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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ERDRIC 2020
3 available
FICTION ERDRIC 2020
3 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ERDRIC 2020
1 available
FICTION ERDRIC 2020
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ERDRIC 2020
1 available
FICTION ERDRIC 2020
1 available
Description
Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new "emancipation" bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isnt about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a "termination"...
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On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2019
2 available
FICTION WHITEH 2019
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2019
3 available
FICTION WHITEH 2019
3 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2019
1 available
FICTION WHITEH 2019
1 available
On Shelf
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WHITEH 2019
1 available
CD FICTION WHITEH 2019
1 available
On Shelf
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WHITEH 2019
2 available
LP FICTION WHITEH 2019
2 available
Description
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2018
2 available
FICTION POWERS 2018
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2018
1 available
FICTION POWERS 2018
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS 2018
2 available
FICTION POWERS 2018
2 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Description
A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
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Series
Arthur Less novels volume 1
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GREER 2017
1 available
FICTION GREER 2017
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GREER 2017
1 available
FICTION GREER 2017
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GREER 2017
2 available
FICTION GREER 2017
2 available
On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION GREER 2018
1 available
LP FICTION GREER 2018
1 available
Description
Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
A breakout romantic comedy by the bestselling author of five critically acclaimed novels. Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A...
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On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2016
2 available
FICTION WHITEH 2016
2 available
On Shelf
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
CD FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
On Shelf
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
LP FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
LP FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
Description
Chronicles the daring survival story of a cotton plantation slave in Georgia, who, after suffering at the hands of both her owners and fellow slaves, races through the Underground Railroad with a relentless slave-catcher close behind.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NGUYEN 2015
1 available
FICTION NGUYEN 2015
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NGUYEN 2015
1 available
FICTION NGUYEN 2015
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NGUYEN 2015
1 available
FICTION NGUYEN 2015
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
The story of a South Vietnamese captain -- a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America -- who returns to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause.
Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION DOERR 2014
1 available
CD FICTION DOERR 2014
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION DOERR 2014 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION DOERR 2014 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Checked Out
12 copies, 122 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
9 copies, 90 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
9 copies, 90 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TARTT 2013
1 available
FICTION TARTT 2013
1 available
In Processing - Adult Fiction
FICTION TARTT 2013
1 available
FICTION TARTT 2013
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TARTT 2013
1 available
FICTION TARTT 2013
1 available
On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION TARTT 2013 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION TARTT 2013 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills...
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On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNSO 2012
1 available
FICTION JOHNSO 2012
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNSO 2012
1 available
FICTION JOHNSO 2012
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNSO 2012
1 available
FICTION JOHNSO 2012
1 available
Description
The son of an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il.
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Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 1
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On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EGAN 2010
1 available
FICTION EGAN 2010
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EGAN 2010
1 available
FICTION EGAN 2010
1 available
Description
Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs confront their pasts in this powerful story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem.
11) Tinkers
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARDIN 2019
2 available
FICTION HARDIN 2019
2 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with an old man who lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past, where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. The story...
12) Olive Kitteridge
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Series
Olive novels volume 1
Formats:
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STROUT 2008
2 available
FICTION STROUT 2008
2 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STROUT 2008
1 available
FICTION STROUT 2008
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STR 2008
1 available
FICTION STR 2008
1 available
On Shelf
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION STR 2008
1 available
LP FICTION STR 2008
1 available
Description
At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DIAZ 2007
1 available
FICTION DIAZ 2007
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DIAZ 2007
1 available
FICTION DIAZ 2007
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Oscar, an overweight Dominican from a New Jersey ghetto, dreams of becoming a writer and finding love, but a Fuku curse has haunted his family for generations, and may well prevent him from attaining his desires.
14) The road
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On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCCART 2006
1 available
FICTION MCCART 2006
1 available
On Shelf
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION MCCART 2006 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION MCCART 2006 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.
15) March
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BROOKS 2005
1 available
FICTION BROOKS 2005
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BROOKS 2005
2 available
FICTION BROOKS 2005
2 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
Description
In a story inspired by the father character in "Little Women" and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his beliefs challenged by his experiences.
16) Gilead
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Series
Gilead novels volume 1
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On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROBINS 2004
1 available
FICTION ROBINS 2004
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROBINS 2004
1 available
FICTION ROBINS 2004
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROBINS 2004
1 available
FICTION ROBINS 2004
1 available
Description
In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
17) The known world
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On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JON 2003
1 available
FICTION JON 2003
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES 2003
1 available
FICTION JONES 2003
1 available
On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION JONES 2003 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION JONES 2003 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Description
Henry Townsend, a former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor--William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation as well as his own slaves. Henry tragically fails to understand the fundamental flaws in his thinking that he can be a better slave master than a white man.
18) Middlesex
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EUGENI 2002
1 available
FICTION EUGENI 2002
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EUGENI 2002
1 available
FICTION EUGENI 2002
1 available
Description
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
19) Empire Falls
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On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RUSSO 2001
1 available
FICTION RUSSO 2001
1 available
On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION RUS 2001 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION RUS 2001 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
With Empire Falls Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America's most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it's Janine, Miles' soon-to-be ex-wife, who's taken...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHA 2000
1 available
FICTION CHA 2000
1 available
Description
Joe Kavalier has managed to escape from Nazi-occupied Prague, and now he must use his cunning wits to help rescue his family from Hitler's evil plans.