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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MONTAG 2019
1 available
FICTION MONTAG 2019
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MONTAG 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION MONTAG 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MONTAG 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION MONTAG 2019
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"An unforgettable, inventive, and riveting epic saga, After the flood signals the arrival of a game-changing and necessary new voice in fiction"--
A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America's great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse...
2) animals people
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BELL 2021
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FICTION BELL 2021
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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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNS 2023
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FICTION JOHNS 2023
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In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home. "A mystery and a horror story about grief, but one with defiant hope in its beating heart." —Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SUDBAN 2019
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FICTION SUDBAN 2019
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SUDBAN 2019
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FICTION SUDBAN 2019
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"A house in the center of Bangkok becomes the point of confluence where lives are shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. Witness to two centuries' flux in one of the world's most restless cities, a house plays host to longings and losses past, present, and future. A nineteenth-century missionary doctor pines for the comforts of New England even as he finds the vibrant foreign chaos of Siam increasingly difficult to resist. A post-war society...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PROULX 2016
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FICTION PROULX 2016
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PROULX 2016
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FICTION PROULX 2016
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION PROULX 2016
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CD FICTION PROULX 2016
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION PROULX 2016
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LP FICTION PROULX 2016
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION PROULX 2016
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LP FICTION PROULX 2016
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In the late seventeenth century, two illiterate woodsmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, make their way from Northern France to New France to seek a living. Bound to a feudal lord, a 'seigneur', for three years in exchange for land, they suffer extraordinary hardship, always in awe of the forest they are charged with clearing, sometimes brimming with dreams of its commercial potential. Rene marries an Indian healer, and they have children, mixing the...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION UNFERT 2020
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FICTION UNFERT 2020
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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.
8) The bear
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KRIVAK 2020
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FICTION KRIVAK 2020
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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...
9) The bees
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PAULL 2014
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FICTION PAULL 2014
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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 POWERS 2021
2 available
FICTION POWERS 2021
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2021
3 available
FICTION POWERS 2021
3 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2021
1 available
FICTION POWERS 2021
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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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"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...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MILLET 2020
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FICTION MILLET 2020
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MILLET 2020
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FICTION MILLET 2020
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"An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel - her first since the National Book Award Longlist Sweet Lamb of Heaven -- follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SOYINK 2021
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FICTION SOYINK 2021
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"A towering figure in world literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly one-half century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking, fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. ("You don't see things the same way when you encounter a voice like that."-Toni Morrison) In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritualistic...
13) Clade
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BRADLE 2017
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SCIENCE FICTION BRADLE 2017
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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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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BLAKE 2022
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MYSTERY BLAKE 2022
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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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIDS 2021
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FICTION DAVIDS 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIDS 2021
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FICTION DAVIDS 2021
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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 MARKLE 2022
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FICTION MARKLE 2022
2 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MARKLE 2022
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FICTION MARKLE 2022
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"In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters—a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MILLET 2022
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FICTION MILLET 2022
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE MILLET 2022
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ROMANCE MILLET 2022
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"Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Boston Globe, Literary Hub and The Millions A stunning new novel from the author of A Children’s Bible, a National Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2020. Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction...
18) drowned world a novel 50th anniversary edition
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Climate novels volume 2
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LUNDE 2020
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FICTION LUNDE 2020
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From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future. In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives....
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In an alternate-world modern London submerged below flood waters, a woman who has just given birth to her first child is forced to flee her home with her baby to seek refuge in a variety of locations while the baby thrives against all odds.