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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION KNOX 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION KNOX 2021
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"The epic fantasy that's taking the world by storm--a bewitching story about a revenge killing, a mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of fires, and the book that changed everything Taryn Cornick believes that the past--her sister's violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge--is behind her, and she can get on with her life. She has written a successful book about the dangers that threaten libraries...but not all of the attention...
2) Ariadne
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SAINT 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION SAINT 2021
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"A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe. Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid's stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice every year. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not...
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CHO 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION CHO 2021
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"A reluctant medium is about to discover the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power. . . . When Jessamyn Teoh starts hearing a voice in her head, she chalks it up to stress. Closeted, broke and jobless, she's moving back to Malaysia with her parents - a country she last saw when she was a toddler. She soon learns the new voice isn't even hers, it's the ghost of her estranged grandmother. In life, Ah Ma was a spirit medium, avatar of a mysterious...
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MICHEL 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION MICHEL 2021
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"Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister loan sharks knocking on his door, and his work scouting for a baseball league run by pharmaceutical companies is about to go belly-up. Things couldn't get much worse. Then his childhood best friend--Monsanto Mets slugger J.J. Zunz--is murdered at home plate. Determined to find the killer, Kobo plunges into the dark corners and glittering cloud condos...
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Gilded wolves volume 3
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION CHOKSH 2021
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YA FICTION CHOKSH 2021
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"Returning to the dark and glamorous 19th century world of her New York Times instant bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with the final riveting tale as full of mystery and danger as ever in The Bronzed Beasts. After Séverin's seeming betrayal, the crew is fractured. Armed with only a handful of hints, Enrique, Laila, Hypnos and Zofia must find their way through the snarled, haunted waterways of Venice, Italy to locate Séverin....
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION VO 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION VO 2021
2 available
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"Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions,...
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Teixcalaan novels volume 2
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MARTIN 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION MARTIN 2021
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"An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass--still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire--face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity....
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION GAILEY 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION GAILEY 2021
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"'When they said all happy families are alike, I don't think this is what they meant...' Evelyn Caldwell's husband Nathan has been having an affair - with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be exact, with a genetically cloned replica. After a morning that begins with a confrontation and ends with Nathan's body bleeding out on the kitchen floor, the two Caldwell wives will have to think fast--before sharing everything includes sharing a jail cell. The Echo Wife...
9) Elder race
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION TCHAIK 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION TCHAIK 2021
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"Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here"--
10) Folklorn
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A Korean-American scientist who has always been haunted by a ghostly imaginary friend, and whose mother warned that the women of their family were subject to a cyclical intergenerational curse, seeks answers in her mother's folk tales and a family history riddled with war and loss, as the fate of her ancestors closes in on her.
Elsa Park is a physicist at the top of her game, stationed at an international observatory in Antarctica thousands of miles...
11) The gilded ones
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Deathless trilogy volume 1
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Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from...
12) Girl one
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MURPHY 2021
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FICTION MURPHY 2021
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"Josephine Morrow is Girl One, the first of nine “Miracle Babies” conceived without male DNA, raised on an experimental commune known as the Homestead. When a suspicious fire destroys the commune and claims the lives of two of the Homesteaders, the remaining Girls and their Mothers scatter across the United States and lose touch. Years later, Margaret Morrow goes missing, and Josie sets off on a desperate road trip, tracking down her estranged...
13) Hard reboot
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION WEXLER 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION WEXLER 2021
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"Kas is a junior researcher on a fact-finding mission to old Earth. But when a con-artist tricks her into wagering a large sum of money belonging to her university on the outcome of a manned robot arena battle she becomes drawn into the seedy underworld of old Earth politics and state-sponsored battle-droid prizefights"--
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Five penalties volume 1
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"A legendary serial killer stalks the streets of a fantastical city in The Helm of Midnight, the stunning first novel in a new trilogy from acclaimed author Marina Lostetter. In a daring and deadly heist, thieves have made away with an artifact of terrible power-the death mask of Louis Charbon. Made by a master craftsman, it is imbued with the spirit of a monster from history, a serial murderer who terrorized the city. Now Charbon is loose once more,...
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Golem and the jinni volume 2
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION WECKER 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION WECKER 2021
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION WECKER 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION WECKER 2021
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Chava is a golem, a woman made of clay, who can hear the thoughts and longings of those around her and feels compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a restless creature of fire, once free to roam the desert but now imprisoned in the shape of a man. Fearing they'll be exposed as monsters, these magical beings hide their true selves and try to pass as human-just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Brought together...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CORDOV 2021
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FICTION CORDOV 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CORDOV 2021
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FICTION CORDOV 2021
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"The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won't ever leave their home in Four Rivers--even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed,...
17) Iron widow
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Iron widow volume 1
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Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION ZHAO 2021
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YA FICTION ZHAO 2021
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"The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But when she gets her vengeance, it becomes clear that she is an Iron Widow, a rare...
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Burning kingdoms volume 1
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"Set in a world inspired by historical India, The Jasmine Throne begins a sweeping new epic fantasy trilogy in which a captive princess and a servant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies--and eventually, much more than allies--on a dark journey to save their empire. Imprisoned by her tyrannical brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once the source of the powerful, magical deathless...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
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5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
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LP SCIENCE FICTION ISHIGU 2021
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"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...
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Scholomance volume 2
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION NOVIK 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION NOVIK 2021
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION NOVIK 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION NOVIK 2021
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION NOVIK 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION NOVIK 2021
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"A budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education, the start of Naomi Novik's groundbreaking crossover series. At the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year--and the looming specter of matriculation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive after. El is determined that her group will...