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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO MCCURDY 2022
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BIO MCCURDY 2022
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO MCCURDY 2022
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BIO MCCURDY 2022
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO MCCURDY 2022
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BIO MCCURDY 2022
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO MCCURDY 2022
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CD BIO MCCURDY 2022
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO MCCURDY 2022
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CD BIO MCCURDY 2022
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"Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn't tint hers?”...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO BURROUGHS 2002
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BIO BURROUGHS 2002
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"This is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, the author found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules, there was no school....
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.8521 FOO 2022
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616.8521 FOO 2022
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3 copies, 6 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 searing memoir of reckoning and healing from an acclaimed journalist and former This American Life producer investigating the little-understood science behind Complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as a radio producer at This American Life and had won an Emmy. But behind her office door she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk. After years of questioning...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 STRAYE 2012
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813.6 STRAYE 2012
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 STRAYE 2012
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813.6 STRAYE 2012
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 STRAYE 2012
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813.6 STRAYE 2012
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 813.6 STRAYE 2012 UNABRIDGED
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CD 813.6 STRAYE 2012 UNABRIDGED
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Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 MACHAD 2019
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813.6 MACHAD 2019
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties. In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machados engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to...
6) Yolk
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Struggling with emotional problems and an eating disorder, Jayne, a Korean American college student living in New York City, is estranged from her accomplished older sister June, until June gets cancer.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HONEYM 2017
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ROMANCE HONEYM 2017
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HONEYM 2017
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ROMANCE HONEYM 2017
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HONEYM 2017
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ROMANCE HONEYM 2017
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP ROMANCE HONEYM 2018
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LP ROMANCE HONEYM 2018
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"Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor has become a creature of habit (to say the least) and a bit of a loner. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
BIO WESTOVER 2018
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WESTOVER 2018
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BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WESTOVER 2018
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BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO WESTOVER 2018
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CD BIO WESTOVER 2018
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO WESTOVER 2018
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CD BIO WESTOVER 2018
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO WESTOVER 2018
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CD BIO WESTOVER 2018
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
LP BIO WESTOVER 2018
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO WESTOVER 2018
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LP BIO WESTOVER 2018
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO WESTOVER 2018
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LP BIO WESTOVER 2018
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times. “A coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle.”O: The Oprah Magazine. “Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable.”USA Today....
9) mommie dearest
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LAND 2019
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BIO LAND 2019
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LAND 2019
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BIO LAND 2019
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BIO LAND 2019
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BIO LAND 2019
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Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION FLYNN 2006 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION FLYNN 2006 UNABRIDGED
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Reporter Camille Preaker tries to unravel the truth of her own troubled past as she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two preteen girls.
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle...
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From experienced family therapist Dr. Karyl McBride, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? is an essential guide to recovery for women with selfish, emotionally abusive, and toxic mothers—designed to help daughters reclaim their lives.
The first book for daughters who have suffered the abuse of narcissistic, self-involved mothers, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating...
The first book for daughters who have suffered the abuse of narcissistic, self-involved mothers, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating...
14) Carrie
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KING 2018
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FICTION KING 2018
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KING 2018
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FICTION KING 2018
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KING 2002
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FICTION KING 2002
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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.
Description
A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town.
Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness,...
15) White oleander
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION FIT 1999 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION FIT 1999 UNABRIDGED
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The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption.
Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged...
Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FISHER 1987
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FICTION FISHER 1987
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In a stunning literary debut, Carrie Fisher chronicles the excruciatingly funny adventures of Suzanne Vale - young film star and drug addict, who survives a rehab clinic only to rejoin the equally harrowing world of Hollywood. Out there on the edge, despair flips into hilarity, and we're left laughing as Suzanne struggles to come to terms with her various fantasylands. Carrie Fisher's reading evokes the deliciously irreverent humor that forms the
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.54 ANGELO 1970
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818.54 ANGELO 1970
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.54 ANGELO 1970
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818.54 ANGELO 1970
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.54 ANGELO 1970
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818.54 ANGELO 1970
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness...
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO GREGORY 2003
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BIO GREGORY 2003
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The author describes growing up as the victim of Munchausen by proxy, a form of child abuse in which her mother invented or caused a series of illnesses and ailments, and her struggle to escape her mother's problems to rebuild her life.
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David Pelzer trilogy volume 1
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Dave Pelzer was beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. This book covers the early years of his life and is an affecting look at the horrors of child abuse and the determination of one child to survive against the odds.
This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable,...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CONLEY 2017
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BIO CONLEY 2017
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CONLEY 2017
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BIO CONLEY 2017
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The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to "cure" him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the...