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1) Binti
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Binti volume 2
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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...
2) Binti: home
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Binti volume 3
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION OKORAF 2017
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SCIENCE FICTION OKORAF 2017
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"It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places. And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders. But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace. After...
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Binti volume 1
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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...
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Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 1
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JAMES 2019
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SCIENCE FICTION JAMES 2019
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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
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"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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2005
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2005
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUT 1995
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION BUT 1995
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Six remarkable stories from a master of modern science fiction. Octavia E. Butler's classic "Bloodchild," winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards, anchors this collection of incomparable stories and essays. "Bloodchild" is set on a distant planet where human children spend their lives preparing to become hosts for the offspring of the alien Tlic. Sometimes the procedure is harmless, but often it is not. Also included is the Hugo Award - winning...
6) Blue light
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MOS 1998
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SCIENCE FICTION MOS 1998
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP SCIENCE FICTION MOSLEY 1998
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LP SCIENCE FICTION MOSLEY 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.
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Legacy of Orisha volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION ADEYEM 2018
1 available
YA FICTION ADEYEM 2018
1 available
BKM Bookmobile - 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
2 available
YA FICTION ADEYEM 2018
2 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
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATAKOR 2020
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FICTION ATAKOR 2020
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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...
9) The deep
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SOLOMO 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION SOLOMO 2019
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"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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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BRISSE 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION BRISSE 2021
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"The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of aliens, refugees, and genetic engineering in Jennifer Marie Brissett's Destroyer of Light. Having destroyed Earth, the alien conquerors resettle the remains of humanity on the planet of Eleusis. In the three habitable areas of the planet--Day, Dusk, and Night--the haves and have nots, criminals and dissidents, and former alien conquerors irrevocably...
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Broken Earth novels volume 1
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2015
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2015
1 available
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3 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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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.
12) Friday black
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ADJEIB 2018
1 available
FICTION ADJEIB 2018
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ADJEIB 2018
1 available
FICTION ADJEIB 2018
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"An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny...The wildly talented Adjei-Brenyah has made these edgy tales immensely charming, via his resolute, heartful, immensely likeable narrators, capable of seeing the world as blessed and cursed at once." -- George Saunders "This book is dark and captivating and essential...A call to arms and a condemnation. Adjei-Brenyah offers powerful prose as parable. The writing in this outstanding collection...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2018
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2018
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2018
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2018
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Three-time Hugo Award winner N. K. Jemisin's first collection of short fiction challenges and enchants with breathtaking stories of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. Dragons...
14) The intuitionist
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHI 1999
1 available
FICTION WHI 1999
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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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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...
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...
15) Invisible man
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ELLISO 1980
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FICTION ELLISO 1980
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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.
16) Kindred
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
2 available
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
1 available
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"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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Library of America volume 338
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2020
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SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2020
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"This first volume in the Library of America edition of Butler’s collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre–Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MONAE 2022
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SCIENCE FICTION MONAE 2022
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"Whoever controls our memories controls the future. Janelle Monae and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monae such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts-as a means of self-conception-could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life and...
19) 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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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
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"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...