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1) Fire rush
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CROOKS 2023
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FICTION CROOKS 2023
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"Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, and self-discovery that vibrates with the liberating power of music Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she goes raving with her friends, the "Tombstone Estate gyals," at The Crypt, an underground dub reggae club in their industrial town on the outskirts of London. Raised by her distant father after her mother's disappearance when she was a girl, Yamaye...
2) Trespasses
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION KENNED 2022
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FICTION KENNED 2022
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"“Brilliant, beautiful, heartbreaking.”٬٢٠١٤؛J.Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Book Review “TRESPASSES vaults Kennedy into the ranks of such contemporary masters as McCann, Claire Keegan, Colin Barrett, and fellow Sligo resident, Kevin Barry.” —Oprah Daily Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion. Amid daily reports...
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4 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 41 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 41 people are on the wait list.
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"Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father...
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17 copies, 179 people are on the wait list.
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28 copies, 212 people are on the wait list.
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28 copies, 212 people are on the wait list.
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The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
"From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLENA 2021
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FICTION ALLENA 2021
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"Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a boutique in Port of Spain, but behind closed doors she’s covering up bruises from her abusive partner and seeking solace in an affair with her boss. When she witnesses a woman murdered by a jealous lover, the reality of her own future comes a little too close to home. Bringing us her truth in an arresting, unsparing Trinidadian voice, Alethea unravels...
6) Great circle
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHIPST 2021
2 available
FICTION SHIPST 2021
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHIPST 2021
2 available
FICTION SHIPST 2021
2 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHIPST 2021
1 available
FICTION SHIPST 2021
1 available
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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A century after daredevil female aviator Marian Graves's disappearance in Antarctica, actress Hadley Baxter is cast to play her and immerses herself in the role as their fates - and their dreams - become intertwined.
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHAFAK 2021
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FICTION SHAFAK 2021
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHAFAK 2021
1 available
FICTION SHAFAK 2021
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3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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A novel about belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.
It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MASON 2021
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FICTION MASON 2021
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Pushing away her devoted husband, a once-successful writer moves back into her bohemian childhood home, where she struggles to come to terms with the mental illness that has overshadowed her life.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OZEKI 2021
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FICTION OZEKI 2021
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OZEKI 2021
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FICTION OZEKI 2021
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OZEKI 2021
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FICTION OZEKI 2021
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"A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being After the tragic death his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house-a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ERDRIC 2021
2 available
FICTION ERDRIC 2021
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ERDRIC 2021
2 available
FICTION ERDRIC 2021
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ERDRIC 2021
1 available
FICTION ERDRIC 2021
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION ERDRIC 2021
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LP FICTION ERDRIC 2021
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Over the course of one year, a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted by its most annoying customer.
A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve...
11) The undertaking
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAGEE 2014
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FICTION MAGEE 2014
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"In a desperate bid to escape the trenches of the Eastern front, Peter Faber, an ordinary German soldier, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met, in a marriage of convenience that promises 'honeymoon' leave for him and a pension for her should he die in the war. With ten days' leave secured, Peter visits his new wife in Berlin, and both are surprised by the passion that develops between them. When Peter returns to the horror of the front,...
13) Paradise
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOR 1997
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FICTION MOR 1997
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOR 1997
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FICTION MOR 1997
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOR 1997
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FICTION MOR 1997
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Following the lives of 4 young women, this novel tells the story of a war (cultural, racial, religious) between two communities, each claiming a patent on the truth, each convinced it is defending Paradise.
14) The outcast
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JON 2008
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FICTION JON 2008
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JON 2008
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FICTION JON 2008
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As menacing as it is beautiful, THE OUTCAST is a devastating portrait of small-town hypocrisy from an astonishing new voice poised for international recognition.
It’s 1957 and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community.
A decade earlier, his father’s homecoming casts a different
...15) no bones
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16) The night watch
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WAT 2006
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FICTION WAT 2006
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WATERS 2006
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FICTION WATERS 2006
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"[A] wonderful novel...Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character."-Chicago Tribune Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners-three women and a young man with a past-whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tragedy, stunning surprise and...
19) The bees
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A member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, Flora 717, due to her courage and strength, finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum where she discovers secrets about the hive that cause her to challenge authority and perform unthinkable acts.
20) The accidental
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMI 2005
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FICTION SMI 2005
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