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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GANESH 2023
1 available
FICTION GANESH 2023
1 available
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"A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor in this “heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war” (Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half). “An achingly moving portrait of a world full of turmoil, but one in which human connections and shared stories can teach us how—and as importantly, why—to survive.”٬٢٠١٤؛Celeste Ng, New York Times...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KINGSO 2022
3 available
FICTION KINGSO 2022
3 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
CD FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
CD FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
CD FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
CD FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
Checked Out
17 copies, 86 people are on the wait list.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
LP FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
LP FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
LP FICTION KINGSO 2022
1 available
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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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OZEKI 2021
1 available
FICTION OZEKI 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OZEKI 2021
2 available
FICTION OZEKI 2021
2 available
Description
"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...
4) Piranesi
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4 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OFARRE 2020
1 available
FICTION OFARRE 2020
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OFARRE 2020
1 available
FICTION OFARRE 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OFARRE 2020
1 available
FICTION OFARRE 2020
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
CD FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
Description
When her new husband artist takes is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising comfort in a longtime friendship, only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned.
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But...
7) Home fire
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHAMSI 2017
1 available
FICTION SHAMSI 2017
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHAMSI 2017
1 available
FICTION SHAMSI 2017
1 available
Description
"From an internationally acclaimed novelist, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart by secrets and driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences. Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, an invitation from a mentor in America has allowed her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ALDERM 2016
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION ALDERM 2016
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ALDERM 2016
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION ALDERM 2016
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ALDERM 2016
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION ALDERM 2016
1 available
Description
When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death.
What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power? In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true...
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Glorious heresies volume 1
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"One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society. Biting, moving and darkly funny, The Glorious Heresies explores salvation, shame and the legacy of Ireland's twentieth-century attitudes to sex and family"-- Provided by publisher.
10) How to be both
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMITH 2014
1 available
FICTION SMITH 2014
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMITH 2014
1 available
FICTION SMITH 2014
1 available
Description
"SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCBRID 2013
1 available
FICTION MCBRID 2013
1 available
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Tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor, touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOMES 2012
1 available
FICTION HOMES 2012
1 available
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Feeling overshadowed by his more-successful younger brother, Harold is shocked by his brother's violent act that irrevocably changes their lives, placing Harold in the role of father figure to his brother's adolescent children and caregiver to his aging parents.
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6 copies, 46 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
Description
Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OBREHT 2011
1 available
FICTION OBREHT 2011
1 available
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Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KINGSO 2013
1 available
FICTION KINGSO 2013
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The Lacuna is the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as well as an unforgettable portrait of the artist—and of art itself. This Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition features beautiful cover artwork on uncoated stock, French flaps, and deckle-edge pages, making it the perfect gift book. Born in the United States, raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd lacks a sense of home in either. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who...
16) Home: a novel
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Gilead novels volume 2
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROB 2008
1 available
FICTION ROB 2008
1 available
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION ROBINS 2008 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION ROBINS 2008 UNABRIDGED
1 available
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION ROB 2008
1 available
LP FICTION ROB 2008
1 available
Description
With her father ailing, Glory Boughton has returned home to Gilead to care for him. Shortly after she returns, her brother Jack shows up after a twenty year absence. As the family copes with the death of their patriarch, they learn valuable lessons about love, death, and the fortitude of familial bonds.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ADI 2006
1 available
FICTION ADI 2006
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMI 2005
1 available
FICTION SMI 2005
1 available
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The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them remains terrifyingly prescient.
Eva never really wanted to be a mother. And certainly not the mother of a boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker,...
Eva never really wanted to be a mother. And certainly not the mother of a boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker,...