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Kitchen house volume 1
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GRISSO 2010
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FICTION GRISSO 2010
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GRISSO 2010
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FICTION GRISSO 2010
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2 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION GRISSO 2010
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LP FICTION GRISSO 2010
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"In 1790, Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant with the kitchen house slaves. Though she becomes deeply bonded to her new family, Lavinia is also slowly accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. As time passes she finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEVY 2010
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FICTION LEVY 2010
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATAKOR 2020
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FICTION ATAKOR 2020
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A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing-and for the conjuring of curses-are at the heart of this dazzling first novel. "Lush, irresistible . . . It took me into the hearts of women I could otherwise never know. I was transported."-Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses and Away. Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COATES 2019
2 available
FICTION COATES 2019
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COATES 2019
2 available
FICTION COATES 2019
2 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COATES 2019
2 available
FICTION COATES 2019
2 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
CD FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
CD FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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 COATES 2019
1 available
LP FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
LP FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
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"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNSO 2021
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FICTION JOHNSO 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNSO 2021
1 available
FICTION JOHNSO 2021
1 available
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES 2021
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FICTION JONES 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES 2021
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FICTION JONES 2021
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"A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLEND 2010
1 available
FICTION ALLEND 2010
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLEND 2010
1 available
FICTION ALLEND 2010
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION ALLEND 2010 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION ALLEND 2010 UNABRIDGED
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION ALLEND 2010 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION ALLEND 2010 UNABRIDGED
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"The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BOYD 2017
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FICTION BOYD 2017
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BOYD 2017
1 available
FICTION BOYD 2017
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To save her family's plantation, sixteen-year-old Eliza Lucas strikes up a deal with a slave, who in exchange for being taught to read will teach Eliza the secrets of the indigo trade.
9) taste of sugar
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILLIG 2019
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FICTION WILLIG 2019
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILLIG 2019
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FICTION WILLIG 2019
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Inheriting the ruins of a Barbados sugar plantation, Emily is seduced by the region's beauty at the same time her new neighbors take steps to acquire the property for themselves.
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SANTIA 2011
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FICTION SANTIA 2011
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the award-winning, bestselling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican. • “Santiago’s storytelling is thrilling.... A triumph.” —The Washington Post
As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with...
As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with...
13) The wedding gift
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BODDEN 2013
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FICTION BODDEN 2013
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"When prestigious plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah, her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother, Clarissa is not the proper Southern belle she appears to be--with ambitions of loving whom she chooses--and Sarah equally hides behind the facade of being a docile house slave as she plots to escape. Both women bring these tumultuous secrets and desires with...