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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LUCHET 2021
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FICTION LUCHET 2021
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"Claire Luchette's debut, Agatha of Little Neon, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood, figuring out how you fit in (or don't), and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self"--
2) The bell
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MURDOC 2001
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FICTION MURDOC 2001
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The story of a lay community of mixed-up people encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, including Dora Greenfield, an erring wife who returns to her husband, and Michael Meade, who is confronted by his homosexual former lover.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GLENDI 2018
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FICTION GLENDI 2018
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Rescued from a cloistered life by her high intelligence, Agnes grapples with the complex rules of the Tudor era as the subjugation of women and religious houses strips her of her home and forces her to survive by her wits.
4) Carnality
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOLFF 2022
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FICTION WOLFF 2022
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"In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society. Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide out for a few days, he is willing to tell her the...
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Pillars of the Earth volume 3
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOLLET 2017
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FICTION FOLLET 2017
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOLLET 2017
1 available
FICTION FOLLET 2017
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOLLET 2017
1 available
FICTION FOLLET 2017
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION FOLLET 2017
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CD FICTION FOLLET 2017
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION FOLLET 2017
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CD FICTION FOLLET 2017
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION FOLLET 2017
1 available
LP FICTION FOLLET 2017
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION FOLLET 2017
2 available
LP FICTION FOLLET 2017
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION FOLLET 2017
1 available
LP FICTION FOLLET 2017
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"International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and...
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Sister Agatha mysteries volume 4
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY THU 2007
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MYSTERY THU 2007
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY THU 2007
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MYSTERY THU 2007
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STEEL 2021
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FICTION STEEL 2021
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STEEL 2021
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FICTION STEEL 2021
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"The sun beamed down on Melissa Henderson's shining dark hair, pinned up on her head in a loose knot, as sweat ran down her face, and the muscles in her long, lithe arms were taut with effort as she worked. She was lost in concentration, sanding a door of the house in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts that had been her salvation. She had bought it four years before. It had been weather-beaten, shabby and in serious need of repair when she found...
8) Grey sister
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Book of the Ancestor volume 2
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION LAWREN 2018
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SCIENCE FICTION LAWREN 2018
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"From Mark Lawrence, the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, comes the second novel in a dazzling fantasy series set in a dying world. The searing tale of a young woman on the path to becoming the empire's fiercest warrior"--
"From Mark Lawrence, the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, comes the second novel in a dazzling fantasy series set in a dying world. The searing tale of a young woman...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DOMET 2016
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FICTION DOMET 2016
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"In the vein of The Virgin Suicides, a dazzling debut novel about four girls inexplicably named Guinevere, all left by their parents to be raised by nuns"--
10) Holy sister
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Book of the Ancestor volume 3
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION LAWREN 2019
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SCIENCE FICTION LAWREN 2019
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION LAWREN 2019
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SCIENCE FICTION LAWREN 2019
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"The third book in the thrilling and epic Book of the Ancestor trilogy from international bestselling author Mark Lawrence. Powerful novice Nona Grey must fight to survive in "a fantastic world in which religion and politics are dark and sharp as swords, with magic and might held in the hands of wonderful and dangerous women."* *Library Journal"--
"As a young girl, Nona Grey was saved from the noose by the Abbess of Sweet Mercy. But behind the...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KALLOS 2015
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FICTION KALLOS 2015
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Charles Morrow, a high school English teacher who finds it difficult to connect with his autistic son, his college-bound daughter, or his ex-wife, begins to rise out of the rut his life has fallen into with the help of an art student and an Italian-speaking nun.
12) Matrix
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FICTION GROFF 2021
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FICTION GROFF 2021
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GROFF 2021
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FICTION GROFF 2021
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In Processing - Adult Fiction
FICTION GROFF 2021
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FICTION GROFF 2021
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Description
"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DILLON 2020
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FICTION DILLON 2020
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Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn, renegade Sister Evelyn and her fellow nuns preside over a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, little daunts Evelyn, until she receives word that Mercy House will be investigated by Bishop Hawkins, a man with whom she shares a dark history. In order to protect everything they've built, the nuns must conceal many of their methods, which are...
14) The ninth hour
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCDERM 2017
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FICTION MCDERM 2017
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCDERM 2017
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FICTION MCDERM 2017
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCDERM 2017
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FICTION MCDERM 2017
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On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove--to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife--"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a Little Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child....
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HEGI 2020
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FICTION HEGI 2020
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HEGI 2020
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FICTION HEGI 2020
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"In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus has come to the island Nordstrand in Germany. Big-bellied girls rush from St. Margaret's Home for Pregnant Girls, thrilled to see the parade and the show, followed by the Sisters who care for them. The Old Women and Men, competing to be crowned as the island's Oldest Person, watch, thinking they have seen it all. But after the show, a Hundred-Year Wave roars from the Nordsee and claims three young children....
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OLAFUR 2019
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FICTION OLAFUR 2019
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OLAFUR 2019
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FICTION OLAFUR 2019
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OLAFUR 2019
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FICTION OLAFUR 2019
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The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims. A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter's day, a young student at the school watches the school's headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DUNANT 2009
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FICTION DUNANT 2009
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The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Diana Gabaldon returns to her Outlander universe in “The Space Between,” an irresistible novella brimming with adventure, history, and suspense.
Joan MacKimmie is on her way to Paris to take up her vocation as a nun. Yet her decision is less a matter of faith than fear, for Joan is plagued by mysterious voices that speak of the future, and by visions that mark those about to die....
Joan MacKimmie is on her way to Paris to take up her vocation as a nun. Yet her decision is less a matter of faith than fear, for Joan is plagued by mysterious voices that speak of the future, and by visions that mark those about to die....
19) unfinished desires
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