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1) Radiant heat
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
MYSTERY COLLIN 2024
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MYSTERY COLLIN 2024
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"When a catastrophic wildfire suddenly rips through a woman's hometown, she thinks she is lucky to have survived...until she finds a dead woman in her driveway, clutching a piece of paper with her name on it.... Alison is alive. She rode out the fire on the damp tiles of her bathroom, her entire body swaddled in a wet woolen blanket. The flames crackled around her, the bitter char of eucalyptus settling in the back of her throat. The wildfire devastated...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER 2019
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FICTION HELLER 2019
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER 2019
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FICTION HELLER 2019
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"A novel about two college friends on a summer wilderness canoe trip"--
3) drowned world a novel 50th anniversary edition
This entry no longer exists in the catalog
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2011
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FICTION WARD 2011
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
FICTION WARD 2011
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MONTAG 2019
1 available
FICTION MONTAG 2019
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MONTAG 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION MONTAG 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MONTAG 2019
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SCIENCE FICTION MONTAG 2019
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"An unforgettable, inventive, and riveting epic saga, After the flood signals the arrival of a game-changing and necessary new voice in fiction"--
A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America's great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse...
6) Flood
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Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BAX 2008
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION BAX 2008
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BAXTER 2008
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SCIENCE FICTION BAXTER 2008
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BAXTER 2008
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SCIENCE FICTION BAXTER 2008
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Four hostages are finally released, but they face a world suddenly inundated as vast amounts of water is released from the earth's mantle. As the world's cities and countries disappear under the rising seas, humanity faces unimaginable global disaster.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SITTEN 2013
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FICTION SITTEN 2013
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SITTEN 2013
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FICTION SITTEN 2013
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SITTEN 2013
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FICTION SITTEN 2013
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION SITTEN 2013 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION SITTEN 2013 UNABRIDGED
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When the strongest earthquake in U.S. history occurs just north of their St. Louis home, Kate and Jeremy find the disaster further complicated by Kate's self-proclaimed-medium twin's prediction about a more powerful earthquake, a situation that places Kate under public scrutiny and reveals her own psychic abilities.
8) after disasters
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9) Summerwater
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOSS 2021
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FICTION MOSS 2021
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOSS 2021
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FICTION MOSS 2021
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A series of vignettes offer the idle thoughts of a group of strangers vacationing in a Scottish holiday park during a very rainy day, lost in their own little worlds, until a shocking event unites them.
10) Wool : a novel
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Silo series volume 1
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3 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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"The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of a community living in an underground silo completely unaware of the fate of the outside world. When the silo's sheriff asks to leave the silo, a series of events unravels the very fabric of their fragile lives. In a world where all commodities are precious and running out, truth and hope may be the most rare...and the most needed"--
In a future toxic landscape,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BACIGA 2015
1 available
FICTION BACIGA 2015
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BACIGA 2015
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FICTION BACIGA 2015
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION BACIGA 2015 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION BACIGA 2015 UNABRIDGED
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Working as an enforcer for a corrupt developer, Angel Velasquez teams up with a hardened journalist and a street-smart Texan to investigate rumors of California's imminent monopoly on limited water supplies.
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Sixth world volume 1
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ROANHO 2018
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SCIENCE FICTION ROANHO 2018
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ROANHO 2018
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SCIENCE FICTION ROANHO 2018
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“Someone please cancel Supernatural already and give us at least five seasons of this badass indigenous monster-hunter and her silver-tongued sidekick.” The New York Times “An excitingly novel tale.” Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series and Midnight Crossroads series “Fun, terrifying, hilarious, and brilliant.” Daniel José Older, New York Times bestselling author of Shadowshaper and Star...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FAGAN 2016
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FICTION FAGAN 2016
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It's November of 2020, and the world is freezing over. Each day colder than the last. There's snow in Israel, the Thames is overflowing, and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is expected to drift just off the coast of Scotland. As ice water melts into the Atlantic, frenzied London residents evacuate by the thousands for warmer temperatures down south. But not Dylan. Grieving and ready to build life anew, he heads north to bury his mother's...
14) Solar
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCEWAN 2010
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FICTION MCEWAN 2010
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCEWAN 2010
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FICTION MCEWAN 2010
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION MCEWAN 2010 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION MCEWAN 2010 UNABRIDGED
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard coasts through life, lending his name to scientific institutions, lecturing for a high price, and listlessly participating in an effort to end global warming. But when his fifth wife reveals her infidelities, Michael realizes he's still in love with her even as their relationship collapses. Decidedly taking advantage of an unexpected opportunity, Michael travels to New Mexico, hoping to save his career and...
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Parable books volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2016
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SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2016
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4 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman...
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MaddAddam trilogy volume 1
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ATWOOD 2004
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SCIENCE FICTION ATWOOD 2004
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION ATW 2002
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LP FICTION ATW 2002
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION ATW 2003
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LP FICTION ATW 2003
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A novel of the future explores a world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION RICH 2013
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SCIENCE FICTION RICH 2013
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION RICH 2013
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SCIENCE FICTION RICH 2013
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While working for a mysterious financial consulting firm that offers insurance to corporations against impending catastrophic events, a gifted young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his actual worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan.
18) New York 2140
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ROBINS 2017
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SCIENCE FICTION ROBINS 2017
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ROBINS 2017
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SCIENCE FICTION ROBINS 2017
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ROBINS 2017
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SCIENCE FICTION ROBINS 2017
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"A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever. Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. Through the eyes of the varied inhabitants of one building Kim...
19) Marrow Island
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMITH 2016
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FICTION SMITH 2016
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMITH 2016
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FICTION SMITH 2016
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"A new novel from a former bookseller, author of the acclaimed Glaciers, tracks a young woman's return home to investigate a secretive community that has mysteriously rescued an island devastated by natural and chemical disaster -- and taken hold of one of her oldest friends. Twenty years ago Lucie Bowen left Marrow Island; along with her mother, she fled the aftermath of an earthquake that compromised the local refinery, killing her father and ravaging...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER 2012
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FICTION HELLER 2012
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION HELLER 2012
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LP FICTION HELLER 2012
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Description
Surviving a pandemic disease that has killed everyone he knows, a pilot establishes a shelter in an abandoned airport hangar before hearing a random radio transmission that compels him to risk his life to seek out other survivors.