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"Habia una vez...There lived a girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children--among them Petra and her family--have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet--and the discovery that...
2) Watercress
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Picture Books
J E WANG 2021
1 available
J E WANG 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Children's Picture Books
J E WANG 2021
1 available
J E WANG 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Children's Picture Books
J E WANG 2021
1 available
J E WANG 2021
1 available
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Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
3) Fox at night
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Incline Village Library - Children's Early Readers
J E TABOR 2021 =
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J E TABOR 2021 =
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Fox is up late in the night. There are shadows and noises everywhere. Fox is sure the night is full of monsters! Then he meets the real creatures of the night and realizes they are not so scary after all. Carefully crafted using basic language, word repetition, sight words, and whimsical illustrations, Fox at Night is ideal for sharing with your emergent reader. The active, engaging My First I Can Read stories have appealing plots and lovable characters,...
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Author-illustrator C. G. Esperanza delivers a celebratory ode to graffiti and the Boogie Down Bronx through an infectious read-aloud beat and colorful illustrations that leap right off the page! Perfect for fans of Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut and Keith Haring.
An NPR Best Book of the Year, ALSC Notable Children's Book of the Year, Odyssey Award winner, Pura Belpré Honor Award winner, New York City Book Award
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
YA FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
YA FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
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A timely, gripping teen novel about a boy who must take up the search for his sister when she goes missing from a neighborhood where black girls’ disappearances are too often overlooked. When you look like us—brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades—everyone else thinks you’re trouble. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must’ve brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy,...
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Spanish Springs Library - Children's Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
J BIO SHAHN 2021
1 available
J BIO SHAHN 2021
1 available
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""The first thing I can remember," Ben said, "I drew." As an observant young child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn yearns to draw everything he sees-and, after seeing his father banished by the Czar for demanding workers' rights, he develops a keen sense of justice, too. So when Ben and the rest of his family make their way to America, Ben brings with him both his sharp artistic eye and his desire to fight for what's right. As he grows, he speaks...
7) temple alley summer
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Downtown Reno Library - Children's Picture Books
J E RAULTH 2021
1 available
J E RAULTH 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Children's Picture Books
J E RAULTH 2021
1 available
J E RAULTH 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Children's Picture Books
J E RAULTH 2021
1 available
J E RAULTH 2021
1 available
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Using their new truck to carry party supplies over the bridge, Little Lobo and his dog Bernabe are stuck in traffic and decide to throw an epic party to pass the time.
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION VASQUE 2021
2 available
YA FICTION VASQUE 2021
2 available
Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION VASQUE 2021
1 available
YA FICTION VASQUE 2021
1 available
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When seventeen-year-old Star Fuentez reaches social media stardom, her polar-opposite twin, Moon, becomes "merch girl" on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers and the grumpy but attractive Santiago Philips.
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South Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION BOULLE 2021
2 available
YA FICTION BOULLE 2021
2 available
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3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION AOKI 2021
1 available
FICTION AOKI 2021
1 available
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"Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CRONIN 2021
1 available
FICTION CRONIN 2021
1 available
Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION CRONIN 2021
1 available
FICTION CRONIN 2021
1 available
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
“Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital. Though the teenager has been told she’s dying, she still...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GORNIC 2021
1 available
FICTION GORNIC 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE GORNIC 2021
1 available
ROMANCE GORNIC 2021
1 available
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A subversive reimagining of Norse mythology traces the experiences of a banished witch whose unexpected passionate relationship with the trickster Loki produces three remarkable offspring before her family is targeted by wrathful gods.
"When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this fierce, subversive debut novel that reimagines Norse myth. Angrboda's story begins where most witch's...
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Edinburgh nights volume 1
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Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker - and they sure do love to talk. Now she speaks to Edinburgh's dead, carrying messages to those they left behind. A girl's gotta earn a living, and it seems harmless enough. Until, that is, the dead whisper that someone's bewitching children - leaving them husks, empty of joy and strength. It's on Ropa's patch, so she feels honor-bound to investigate. But what she learns will rock her world. Ropa...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEITCH 2021
1 available
FICTION LEITCH 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEITCH 2021
1 available
FICTION LEITCH 2021
1 available
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Unable to speak or move without a wheelchair, Daniel, spending hours observing his neighborhood from his front porch, believes he has witnessed the kidnapping of a young college student and vows to solve this mystery.
Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He’s got a couple close friends, a steady paycheck working for a regional airline, and of course, for a few glorious days each Fall, college football tailgates....
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION QUINN 2021
1 available
FICTION QUINN 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION QUINN 2021
1 available
FICTION QUINN 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION QUINN 2021
1 available
FICTION QUINN 2021
1 available
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9 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION QUINN 2021
1 available
LP FICTION QUINN 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION QUINN 2021
1 available
LP FICTION QUINN 2021
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Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda years later against the backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip.
17) Winter's orbit
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MAXWEL 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION MAXWEL 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MAXWEL 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION MAXWEL 2021
1 available
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"Summoned before the Emperor, Prince Kiem-a famously disappointing minor royal and the Emperor's least favorite grandchild-is commanded to renew the empire's bonds with its newest vassal planet. The prince must marry Count Jainan, the recent widower of another royal prince of the empire. But the Jainan suspects his late husband's death was no accident. And Prince Kiem discovers that Jainan is a suspect himself. But broken bonds between the empire...
18) Malice: a novel
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Malice duology volume 1
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALTER 2021
1 available
FICTION WALTER 2021
1 available
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"In this darkly magical retelling of Sleeping Beauty, Alyce, an evil sorceress, finds an ally in Princess Aurora and wonders if she can lift Aurora’s curse so that together they can forge a new world"--
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Lore Olympus volume 1
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Offers a contemporary retelling in graphic novel format of the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades. Persephone, young goddess of spring, is new to Olympus. Her mother, Demeter, has raised her in the mortal realm, but after Persephone promises to train as a sacred virgin, she’s allowed to live in the fast-moving, glamorous world of the gods. When her roommate, Artemis, takes her to a party, her entire life changes: she ends up meeting Hades and feels...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO ROSSER 2021
1 available
BIO ROSSER 2021
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"An inspiring memoir of defying the odds from Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo championship. "Crossing the Line will not just leave you with hope, but also ideas on how to make that hope transferable" (New York Times bestselling author Wes Moore). Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Kareem thought he and his siblings would always be stuck in "The Bottom", a community and neighborhood devastated...