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New Directions book volume 1616
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
SCIENCE FICTION BALLE 2024
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SCIENCE FICTION BALLE 2024
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"Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November 18th repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird...
2) Woodworm
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The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes. It was built by a smalltime hustler as a means of controlling his wife, and even after so many years, their daughter and her granddaughter can't leave. They may be witches or they may just be angry, but when the mysterious disappearance of a young boy
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAN 2023
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FICTION HAN 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAN 2023
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FICTION HAN 2023
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"A dazzling novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the “visionary” (New York Times Book Review) author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian “Both a disquieting journey about the loss of sense and a return to the sensorium of touch and intimacy, Greek Lessons soars with sensuous and revelatory insight.”&#٬٢٠١٤؛Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS...
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A censor working to remove all mentions of queerness, unapproved religions and any mentions of life before the Revolution from books is haunted at night by the characters of literary classics enticing him to read the forbidden tomes.
"The new book censor hasn’t slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish—allusions to queerness, unapproved religions,...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO FERNANDEZ 2023
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BIO FERNANDEZ 2023
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"A startling book-length essay, at once grand and intimate, from National Book Award finalist Nona Fernández. Voyager begins with Nona Fernández accompanying her elderly mother to the doctor to seek an explanation for her frequent falls and inability to remember what preceded them. As the author stares at the image of her mother’s brain scan, it occurs to her that the electrical signals shown on the screen resemble the night sky. Inspired by...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION HAN 2025
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FICTION HAN 2025
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"One morning in December, Kyungha receives a message from her friend Inseon saying she has been hospitalized in Seoul and asking that Kyungha join her urgently. The two women have last seen each other over a year before, on Jeju Island, where Inseon lives and where, two days before this reunion, she has injured herself chopping wood. Airlifted to Seoul for an operation, Inseon has had to leave behind her pet bird. Bedridden, she begs Kyungha to take...
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A classic of queer literature that's as electrifying today as it was when it originally appeared in 1982, On a Woman's Madness tells the story of Noenka, a courageous Black woman merely trying to live a life of her choosing. When her abusive husband of just nine days refuses her request for divorce, Noenka flees her hometown in Suriname, on South America's tropical northeastern coast, for the capital city of Paramaribo. Unsettled and unsupported,
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SOLA 2022
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FICTION SOLA 2022
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Struck and killed by lightening in a village high in the Pyrenees, Domenec is surrounded by the ghosts of seventeenth-century witches, and so begins this spellbinding novel about the human dramas that unfold against the uncontainable life force of the land itself.
9) Mild vertigo
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KANAI 2023
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FICTION KANAI 2023
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"The apparently unremarkable Natsumi lives in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes to the supermarket, visits friends, and gossips with neighbors. Tracing her conversations and interactions with her family andfriends as they blend seamlessly into her own infernally buzzing internal monologue, Mild Vertigo explores the dizzying reality of being unable to locate oneself in the endless stream of minutiae...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION PERRIN 2024
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FICTION PERRIN 2024
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"Justine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and her cousin Jules since the death of her parents. As a nursing assistant at a retirement home, she spends much of her days listening to her residents’ stories. After bonding with Hélène, an almost 100-year-old resident, the two women slowly reveal their stories to one another. Whilst Justine helps Hélène to relive her memories of love and war, Hélène encourages Justine to confront...
11) The Iliac crest
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE RIVERA 2017
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ROMANCE RIVERA 2017
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"On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication"-- Provided by publisher.
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"The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story There are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention House convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, whom she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation's imagination,...
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION TRIAS 2024
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FICTION TRIAS 2024
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"In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford--a revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining relationships: with her difficult...
14) Catch the rabbit
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"It's been twelve years since inseparable childhood friends Lejla and Sara have spoken, but an unexpected phone call from Lejla thrusts Sara back in a world of memories, language and relationships she's tried hard to forget" -- Provided by publisher.
It's been twelve years since inseparable childhood friends Lejla and Sara have spoken, but an unexpected phone call thrusts Sara back into a world she left behind, a language she's buried, and painful...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MIN 2023
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SCIENCE FICTION MIN 2023
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MIN 2023
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SCIENCE FICTION MIN 2023
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"The mere act of walking on the Earth is a challenge for our most unusual protagonist -- a shapeshifting, gender-bending alien. After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, they find themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet, where gravity isa disabling force. They'll need to practice walking in the Earth's atmosphere to survive. And what better way to practice than hunt delicious humans? They chooses their prey, shifts their gender,...
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"As intriguing and impressive a novelist as she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet horror and wonder.”
—Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery
Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds...
—Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery
Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds...
17) A good life
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Two sisters, Emma and Agathe, reminisce about their lives together, analyze their fraught relationship and consider reconciling when they must return together to Basque Country to empty out the home of their beloved grandmother.
"A JUNE 2024 INDIE NEXT PICK Full of humor and compassion, a profound exploration of sisterhood, healing, and the ineffable beauty of life from France‘s most beloved contemporary novelist Laughter, tears, the transformative...
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"A beautiful forty-year-old French woman is pathologically obsessed with her husband, even after fifteen years together"-- Provided by publisher.
"In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband—but can their marriage survive her passionate love? “Fans of Caroline Kepnes' You or Gillian Flynn will find My Husband to be a new, satisfying, and unnerving take on the...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHANG 2023
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FICTION CHANG 2023
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"Best friends Anita and Rainie have made countless visits to their home base: an old sycamore tree and its neighboring lot of stray dogs who have a mysterious ability to communicate with humans. The girls learn that they are preceded by generations of dog-headed women and women-headed dogs whose bloodlines knot them together like thread. Anita convinces her best friend Rainie to become a dog with her, tying a collar of red string around each of their...
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"Combining the raw realism and vulnerability of Shuggie Bain and Detransition, Baby with the poignant sensibility of Pedro Almodóvar, a staggering coming-of-age novel deeply rooted in the struggles of a trans woman growing up in Madrid. Anchored by the voice of its sweet and defiant narrator, Bad Habit casts a trans woman’s trying youth as a heartfelt odyssey. Raised in an animated yet impoverished blue-collar neighborhood, Alana S. Portero’s...