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1) The bees
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PAULL 2014
1 available
FICTION PAULL 2014
1 available
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A member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, Flora 717, due to her courage and strength, finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum where she discovers secrets about the hive that cause her to challenge authority and perform unthinkable acts.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WATKIN 2015
1 available
FICTION WATKIN 2015
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WATKIN 2015
1 available
FICTION WATKIN 2015
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WATKIN 2015
1 available
FICTION WATKIN 2015
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WATKIN 2015
1 available
LP FICTION WATKIN 2015
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WATKIN 2015
1 available
LP FICTION WATKIN 2015
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WATKIN 2015
1 available
LP FICTION WATKIN 2015
1 available
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"Unrelenting drought has transfigured Southern California into a surreal, phantasmagoric landscape. With the Central Valley barren, underground aquifer drained, and Sierra snowpack entirely depleted, most "Mojavs," prevented by both armed vigilantes and an indifferent bureaucracy from freely crossing borders to lusher regions, have allowed themselves to be evacuated to internment camps. In Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon, two young Mojavs. Luz, once a...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAIGH 2016
1 available
FICTION HAIGH 2016
1 available
Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAIGH 2016
1 available
FICTION HAIGH 2016
1 available
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Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn't count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother's skepticism or the paranoia...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIDS 2021
1 available
FICTION DAVIDS 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIDS 2021
1 available
FICTION DAVIDS 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIDS 2021
1 available
FICTION DAVIDS 2021
1 available
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A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHAFAK 2021
1 available
FICTION SHAFAK 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHAFAK 2021
1 available
FICTION SHAFAK 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHAFAK 2021
1 available
FICTION SHAFAK 2021
1 available
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A novel about belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.
It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCCONA 2021
1 available
FICTION MCCONA 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCCONA 2021
1 available
FICTION MCCONA 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCCONA 2021
1 available
FICTION MCCONA 2021
1 available
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"From the author of the beloved national bestseller Migrations, a #1 IndieNext pick, a gorgeous and pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands. Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska....
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BLAKE 2022
1 available
MYSTERY BLAKE 2022
1 available
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"In a near-future world where tree pollen has made outdoor air unbreathable, a woman's safe but tedious life is thrown into turmoil when she witnesses a murder and her young daughter starts sleep-talking about the killer"--
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2018
1 available
FICTION POWERS 2018
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2018
1 available
FICTION POWERS 2018
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2018
2 available
FICTION POWERS 2018
2 available
Checked Out
5 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BELL 2021
1 available
FICTION BELL 2021
1 available
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"In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple"--
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MBUE 2021
1 available
FICTION MBUE 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MBUE 2021
1 available
FICTION MBUE 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MBUE 2021
1 available
FICTION MBUE 2021
1 available
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A young revolutionary risks everything to secure her people’s freedom when her small African village is decimated by an American oil company that reneges on promises of reparation.
"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel 'How Beautiful We Were.' Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2021
3 available
FICTION POWERS 2021
3 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2021
5 available
FICTION POWERS 2021
5 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2021
1 available
FICTION POWERS 2021
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental...
12) Harrow: a novel
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION WILLIA 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION WILLIA 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION WILLIA 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION WILLIA 2021
1 available
Description
"In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after the environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. Once nature as we know it is dead, the pursuit of happiness fades into insignificance, food is scarce, and even time doesn't progress in an organized fashion. Harrow follows the picaresque journey of Khristen--a teenager...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION FLANAG 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION FLANAG 2021
1 available
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"From the author of the Booker Prize-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North comes a wrenching novel of family, climate change, and the resilience of the human spirit--an elegy to our disappearing world. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying--if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she instead turns her focus...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VANDER 2021
1 available
FICTION VANDER 2021
1 available
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"From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Annihilation, comes a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the end of all things"--
15) Clade
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BRADLE 2017
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION BRADLE 2017
1 available
Description
On a beach in Antarctica, scientists Adam Leith marks the passage of the summer solstice. Back in Sydney his partner Elllie waits for the results of her latest round of IVF treatment. That result, when it comes, will change both their lives and propel them into a future neither could have predicted. In a collapsing England Adam will battle to survive an apocalyptic storm. Against a backdrop of growing civil unrest at home, Ellie will discover a strange...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KINGSO 2012
1 available
FICTION KINGSO 2012
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KINGSO 2012
1 available
FICTION KINGSO 2012
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KINGSO 2012
1 available
FICTION KINGSO 2012
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION KINGSO 2012 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION KINGSO 2012 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
After years lived entirely within the confines of one small house, Dellarobia finds her path suddenly opening out and ultimately leading into blunt and confrontational engagement with her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large. Over the course of a single winter, her life will become the property of the planet and, perhaps for the first time, securely her own.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHRIST 2020
1 available
FICTION CHRIST 2020
1 available
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"It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests:...
18) The bear
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"In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last two left. But when the girl suddenly finds herself alone in an unknown...
19) Barn 8: a novel
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION UNFERT 2020
1 available
FICTION UNFERT 2020
1 available
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Two auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night -- an entire egg farm's worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland -- a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audit -- assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues.
20) Ishmael: A Novel
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Series
Ishmael trilogy volume 1
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author.
“A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny.”—The New...
“A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny.”—The New...