- Browse
- » Your Account
- » List
1) Afterlives
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GURNAH 2022
1 available
FICTION GURNAH 2022
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GURNAH 2022
1 available
FICTION GURNAH 2022
1 available
Senior Center Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GURNAH 2022
1 available
FICTION GURNAH 2022
1 available
Description
"From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza too, is...
Author
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
951.06 OSNOS 2014
1 available
951.06 OSNOS 2014
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
951.06 OSNOS 2014
1 available
951.06 OSNOS 2014
1 available
Description
"A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy--or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don't see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes....
Author
On Shelf
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION DOERR 2014
1 available
CD FICTION DOERR 2014
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION DOERR 2014 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION DOERR 2014 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Checked Out
12 copies, 127 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
9 copies, 90 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
9 copies, 90 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
Author
On Shelf
Downtown Reno 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
Checked Out
5 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP FICTION COSBY 2023
1 available
LP FICTION COSBY 2023
1 available
Description
"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...
Author
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES 2018
3 available
FICTION JONES 2018
3 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
FICTION JONES 2018
1 available
On Shelf
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...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
365.973 BAUER 2018
1 available
365.973 BAUER 2018
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
365.973 BAUER 2018
1 available
365.973 BAUER 2018
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
365.973 BAUER 2018
1 available
365.973 BAUER 2018
1 available
On Shelf
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 365.973 BAUER 2018
1 available
CD 365.973 BAUER 2018
1 available
Description
"A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. IIn 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Senior Center Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
Description
Marie Mitchell, a Cold War FBI intelligence officer, joins an undercover task force to undermine Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary Communist president of Burkina Faso, who she secretly admires and comes to love, in a novel inspired by true events.
Author
Description
"A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--
Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 2
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STROUT 2017
2 available
FICTION STROUT 2017
2 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STROUT 2017
1 available
FICTION STROUT 2017
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STROUT 2017
1 available
FICTION STROUT 2017
1 available
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION STROUT 2017
1 available
CD FICTION STROUT 2017
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION STROUT 2017
1 available
CD FICTION STROUT 2017
1 available
Description
"Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love...
Author
On Shelf
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
796.342 ASHE 2018
1 available
796.342 ASHE 2018
1 available
Description
The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe, a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual. Biographer Raymond Arsenault chronicles Ashes rise to stardom on the court, but much of the book explores his off-court career as a human rights activist, philanthropist, broadcaster, writer, businessman, and celebrity. In the 1970s...
Author
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
797.32 FINNEG 2015
1 available
797.32 FINNEG 2015
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
797.32 FINNEG 2015
1 available
797.32 FINNEG 2015
1 available
Description
Describes the author's experiences as a lifelong surfer, from his early years in Honolulu through his culturally sophisticated pursuits of perfect waves in some of the world's most exotic locales.
12) basketball and other things a collection of questi
This entry no longer exists in the catalog
Author
Series
Description
In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life. Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth.
As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of ex-cons, and the ghosts of his own checkered past, Woodrell's three seminal novels pit long-entrenched criminals against the hard line of the law, brother against brother, and two vastly different sons against a long-absent
...14) Becoming
Author
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO OBAMA 2018
1 available
BIO OBAMA 2018
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO OBAMA 2018
2 available
BIO OBAMA 2018
2 available
In Processing - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO OBAMA 2018
4 available
BIO OBAMA 2018
4 available
On Shelf
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO OBAMA 2018
1 available
CD BIO OBAMA 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO OBAMA 2018
2 available
CD BIO OBAMA 2018
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO OBAMA 2018
1 available
CD BIO OBAMA 2018
1 available
On Shelf
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO OBAMA 2018
1 available
LP BIO OBAMA 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO OBAMA 2018
1 available
LP BIO OBAMA 2018
1 available
Description
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily...
Author
On Shelf
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
362.175 GAWAND 2014
1 available
362.175 GAWAND 2014
1 available
On Shelf
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 362.175 GAWAND 2014
1 available
CD 362.175 GAWAND 2014
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP 362.175 GAWAND 2015
1 available
LP 362.175 GAWAND 2015
1 available
Description
Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Gawande asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.
Author
On Shelf
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.8 COATES 2015
1 available
305.8 COATES 2015
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.8 COATES 2015
1 available
305.8 COATES 2015
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.8 COATES 2015
1 available
305.8 COATES 2015
1 available
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 305.8 COATES 2015
1 available
CD 305.8 COATES 2015
1 available
In Processing - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 305.8 COATES 2015
1 available
CD 305.8 COATES 2015
1 available
On Shelf
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP 305.8 COATES 2015
1 available
LP 305.8 COATES 2015
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP 305.8 COATES 2015
1 available
LP 305.8 COATES 2015
1 available
Description
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis.
17) Birnam Wood
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CATTON 2023
1 available
FICTION CATTON 2023
1 available
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CATTON 2023
2 available
FICTION CATTON 2023
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CATTON 2023
1 available
FICTION CATTON 2023
1 available
Checked Out
6 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 6 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...
Author
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKER 2022
1 available
FICTION WILKER 2022
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKER 2022
1 available
FICTION WILKER 2022
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKER 2022
1 available
FICTION WILKER 2022
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WILKER 2022
1 available
LP FICTION WILKER 2022
1 available
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...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CLARKE 2023
1 available
FICTION CLARKE 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CLARKE 2023
1 available
FICTION CLARKE 2023
1 available
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...
Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 2
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EGAN 2022
1 available
FICTION EGAN 2022
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EGAN 2022
1 available
FICTION EGAN 2022
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EGAN 2022
1 available
FICTION EGAN 2022
1 available
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
CD FICTION EGAN 2022
1 available
CD FICTION EGAN 2022
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...