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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NOVIC 2022
1 available
FICTION NOVIC 2022
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NOVIC 2022
1 available
FICTION NOVIC 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NOVIC 2022
2 available
FICTION NOVIC 2022
2 available
Description
"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked...
2) There there
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ORANGE 2018
1 available
FICTION ORANGE 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ORANGE 2018
1 available
FICTION ORANGE 2018
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 9 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
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION QUADE 2021
1 available
FICTION QUADE 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION QUADE 2021
1 available
FICTION QUADE 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION QUADE 2021
1 available
FICTION QUADE 2021
1 available
Description
"From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans....
4) Yerba Buena
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE LACOUR 2022
1 available
ROMANCE LACOUR 2022
1 available
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"The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two women on a star-crossed journey toward each other. When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that...
5) The swimmers
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OTSUKA 2022
1 available
FICTION OTSUKA 2022
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OTSUKA 2022
2 available
FICTION OTSUKA 2022
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OTSUKA 2022
1 available
FICTION OTSUKA 2022
1 available
Description
From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine, a tour de force of economy, precision, and emotional power about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack appears at the bottom of their local pool. The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE JALALU 2019
2 available
ROMANCE JALALU 2019
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE JALALU 2019
1 available
ROMANCE JALALU 2019
1 available
Description
Reluctantly working as a teacher to pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle, Ayesha Shamsi finds herself falling for her cousin's conservative and judgmental fiancé.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOTT 2021
1 available
FICTION MOTT 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOTT 2021
1 available
FICTION MOTT 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOTT 2021
1 available
FICTION MOTT 2021
1 available
Description
"[A]...work of fiction, both incredibly funny and heartfelt, asking readers to embrace the fantastical in order to get to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon not only Black Americans, but America as a whole"--
In Jason Mott's Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JASWAL 2017
1 available
FICTION JASWAL 2017
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JASWAL 2017
1 available
FICTION JASWAL 2017
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JASWAL 2017
1 available
FICTION JASWAL 2017
1 available
Description
The modern daughter of Indian immigrants in cosmopolitan London impulsively takes a creative writing job to help her family and is assigned to a class of proper Sikh widows who reveal personal memories and fantasies through their writing. 75,000 first printing.
9) Homegoing
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GYASI 2016
1 available
FICTION GYASI 2016
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GYASI 2016
1 available
FICTION GYASI 2016
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GYASI 2016
2 available
FICTION GYASI 2016
2 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION GYASI 2016
1 available
CD FICTION GYASI 2016
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
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3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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"From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer"--
"Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor National Bestseller • Wall Street Journal Bestseller • USA Today Bestseller An NPR Book of the Year Finalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards From the bestselling author...
11) Maame
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GEORGE 2023
1 available
FICTION GEORGE 2023
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GEORGE 2023
1 available
FICTION GEORGE 2023
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION GEORGE 2023
1 available
FICTION GEORGE 2023
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
""An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys--and the guilt--of trying to find your own way in life." --Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Meeting Maame feels like falling in love for the first time: warm, awkward, joyous, a little bit heartbreaking and, most of all, unforgettable." --Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FORD 2022
1 available
FICTION FORD 2022
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FORD 2022
1 available
FICTION FORD 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FORD 2022
1 available
FICTION FORD 2022
1 available
Description
"Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression...