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1) Belle Greene
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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,...
2) Book lovers
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8 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 58 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 58 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
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LP ROMANCE HENRY 2022
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"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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
920.72 CLINTO 2019
1 available
920.72 CLINTO 2019
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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
2 available
920.72 CLINTO 2019
2 available
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 920.72 CLINTO 2019
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CD 920.72 CLINTO 2019
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 920.72 CLINTO 2019
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CD 920.72 CLINTO 2019
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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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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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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 Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CHILD 2012
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BIO CHILD 2012
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO CHILD 2012 UNABRIDGED
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CD BIO CHILD 2012 UNABRIDGED
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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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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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROSEN 2013
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FICTION ROSEN 2013
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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 WOLITZ 2018
1 available
FICTION WOLITZ 2018
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOLITZ 2018
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FICTION WOLITZ 2018
1 available
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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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORTON 2014
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FICTION MORTON 2014
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"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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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HANNAH 2021
3 available
FICTION HANNAH 2021
3 available
Gerlach Community 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
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION HANNAH 2021
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CD FICTION HANNAH 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION HANNAH 2021
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CD FICTION HANNAH 2021
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4 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
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LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
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LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
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Senior Center Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
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LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
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"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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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVE 2017
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FICTION DAVE 2017
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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 BENEDI 2022
1 available
FICTION BENEDI 2022
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2022
1 available
FICTION BENEDI 2022
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2022
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FICTION BENEDI 2022
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
LP FICTION BENEDI 2022
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LP FICTION BENEDI 2022
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"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...
12) The immortalists
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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
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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.
13) 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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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RYAN 2021
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FICTION RYAN 2021
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RYAN 2021
1 available
FICTION RYAN 2021
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"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...
15) Lab girl
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JAHREN 2016
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BIO JAHREN 2016
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JAHREN 2016
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BIO JAHREN 2016
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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...
16) The last animal
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION AUSUBE 2023
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FICTION AUSUBE 2023
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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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"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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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HO 2020
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ROMANCE HO 2020
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"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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARMUS 2022
1 available
FICTION GARMUS 2022
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARMUS 2022
1 available
FICTION GARMUS 2022
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARMUS 2022
2 available
FICTION GARMUS 2022
2 available
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23 copies, 213 people are on the wait list.
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24 copies, 233 people are on the wait list.
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24 copies, 233 people are on the wait list.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION GARMUS 2022
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LP FICTION GARMUS 2022
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"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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Northwest Reno 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
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PENNER 2021
2 available
FICTION PENNER 2021
2 available
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7 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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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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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.