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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CHANG 2023
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FICTION CHANG 2023
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"Tomb Sweeping probes the loyalties we hold: to relatives, to strangers, and to ourselves. In stories set across the US and Asia, Alexandra Chang immerses us in the lives of immigrant families, grocery store employees, expecting parents, and guileless lab assistants"--
"A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and generational divides that shape our relationships—from the award-winning writer of Days...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION BAZTER 2023
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FICTION BAZTER 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION BAZTER 2023
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FICTION BAZTER 2023
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"A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SCHWEB 2022
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FICTION SCHWEB 2022
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"Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, "lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.” –O, the Oprah magazine The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TALTY 2022
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FICTION TALTY 2022
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"Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty-with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight-breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future....
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHIPST 2022
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FICTION SHIPST 2022
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHIPST 2022
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FICTION SHIPST 2022
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"In this collection of stories, Maggie Shipstead dives into eclectic and vivid settings, from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a Pacific atoll, and illuminating a cast of indelible characters, Shipstead traverses ordinary and unusual realities with cunning, compassion, and wit. In "Acknowledgments," a male novelist reminisces bitterly on the woman who inspired his first novel, attempting to make peace with his humiliations before the book...
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This humorous, heartfelt and redemptive collection of short fiction from the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Beautiful Ruins explores moments when everything changes—for the better, worse and outrageous—as an unforgettable cast of characters question life and search for inspiration. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 1998
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SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 1998
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 1998
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SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 1998
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION VON 2006 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION VON 2006 UNABRIDGED
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION VON 2006 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION VON 2006 UNABRIDGED
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"Kurt Vonnegut strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending. These superb stories share Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ELLIS 2016
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FICTION ELLIS 2016
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A collection of stories featuring conventional, if ruthless, housewives features a rigged reality television show, a unique book club initiation ritual, and the fitting room of a legendary lingerie shop.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION YUKNAV 2020
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FICTION YUKNAV 2020
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An eight-year-old trauma victim is enlisted as an underground courier, rushing frozen organs through the alleys of Eastern Europe. A young janitor transforms discarded objects into a fantastical, sprawling miniature city until a shocking discovery forces him to rethink his creation. A brazen child tells off a pack of schoolyard tormentors with the spirited invention of an eleventh commandment. A wounded man drives eastward, through tears and grief,...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KIRBY 2022
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FICTION KIRBY 2022
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"Cassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. In this ebullient collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren't ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps back at catcallers. Gwen E. Kirby experiments with found structures--a Yelp review, a WikiHow article--which her fierce, irreverent narrators...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY CHRIST 2022
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MYSTERY CHRIST 2022
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"Love can propel us to our greatest heights...and darkest depths. In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love--crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly affairs"--
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STORIE 2020
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FICTION STORIE 2020
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"From a chorus of bestselling historical fiction writers, a breathtaking book inspired by the day tens of thousands of women marched for the right to vote on October, 23, 1915. Includes an introduction by Kristin Hannah and stories by Lisa Wingate, M. J. Rose, Steve Berry, Paula McLain, Katherine J. Chen, Christina Baker Kline, Jamie Ford, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Megan Chance, Alyson Richman, Chris Bohjalian, and Fiona Davis"--
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"Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories-heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
FICTION PHILYA 2020
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FICTION PHILYA 2020
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Young Adult Fiction
FICTION PHILYA 2020
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FICTION PHILYA 2020
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"The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions"--
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"In this playful, inventive collection, leading literary and horror writers spin chilling tales in only a few pages. Each slim, fast-moving story brings to life the kind of monsters readers love to fear, from brokenhearted vampires to Uber-taking serial killers and mind-reading witches. But what also makes Tiny Nightmares so bloodcurdling--and unforgettable--are the real-world horrors that writers such as Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, Jac Jemc, Stephen...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KRAUSS 2020
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FICTION KRAUSS 2020
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The National Book Award finalist explores contemporary gender realities in a collection of short fiction that traces the experiences of diverse characters at various stages of life.
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NEWMAN 2021
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FICTION NEWMAN 2021
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A collection of ten stories follows characters in far-flung regions of the world as they portray ordinary people struggling against extraordinary events.
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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...
19) Kink: stories
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION 813.08 KINK 2021
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FICTION 813.08 KINK 2021
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION 813.08 KINK 2021
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FICTION 813.08 KINK 2021
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Exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum with a bold new vision, this groundbreaking anthology includes works by such renowned fiction writers as Callum Angus, Roxane Gay, Chris Kraus and Larissa Pham.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BISSEL 2021
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FICTION BISSEL 2021
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"From the best-selling author of The Disaster Artist, a new collection of stories that range from laugh-out-loud funny to disturbingly dark--unflinching portraits of people struggling to bridge the gap between art and life. A young and ingratiating assistant to a movie star makes a blunder that puts his boss and a major studio at grave risk. A writer and his wife hire a partner for a threesome to rejuvenate their relationship after the birth of their...