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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARCIA 1970
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FICTION GARCIA 1970
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Tells the story of the gradual modernization of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.
A celebration of the endless variety of life in the mythical village of Macondo chronicles the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of the small South American town.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BULGAK 1992
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FICTION BULGAK 1992
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BULGAK 1992
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FICTION BULGAK 1992
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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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One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. Mikhail Bulgakov's fantastical, funny, and devastating satire of Soviet life combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with historical, imaginary, frightful, and wonderful characters. Written during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, and finally published...
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A hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Gibreel and Saladin, are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur--Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is the initial act in an odyssey that merges the actual with the imagined.
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Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
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It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flaneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Paul transforms his body and his gender at will as he crossed the country--a journey and adventure through the deep queer archives...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CALVIN 1978
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FICTION CALVIN 1978
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In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - World Languages
SPANISH FICTION SAR 2000
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SPANISH FICTION SAR 2000
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLEND 1985
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FICTION ALLEND 1985
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALL 2005
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FICTION ALL 2005
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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A remarkably imagined tale of four generations, centered on a land- owning tyrant, and his wife, daughter and grandchild.
As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern and volatile landowner...
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Like water for chocolate volume 1
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ESQUIV 1992
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FICTION ESQUIV 1992
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ESQUIV 1992
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FICTION ESQUIV 1992
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico blends poignant romance, bittersweet wit, and delicious recipes.
This classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes...
This classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION KAF 2003 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION KAF 2003 UNABRIDGED
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"Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A bewitching story collection from the author of White Cat, Black Dog and The Book of Love, hailed as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” (Michael Chabon) and “a national treasure” (Neil Gaiman)
“Ridiculously brilliant . . . These stories make you laugh while staring into the void.”—The Boston...
“Ridiculously brilliant . . . These stories make you laugh while staring into the void.”—The Boston...
12) Beloved: a novel
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRIS 2004
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FICTION MORRIS 2004
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOR 1987
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FICTION MOR 1987
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
FICTION MORRIS 1998
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FICTION MORRIS 1998
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3 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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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION MOR 1987
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LP FICTION MOR 1987
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen.
13) Pedro Paramo
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - World Languages
SPANISH FICTION RULFO 2019
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SPANISH FICTION RULFO 2019
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Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of the author. In one such village of the mind, Comala, he set his classic novel Pedro Páramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a woman who will not be possessed, Susana San Juan.
14) Hopscotch
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Translated by Gregory Rabassa, winner of the National Book Award for Translation, 1967. Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DIAZ 2007
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FICTION DIAZ 2007
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DIAZ 2007
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FICTION DIAZ 2007
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Oscar, an overweight Dominican from a New Jersey ghetto, dreams of becoming a writer and finding love, but a Fuku curse has haunted his family for generations, and may well prevent him from attaining his desires.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COATES 2019
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FICTION COATES 2019
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COATES 2019
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FICTION COATES 2019
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COATES 2019
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FICTION COATES 2019
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION COATES 2019
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CD FICTION COATES 2019
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION COATES 2019
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CD FICTION COATES 2019
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION COATES 2019
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LP FICTION COATES 2019
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION COATES 2019
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LP FICTION COATES 2019
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION COATES 2019
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LP FICTION COATES 2019
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"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
17) The tin drum
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Everyman's library volume 147
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GRA 1993
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FICTION GRA 1993
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New Directions paperbook volume 1066
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
868.6209 BORGES 2007
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868.6209 BORGES 2007
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The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labeled Borgesian. Umberto Eco's international bestseller, The Name of the Rose, is, on one level, an elaborate improvisation on Borges' fiction "The Library,"...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CASTIL 1993
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FICTION CASTIL 1993
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Sofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love in the sleepy New Mexico hamlet of Tome, a town teeming with marvels where the comic and the horrific, the real and the supernatural, reside. -- Back cover.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAMID 2017
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FICTION HAMID 2017
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAMID 2017
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FICTION HAMID 2017
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAMID 2017
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FICTION HAMID 2017
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"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...