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"A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to "de-extinct" the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to Siberia to hunt for ancient DNA, but there's a catch: Jane's...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAHER 2022
1 available
FICTION MAHER 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAHER 2022
2 available
FICTION MAHER 2022
2 available
Description
"Discover the dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in the White Gloves. When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the course of literature itself. Shakespeare and Company...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ASSADI 2022
1 available
FICTION ASSADI 2022
1 available
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A story of secrets, loss, and the betrayals of memory: a lyrical novel of an aging woman confronting her romantic past under the mysterious skies of her island home Off the coast of Georgia, near Savannah, generations have been tempted by strange blue lights in the sky near an island called Lyra. At the height of WWII, impressionable young Elle Ranier comes to the island when her new husband, Simon, is dispatched by his industrialist father to find...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENJAM 2018
2 available
FICTION BENJAM 2018
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENJAM 2018
1 available
FICTION BENJAM 2018
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENJAM 2018
1 available
FICTION BENJAM 2018
1 available
Description
Sneaking out to get readings from a traveling psychic reputed to be able to tell customers when they will die, four adolescent siblings from New York City's 1969 Lower East Side hide what they learn from each other before embarking on five decades of respective experiences shaped by their determination to control fate. By an award-winning author.
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
641.5973 ZIEGEL 2016
1 available
641.5973 ZIEGEL 2016
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 641.5973 ZIEGEL 2016
1 available
CD 641.5973 ZIEGEL 2016
1 available
Description
"Jane Ziegelman, author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard, and her husband, Andrew Coe, team up for an in-depth exploration of America's greatest food crisis"--
"From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced--the Great Depression--and how it transformed America's culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HO 2020
1 available
ROMANCE HO 2020
1 available
Description
"At thirty-three, Andrea Tang is living the dream: She has a successful career as a lawyer, a posh condo, and a clutch of fun-loving friends who are always in the know about Singapore's hottest clubs and restaurants. All she has to do is make partner at her law firm and she will have achieved everything she's worked for. And if she's about to become the lone unmarried member of her generation in the Tang clan--a disappointment her meddling Chinese-Malaysian...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVE 2017
1 available
FICTION DAVE 2017
1 available
Description
When revelations about her true identity come to light, culinary star Sunshine Mackenzie loses everything and returns to her childhood home in Montauk where she strives to reinvent herself.
Sunshine Mackenzie is living the dream, she's a culinary star with millions of fans, a line of #1 bestselling cookbooks, and a devoted husband happy to support her every endeavor. And then she gets hacked. When Sunshine's secrets are revealed, her fall from grace...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GRAHAM 2013
1 available
FICTION GRAHAM 2013
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GRAHAM 2013
1 available
FICTION GRAHAM 2013
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GRAHAM 2013
1 available
FICTION GRAHAM 2013
1 available
On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION GRAHAM 2013 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION GRAHAM 2013 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Description
A struggling actress in 1990s New York City searches for work and the perfect hair product while befriending a rival and resisting her father's pressure to get a "real" job.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARTNE 2022
1 available
FICTION HARTNE 2022
1 available
Description
"A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town. It's notable only for Corbin Park, an enormous hunting park, and for Maple Street Cemetery-home to many former residents of Everton. There's also the town legend that Emma Starling...
10) Book lovers
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HENRY 2022
1 available
ROMANCE HENRY 2022
1 available
Checked Out
8 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 56 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 56 people are on the wait list.
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP ROMANCE HENRY 2022
1 available
LP ROMANCE HENRY 2022
1 available
Description
"A by-the-book literary agent must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for in this insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. Nora Stephens life is books-she's read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are...
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Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick, a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp feminist revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers, putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town. In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment. After Nessa James's husband dies and...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROSEN 2013
1 available
FICTION ROSEN 2013
1 available
Description
Vera Abramowitz is determined to leave her gritty childhood behind and live a more exciting life, one that her mother never dreamed of. As the ultimate flapper, Vera captures the attention of a handsome nightclub owner and a sexy gambler. On their arms, she gains entrée into a world filled with bootleg bourbon, wailing jazz and money to burn. But when the good times come to an end, Vera becomes entangled in everything from bootlegging to murder.
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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
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEMPLE 2016
2 available
FICTION SEMPLE 2016
2 available
On Shelf
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION SEMPLE 2016
2 available
CD FICTION SEMPLE 2016
2 available
On Shelf
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION SEMPLE 2016
1 available
LP FICTION SEMPLE 2016
1 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.
14) Lab girl
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Northwest 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 PENNER 2021
1 available
FICTION PENNER 2021
1 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, 7 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Sierra View 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.
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1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 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.
17) Kingdomtide
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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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While competing on a popular cooking show, Dahlia Woodson stirs up trouble when she gets involved with nonbinary contestant London Parker, and as their relationship heats up both in and out of the kitchen, she wonders if they have the right ingredients for a happily ever after.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCMORR 2022
1 available
FICTION MCMORR 2022
1 available
Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - 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...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RYAN 2021
1 available
FICTION RYAN 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RYAN 2021
1 available
FICTION RYAN 2021
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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...