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"From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life-and, shockingly, love-in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul-it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look at it without turning away. The king couldn't look at...
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"Jenna Jones, former It-girl fashion editor, is forty, broke and desperate for a second chance...She begs for a job from her arch nemesis, Darcy Vale...But Jenna soon realizes she's in over her head...What's worse is that the twenty-two-year-old videographer assigned to shoot her web series is driving her crazy. Wildly sexy with a smile Jenna feels in her thighs, Eric Combs is way off-limits, but almost too delicious to resist"--
3) Eileen
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caregiver in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime,...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
YA 741.5 YAN 2006
1 available
YA 741.5 YAN 2006
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
YA 741.5 YAN 2006
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YA 741.5 YAN 2006
1 available
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Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
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BKM Bookmobile - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION GREEN 2017
1 available
YA FICTION GREEN 2017
1 available
Gerlach Community Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION GREEN 2017
1 available
YA FICTION GREEN 2017
1 available
South Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION GREEN 2017
1 available
YA FICTION GREEN 2017
1 available
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#1 bestselling author John Green returns with his first new novel since The Fault in Our Stars! Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but theres a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Picketts son, Davis. Aza is trying....
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION GRAY 2023
1 available
FICTION GRAY 2023
1 available
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3 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
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"One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter - a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of Bella, but his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald's McCandless's jealous love for Baxter's creation....
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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
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12 copies, 137 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 101 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 101 people are on the wait list.
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"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,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALKER 2019
1 available
FICTION WALKER 2019
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALKER 2022
1 available
FICTION WALKER 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALKER 1982
1 available
FICTION WALKER 1982
1 available
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3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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"Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence."--Page 4 of cover.
"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own...
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12 copies, 113 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 66 people are on the wait list.
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This is the remarkable story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adof Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SMITH 2012
1 available
YA FICTION SMITH 2012
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SMITH 2012
3 available
YA FICTION SMITH 2012
3 available
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Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them back together on a very momentous day.
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. Having missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which...
11) Dear child
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAUSMA 2020
1 available
FICTION HAUSMA 2020
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAUSMA 2020
1 available
FICTION HAUSMA 2020
1 available
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"A woman held captive finally escapes-but can she ever really get away? Gone Girl meets Room in this page-turning, #1 internationally bestselling thriller from one of Germany's hottest new talents "Chilling, original and mesmerizing." -David Baldacci Publishers Weekly Top 10 Mysteries & Thrillers of Fall 2020. A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning...
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
MYSTERY CHRIST 2023
2 available
MYSTERY CHRIST 2023
2 available
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"Enjoy Agatha Christie’s beloved classic, Hallowe’en Party—the inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, coming September 2023, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh—with a new introduction by Michael Green, screenwriter of the film. When a Hallowe’en party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer. At a Halloween party, Joyce—a surly thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder....
13) Hallowe'en party
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 32
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY CHRIST 2011
1 available
MYSTERY CHRIST 2011
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY CHRIST 2011
1 available
MYSTERY CHRIST 2011
1 available
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One of the very respectable guests at the festive Hallowe'en party must have committed murder--someone who had a nasty shock from Joyce's revelation.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DIONNE 2017
1 available
FICTION DIONNE 2017
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DIONNE 2017
1 available
FICTION DIONNE 2017
1 available
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Praised by Lee Child and Karin Slaughter, and sure to thrill fans of The Girl on the Train and The Widow, The Marsh Kings Daughter is mesmerizing psychological suspense, the story of a woman who must risk everything to hunt down the dangerous man who shaped her past and threatens to steal her future: her father. At last, Helena Pelletier has the life she deserves. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters, a business that fills her days. Then she...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
FICTION HARRIS 2021
2 available
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
CD FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
LP FICTION HARRIS 2021
1 available
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"Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only...
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3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. Under the watchful eye of June and the women...
17) The sleepover
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South Valleys Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION MALONE 2016
1 available
J FICTION MALONE 2016
1 available
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Four girls have a sleepover but awaken to find a big mess and no memory of how it all happened.
18) The hiding place
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Holocaust Shelf
940.5349 TENBOO 2006
1 available
940.5349 TENBOO 2006
1 available
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Holocaust Shelf
BIO TEN BOOM 2009
1 available
BIO TEN BOOM 2009
1 available
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO TEN BOOM 1971
1 available
BIO TEN BOOM 1971
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO TEN BOOM 1993 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD BIO TEN BOOM 1993 UNABRIDGED
1 available
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Tells the story of how a middle-aged Dutch watchmaker became a heroine of the Holocaust Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's death camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO BIRD 2006
1 available
BIO BIRD 2006
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO OPPENHEIMER 2006
1 available
BIO OPPENHEIMER 2006
1 available
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2 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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A portrait of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, discusses his role in the twentieth-century scientific world, as well as his roles as family man and head of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies.
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Nonfiction - Holocaust Shelf
J 741.5 PALACI 2019
1 available
J 741.5 PALACI 2019
1 available
Northwest Reno Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 741.5 PALACI 2019
1 available
J 741.5 PALACI 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 741.5 PALACI 2019
1 available
J 741.5 PALACI 2019
1 available
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Tells the story of Julian's Grandmére's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.