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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION MACALL 2021
1 available
FICTION MACALL 2021
1 available
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"1855: Virginia Reeve is summoned by an eccentric Brit with a compelling offer. Lady Jane Franklin wants her to lead a dozen women into the Arctic in search of the ships of her husband's lost expedition, and she's willing to pay handsomely. All four search attempts Lady Franklin has sponsored have failed. She has decided only a radical new approach can succeed: let women make the decisions. Lady Franklin will disavow all knowledge of the expedition...
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Beartown volume 1
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BACKMA 2017
1 available
FICTION BACKMA 2017
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BACKMA 2017
1 available
FICTION BACKMA 2017
1 available
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3 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION BACKMA 2018
1 available
LP FICTION BACKMA 2018
1 available
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten...
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SEPETY 2011
1 available
YA FICTION SEPETY 2011
1 available
South Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SEPETY 2011
1 available
YA FICTION SEPETY 2011
1 available
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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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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENJAM 2021
1 available
FICTION BENJAM 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENJAM 2021
1 available
FICTION BENJAM 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENJAM 2021
1 available
FICTION BENJAM 2021
1 available
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Draws on oral histories of the Great Plains blizzard of 1888 to depict the experiences of two teachers, a servant, and a reporter who risk everything to protect the children of immigrant homesteaders.
5) Chill factor
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BROWN 2006
1 available
FICTION BROWN 2006
1 available
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Lilly Martin is racing from an oncoming blizzard when she skids into a hiker. Taking the injured man to a remote cabin, she discovers he is the handsome but shady Ben Tierney, who she flirted with the previous summer. Although attracted to Ben, Lilly must be on her guard. Five women have recently disappeared from the area, and Ben is the primary suspect. But as the storm intensifies and the roads become impassable, Lilly finds herself with nowhere...
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 21
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHIAVE 2019
1 available
FICTION CHIAVE 2019
1 available
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New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with a delightful Christmas-themed installment in her beloved Elm Creek Quilts seriesa captivating, heartwarming tale sure to become a holiday favorite. Just weeks before Christmas, severe wintry weather damages the church hall hosting the Christmas Boutiquean annual sale of handcrafted gifts and baked goods that supports the county food pantry. Determined to save the fundraiser, Sylvia...
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In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
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County Cork mysteries volume 5
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY CONNOL 2017
1 available
MYSTERY CONNOL 2017
1 available
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The New York Times–bestselling author returns with another “totally captivating page-turner . . . perfect for winter nights with a storm beating against the windows” (New York Journal of Books).
A snowstorm leaves Irish pub owner Maura Donovan trapped inside with her patrons—and a suspected killer—in this 5th Agatha Christie-style cozy mystery in the County Cork series.
Snow is...
A snowstorm leaves Irish pub owner Maura Donovan trapped inside with her patrons—and a suspected killer—in this 5th Agatha Christie-style cozy mystery in the County Cork series.
Snow is...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LOUIS 2021
1 available
FICTION LOUIS 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE LOUIS 2021
1 available
ROMANCE LOUIS 2021
1 available
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Two strangers who meet when their cars are both stuck in a blizzard spend a delightful eight hours together weathering the storm before parting ways believing they will never see each other again, but fate has other plans.
10) Faceless killers
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Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 1
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY MANKEL 2003
1 available
MYSTERY MANKEL 2003
1 available
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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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The murder of a farming couple in Sweden unleashes a wave of xenophobia when it is learned that the woman's dying words were "foreigner." The case is given to Inspector Kurt Wallender, a lover of opera and booze. Part crime story, part look at the attitude of Swedes to immigrants.
11) The frozen dead
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Commandant Martin Servaz thrillers volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY MINIER 2013
1 available
MYSTERY MINIER 2013
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY MINIER 2013
1 available
MYSTERY MINIER 2013
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY MINIER 2013
1 available
MYSTERY MINIER 2013
1 available
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"In a snowbound valley, deep in the French Pyrenees, a dark story of madness and revenge is unfolding. The first victim is a horse: its headless, flayed body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day as the gruesome discovery takes place, Diane Berg, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a high security asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. She is baffled by the slightly unorthodox methods the asylums's...
12) The great alone
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HANNAH 2018
1 available
FICTION HANNAH 2018
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HANNAH 2018
1 available
FICTION HANNAH 2018
1 available
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION HANNAH 2018
1 available
CD FICTION HANNAH 2018
1 available
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9 copies, 41 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 87 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 87 people are on the wait list.
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When her father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season.
"In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOLEY 2019
2 available
FICTION FOLEY 2019
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOLEY 2019
1 available
FICTION FOLEY 2019
1 available
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4 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION FOLEY 2019
1 available
LP FICTION FOLEY 2019
1 available
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A group of thirty-something Oxford friends celebrate New Year's Eve in the Scottish Highlands as a historic blizzard hits, trapping and isolating them, only to discover one of them is a murderer.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLEND 2017
2 available
FICTION ALLEND 2017
2 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLEND 2017
1 available
FICTION ALLEND 2017
1 available
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"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two...
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Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 15
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY KRUEGE 2016
1 available
MYSTERY KRUEGE 2016
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY KRUEGE 2016
1 available
MYSTERY KRUEGE 2016
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY KRUEGE 2016
1 available
MYSTERY KRUEGE 2016
1 available
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""One of today's automatic buy-today-read-tonight series...thoughtful but suspenseful, fast but lasting, contemporary but strangely timeless." (Lee Child) In the extraordinary new Cork O'Connor thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger, the lives of hundreds of innocent people are at stake when Cork vanishes just days before his daughter's wedding. Since the violent deaths of his wife, father, and...
16) The meadow
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GALVIN 1992
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FICTION GALVIN 1992
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An American Library Association Notable Book In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, and the few people who do not possess but are themselves possessed by this terrain. In so doing he reveals an experience that is part of our heritage and mythology. For...
17) Misery
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KING 1987
1 available
FICTION KING 1987
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KING 1987
1 available
FICTION KING 1987
1 available
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After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
Paul Sheldon, author of a series of historical romances, wakes up in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado with broken legs and Annie Wilkes, a disappointed fan, hovering over him with drugs, ax, and blowtorch and demanding he bring his heroine back to life
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RICE 2018
1 available
FICTION RICE 2018
1 available
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadearship loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take...
19) My Antonia
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CAT 2003
1 available
FICTION CAT 2003
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CAT 1994
1 available
FICTION CAT 1994
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CAT 1994
1 available
FICTION CAT 1994
1 available
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My Ántonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works. It is the last novel in the Prairie trilogy, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Ántonia. The book's narrator,
...20) One by one
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARE 2020
1 available
FICTION WARE 2020
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARE 2020
1 available
FICTION WARE 2020
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARE 2020
2 available
FICTION WARE 2020
2 available
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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When an offsite company retreat is upended by an avalanche that strands them in a remote mountain chalet, eight coworkers are forced to set aside their corporate rankings and mutual distrust in order to survive.