- Browse
- » Your Account
- » List
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
365.4309 HARDIN 2023
1 available
365.4309 HARDIN 2023
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir. No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac housewife. But soccer mom Lara Love Hardin has been hiding a shady secret: she is funding her heroin addiction...
Author
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION WARD 2023
1 available
FICTION WARD 2023
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Lucky Day Shelf
FICTION WARD 2023
1 available
FICTION WARD 2023
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION WARD 2023
1 available
FICTION WARD 2023
1 available
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
CD FICTION WARD 2023
1 available
CD FICTION WARD 2023
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Description
In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION HILL 2023
2 available
FICTION HILL 2023
2 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION HILL 2023
1 available
FICTION HILL 2023
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION HILL 2023
1 available
FICTION HILL 2023
1 available
Checked Out
5 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 38 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 38 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about marriage, the often baffling pursuit of health and happiness, and the stories that bind us together. From the gritty '90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home-renovation hysteria, Wellness reimagines the love story with a healthy dose of insight, irony, and heart. “A hilarious and moving exploration of a modern marriage that astounds...
Author
Checked Out
6 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
25 copies, 187 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
25 copies, 187 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, and following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone...
Author
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NAPOLI 2023
1 available
FICTION NAPOLI 2023
1 available
Checked Out
11 copies, 104 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
12 copies, 145 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
12 copies, 145 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP FICTION NAPOLI 2023
1 available
LP FICTION NAPOLI 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION NAPOLI 2023
1 available
LP FICTION NAPOLI 2023
1 available
Description
"William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three...
Author
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
155.2 CAIN 2022
2 available
155.2 CAIN 2022
2 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
155.2 CAIN 2022
1 available
155.2 CAIN 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
155.2 CAIN 2022
1 available
155.2 CAIN 2022
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
LP 155.2 CAIN 2022
1 available
LP 155.2 CAIN 2022
1 available
Description
"With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality and love. Bittersweetness...
Author
On Shelf
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
CD FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
CD FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
CD FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
CD FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
Checked Out
17 copies, 112 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
11 copies, 123 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
11 copies, 123 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
LP FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
LP FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
Description
The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
"From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO MASTERS 2009
1 available
BIO MASTERS 2009
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO MASTERS 2010
1 available
BIO MASTERS 2010
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO MASTERS 2010
1 available
BIO MASTERS 2010
1 available
Description
A current death-row inmate relates the story of his life--including heroin-addict parents, an abusive foster family, a life of crime and imprisonment, and his eventual embracing of Buddhism.
"When I think about the fact that society, a nation, has sentenced me to death, all I can do is turn inside myself, to the place in my heart that wants so desperately to feel human, still connected to this world, as if I have a purpose." The moving memoir of...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOTTLE 2022
1 available
FICTION MOTTLE 2022
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOTTLE 2022
1 available
FICTION MOTTLE 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOTTLE 2022
1 available
FICTION MOTTLE 2022
1 available
Description
"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system--a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
10) Finding me
Author
On Shelf
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
On Shelf
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
CD BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
Checked Out
8 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
LP BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
Description
In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn't always see me. As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given...
Author
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
158.1 BECK 2021
1 available
158.1 BECK 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
158.1 BECK 2021
1 available
158.1 BECK 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
158.1 BECK 2021
1 available
158.1 BECK 2021
1 available
Description
"As Martha Beck says in her book, 'Integrity is the cure for psychological suffering. Period.' In 'The Way of Integrity,' Beck presents a four-stage process that anyone can use to find integrity, and with it, a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering. Much of what plagues us--people pleasing, staying in stale relationships, negative habits--all point to what happens when we are out of touch with what truly makes us...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2021
2 available
FICTION POWERS 2021
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2021
3 available
FICTION POWERS 2021
3 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2021
1 available
FICTION POWERS 2021
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JEFFER 2021
1 available
FICTION JEFFER 2021
1 available
Description
To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family's past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black experience in itself.
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
Description
"In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother,...
15) Gilead
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 1
Formats:
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROBINS 2004
1 available
FICTION ROBINS 2004
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROBINS 2004
1 available
FICTION ROBINS 2004
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROBINS 2004
1 available
FICTION ROBINS 2004
1 available
Description
In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
Author
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Holocaust Shelf
305.5122 WILKER 2020
1 available
305.5122 WILKER 2020
1 available
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.5122 WILKER 2020
1 available
305.5122 WILKER 2020
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.5122 WILKER 2020
1 available
305.5122 WILKER 2020
1 available
On Shelf
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 305.5122 WILKER 2020
1 available
CD 305.5122 WILKER 2020
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Description
""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
Author
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.898 KOLKER 2020
2 available
616.898 KOLKER 2020
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.898 KOLKER 2020
1 available
616.898 KOLKER 2020
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.898 KOLKER 2020
1 available
616.898 KOLKER 2020
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
LP 616.898 KOLKER 2020
1 available
LP 616.898 KOLKER 2020
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP 616.898 KOLKER 2020
1 available
LP 616.898 KOLKER 2020
1 available
Description
"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a...
Author
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CUMMIN 2020
2 available
FICTION CUMMIN 2020
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CUMMIN 2020
1 available
FICTION CUMMIN 2020
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CUMMIN 2020
1 available
FICTION CUMMIN 2020
1 available
On Shelf
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION CUMMIN 2020
1 available
CD FICTION CUMMIN 2020
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION CUMMIN 2020
1 available
LP FICTION CUMMIN 2020
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION CUMMIN 2020
2 available
LP FICTION CUMMIN 2020
2 available
Description
"También de este lado hay sueños. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then...
19) Olive, again
Author
Series
Olive novels volume 2
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STROUT 2019
3 available
FICTION STROUT 2019
3 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STROUT 2019
4 available
FICTION STROUT 2019
4 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STROUT 2019
1 available
FICTION STROUT 2019
1 available
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION STROUT 2019
2 available
CD FICTION STROUT 2019
2 available
On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION STROUT 2019
2 available
LP FICTION STROUT 2019
2 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION STROUT 2019
1 available
LP FICTION STROUT 2019
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION STROUT 2019
1 available
LP FICTION STROUT 2019
1 available
Description
"Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red blooded original. When she's not onstage, we look forward to her return..."* And now, indeed, Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever. "It turns out--I just wasn't done with Olive," said Strout. "It was like she kept poking me in the ribs, so I finally said 'Okay, okay...'" Now Olive returns, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade...
Author
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COATES 2019
2 available
FICTION COATES 2019
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COATES 2019
2 available
FICTION COATES 2019
2 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COATES 2019
2 available
FICTION COATES 2019
2 available
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
CD FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
CD FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
LP FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
LP FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
Description
"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...