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1) Silverview
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LECARR 2021
1 available
FICTION LECARR 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LECARR 2021
1 available
FICTION LECARR 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LECARR 2021
1 available
FICTION LECARR 2021
1 available
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"In Silverview, John le Carre turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years-the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish emigre living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to...
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3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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"From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer"--
"Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor National Bestseller • Wall Street Journal Bestseller • USA Today Bestseller An NPR Book of the Year Finalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards From the bestselling author...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNSO 2021
1 available
FICTION JOHNSO 2021
1 available
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Needing to reconnect with the baby she gave up for adoption years earlier, an Ivy League-educated Black engineer uncovers devastating family secrets before her bond with a young white misfit scandalizes her racially torn community.
4) Whereabouts
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LAHIRI 2021
2 available
FICTION LAHIRI 2021
2 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Follows the routines of a misfit city dweller who experiences a year of remarkable transformation in the aftermath of a parent’s death.
"A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between...
5) Intimacies
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KITAMU 2021
1 available
FICTION KITAMU 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KITAMU 2021
1 available
FICTION KITAMU 2021
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE WILLIA 2021
1 available
ROMANCE WILLIA 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE WILLIA 2021
2 available
ROMANCE WILLIA 2021
2 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE WILLIA 2021
1 available
ROMANCE WILLIA 2021
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCLAIN 2021
1 available
FICTION MCLAIN 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCLAIN 2021
1 available
FICTION MCLAIN 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCLAIN 2021
2 available
FICTION MCLAIN 2021
2 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION MCLAIN 2021
1 available
LP FICTION MCLAIN 2021
1 available
Description
Retreating to her childhood foster home in the wake of a tragedy, a veteran missing-persons detective becomes entwined in the search for a local teen whose disappearance eerily resembles an unsolved case from the detective’s past.
"Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees...
8) Peaces
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OYEYEM 2021
1 available
FICTION OYEYEM 2021
1 available
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"The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JERKIN 2021
1 available
FICTION JERKIN 2021
1 available
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An ambitious college student gives birth to a baby girl destined to be raised by an important Harlem family, who believe the infant will restore their prosperity.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION AUDRAI 2021
1 available
FICTION AUDRAI 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION AUDRAI 2021
1 available
FICTION AUDRAI 2021
1 available
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3 copies, 6 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.
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION AUDRAI 2021
1 available
LP FICTION AUDRAI 2021
1 available
Description
"A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting, supportive mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter--Violet...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIDS 2021
1 available
FICTION DAVIDS 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIDS 2021
1 available
FICTION DAVIDS 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIDS 2021
1 available
FICTION DAVIDS 2021
1 available
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A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
12) With teeth
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ARNETT 2021
1 available
FICTION ARNETT 2021
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ARNETT 2021
1 available
FICTION ARNETT 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ARNETT 2021
1 available
FICTION ARNETT 2021
1 available
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"From the author of the New York Times-bestselling sensation Mostly Dead Things: a surprising and moving story of two mothers, one difficult son, and the limitations of marriage, parenthood, and love If she's being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one wary eye peeled on Samson, a sullen, unknowable boy who resists her every attempt to bond with him. Uncertain...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARCIA 2021
2 available
FICTION GARCIA 2021
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARCIA 2021
1 available
FICTION GARCIA 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARCIA 2021
1 available
FICTION GARCIA 2021
1 available
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"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRIDE 2021
2 available
FICTION PRIDE 2021
2 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRIDE 2021
1 available
FICTION PRIDE 2021
1 available
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event-a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions....
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SWEENE 2021
2 available
FICTION SWEENE 2021
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SWEENE 2021
1 available
FICTION SWEENE 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SWEENE 2021
1 available
FICTION SWEENE 2021
1 available
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"A warm, incisive new novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship from Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Nest"--
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A young revolutionary risks everything to secure her people’s freedom when her small African village is decimated by an American oil company that reneges on promises of reparation.
"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel 'How Beautiful We Were.' Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COSTER 2021
1 available
FICTION COSTER 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COSTER 2021
1 available
FICTION COSTER 2021
1 available
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"When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises in outrage. For two students, quiet and aloof Gee and headstrong Noelle, these divisions will extend far beyond their schooling. As their paths collide and overlap over the course of thirty years, their two seemingly disconnected families...
18) Second place
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CUSK 2021
1 available
FICTION CUSK 2021
1 available
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A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma—and disrupts the calm of her secluded household.
"From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted...
19) The committed
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
3 available
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
3 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
1 available
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
1 available
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
1 available
Description
"The astonishing sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend,...
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On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ELAKKA 2021
1 available
FICTION ELAKKA 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ELAKKA 2021
1 available
FICTION ELAKKA 2021
1 available
Description
"More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials but of Vänna: a teenage...