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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
362.5097 DESMON 2023
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362.5097 DESMON 2023
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
362.5097 DESMON 2023
1 available
362.5097 DESMON 2023
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
362.5097 DESMON 2023
1 available
362.5097 DESMON 2023
1 available
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5 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP 362.5097 DESMON 2023
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LP 362.5097 DESMON 2023
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"The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: The Washington Post, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Elle, Salon, Lit Hub, Kirkus Reviews The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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9 copies, 78 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 89 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 89 people are on the wait list.
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CLARKE 2023
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FICTION CLARKE 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CLARKE 2023
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FICTION CLARKE 2023
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Description
"Our narrator is a gifted photographer, an uncertain wife, an infertile mother, a biracial woman in an unraveling America. As she grapples with a lifetime of ambivalence about motherhood, yet another act of police brutality makes headlines, and this timethe victim is Noah, a boy in her photography class. Unmoored by the grief of a recent devastating miscarriage and Noah's fight for his life, she worries she can no longer chase the hope of having a...
4) King: a life
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO KING 2023
1 available
BIO KING 2023
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO KING 2023
1 available
BIO KING 2023
1 available
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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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"--
"“Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable . . . Eig’s book is worthy of its subject.” ―Dwight Garner, The New York Times "[King is] infused with the narrative energy of a thriller . . . The most compelling account of King’s life in a generation.”...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NAPOLI 2023
1 available
FICTION NAPOLI 2023
1 available
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11 copies, 104 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 145 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 145 people are on the wait list.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP FICTION NAPOLI 2023
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LP FICTION NAPOLI 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION NAPOLI 2023
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LP FICTION NAPOLI 2023
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Description
"William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION COSBY 2023
1 available
FICTION COSBY 2023
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION COSBY 2023
1 available
FICTION COSBY 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION COSBY 2023
2 available
FICTION COSBY 2023
2 available
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5 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP FICTION COSBY 2023
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LP FICTION COSBY 2023
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"Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface. Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the...
7) Birnam Wood
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CATTON 2023
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FICTION CATTON 2023
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CATTON 2023
2 available
FICTION CATTON 2023
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CATTON 2023
2 available
FICTION CATTON 2023
2 available
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6 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
Description
""Birnam Wood is terrific. As a multilayered, character-driven thriller, it's as good as it gets. Ruth Rendell would have loved it. A beautifully textured work-what a treat." -Stephen King "One of the finest writers of our time." -Jonathan Ruppin, The Independent The Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive. Birnam Wood is on the...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION NNURO 2023
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FICTION NNURO 2023
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION NNURO 2023
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FICTION NNURO 2023
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"America is seen through the eyes and ambitions of three characters with ties to Africa in this gripping novel"--
"America is seen through the eyes and ambitions of three characters with ties to Africa in this gripping novel When siblings Jacob and Belinda Nti were growing up in Ghana, their goal was simple: to move to America. For them, the United States was both an opportunity and a struggle, a goal and an obstacle. Jacob, an awkward computer...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION LEHANE 2023
2 available
FICTION LEHANE 2023
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION LEHANE 2023
2 available
FICTION LEHANE 2023
2 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION LEHANE 2023
1 available
FICTION LEHANE 2023
1 available
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4 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP FICTION LEHANE 2023
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LP FICTION LEHANE 2023
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Description
"The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston’s history. In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,”...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SAUNDE 2022
2 available
FICTION SAUNDE 2022
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SAUNDE 2022
1 available
FICTION SAUNDE 2022
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SAUNDE 2022
1 available
FICTION SAUNDE 2022
1 available
Description
""The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned--Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKER 2022
2 available
FICTION WILKER 2022
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKER 2022
4 available
FICTION WILKER 2022
4 available
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3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WILKER 2022
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LP FICTION WILKER 2022
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Description
"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHAN 2022
1 available
FICTION CHAN 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHAN 2022
1 available
FICTION CHAN 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHAN 2022
2 available
FICTION CHAN 2022
2 available
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence. Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one very bad day. To regain custody, Frida must spend a year...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY SERPEL 2022
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MYSTERY SERPEL 2022
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY SERPEL 2022
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MYSTERY SERPEL 2022
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Description
"I don’t want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt. Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother, Wayne, is seven. One day, when they’re alone together, there is an accident and Wayne is lost forever. His body is never recovered. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt. Their father leaves, starts another family elsewhere. But their mother can’t give up hope and launches an organization dedicated to missing children....
14) Trust
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5 copies, 41 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.
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"An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century New York, about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in affluence and grandeur, their marriage excites...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MANDEL 2022
2 available
SCIENCE FICTION MANDEL 2022
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MANDEL 2022
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION MANDEL 2022
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MANDEL 2022
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION MANDEL 2022
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
CD SCIENCE FICTION MANDEL 2022
1 available
CD SCIENCE FICTION MANDEL 2022
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP SCIENCE FICTION MANDEL 2022
1 available
LP SCIENCE FICTION MANDEL 2022
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP SCIENCE FICTION MANDEL 2022
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LP SCIENCE FICTION MANDEL 2022
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Description
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal-an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO ADAMS 2022
1 available
BIO ADAMS 2022
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO ADAMS 2022
1 available
BIO ADAMS 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO ADAMS 2022
1 available
BIO ADAMS 2022
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
CD BIO ADAMS 2022
1 available
CD BIO ADAMS 2022
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP BIO ADAMS 2023
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LP BIO ADAMS 2023
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Description
"Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd and eloquent man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. He employed every tool available to rally a town,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO OBAMA 2022
2 available
BIO OBAMA 2022
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO OBAMA 2022
1 available
BIO OBAMA 2022
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO OBAMA 2022
1 available
BIO OBAMA 2022
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO OBAMA 2022
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CD BIO OBAMA 2022
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO OBAMA 2022
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CD BIO OBAMA 2022
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6 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 9 people are on the wait list.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
LP BIO OBAMA 2022
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LP BIO OBAMA 2022
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO OBAMA 2022
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LP BIO OBAMA 2022
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Description
"In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life's big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux....
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
338.2728 BEATON 2022
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338.2728 BEATON 2022
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
338.2728 BEATON 2022
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338.2728 BEATON 2022
2 available
Description
"Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
917.504 PERRY 2022
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917.504 PERRY 2022
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
917.504 PERRY 2022
1 available
917.504 PERRY 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
917.504 PERRY 2022
1 available
917.504 PERRY 2022
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"An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South--and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America"--
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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
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
591.5 YONG 2022
1 available
591.5 YONG 2022
1 available
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3 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 17 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...