023
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"“Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it’s easy to forget she’s an important thinker too.”&#٬٢٠١٤؛People In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch—shearing, spinning, dyeing wool—and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to everyone. The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large...
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"Gabe Montesanti grew up queer in a working-class, conservative Catholic family in the Midwest, where she was taught to prioritize strength and impenetrability over vulnerability and honesty. In this emotionally, physically, and spiritually abusive environment, she developed a severe eating disorder, never learned to trust herself, and lived in constant fear. As she enters graduate school, she vows to put the trauma of her past behind her and to learn...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FISHER 1987
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FICTION FISHER 1987
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In a stunning literary debut, Carrie Fisher chronicles the excruciatingly funny adventures of Suzanne Vale - young film star and drug addict, who survives a rehab clinic only to rejoin the equally harrowing world of Hollywood. Out there on the edge, despair flips into hilarity, and we're left laughing as Suzanne struggles to come to terms with her various fantasylands. Carrie Fisher's reading evokes the deliciously irreverent humor that forms the
...13) Mycroft Holmes
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY ABDUL 2015
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MYSTERY ABDUL 2015
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY ABDUL 2015
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MYSTERY ABDUL 2015
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When his fiancée abruptly departs for Trinidad after hearing disturbing news, Mycroft Holmes and his best friend Cyrus Douglas follow and find themselves drawn in to a treacherous investigation.
14) Miss Subways
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION DUCHOV 2018
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SCIENCE FICTION DUCHOV 2018
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION DUCHOV 2018
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SCIENCE FICTION DUCHOV 2018
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Emer is just a woman living in New York City who takes the subway, buys ice cream from the bodega on the corner, has writerly aspirations, and lives with her boyfriend, Con. But is this life she lives the only path shes on? Taking inspiration from the myth of Emer and Cuchulain and featuring an all-star cast of mythical figures from all over the world, David Duchovnys darkly funny fantasy novel Miss Subways is one womans trippy, mystical journey down...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION YAGI 2022
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FICTION YAGI 2022
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"When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace--a company that manufactures cardboard tubes--she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups--because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is . . . Ms. Shibata is not pregnant. Pregnant Ms. Shibata...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARPMA 2022
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FICTION HARPMA 2022
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARPMA 2022
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FICTION HARPMA 2022
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3 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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"Ursula K. LeGuin meets The Road in a post-apocalyptic modern classic of female friendship and intimacy. Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—sits alone and outcast...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
179.3 WASIK 2024
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179.3 WASIK 2024
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"A compassionate, sweeping narrative about the transformation in American attitudes toward animals, particularly after the Civil War"--
"A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals' suffering had rarely...
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"A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club • With a foreword by David Allen Sibley "Unexpected and spectacular" -Ann Patchett, best-selling author of These Precious Days "The drawings and essays in this book do a lot more than just describe the birds. They carry a sense of discovery through observation and drawing, suggest...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
598.0723 COOPER 2023
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598.0723 COOPER 2023
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
598.0723 COOPER 2023
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598.0723 COOPER 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
598.0723 COOPER 2023
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598.0723 COOPER 2023
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"Christian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan, and an expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City.When birdwatching in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old. But when a routine encounter with a dog-walker...
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Nonfiction
808.1 OLI 1994
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808.1 OLI 1994
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"Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that's what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook."—Los Angeles Times
From the beloved, legendary poet, the ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry.
With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts
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