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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROONEY 2021
3 available
FICTION ROONEY 2021
3 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROONEY 2021
1 available
FICTION ROONEY 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROONEY 2021
1 available
FICTION ROONEY 2021
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION ROONEY 2021
1 available
CD FICTION ROONEY 2021
1 available
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Four young people pair up, break up, have wild flirtations, and worry about their friendships and the world they live in while pondering their eroding youth.
Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young-but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2021
2 available
FICTION POWERS 2021
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2021
4 available
FICTION POWERS 2021
4 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2021
1 available
FICTION POWERS 2021
1 available
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"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...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FERRIS 2021
1 available
FICTION FERRIS 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FERRIS 2021
1 available
FICTION FERRIS 2021
1 available
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"Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises, and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances...Then, against all odds, something goes right for a change: Charlie is granted a second act. With help from his storyteller son, he surveys the facts of his life and finds his true...
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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 DOERR 2021
1 available
FICTION DOERR 2021
1 available
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION DOERR 2021
2 available
SCIENCE FICTION DOERR 2021
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DOERR 2021
1 available
FICTION DOERR 2021
1 available
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD SCIENCE FICTION DOERR 2021
1 available
CD SCIENCE FICTION DOERR 2021
1 available
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2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP SCIENCE FICTION DOERR 2021
1 available
LP SCIENCE FICTION DOERR 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP SCIENCE FICTION DOERR 2021
1 available
LP SCIENCE FICTION DOERR 2021
1 available
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
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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,...
7) Crossroads
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Series
Key to all mythologies volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FRANZE 2021
2 available
FICTION FRANZE 2021
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FRANZE 2021
2 available
FICTION FRANZE 2021
2 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FRANZE 2021
1 available
FICTION FRANZE 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
"Crossroads is the first novel in Jonathan Franzen's A Key to All Mythologies. The trilogy tells the story of a Midwestern family across three generations, mirroring the preoccupations and dilemmas of the United States from the Vietnam War to the 2020s"--
It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless...
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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.
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"Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PETERS 2020
1 available
FICTION PETERS 2020
1 available
Description
A trans woman, her detransitioned ex, and his cisgender lover build an unconventional family together in the wake of heartbreak and an unplanned pregnancy.
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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
Description
"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"--
12) Great circle
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHIPST 2021
2 available
FICTION SHIPST 2021
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHIPST 2021
2 available
FICTION SHIPST 2021
2 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHIPST 2021
1 available
FICTION SHIPST 2021
1 available
Description
A century after daredevil female aviator Marian Graves's disappearance in Antarctica, actress Hadley Baxter is cast to play her and immerses herself in the role as their fates - and their dreams - become intertwined.
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian...
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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...
14) Harlem shuffle
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Series
Harlem trilogy (Colson Whitehead) volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2021
3 available
FICTION WHITEH 2021
3 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2021
3 available
FICTION WHITEH 2021
3 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2021
1 available
FICTION WHITEH 2021
1 available
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WHITEH 2021
1 available
CD FICTION WHITEH 2021
1 available
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WHITEH 2021
1 available
LP FICTION WHITEH 2021
1 available
Description
A furniture salesman in 1960s Harlem becomes a fence for shady cops, local gangsters, and low-life pornographers after his cousin involves him in a failed heist.
""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and...
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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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WATKIN 2021
2 available
FICTION WATKIN 2021
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WATKIN 2021
1 available
FICTION WATKIN 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
FICTION WATKIN 2021
1 available
FICTION WATKIN 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
"From "the most captivating voice to come out of the West since Annie Proulx" (Vogue), the furious, hilarious, soul-rending story of one woman's reckoning with marriage, work, sex, and motherhood. Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as much now. c) Not so much now. d) Not at all. Leaving behind her husband, Theo, and their young daughter, Claire, a writer, gets...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ENGEL 2021
1 available
FICTION ENGEL 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ENGEL 2021
1 available
FICTION ENGEL 2021
1 available
Description
Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogota.
18) 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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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNSO 2021
1 available
FICTION JOHNSO 2021
1 available
Description
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.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
1 available
LP SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
1 available
Description
"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous...