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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO OGLE 2022
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BIO OGLE 2022
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"Rex Ogle’s companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother’s legacy. In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle’s abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on―to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to...
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION REYNOL 2022
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YA FICTION REYNOL 2022
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION REYNOL 2022
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YA FICTION REYNOL 2022
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION REYNOL 2022
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YA FICTION REYNOL 2022
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"A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it means to not be able to breathe, and how the people and things you love most are actually the oxygen you most need"--
3) All my rage
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION TAHIR 2022
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YA FICTION TAHIR 2022
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Gerlach Community Library - Young Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
YA FICTION TAHIR 2022
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YA FICTION TAHIR 2022
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Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION TAHIR 2022
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YA FICTION TAHIR 2022
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Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else...
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Sierra View Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION LOWE 2022
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J FICTION LOWE 2022
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A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who now can't always get out of bed in the morning. As tensions...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION KUANG 2022
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SCIENCE FICTION KUANG 2022
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4 copies, 48 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 14 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 14 people are on the wait list.
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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War “Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass From award-winning author R. F....
6) Berry song
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Picture Books
J E GOADE 2022
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J E GOADE 2022
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On an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea, a girl and her grandmother gather gifts from the earth. Salmon from the stream, herring eggs from the ocean, and in the forest, a world of berries. Salmonberry, Cloudberry, Blueberry, Nagoonberry. Huckleberry, Snowberry, Strawberry, Crowberry. Through the seasons, they sing to the land as the land sings to them. Brimming with joy and gratitude, in every step of their journey, they forge a deeper kinship...
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South Valleys Library - Children's Picture Books
J E COHEN 2022
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J E COHEN 2022
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In the new country, Shirley and her family all have big dreams. Take the family store: Shirley has great ideas about how to make it more modern! Prettier! More profitable! She even thinks she can sell the one specialty no one seems to want to try: Mama's homemade gefilte fish. But her parents think she's too young to help. And anyway they didn't come to America for their little girl to work. "Go play with the cat!" they urge. This doesn't stop Shirley's...
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"Ziva will do anything to save her twin brother Pesah from his illness--even facing the Angel of Death himself. Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and the twins have spent most of that time working on a cure. Then Pesah has a vision: The Angel of Death will come for him on Rosh Hashanah, just one month away. So Ziva takes her brother and runs away to find doctors who can cure him. But when they meet and accidentally free a half-demon boy, he...
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SYLVES 2022
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YA FICTION SYLVES 2022
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SYLVES 2022
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YA FICTION SYLVES 2022
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SYLVES 2022
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YA FICTION SYLVES 2022
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"Veronica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplasia, auditions to become a mermaid at a Central Florida theme park in the summer before her senior year, all while figuring out her first real boyfriend and how to feel safe in her own body. Verónica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid...
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Gerlach Community Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION TIRADO 2022
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YA FICTION TIRADO 2022
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION TIRADO 2022
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YA FICTION TIRADO 2022
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Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of friends determined to save their city at any cost. Stranger Things meets Jordan Peele in this utterly original debut from an incredible new voice. For over a year, the Bronx has been plagued by sudden disappearances that no one can explain. Sixteen-year-old Raquel does her best to ignore it. After all, the police only look for the white kids. But when her crush...
11) Chef's kiss
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"Now that college is over, English graduate Ben Cook is on the job hunt looking for something…anything…related to his passion for reading and writing. But interview after interview, hiring committee after hiring committee, Ben soon learns getting the dream job won't be as easy as he thought. Proofreading? Journalism? Copywriting? Not enough experience. It turns out he doesn't even have enough experience to be a garbage collector! But when Ben...
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South Valleys Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 932.3 JOY 2022
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J 932.3 JOY 2022
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Sparks Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 932.3 JOY 2022
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J 932.3 JOY 2022
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"A picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement. Mamie Till-Mobley is the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was brutally murdered while visiting the South in 1955. His death became a rallying point for the civil rights movement, but few know that it was his mother who was the catalyst for bringing his name to the forefront of...
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Picture Books
J E GONZAL 2022
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J E GONZAL 2022
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"Co-qui, co-qui! The coqui frogs sing to Elena from her family's beloved mango tree--their calls so familiar that they might as well be singing, "You are home, you are safe." But home is suddenly not safe when a hurricane threatens to destroy everything that Elena knows. As time passes, Elena, alongside her community, begins to rebuild their home, planting seeds of hope along the way. When the sounds of the coquies gradually return, they reflect the...
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Celestial kingdom volume 1
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TAN 2022
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FICTION TAN 2022
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION TAN 2022
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SCIENCE FICTION TAN 2022
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A young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm and sets her on a dangerous path—where choices come with deadly consequences, and she risks losing more than her heart. Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the powerful Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. But when Xingyin’s magic flares and...
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South Valleys Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION MONTAN 2022
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J FICTION MONTAN 2022
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"During the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, siblings Soccoro and Paco must live with constant secrets while they wait to reunite with their father, who fled Spain due to political persecution"--
"A resonant, captivating book about a brother and sister caught in a dark chapter of world history. Between 1936 and 1939, a civil war raged across Spain. For almost three years, ordinary citizens lived in fear of bombs dropping from the sky. When fascist...
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South Valleys Library - Children's Picture Books
SPANISH J E GONZAL 2022
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SPANISH J E GONZAL 2022
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Three girls follow their grandmother into her garden, where they examine her collection of rocks, crystals, shells, and meteorites and learn about the marvels they reveal.
17) Dragonfly eyes
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South Valleys Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION CAO 2022
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J FICTION CAO 2022
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"Taking readers from 1920s France to postwar Shanghai and through the Chinese Cultural Revolution, this compelling family saga follows Ah-Mei and her grandmother, who share a rare bond that gives them the strength to carry on when their family is left with almost nothing"--
"A 2023 Batchelder Honor Book From acclaimed Chinese author Cao Wenxuan, recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, comes a compelling family saga spanning fifty years and...
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION REYNOL 2022
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YA FICTION REYNOL 2022
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Sixteen-year-old Shira is on a mission to find the perfect boyfriend over Hanukkah, but after getting snowed in on Nantucket with her nemesis-slash-former-crush her plans begin to go off the rails.
A sixteen-year-old girl is on a mission to find the perfect boyfriend this Hanukkah, but love might not go according to plan, in this charming winter romcom from the author of The Summer of Lost Letters. Shira Barbanel has a plan: this Hanukkah, she’s...
19) ellen outside the lines
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
617.52 HENLEY 2021
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617.52 HENLEY 2021
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"At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome- a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive it. Growing up, Ariel and her sister endured numerous appearance-altering procedures. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the physical aspect of their condition was painful, it...