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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GUNTY 2022
1 available
FICTION GUNTY 2022
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GUNTY 2022
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FICTION GUNTY 2022
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GUNTY 2022
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FICTION GUNTY 2022
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The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck. C8 harbors an extraordinary fear. But C4 is of particular interest. Here live four teenagers who have recently aged out of the...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOTT 2021
1 available
FICTION MOTT 2021
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOTT 2021
1 available
FICTION MOTT 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOTT 2021
1 available
FICTION MOTT 2021
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"[A]...work of fiction, both incredibly funny and heartfelt, asking readers to embrace the fantastical in order to get to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon not only Black Americans, but America as a whole"--
In Jason Mott's Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION YU 2020
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FICTION YU 2020
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION YU 2020
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FICTION YU 2020
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"From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play."--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE CHOI 2019
1 available
ROMANCE CHOI 2019
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE CHOI 2019
1 available
ROMANCE CHOI 2019
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE CHOI 2019
1 available
ROMANCE CHOI 2019
1 available
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In 1982 in a southern city, David and Sarah, two freshmen at a highly competitive performing arts high school, thrive alongside their school peers in a rarified bubble, ambitiously devoting themselves to their studiesto music, to movement, to Shakespeare and, particularly, to classes taught by the magnetic acting teacher Mr. Kingsley. It is here in these halls that David and Sarah fall innocently and powerfully into first love. And also where, as...
5) The friend
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NUNEZ 2018
2 available
FICTION NUNEZ 2018
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NUNEZ 2018
1 available
FICTION NUNEZ 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NUNEZ 2018
1 available
FICTION NUNEZ 2018
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Becoming the guardian of her late best friend's enormous Great Dane, a grieving woman is evicted from her no-pets apartment and forges a deep bond with the equally distraught animal in ways that initially disturb her friends. By the award-winning author of Salvation City.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2017
1 available
FICTION WARD 2017
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2017
2 available
FICTION WARD 2017
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2017
1 available
FICTION WARD 2017
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"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
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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
1 available
FICTION WHITEH 2016
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WHITEH 2016
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CD FICTION WHITEH 2016
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WHITEH 2016
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LP FICTION WHITEH 2016
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WHITEH 2016
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LP FICTION WHITEH 2016
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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 JOHNSO 2015
1 available
FICTION JOHNSO 2015
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNSO 2015
2 available
FICTION JOHNSO 2015
2 available
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"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed and bestselling novel The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson is one of America's most provocative and powerful authors. In Fortune Smiles--his first book since Orphan Master--he continues to give voice to characters rarely heard from, while offering something we all seek from fiction: a new way of looking at our world. In six masterly stories, Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters,...
9) Redeployment
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KLAY 2014
1 available
FICTION KLAY 2014
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KLAY 2014
2 available
FICTION KLAY 2014
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From the publisher. Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos. In "Redeployment", a soldier who has had to shoot dogs because they were eating human...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCBRID 2013
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FICTION MCBRID 2013
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION MCBRID 2013 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION MCBRID 2013 UNABRIDGED
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
11) The round house
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ERDRIC 2012
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FICTION ERDRIC 2012
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION ERDRIC 2012
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FICTION ERDRIC 2012
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When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
FICTION WARD 2011
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GORDON 2010
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FICTION GORDON 2010
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At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters, scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain, through a year and four races at Indian Mount Downs,...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCCANN 2009
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FICTION MCCANN 2009
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A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MATTHI 2008
2 available
FICTION MATTHI 2008
2 available
Description
Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.
16) Tree of smoke
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNSO 2007
1 available
FICTION JOHNSO 2007
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The lives of Skip Sands, a spy-in-training engaged in psychological operations against the Vietcong, and brothers Bill and James Houston, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war, intertwine in a novel of America during the Vietnam War.
17) The echo maker
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION POW 2006
1 available
FICTION POW 2006
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Winner of the National Book Award
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's The Echo Maker, a powerful novel about family and loss.
"Wise and elegant . . . The mysteries unfold so organically and stealthily that you are unaware of his machinations until they come to stunning fruition . . . Powers accomplishes
19) news from paraguay
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