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1) King: a life
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"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
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First U.S. edition.
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"What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold. Karl G�onner was a schoolteacher and...
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First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
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"An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman who shared her intellectual passion. Camera Girl brings to cinematic life Jackie’s years as a young, single woman trying to figure out who she wanted to become. Chafing at the expectations...
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“In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman’s personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With...
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"From the bestselling author of 'All You Can Ever Know' comes a searing memoir of class, inequality, and grief--a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you'd hoped. You will learn to live with the specific, hollow guilt of those who leave...
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First edition.
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“Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president—Gerald R. Ford. Ford’s is a very American life, and Smith has charted its vicissitudes and import with great grace and illuminating perspective. A marvelous achievement!” -- Jon Meacham From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including George Washington,...
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"From the woman who is credited for launching what we know as the celebrity focused, "brand" driven, social media obsessed popular culture of today, comes an honest and surprising memoir that reckons with that truth, and shows that there is so much more to Paris Hilton than you might believe. I was born in New York City on February 17, 1981, three days after Valentine's Day. From the time I was a toddler, my brain skipped and flickered with the...
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
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First U.S. edition.
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"Birder, environmentalist and activist Mya-Rose Craig is an international force. In her moving memoir, Birdgirl, she chronicles her mother's struggle with mental illness, and shares her passion for social justice and fierce dedication to preserving our planet. Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as "Birdgirl." In her words: "Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my...
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"A memoir of the author's experience growing up in an apocalyptic cult, with an emphasis on how understanding the natural world was her key to escape and survival"--
"A moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—and the deep understanding of the natural world that helped her find freedom. My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields. ...
10) Death by water
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Born 1/31/1935 - Kenzaburō Ōe
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
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"[Kogito Choko] returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase rumored to hold documents revealing the details of his father's death during World War II, details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final, novel. Since his youth, renowned novelist Kogito Choko planned to fictionalize his father's fatal drowning in order to fully process the loss. Stricken with guilt and regret over his failure to rescue his father, Choko...
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Born 1/31/1923 - Norman Mailer
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAI 2007
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
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Born 1/31/1915 - Thomas Merton
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO MERTON 1981
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BIO MERTON 1981
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO MERTON 1981
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BIO MERTON 1981
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Born 1/31/1872 - Zane Grey
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
WESTERN GREY 2015
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Zane Grey is an American icon, the premier chronicler of the West, and the writer who first brought the frontier to life in all its gritty glory. In this classic western, frontier legend Buffalo Jones won't back down from the most dangerous hunt of all. . .
Big, brash and fearless, Buffalo Jones is in pursuit of the greatest mountain lion ever spotted in the remote Arizona desert. Determined to bring the beast home alive, Jones leads a colorful...
Big, brash and fearless, Buffalo Jones is in pursuit of the greatest mountain lion ever spotted in the remote Arizona desert. Determined to bring the beast home alive, Jones leads a colorful...
14) The trolls
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Born 1/30/1957 - Polly Horvath
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Fiction
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Fiction
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Eccentric Aunt Sally comes from Canada to babysit the Anderson children while their parents are on a trip to Paris and every night the bedtime story adds another piece to a very suspect family history.
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Avaryan rising volume 6
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Born 1/30/1955 - Judith Tarr
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
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Born 1/30/1945 - Michael Dorris
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
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17) Shipstar
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Bowl of heaven volume 2
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Born 1/30/1941 - Gregory Benford
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
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A human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated, with one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants and the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape.
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Born 1/30/1935 - Richard Brautigan
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1st Mariner Books ed.
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
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"Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960sand 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. He came to age during the Haight-Ashbury period and has been called "the last of the Beats." His early books were required reading for the hip generation, and on its publication Trout Fishing in America became an interantional bestseller. An indescribable romp, the novel is best...
19) The great fire
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Born 1/30/1931 - Shirley Hazzard
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAZ 2003
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FICTION HAZ 2003
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
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FICTION HAZ 2003
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Born 1/30/1931 - Allan W. Eckert
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Spanish Springs Library - Children's Fiction
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Spanish Springs Library - Children's Fiction
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J FICTION ECK 1971
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A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger.