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1) 56 days
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"No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead. 56 DAYS AGO. Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO. When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests they move in together. Ciara sees a unique opportunity for a relationship to flourish without the scrutiny of family and friends. Oliver sees a chance to hide who—and what—he really...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROONEY 2021
3 available
FICTION ROONEY 2021
3 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROONEY 2021
1 available
FICTION ROONEY 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROONEY 2021
1 available
FICTION ROONEY 2021
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION ROONEY 2021
1 available
CD FICTION ROONEY 2021
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Four young people pair up, break up, have wild flirtations, and worry about their friendships and the world they live in while pondering their eroding youth.
Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young-but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the...
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13 copies, 84 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
13 copies, 84 people are on the wait list.
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"The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under--but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewelry on eBay, while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way through her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARDIN 2021
1 available
FICTION HARDIN 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARDIN 2021
2 available
FICTION HARDIN 2021
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARDIN 2021
1 available
FICTION HARDIN 2021
1 available
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"Sonya used to perform on stage. She used to attend glamorous parties, date handsome men, ride in fast cars. But somewhere along the way, the stage lights Sonya lived for dimmed for good. And then, in their absence, came darkness--blackouts, empty cupboards, hazy nights she can't remember. Haunted by her failed career and unresolved childhood trauma, Sonya has fallen deep into an alcoholic abyss. What keeps Sonya from losing herself completely is...
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Northwest Reno 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
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOI 2009
1 available
FICTION TOI 2009
1 available
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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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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROONEY 2017
1 available
FICTION ROONEY 2017
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROONEY 2017
1 available
FICTION ROONEY 2017
1 available
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century. Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer,...
8) Dubliners
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOY 1967
1 available
FICTION JOY 1967
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOY 1996
1 available
FICTION JOY 1996
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOY 1996
1 available
FICTION JOY 1996
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION JOY 2005 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION JOY 2005 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION JOY 2005 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION JOY 2005 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION JOY 1999 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION JOY 1999 UNABRIDGED
1 available
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"This collection of 15 stories provides an introduction to the style and motifs found in Joyce's writing. The stories stand alone as individual scenes of Dublin society and are intertwined by the use of autobiography and symbolism."--
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WALSH 2021
1 available
LP FICTION WALSH 2021
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"The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving...
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Three generations of a boisterous Irish family are upended by a matriarch's shoplifting activities and an upbeat American home aide whose initial support catapults the family into the worst crisis they have ever faced.
11) The green road
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ENRIGH 2015
1 available
FICTION ENRIGH 2015
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ENRIGH 2015
1 available
FICTION ENRIGH 2015
1 available
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"Spanning thirty years and three continents, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigan family, and her four children" --
"Ardeevin, County Clare, Ireland. 1980. When her oldest brother Dan announces he will enter the priesthood, young Hanna watches her mother howl in agony and retreat to her room. In the years that follow, the Madigan children leave one by one: Dan for the frenzy of New York under the shadow of AIDS; Constance...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOLEY 2020
2 available
FICTION FOLEY 2020
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOLEY 2020
1 available
FICTION FOLEY 2020
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOLEY 2020
1 available
FICTION FOLEY 2020
1 available
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15 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION FOLEY 2020
1 available
LP FICTION FOLEY 2020
1 available
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On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has...
13) Haven: a novel
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DONOGH 2022
1 available
FICTION DONOGH 2022
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DONOGH 2022
1 available
FICTION DONOGH 2022
1 available
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"In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?"--
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Irish Country books volume 1
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TAY 2007
1 available
FICTION TAY 2007
1 available
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION TAYLOR 2009 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION TAYLOR 2009 UNABRIDGED
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Barry Laverty, a recent medical school graduate, jumps at the chance to join a rural practice in Ballybucklebo, Northern Ireland, until he meets his boss Dr. O'Reilly, a difficult older physician with his own way of doing things.
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"Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that livesand works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to the town in...
16) Love
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DOYLE 2020
1 available
FICTION DOYLE 2020
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DOYLE 2020
1 available
FICTION DOYLE 2020
1 available
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"Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Davy and Joe were drinking pals back in their Dublin youth. Davy rarely sees Joe for a pint anymore--maybe one or two when Davy comes over from England to check on his elderly father. But tonight Davy's father is dying in the hospice, and Joe has a secret that...
17) Milkman: a novel
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BURNS 2018
1 available
FICTION BURNS 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BURNS 2018
1 available
FICTION BURNS 2018
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BURNS 2018
1 available
FICTION BURNS 2018
1 available
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In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes “interesting,” the last thing she ever wanted to be. Despite middle sisters attempts to avoid himand to keep her mother from finding out about her maybe-boyfriendrumors spread and the threat of violence...
18) Minding Frankie
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BINCHY 2010
1 available
FICTION BINCHY 2010
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BINCHY 2010
1 available
FICTION BINCHY 2010
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION BINCHY 2011
1 available
LP FICTION BINCHY 2011
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION BINCHY 2011
1 available
LP FICTION BINCHY 2011
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION BINCHY 2011
1 available
LP FICTION BINCHY 2011
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When Nöel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his, he agrees to take care of the baby girl once she's born. But as a recovering alcoholic whose demons are barely under control, he can't do it alone. Luckily, he has an amazing network of family and friends who are ready to help. A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope in a close-knit Dublin community.
19) The ninth hour
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCDERM 2017
1 available
FICTION MCDERM 2017
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCDERM 2017
1 available
FICTION MCDERM 2017
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCDERM 2017
2 available
FICTION MCDERM 2017
2 available
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On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove--to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife--"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a Little Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child....
20) Normal people
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE ROONEY 2019
1 available
ROMANCE ROONEY 2019
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE ROONEY 2019
1 available
ROMANCE ROONEY 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE ROONEY 2019
1 available
ROMANCE ROONEY 2019
1 available
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4 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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The feverishly anticipated second novel from the young author of 2017's most acclaimed debut Conversations with Friends. Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change...