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1) Finding me
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
CD BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
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8 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
LP BIO DAVIS 2022
1 available
Description
In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn't always see me. As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given...
Author
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO MCCURDY 2022
2 available
BIO MCCURDY 2022
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO MCCURDY 2022
1 available
BIO MCCURDY 2022
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO MCCURDY 2022
1 available
CD BIO MCCURDY 2022
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO MCCURDY 2022
1 available
CD BIO MCCURDY 2022
1 available
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26 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
14 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
14 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn't tint hers?”...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
814.54 SEDARI 2022
1 available
814.54 SEDARI 2022
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
814.54 SEDARI 2022
1 available
814.54 SEDARI 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
814.54 SEDARI 2022
1 available
814.54 SEDARI 2022
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 814.54 SEDARI 2022
1 available
CD 814.54 SEDARI 2022
1 available
Description
The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scarred America he discovered when he resumed touring.
Author
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO HSU 2022
1 available
BIO HSU 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO HSU 2022
1 available
BIO HSU 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO HSU 2022
1 available
BIO HSU 2022
1 available
Description
"From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.8498 BOND 2022
1 available
616.8498 BOND 2022
1 available
Description
"From journalist and poet Melissa Bond, a gripping account of the author's addiction to benzodiazepines (a family of drugs that includes Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan) and the hidden dangers they pose. As Melissa mothers her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or less each night. She loses her job as a journalist (a casualty of the 2008 recession), and her relationship with...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
302.34 FRANCO 2022
2 available
302.34 FRANCO 2022
2 available
Description
"Is understanding the science of attachment the key to building lasting friendships and finding “your people” in an ever-more-fragmented world? How do we make and keep friends in an era of distraction, burnout, and chaos, especially in a society that often prizes romantic love at the expense of other relationships? In Platonic, Dr. Marisa G. Franco unpacks the latest, often counterintuitive findings about the bonds between us—for example, why...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
363.75 CAMPBE 2022
1 available
363.75 CAMPBE 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
363.75 CAMPBE 2022
1 available
363.75 CAMPBE 2022
1 available
Description
"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people-morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners-who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...
8) The nineties
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.0973 KLOSTE 2022
2 available
306.0973 KLOSTE 2022
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.0973 KLOSTE 2022
1 available
306.0973 KLOSTE 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.0973 KLOSTE 2022
1 available
306.0973 KLOSTE 2022
1 available
Description
"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music. In The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman makes a home in all of it: the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan. In perhaps no other book ever written would a sentence like, “The video for ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was not more consequential than the reunification...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
571.6 MUKHER 2022
2 available
571.6 MUKHER 2022
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
571.6 MUKHER 2022
1 available
571.6 MUKHER 2022
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
571.6 MUKHER 2022
1 available
571.6 MUKHER 2022
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
CD 571.6 MUKHER 2022
1 available
CD 571.6 MUKHER 2022
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
LP 571.6 MUKHER 2023
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LP 571.6 MUKHER 2023
1 available
Description
Presenting revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, the author draws on his own experience as a researcher, doctor, and prolific reader to explore how the discovery of cells created a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulation of cells.
"From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
153.733 HARI 2022
1 available
153.733 HARI 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
153.733 HARI 2022
1 available
153.733 HARI 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
153.733 HARI 2022
1 available
153.733 HARI 2022
1 available
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3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening-and how to get our attention back. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab, is diminishing and depressing. He tried all sorts of self-help...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
591.5 YONG 2022
2 available
591.5 YONG 2022
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
591.5 YONG 2022
1 available
591.5 YONG 2022
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
591.5 YONG 2022
1 available
591.5 YONG 2022
1 available
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3 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world.This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension-the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.4 RADKE 2022
1 available
306.4 RADKE 2022
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.4 RADKE 2022
1 available
306.4 RADKE 2022
1 available
Description
a"Whether we love them or hate them, think they're sexy, think they're strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. A woman's butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, and objectified, from anxious self-examinations...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 WHEATO 2022
1 available
791.4502 WHEATO 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 WHEATON 2022
1 available
791.4502 WHEATON 2022
1 available
Description
In Still Just a Geek, Wil revisits his 2004 collection of blog posts, Just a Geek, filled with insightful and often laugh-out-loud annotated comments, additional later writings, and all new material written for this publication. The result is an incredibly raw and honest memoir, in which Wil opens up about his life, about falling in love, about coming to grips with his past work, choices, and family, and finding fulfillment in the new phases of his...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO GADSBY 2022
1 available
BIO GADSBY 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO GADSBY 2022
1 available
BIO GADSBY 2022
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO GADSBY 2022
1 available
BIO GADSBY 2022
1 available
Description
"Hannah Gadsby's unique standup special Nanette was a viral success--and to some, her worldwide fame may have seemed like an overnight sensation. But like everything else about Gadsby, there's more to her success than meets the eye. In her first book, the queer Australian comedian, writer, and actress takes us through the key moments in her life that ultimately led to the creation of Nanette and her startling declaration that she was quitting comedy....
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO FIERSTEIN 2022
1 available
BIO FIERSTEIN 2022
1 available
Description
"A revealing, poignant, and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award winner. Harvey Fierstein's stellar career has taken him from Broadway to Hollywood and back. He's received accolades and awards for acting-Hairspray, Fiddler, Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day-and writing: La Cage Aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy (for which he also won a Tony for acting) and Kinky Boots. But while he is widely known as one...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO RICKMAN 2022
1 available
BIO RICKMAN 2022
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO RICKMAN 2022
1 available
BIO RICKMAN 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO RICKMAN 2022
2 available
BIO RICKMAN 2022
2 available
Description
An international bestseller One of Barnes and Noble's Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2022 Madly, Deeply is a rare invitation into the mind of Alan Rickman―one of the most magnetic, beloved performers of our time. From his breakout role in Die Hard to his outstanding, multifaceted performances in the Harry Potter films, Galaxy Quest, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and more, Alan Rickman cemented his legacy as a world-class actor. His air...