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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CONLEY 2017
1 available
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...
2) Carrie
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KING 2018
1 available
FICTION KING 2018
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KING 2018
1 available
FICTION KING 2018
1 available
Senior Center Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KING 2018
1 available
FICTION KING 2018
1 available
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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 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,...
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David Pelzer trilogy volume 1
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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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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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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The actress who played the villain Nellie Oleson on the telvision show "Little House on the Prairie" shares her experiences on the show and discusses her life, from her bohemian childhood in West Hollywood to her recent charity work involving abused children and HIV awareness.
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"Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
Senior Center Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
CD BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
CD BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
LP BIO WESTOVER 2018
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
LP BIO WESTOVER 2018
1 available
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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....
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HONEYM 2017
1 available
ROMANCE HONEYM 2017
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HONEYM 2017
1 available
ROMANCE HONEYM 2017
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP ROMANCE HONEYM 2018
1 available
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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5 copies, 3 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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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 PECK 2022
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791.4502 PECK 2022
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 PECK 2022
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791.4502 PECK 2022
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The actor, writer, YouTuber, and television superstar presents a candid memoir in which he reflects on the many stumbles and silver linings of his life while sharing surprising life lessons for anyone seeking to accept their past and make peace with the face in the mirror. For the first time, Josh reflects on his late teens and early twenties. Raised by a single mother, and coming of age under a spotlight that could be both invigorating and cruel,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO JOLLETT 2020
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BIO JOLLETT 2020
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JOLLETT 2020
1 available
BIO JOLLETT 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO JOLLET 2020
1 available
BIO JOLLET 2020
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO JOLLETT 2020
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CD BIO JOLLETT 2020
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"HOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fierce love and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer. We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO MARNELL 2017
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BIO MARNELL 2017
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"From Cat Marnell, 'New York's enfant terrible' (The Telegraph), a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs. At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America--and that's all most people knew about her. But she hid a secret life. She was a prescription drug addict. She was...
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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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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.54 ANGELO 1970
1 available
818.54 ANGELO 1970
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.54 ANGELO 1970
1 available
818.54 ANGELO 1970
1 available
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3 copies, 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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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO MCCURDY 2022
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BIO MCCURDY 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO MCCURDY 2022
1 available
BIO MCCURDY 2022
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO MCCURDY 2022
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CD BIO MCCURDY 2022
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26 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 MACHAD 2019
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813.6 MACHAD 2019
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 MACHAD 2019
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813.6 MACHAD 2019
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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...
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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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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LAND 2019
1 available
BIO LAND 2019
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LAND 2019
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BIO LAND 2019
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO BLAIR 2022
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BIO BLAIR 2022
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO BLAIR 2022
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BIO BLAIR 2022
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO BLAIR 2022
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BIO BLAIR 2022
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The first story Selma Blair Beitner ever heard about herself is that she was a mean, mean baby. With her mouth pulled in a perpetual snarl and a head so furry it had to be rubbed to make way for her forehead, Selma spent years living up to her terrible reputation: biting her sisters, lying spontaneously, getting drunk from Passover wine at the age of seven, and behaving dramatically so that she would be the center of attention. Although Selma went...
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A story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery. By the time he entered a drug and alcohol treatment facility, James Frey had taken his addictions to near-deadly extremes. He had...
18) mommie dearest
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LYNCH 2021
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BIO LYNCH 2021
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The actress, who played Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films, shares how she confronted all the complexities and contradictions within herself; reveals how she began to conquer her self-hate and eating disorder; and explores the choices that led her down the path of creativity.
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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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