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FICTION CHONG 2023
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FICTION CHONG 2023
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"This fresh and unique work of metafiction follows Benson Yu, a writer, who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown. In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year-old Benny, his ailing grandmother, and his strange neighbor Constantine, a man who believes he’s a reincarnated medieval samurai. When his grandmother is hospitalized, Benny manages to survive on his own until...
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4 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
LP MYSTERY STEVEN 2023
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LP MYSTERY STEVEN 2023
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let’s...
3) new york trilogy city of glass ghosts the locked r
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WINTER 2012
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FICTION WINTER 2012
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WINTER 2012
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FICTION WINTER 2012
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Told in the form of three complete novels that, taken together, tell a single epic story, The twenty-year death tells the tale of a young actress and her writer husband. Over the course of 20 years, violence will intrude on their lives 3 times.
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WINNER OF THE 2015 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL
A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display
...6) new york trilogy city of glass ghosts the locked r
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY DICKER 2022
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MYSTERY DICKER 2022
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"One night in December, a corpse is found in Room 622 of the Hotel Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps. A police investigation begins without definite end, and public interest wanes with the passage of time. Years later, the writer Joel Dicker, Switzerland's most famous literary ingenue, arrives at that same hotel to recover from a bad breakup, mourn the death of his longtime publisher, and begin his next novel. Little does Joel know that his...
8) Grendel
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GAR 1971
1 available
FICTION GAR 1971
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARDNE 1971
1 available
FICTION GARDNE 1971
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION OBRIEN 2013 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION OBRIEN 2013 UNABRIDGED
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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Related stories, linked by recurring characters and an interwoven plot, recreate an American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.
Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness.
10) new york trilogy city of glass ghosts the locked r
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11) Watchmen
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5 MOORE 2013
1 available
741.5 MOORE 2013
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5 MOORE 2019
1 available
741.5 MOORE 2019
1 available
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A hit HBO original series, Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from award-winning author Alan Moore, presents a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history--the U.S. won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the Cold War is in full effect. Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human...
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Cemetery of forgotten books volume 1
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written. Barcelona, 1945-just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child,...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MARTEL 2001
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FICTION MARTEL 2001
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
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""A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in ways she...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CLARKE 2020
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SCIENCE FICTION CLARKE 2020
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION CLA 2004 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION CLA 2004 UNABRIDGED
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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In nineteenth-century England, all is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr Norrell's pupil.
"English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALLAC 1996
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FICTION WALLAC 1996
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALLAC 1996
1 available
FICTION WALLAC 1996
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALLAC 1996
1 available
FICTION WALLAC 1996
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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A spoof on our culture featuring a drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation house near Boston. The center becomes a hotbed of revolutionary activity by Quebec separatists in revolt against the Organization of North American Nations which now rules the continent.
Dr. James Incandenza, scientist turned filmmaker, creates a movie so entertaining viewers cannot quit watching and literally die laughing. After he commits suicide, his sons hustle to keep the film...
19) Atonement
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCE 2002
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FICTION MCE 2002
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCEWAN 2002
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FICTION MCEWAN 2002
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCE 2001
1 available
FICTION MCE 2001
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION MCE 2002 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION MCE 2002 UNABRIDGED
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis wildly misinterprets the relationship between her sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, childhood friends home from Cambridge. So when her young cousin is assaulted, Briony gives in to her hyperactive imagination and blames the atrocity on Robbie. It is a terrible decision that alters lives and fills Briony with an everlasting sense of guilt.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATWOOD 2001
1 available
FICTION ATWOOD 2001
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATWOOD 2001
1 available
FICTION ATWOOD 2001
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATWOOD 2000
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FICTION ATWOOD 2000
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION ATW 2005 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION ATW 2005 UNABRIDGED
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages.