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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARMUS 2022
6 available
FICTION GARMUS 2022
6 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARMUS 2022
3 available
FICTION GARMUS 2022
3 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARMUS 2022
1 available
FICTION GARMUS 2022
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 50 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 50 people are on the wait list.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION GARMUS 2022
2 available
LP FICTION GARMUS 2022
2 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION GARMUS 2022
1 available
LP FICTION GARMUS 2022
1 available
Description
"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CHILD 2012
1 available
BIO CHILD 2012
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CHILD 2012
1 available
BIO CHILD 2012
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO CHILD 2012 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD BIO CHILD 2012 UNABRIDGED
1 available
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A definitive, affectionate biography of one of America's most beloved personalities, Julia Child. This in-depth and intimate narrative is full of fresh information and insight that explores Child's amazing journey in both her personal and professional life.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEMPLE 2012
1 available
FICTION SEMPLE 2012
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEMPLE 2012
1 available
FICTION SEMPLE 2012
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEMPLE 2012
1 available
FICTION SEMPLE 2012
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION SEMPLE 2012 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION SEMPLE 2012 UNABRIDGED
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION SEMPLE 2012
1 available
LP FICTION SEMPLE 2012
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION SEMPLE 2012
1 available
LP FICTION SEMPLE 2012
1 available
Description
When Bee aces her report card she claims her reward, which is a trip to Antarctica, but her mother, Bernadette, disappears due to her intensifying allergy to Seattle and people in general, which has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands and Bee uses emails, invoices, school memos, private correspondence, and other evidence to try and understand why her mother has left.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOLITZ 2018
1 available
FICTION WOLITZ 2018
1 available
Description
A college student finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
LP FICTION BENEDI 2022
1 available
LP FICTION BENEDI 2022
1 available
Description
"Rosalind Franklin knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture-one more after thousands-she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her. Then it finally happens-the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what happens...
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Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada as Renée Rosen draws readers into the glamorous New York City of 1965 and Cosmopolitan magazine, where a brazen new editor-in-chief--Helen Gurley Brown--shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about all things off-limits... New York City is filled with opportunities for single girls like Alice Weiss, who leaves her small midwestern town to chase her big-city dreams and unexpectedly...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROSEN 2021
1 available
FICTION ROSEN 2021
1 available
Description
"A peek behind the curtain at one of the most remarkable feuds in history: Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Astor's notorious battle for control of New York society during the Gilded Age, from the bestselling author of Park Avenue Summer In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, where wives turn a blind eye to husbands' infidelities, and women have few rights and even less independence, society is everything. The more celebrated the hostess, the...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
CD FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
CD FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
Checked Out
7 copies, 73 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 73 people are on the wait list.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
Description
"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORTON 2014
1 available
FICTION MORTON 2014
1 available
Description
"A wise and entertaining novel about a woman who has lived life on her own terms for seventy-five defiant and determined years, only to find herself suddenly thrust to the center of her family's various catastrophes Meet Florence Gordon: blunt, brilliant, cantankerous and passionate, feminist icon to young women, invisible and underappreciated by most everyone else. At seventy-five, Florence has earned her right to set down the burdens of family...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2021
3 available
FICTION BENEDI 2021
3 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
LP FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
Description
"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books,...
11) Belle Greene
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LAPIER 2022
1 available
FICTION LAPIER 2022
1 available
Description
New York in the 1900s. A young girl fascinated by rare books defies all odds and becomes the director of one of the country's most prestigious private libraries. It belongs to the magnate J.P. Morgan, darling of the international aristocracy and one of the city's richest men. Flamboyant, brilliant, beautiful, Belle is among New York society's most sought after intellectuals. She also hides a secret. Although she looks white, she is African American,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
920.72 CLINTO 2019
2 available
920.72 CLINTO 2019
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
920.72 CLINTO 2019
2 available
920.72 CLINTO 2019
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
920.72 CLINTO 2019
1 available
920.72 CLINTO 2019
1 available
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 920.72 CLINTO 2019
1 available
CD 920.72 CLINTO 2019
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 920.72 CLINTO 2019
1 available
CD 920.72 CLINTO 2019
1 available
Description
Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them--women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there's a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RYAN 2021
1 available
FICTION RYAN 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RYAN 2021
1 available
FICTION RYAN 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RYAN 2021
1 available
FICTION RYAN 2021
1 available
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a new World War II-set story of four women on the home front competing for a spot hosting a BBC wartime cookery program and a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCMORR 2022
1 available
FICTION MCMORR 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCMORR 2022
1 available
FICTION MCMORR 2022
1 available
Description
"Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For all her calculations, however, Fenna neglects to foresee...
15) love and other disasters
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16) Kingdomtide
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CURTIS 2020
1 available
FICTION CURTIS 2020
1 available
Description
The sole survivor of a plane crash, seventy-two-year-old Cloris Waldrip finds herself lost and alone in the unforgiving wilderness of Montana's rugged Bitterroot Range, exposed to the elements with no tools beyond her wits and ingenuity. Intertwined with her story is Debra Lewis, a park ranger struggling with addiction, a recent divorce, and a new mission: to find and rescue Cloris. As Cloris wanders mountain forests and valleys, subsisting on whatever...
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
An evocative story of friendship set against the backdrop of a nineteenth-century China in which women suffered from foot binding, isolation, and illiteracy follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PENNER 2021
2 available
FICTION PENNER 2021
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PENNER 2021
1 available
FICTION PENNER 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PENNER 2021
1 available
FICTION PENNER 2021
1 available
Checked Out
7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION PENNER 2021
1 available
LP FICTION PENNER 2021
1 available
Description
Secretly dispensing poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them, a London apothecary triggers unintended consequences that shape three lives across multiple centuries.
19) Lab girl
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JAHREN 2016
1 available
BIO JAHREN 2016
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JAHREN 2016
1 available
BIO JAHREN 2016
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JAHREN 2016
1 available
BIO JAHREN 2016
1 available
Description
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book might have been a revelatory treatise on plant life. Lab Girl is that, but it is also so much more. Because in it, Jahren also shares with us her inspiring life story, in prose that takes your breath away. Lab Girl is a book about work, about love, and about the mountains that can be moved when those two things come...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEMPLE 2016
1 available
FICTION SEMPLE 2016
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEMPLE 2016
1 available
FICTION SEMPLE 2016
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEMPLE 2016
1 available
FICTION SEMPLE 2016
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION SEMPLE 2016
2 available
CD FICTION SEMPLE 2016
2 available
Description
Initiating small changes that she hopes will reverse negative patterns in her life, Eleanor Flood is derailed by her family members' unethical practices before an encounter with a former colleague triggers dramas that reveal a buried secret.