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Radiant emperor volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION PARKER 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION PARKER 2021
1 available
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3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything "I refuse to be nothing..." In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness......
2) Waste tide
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CHEN 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION CHEN 2019
1 available
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"Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle. Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands like Mimi toil day and night, hoping one day they too will enjoy the wealth they've created for their employers, the three clans who have ruled the isle for generations. Luo Jincheng is the head of one of these clans, a role passed down from his father and...
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Sidekick squad volume 1
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Welcome to Andover... where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship--only it turns out to be for the town's most heinous supervillain. On the upside, she gets to work with her longtime secret crush, Abby,...
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Under the One Child Policy, everyone plotted to have a son. Now 40 million of them can't find wives. China's One Child Policy and its cultural preference for male heirs have created a society overrun by 40 million unmarriageable men. By the year 2030, more than twenty-five percent of men in their late thirties will not have a family of their own. An Excess Male is one such leftover man's quest for love and family under a State that seeks to glorify...
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Attack on Titan volume 1
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"For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city, trapped in fear of the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming human-kind, but the sudden appearance of an enormous Titan is about change everything''--Back cover.
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Fullmetal alchemist volume 1
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION INO 2003
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION INO 2003
1 available
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Remembrance of Earth's past volume 1
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6 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 54 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 54 people are on the wait list.
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"With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the...
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Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION THOUSA 2018
2 available
YA FICTION THOUSA 2018
2 available
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Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings: these are the stuff of fairy tale, myth, and folklore that have drawn us in for centuries. Fifteen bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in short stories that are by turns enchanting, heartbreaking, romantic, and passionate. Compiled by We Need Diverse Bookss Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, the authors...
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Rise of the Empress volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION DAO 2017
1 available
YA FICTION DAO 2017
1 available
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Beautiful eighteen-year-old Xifeng, raised by a cruel aunt who says the stars destine her to be Empress of Feng Lu, chooses to spurn the man who loves her and exploit the dark magic that can make her dream real.
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION HE 2021
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YA FICTION HE 2021
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In a near future when life is harsh outside of Earth's last unpolluted place, Cee tries to leave an abandoned island while her sister, STEM prodigy Kasey, seeks escape from the science and home she once trusted.
11) Star daughter
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION THAKRA 2020
1 available
YA FICTION THAKRA 2020
1 available
Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION THAKRA 2020
1 available
YA FICTION THAKRA 2020
1 available
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The daughter of a star and a mortal, Sheetal is used to keeping secrets. Pretending to be “normal.” But when an accidental flare of her starfire puts her human father in the hospital, Sheetal needs a full star’s help to heal him. A star like her mother, who returned to the sky long ago. Sheetal’s quest to save her father will take her to a celestial court of shining wonders and dark shadows, where she must take the stage as her family’s...
12) Zero sum game
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Cas Russell novels volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION HUANG 2018
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION HUANG 2018
1 available
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Cas Russell wields her math skills like a superpower, using vector calculus to dodge bullets and beat up armed men, but is very surprised to find someone with a power more dangerous than her own, the ability to control minds.
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION LEE 2020
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SCIENCE FICTION LEE 2020
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Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint. One day they’re jobless and desperate; the next, Jebi finds themself recruited by the Ministry of Armor to paint the mystical sigils that animate the occupying government’s automaton soldiers. But when Jebi discovers the depths of the Razanei government’s horrifying crimes—and the awful source of the magical pigments they use—they find they can no longer stay out of politics....
14) The ghost bride
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twists. "One evening, my father asked me whether I would like to become a ghost bride...." Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound. Li Lan,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BARRY 2020
1 available
MYSTERY BARRY 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BARRY 2020
1 available
MYSTERY BARRY 2020
1 available
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"From the author of the widely acclaimed She Weeps Each Time You're Born--a new novel, at once comic and moving, set in 1989 Danvers, Massachusetts, where a high school field hockey team discovers that the witchcraft of their Salem forebears may be the key to a winning season. In this tour de female force, the Danvers High School Falcons Varsity is on an unaccountable streak. In chapters dense with '80s iconography--from Heathers to Big Hair--Quan...
16) Skyhunter
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Skyhunter duology volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION LU 2020
1 available
YA FICTION LU 2020
1 available
BKM Bookmobile - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION LU 2020
1 available
YA FICTION LU 2020
1 available
Sparks Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION LU 2020
2 available
YA FICTION LU 2020
2 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
YA CD FICTION LU 2020
1 available
YA CD FICTION LU 2020
1 available
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The Karensa Federation has conquered a dozen countries, leaving Mara as one of the last free nations in the world. Refugees flee to its borders to escape a fate worse than death, transformation into mutant war beasts known as Ghosts, creatures the Federation then sends to attack Mara. The legendary Strikers, Mara's elite fighting force, are trained to stop these monsters. But as the number of Ghosts grows and Karensa closes in, defeat seems inevitable....
17) The poppy war
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Poppy war volume 1
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2 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of Chinas twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Lius Grace of Kings and N.K. Jemisins Inheritance Trilogy. When Rin aced the Kejuthe Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academiesit was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldnt believe...
18) On fragile waves
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION YU 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION YU 2021
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Growing up on their parents' mythical stories about the opportunities of Australia, a brother and sister travel with their family from war-torn Pakistan through temporary homes in Indonesia and Nauru, before government indifference in Australia challenges their dreams.
20) Exhalation
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CHIANG 2019
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SCIENCE FICTION CHIANG 2019
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“The universe began as an enormous breath being held.” From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Othersthe basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrivalcomes a groundbreaking new collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories. These are tales that tackle some of humanitys oldest questions along with new quandaries only Ted Chiang could imagine. In “The Merchant and the Alchemists Gate,”...