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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROBBIN 2003
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FICTION ROBBIN 2003
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Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight (Paris time). It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BERNEY 2018
1 available
MYSTERY BERNEY 2018
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BERNEY 2018
1 available
MYSTERY BERNEY 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BERNEY 2018
1 available
MYSTERY BERNEY 2018
1 available
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"From Edgar Award-winning author Lou Berney, a poignant and evocative crime novel featuring a cat-and-mouse chase across 1960's America in the wake of the Kennedy assassination"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENNET 2020
3 available
FICTION BENNET 2020
3 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
LP FICTION BENNET 2020
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
LP FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATTENB 2019
1 available
FICTION ATTENB 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATTENB 2019
1 available
FICTION ATTENB 2019
1 available
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"From New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a sharp, funny, and emotionally powerful novel about a family reuniting at the deathbed of its patriarch. In reckoning with his secret past, can they rebuild and begin anew?"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION GAINES 1997
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FICTION GAINES 1997
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From the author of, A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man returns to 1940s Cajun, he visits and forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. Best Books for Young Teen Readers. In the 1940s in rural Louisiana,...
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Vampire chronicles volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RICE 1976
1 available
FICTION RICE 1976
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RICE 1976
1 available
FICTION RICE 1976
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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A horror classic is revisited to mark the twentieth anniversary of an author's remarkable debut with the story of a reporter who hears a vampire's chilling tale of centuries of life, told by a onetime New Orleans gentleman plantation owner.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOOLE 1980
1 available
FICTION TOOLE 1980
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOOLE 1980
1 available
FICTION TOOLE 1980
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOOLE 1980
1 available
FICTION TOOLE 1980
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION TOOLE 1997
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CD FICTION TOOLE 1997
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After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide, and it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece has sold more than two million copies in twenty-three languages. The 35th...
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Maureen Coughlin novels volume 5
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"The fifth novel in the acclaimed Maureen Coughlin series, about a brilliant, young detective solving crimes in New Orleans"--
"Now that she's back on the force and her work with the FBI is over, Maureen Coughlin should have a quieter life. Until Mardi Gras rolls around, that is. New Orleans's biggest and most infamous party, Mardi Gras may be fun for the revelers but it's hell for the NOPD, who try to keep the peace on streets jam-packed with drunken...
10) Glitter bomb
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Scrapbooking mysteries volume 15
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY CHILDS 2018
1 available
MYSTERY CHILDS 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY CHILDS 2018
2 available
MYSTERY CHILDS 2018
2 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY CHILDS 2018
1 available
MYSTERY CHILDS 2018
1 available
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An exploding Mardi Gras float has got to be the strangest murder weapon scrappy sleuth Carmela Bertrand has ever encountered in this latest Scrapbooking Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author. It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans and scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand is excited to be attending the Pluvius Parade along with her best friend Ava. Carmela's ex-husband Shamus rides by the duo on his float at the head of the parade, when suddenly...
11) Blood memory
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY ILES 2019
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MYSTERY ILES 2019
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION ILE 2004 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION ILE 2004 UNABRIDGED
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"Forensics expert "Cat" Ferry is suspended from an FBI task force when she inexplicably stricken with panic attacks and blackouts while investigating a chain of brutal murders. Returning to her Mississippi hometown, Cat finds herself battling with alcohol, plagued by nightmares, and entangled with a married detective. Then, in her childhood bedroom, some spilled chemicals reveal two bloody footprints ... and the trauma of her father's murder years...
12) Midnight Bayou
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROB 2001
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FICTION ROB 2001
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE ROBERT 2001
1 available
ROMANCE ROBERT 2001
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROB 2001
1 available
FICTION ROB 2001
1 available
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION ROB 2001 ABRIDGED
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CD FICTION ROB 2001 ABRIDGED
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION ROBERT 2001
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LP FICTION ROBERT 2001
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While renovating an old mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, Declan Fitzgerald begins seeing visions of days from a century past. Local legend has it that the house is haunted but he uncovers the reason for the strange sensations of terror and unbearable grief.
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Dark-Hunter novels volume 4
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The second installment in Sherrilyn Kenyon's bestselling Dark-Hunter series, Night Embrace.
As an ancient Celtic warrior, Talon made one giant mistake— he killed the son of the war god Camulus. In anger and outrage, Camulus cursed him—Everyone Talon loved would die a horrible death in front of his eyes. But when Talon's clan slaughters his young sister while he watches, powerless to stop them, he sells his soul for
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCNEAL 2014
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FICTION MCNEAL 2014
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"A big-hearted coming-of-age debut set in Civil Rights-era New Orleans--a novel of Southern eccentricity, secrets, and laughter. When Ibby Bell's father dies in a tragic accident in the summer of 1964, her mother unceremoniously deposits Ibby with her eccentric grandmother, Fannie, and throws in her father's urn for good measure. Fannie's Victorian house is like no place Ibby has ever been--and Fannie, who has a tendency to end up in the local asylum...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BROWN 2016
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FICTION BROWN 2016
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"Fleeing New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Henry Garrett is haunted by the ruins of his marriage, a squandered inheritance, and the teaching job he inexplicably quit. He pulls into a small Virginia town after three days on the road, hoping to silence the ceaseless clamor in his head. But this quest for peace and quiet as the only guest at a roadside motel is destroyed when Henry finds himself at the center of a bizarre and violent tragedy....
16) floating world
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Longlisted for the National Book Award
A New York Times Notable Book
The moving, multi-generational debut novel from the author of On the Rooftop, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
“Brilliantly juxtaposing World War II, the '80s and post–Katrina present, Sexton follows three generations of a Black New Orleans family as they struggle to bloom amid the poison...
A New York Times Notable Book
The moving, multi-generational debut novel from the author of On the Rooftop, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
“Brilliantly juxtaposing World War II, the '80s and post–Katrina present, Sexton follows three generations of a Black New Orleans family as they struggle to bloom amid the poison...
18) rebel
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEXTON 2019
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FICTION SEXTON 2019
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEXTON 2019
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FICTION SEXTON 2019
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In 1924, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now her new neighbor, a white woman named Charlotte, seeks her company, and an uneasy friendship grows between them. But Charlotte has also sought solace in the Ku Klux Klan, a relationship that jeopardizes Josephines family. Nearly one hundred years later, Josephines descendant, Ava, is a single mother who has just...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ZAPATA 2020
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FICTION ZAPATA 2020
1 available
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"The mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites decades later in post-Katrina New Orleans In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel. The novel earns rave reviews, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she destroys the only copy of the manuscript. Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower's dying grandfather...