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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LERNER 2014
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FICTION LERNER 2014
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"A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire Ben Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels. of his generation" (Lorin Stein, The New York Review of Books), "a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonition, a comet from the future" (Geoff Dyer, The Observer). Now, his second novel departs from...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHA 2000
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FICTION CHA 2000
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHA 2000
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FICTION CHA 2000
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Joe Kavalier has managed to escape from Nazi-occupied Prague, and now he must use his cunning wits to help rescue his family from Hitler's evil plans.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOODSO 2016
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FICTION WOODSO 2016
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOODSO 2016
1 available
FICTION WOODSO 2016
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOODSO 2016
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FICTION WOODSO 2016
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For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHRIST 2011
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FICTION CHRIST 2011
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The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home (or so he thought) of the poet Harry Quirk and his wife, Luz, a nurse, and of their two children: Karina, now a fervent freegan, and Hector, now in the clutches of a cultish Christian community. But Luz has found (and destroyed) some poems of Harry's that ignite her long-simmering suspicions...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE SOLOMO 2020
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ROMANCE SOLOMO 2020
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE SOLOMO 2020
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ROMANCE SOLOMO 2020
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Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. Now, in her rented Brooklyn apartment she's grappling with her sexual and intellectual desires, while also trying to manage her roles as a mother and a wife in 2016. Vivian Barr seems to be the perfect political wife, dedicated to helping her charismatic and ambitious husband find success in Watergate-era Washington D.C. But one...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TÓIBÍN 2009
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FICTION TÓIBÍN 2009
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TÓIBÍN 2009
1 available
FICTION TÓIBÍN 2009
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOI 2009
1 available
FICTION TOI 2009
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of...
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"An unforgettable novel, written with pride and anger, with rebellion and tears."—Herald Tribune Book Review"Passionate, compelling . . . an impressive accomplishment."—Saturday Review"Remarkable for its courage, its color, and its natural control."—The New YorkerSelina's mother wants to stay in Brooklyn and earn enough money to buy a brownstone row house, but her father dreams only of returning to his island
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POTOK 1967
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FICTION POTOK 1967
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Two jewish boys growing to manhood in Brooklyn discover that differences can strengthen friendship and understanding.
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A vivid new cast of characters collide in gritty 1990s Brooklyn, in this latest from acclaimed neo-noir author William Boyle. In City of Margins, the lives of several lost souls intersect in Southern Brooklyn in the early 1990s. There's Donnie Parascandolo, a disgraced ex-cop with blood on his hands; Ava Bifulco, a widow whose daily work grind is her whole life; Nick, Ava's son, a grubby high school teacher who dreams of a shortcut to success; Mikey...
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Great cities trilogy volume 1
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2020
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SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2020
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2020
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2020
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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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"Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city from destruction in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. When a young man crosses the bridge into New York City, something changes. He doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VONZIE 2020
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FICTION VONZIE 2020
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Navigating private spats and embarrassing secrets in their upscale Brooklyn neighborhood, four families seek purpose and meaningful relationships until a raucous party combusts in a maelstrom of ego clashes, taboo desires, and hidden cameras.
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCBRID 2020
3 available
FICTION MCBRID 2020
3 available
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2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OFFILL 2014
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FICTION OFFILL 2014
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OFFILL 2014
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FICTION OFFILL 2014
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OFFILL 2014
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FICTION OFFILL 2014
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"Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION LETHEM 2003
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LP FICTION LETHEM 2003
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16) friendship
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Operating a secret women's club in her 1962 Brooklyn Heights boutique, Madeline bonds with a British ex-pat struggling to save her troubled marriage and a young stewardess whose future plans have been irrevocably upended.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE GREGOR 2019
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ROMANCE GREGOR 2019
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"Going Dutch is a hilarious and cutting portrait of modern relationships that finds a gay male graduate student falling for his brilliant female classmate. For fans of The Love affairs of Nathaniel P (with a queer twist)"--
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RICH 2015
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FICTION RICH 2015
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RICH 2015
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FICTION RICH 2015
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RICH 2015
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FICTION RICH 2015
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"From celebrated authors Amy Hempel and Jill Ciment writing as A.J. Rich, a smart, thrilling, sexy, and emotionally riveting novel of psychological suspense about an accomplished woman involved with a man who proves to be an imposter. Morgan Prager, at age thirty, is completing her thesis on victim psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. She is newly engaged to Bennett, a seductive but possessive and secretive man. She returns...
20) Infinite home
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALCOTT 2015
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FICTION ALCOTT 2015
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The story of an ad hoc family and the crisis they must overcome together.