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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
3 available
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
3 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
1 available
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
1 available
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
1 available
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"The astonishing sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SO 2021
1 available
FICTION SO 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SO 2021
1 available
FICTION SO 2021
1 available
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"A debut story collection about Cambodian-American life-immersive and comic, yet unsparing-that marks the arrival of an indisputable new talent in American fiction"--
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Set in post-war London, this novel of the racial, political, and social upheaval of the last half-century follows two families--the Joneses and the Iqbals, both outsiders from within the former British empire--as they make their way in modern England
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ZGHEIB 2022
1 available
FICTION ZGHEIB 2022
1 available
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"Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi's...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
1 available
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
1 available
FICTION NGUYEN 2021
1 available
Description
Leaving Vietnam behind, Huong and her two sons adapt to life in New Orleans in different ways as they search for identity as individuals and as a family until disaster strikes the city, forcing them to find a new way to come together.
"When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle into life in America, she continues...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALAMED 2021
1 available
FICTION ALAMED 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALAMED 2021
1 available
FICTION ALAMED 2021
1 available
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"Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOUKHA 2018
1 available
FICTION JOUKHA 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOUKHA 2018
1 available
FICTION JOUKHA 2018
1 available
Description
This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what -- The Map of Salt and Stars follows the journeys of Nour and Rawiya as they travel along identical paths across the region eight hundred years apart, braving the unknown beside their companions as they are pulled by the promise of reaching home at last.
This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALYAN 2021
1 available
FICTION ALYAN 2021
1 available
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"A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home"--
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION YU 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION YU 2021
1 available
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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.
10) Salt houses
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"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home...On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAMID 2017
2 available
FICTION HAMID 2017
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAMID 2017
1 available
FICTION HAMID 2017
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAMID 2017
1 available
FICTION HAMID 2017
1 available
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"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...
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In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION YOON 2020
1 available
FICTION YOON 2020
1 available
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Alisak, Prany, and Noi three orphans united by devastating loss must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky. In...
14) Hades, Argentina
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LOEDEL 2021
1 available
FICTION LOEDEL 2021
1 available
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"A decade after fleeing the violence of Argentina's Dirty War, a man discovers he must grapple with the ghosts of his past. It was the most obvious thing in the world that I'd follow her wherever she went. I always had. In 1976, Tomas Oriilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he's moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel, a childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has always drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper into the ranks of...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ESCOBA 2020
1 available
FICTION ESCOBA 2020
1 available
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From international bestseller Mario Escobar comes a story of escape, sacrifice, and hope amid the perils of the second World War.
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"A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--
17) Go, went, gone
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"Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas. But now he is retired, his library remains packed up in boxes and he steps into the streets of his city, Berlin. Here, on Alexanderplatz, he discovers a new community--a group of African asylum seekers on hunger strike. Hesitantly, getting to know the new arrivals, Richard finds his life changing, as he begins to question his own sense of belonging in...