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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JERKIN 2021
1 available
FICTION JERKIN 2021
1 available
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An ambitious college student gives birth to a baby girl destined to be raised by an important Harlem family, who believe the infant will restore their prosperity.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2022
2 available
FICTION HARRIS 2022
2 available
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"A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SLOCUM 2022
2 available
FICTION SLOCUM 2022
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SLOCUM 2022
2 available
FICTION SLOCUM 2022
2 available
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2 copies, 6 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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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP FICTION SLOCUM 2022
1 available
LP FICTION SLOCUM 2022
1 available
Description
"Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise....
4) Empty vows
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Series
Wiggins novels volume 2
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MONROE 2022
1 available
FICTION MONROE 2022
1 available
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"Forty-something widow Jessie Tucker is beloved throughout Lexington, Alabama, for her kind heart and endless generosity. But she feels it’s past time she rewarded herself—especially when upstanding Hubert Wiggins tragically loses his wife and son. Making herself indispensable, yet discouraged by Hubert’s lack of romantic interest, Jessie cooks up a deception she knows will make pious Hubert do right by her…Hoax or not, Hubert couldn’t be...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WASHIN 2022
1 available
FICTION WASHIN 2022
1 available
Description
After a devastating loss, Amanda Jackson develops pseudocyesis, believing she’s still pregnant, and becomes involved with a neuroscientist who, as he spirals deeper in her illness, must confront the fraught intersection of science, death and human emotion.
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Series
Harlem trilogy (Colson Whitehead) volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2021
3 available
FICTION WHITEH 2021
3 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2021
3 available
FICTION WHITEH 2021
3 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2021
1 available
FICTION WHITEH 2021
1 available
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WHITEH 2021
1 available
CD FICTION WHITEH 2021
1 available
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WHITEH 2021
1 available
LP FICTION WHITEH 2021
1 available
Description
A furniture salesman in 1960s Harlem becomes a fence for shady cops, local gangsters, and low-life pornographers after his cousin involves him in a failed heist.
""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
CD FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
LP FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
LP FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
Description
Chronicles the daring survival story of a cotton plantation slave in Georgia, who, after suffering at the hands of both her owners and fellow slaves, races through the Underground Railroad with a relentless slave-catcher close behind.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2019
2 available
FICTION WHITEH 2019
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2019
3 available
FICTION WHITEH 2019
3 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2019
1 available
FICTION WHITEH 2019
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WHITEH 2019
1 available
CD FICTION WHITEH 2019
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WHITEH 2019
2 available
LP FICTION WHITEH 2019
2 available
Description
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin...
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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
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
LP FICTION BENNET 2020
1 available
Description
"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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REID 2019
2 available
FICTION REID 2019
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REID 2019
1 available
FICTION REID 2019
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REID 2019
2 available
FICTION REID 2019
2 available
Description
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when...
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Series
Avery Keene thrillers volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ABRAMS 2021
2 available
FICTION ABRAMS 2021
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ABRAMS 2021
1 available
FICTION ABRAMS 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ABRAMS 2021
1 available
FICTION ABRAMS 2021
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Plunged into an explosive role she never anticipated, Avery Keene, now the legal guardian of power of attorney for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, must unravel the clues he left behind in regards to a dangerous conspiracy that has infiltrated the highest power corridors of Washington.
"An inside-Washington thriller about an ambitious law clerk thrown into a life-or-death treasure hunt with major national implications when the Supreme Court justice...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
3 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
3 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
On Shelf
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
CD FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
LP FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
Description
"Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only...
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCBRID 2020
1 available
FICTION MCBRID 2020
1 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.
Description
"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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2017
1 available
FICTION WARD 2017
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2017
2 available
FICTION WARD 2017
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2017
1 available
FICTION WARD 2017
1 available
Description
"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JEFFER 2021
1 available
FICTION JEFFER 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JEFFER 2021
1 available
FICTION JEFFER 2021
1 available
Description
To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family's past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black experience in itself.
16) Red at the bone
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
CD FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
LP FICTION WOODSO 2019
1 available
Description
An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. "Red at the Bone is falls hottest novel."Town & Country. Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother,...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES 2021
1 available
FICTION JONES 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES 2021
1 available
FICTION JONES 2021
1 available
Description
"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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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BEATTY 2015
1 available
FICTION BEATTY 2015
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BEATTY 2015
1 available
FICTION BEATTY 2015
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BEATTY 2015
1 available
FICTION BEATTY 2015
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION BEATTY 2016
1 available
CD FICTION BEATTY 2016
1 available
Description
"Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist at Riverside Community College, he spent his childhood as the subject in psychological...
20) Black buck
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ASKARI 2021
1 available
FICTION ASKARI 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ASKARI 2021
1 available
FICTION ASKARI 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ASKARI 2021
1 available
FICTION ASKARI 2021
1 available
Description
"For fans of Sorry to Bother You and Wolf of Wall Street: a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young black man who accidentally impresses a CEO while serving his Starbucks order, catapulting him into the opportunity of a lifetime-a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at an eccentric, mysterious, and wildly successful startup where, he will soon learn, nothing is as it seems"--