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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COLE 2022
1 available
FICTION COLE 2022
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COLE 2022
1 available
FICTION COLE 2022
1 available
Description
"In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trump-supporting uncle and grandfather. Eager to clean up his act after wasting time and potential in his early twenties, he takes a job as a groundskeeper at a small local college, in exchange for which he is permitted to take a writing course. Here he meets Alma Hazdic, a writer in residence who seems to have everything that Owen lacks-a...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VUONG 2019
1 available
FICTION VUONG 2019
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ERDRIC 2012
1 available
FICTION ERDRIC 2012
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ERDRIC 2012
1 available
FICTION ERDRIC 2012
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TEVIS 2003
1 available
FICTION TEVIS 2003
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TEVIS 2003
1 available
FICTION TEVIS 2003
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TEVIS 2020
1 available
FICTION TEVIS 2020
1 available
Description
Orphan Beth Harmon overcomes her fears and shyness by learning to play chess and, over the years, improves her game to become a national champion and to play the world grandmasters.
"Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOLITZ 2018
1 available
FICTION WOLITZ 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOLITZ 2018
1 available
FICTION WOLITZ 2018
1 available
Description
A college student finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned.
6) Warlight
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ONDAAT 2018
1 available
FICTION ONDAAT 2018
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ONDAAT 2018
1 available
FICTION ONDAAT 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ONDAAT 2018
1 available
FICTION ONDAAT 2018
1 available
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION ONDAAT 2018
1 available
CD FICTION ONDAAT 2018
1 available
Description
In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire.
Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TALLEN 2017
1 available
FICTION TALLEN 2017
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TALLEN 2017
1 available
FICTION TALLEN 2017
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TALLEN 2017
1 available
FICTION TALLEN 2017
1 available
On Shelf
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION TALLEN 2017
1 available
CD FICTION TALLEN 2017
1 available
Description
""The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one." --Stephen King A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CLINE 2016
1 available
FICTION CLINE 2016
1 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CLINE 2016
1 available
FICTION CLINE 2016
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CLINE 2016
1 available
FICTION CLINE 2016
1 available
On Shelf
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION CLINE 2016
1 available
CD FICTION CLINE 2016
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION CLINE 2016
1 available
CD FICTION CLINE 2016
1 available
Description
"Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is enthralled by Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their...
9) Sweetbitter
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DANLER 2016
1 available
FICTION DANLER 2016
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DANLER 2016
1 available
FICTION DANLER 2016
1 available
Description
"A lush, thrilling debut--a publishing event already the subject of an article in The New York Times--about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild, alluring world of a famous downtown New York restaurant. "Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge..." This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the 22-year-old at the heart of this stunning debut. Shot like a bullet from a mundane past, she's come...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BLAU 2021
1 available
FICTION BLAU 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BLAU 2021
1 available
FICTION BLAU 2021
1 available
Description
"Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones and the Six in this funny, wise and tender novel about a fourteen-year-old girl's coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for - who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer"--
11) The goldfinch
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TARTT 2013
2 available
FICTION TARTT 2013
2 available
In Processing - Adult Fiction
FICTION TARTT 2013
1 available
FICTION TARTT 2013
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TARTT 2013
1 available
FICTION TARTT 2013
1 available
On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION TARTT 2013 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION TARTT 2013 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Description
"A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills...
12) The poet X
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION ACEVED 2018
1 available
YA FICTION ACEVED 2018
1 available
Sparks Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION ACEVED 2018
1 available
YA FICTION ACEVED 2018
1 available
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
YA LP FICTION ACEVED 2018
1 available
YA LP FICTION ACEVED 2018
1 available
Description
Curvaceous sixteen-year-old Xiomara Batista discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her fiercely religious mother's view of women, as well as her relationship to a world dominated by rape-culture.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION SULLIV 2017
2 available
FICTION SULLIV 2017
2 available
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SULLIV 2017
1 available
FICTION SULLIV 2017
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SULLIV 2017
1 available
FICTION SULLIV 2017
1 available
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
MP3 FICTION SULLIV 2017
1 available
MP3 FICTION SULLIV 2017
1 available
Description
WINNER OF THE LANNAN LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION and#x2022; From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes the fascinating story of a former British spy who's been unmasked as a Russian agent—and "one of spy fiction's greatest characters" (People). • "Contemporary fiction gets no better than this." —The New York Times Book Review One of the most dazzling and adventurous writers now working in English takes on the enigma...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NOVIC 2022
1 available
FICTION NOVIC 2022
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NOVIC 2022
1 available
FICTION NOVIC 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NOVIC 2022
1 available
FICTION NOVIC 2022
1 available
Description
"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked...