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1) Kindred
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
2 available
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
2 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
1 available
Description
"Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COATES 2019
2 available
FICTION COATES 2019
2 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
CD FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
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
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
LP FICTION COATES 2019
1 available
Description
"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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Series
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION ADEYEM 2018
2 available
YA FICTION ADEYEM 2018
2 available
Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION ADEYEM 2018
1 available
YA FICTION ADEYEM 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION ADEYEM 2018
1 available
YA FICTION ADEYEM 2018
1 available
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North Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
YA CD FICTION ADEYEM 2018
1 available
YA CD FICTION ADEYEM 2018
1 available
Description
Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zelie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were targeted and killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now, Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue...
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Broken Earth novels volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2015
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2015
1 available
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3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KOPACZ 2021
1 available
FICTION KOPACZ 2021
1 available
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Cast into mid-1800s America, Yemaya, a deity in the religion of Africa’s Yoruba people, as she grows into her powers, must confront the greatest evils of this era while searching for the man who sacrificed his own freedom for the chance at hers.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATAKOR 2020
1 available
FICTION ATAKOR 2020
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATAKOR 2020
1 available
FICTION ATAKOR 2020
1 available
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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...
7) The deep
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SOLOMO 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION SOLOMO 2019
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SOLOMO 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION SOLOMO 2019
1 available
Description
"The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society -- and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the [...] song "The Deep" from Daveed Diggs's rap group clipping. Yetu holds the memories for her people -- water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners -- who live idyllic...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2018
1 available
FICTION MOORE 2018
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2018
1 available
FICTION MOORE 2018
1 available
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Reimagines the story of Liberia's early years through three individuals who share an uncommon bond, as they navigate the tense relationship between African American settlers and the indigenous tribes.
9) Blue light
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MOS 1998
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION MOS 1998
1 available
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A spiritual novel on a cosmic ray which hits some people on Earth, giving them superhuman powers in strength and intelligence. They band to form a commune in California, but come under threat from the spirit of Death, also created by the ray.
10) Riot baby
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ONYEBU 2020
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION ONYEBU 2020
1 available
Description
""Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether."-Marlon James Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both...
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Parable books volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2016
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2016
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman...
12) Midnight Robber
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A "[d]eeply satisfying" [The New York Times Book Review] story of a father who has committed an unbelievable crime and a daughter who must then fight to save her own life.
"Caribbean patois adorns this novel with graceful rhythms...Beneath it lie complex, clearly evoked characters, haunting descriptions of exotic planets, and a stirring story...[This book] ought to elevate Hopkinson to star status." --Seattle...
"Caribbean patois adorns this novel with graceful rhythms...Beneath it lie complex, clearly evoked characters, haunting descriptions of exotic planets, and a stirring story...[This book] ought to elevate Hopkinson to star status." --Seattle...
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Series
Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 1
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JAMES 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JAMES 2019
1 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JAMES 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JAMES 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JAMES 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JAMES 2019
1 available
Description
"In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child"--
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Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 2
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JAMES 2022
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JAMES 2022
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JAMES 2022
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JAMES 2022
1 available
Description
"From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy, his African Game of Thrones. In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SERPEL 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION SERPEL 2019
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SERPEL 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION SERPEL 2019
1 available
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An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the Great Zambian Novel you didnt know you were waiting for. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself mans greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful...
16) The intuitionist
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHI 1999
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FICTION WHI 1999
1 available
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This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
It is a time of calamity...
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
It is a time of calamity...
17) Binti
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Series
Binti volume 2
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION OKORAF 2015
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION OKORAF 2015
1 available
Description
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...
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Binti volume 1
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION OKORAF 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION OKORAF 2019
1 available
Description
Includes a brand-new Binti story! Collected for the first time in an omnibus edition, the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning Binti trilogy, the story of one extraordinary girl's journey from her home to distant Oomza University. In her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella, Nnedi Okorafor introduced us to Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics...
19) Invisible man
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ELLISO 1980
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FICTION ELLISO 1980
1 available
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A Black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
Sierra View 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
A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially...