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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LYONS 2020
1 available
FICTION LYONS 2020
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LYONS 2020
1 available
FICTION LYONS 2020
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Wanting to organize an assisted death on her own terms, world-weary octogenarian Eudora Honeysett forges an unexpected bond with exuberant ten-year-old Rose, who drags her to tea parties, shopping sprees, and other social excursions.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHEN 2022
1 available
FICTION CHEN 2022
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHEN 2022
1 available
FICTION CHEN 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHEN 2022
1 available
FICTION CHEN 2022
1 available
Description
Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home—she’s built the perfect life. But beneath this façade, Ava’s world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn’t been used in years, and her toddler’s tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava’s enigmatic college...
3) Happiness
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FORNA 2018
1 available
FICTION FORNA 2018
1 available
Description
An American scientist and an Ghanaian psychologist become unlikely partners and friends during a search for a missing child that challenges their perspectives on their careers and happiness.
4) Homie: poems
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.6 SMITH 2020
1 available
811.6 SMITH 2020
1 available
Description
Danez Smith is our president. Homie is Danez Smiths magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smiths close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis,...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RIO 2017
1 available
FICTION RIO 2017
1 available
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description
Entreated to tell his side of the story to a detective who put him in prison a decade earlier for a murder he may not have committed, Oliver Marks describes his past as a Shakespearean actor in college whose rivalry with a cast mate escalated in dangerous ways.
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - World Languages
SPANISH FICTION MARRER 2016
1 available
SPANISH FICTION MARRER 2016
1 available
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“Somos un bonche de mujeres exitosas, algunas con los pies en la tierra, algunas con la cabeza en las nubes y otras con expectativas en el más allá. Todas fuertes, guapas y divertidas y por eso las respeto de corazón. Con o sin marido, mal folladas o felices, en español o en inglés, nuestra única intención en la vida es diseñar y construir un puente indestructible entre nuestros corazones y nuestras mentes.” "Somos María, Linda, Martita,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CLARK 2022
1 available
FICTION CLARK 2022
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CLARK 2022
1 available
FICTION CLARK 2022
1 available
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"Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She's a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to be. A college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. But nothing about her is real. She slides alongside you and tells you exactly what you want to hear, and by the time she's done, you've likely lost everything. Kat Roberts has been waiting ten...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LARKIN 2021
1 available
FICTION LARKIN 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LARKIN 2021
1 available
FICTION LARKIN 2021
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a run-down motorhome, flunking out of school, and picking up shifts at the local diner. But when April realizes she's finally had enough-enough of her selfish, absent father and barely surviving in an unfeeling town-she decides to make a break for it. Stealing a car and with only her music to keep her company, April hits the road, determined to live life on her own terms. She manages to scrape...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ELWARD 2022
1 available
FICTION ELWARD 2022
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ELWARD 2022
1 available
FICTION ELWARD 2022
1 available
Description
"It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate. As their lives begin to take different paths,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KANE 2019
1 available
FICTION KANE 2019
1 available
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Reclusive gardener May Attaway is inspired by her love of classic literature to embark on an odyssey to reconnect with four once-close friends through simple activities and digital encounters that unexpectedly catapult her into viral fame.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LALLI 2021
1 available
FICTION LALLI 2021
1 available
Description
"Serena Singh is tired of everyone telling her what she should want-and she is ready to prove to her mother, her sister, and the aunties in her community that a woman does not need domestic bliss to have a happy life. Things are going according to plan for Serena. She is smart, confident, and just got a kick-ass new job at a top advertising firm in Washington, D.C. Even before her younger sister got married in a big, traditional wedding, Serena knew...
12) Wahala: a novel
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAY 2022
1 available
FICTION MAY 2022
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAY 2022
1 available
FICTION MAY 2022
1 available
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"An incisive and exhilarating debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group-the most unforgettable girls since Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha"--
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Cerulean chronicles volume 1
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7 copies, 55 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 50 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 50 people are on the wait list.
Description
Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light. The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told,...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
177.7 CHANNE 2020
1 available
177.7 CHANNE 2020
1 available
Description
"For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kindness can change the way we view one another, our communities, and even ourselves. She embodies this mission, and through her work, brings more kindness into our world every single day. Lady Gaga has always believed in the importance of being yourself, being kind to yourself, and being kind to others, no matter who they are or where they come from....
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Description
It’s hard for teens to be happy when they’ve created a very narrow window of what defines success. The goal of this helpful book is to encourage teens to maintain their desire to achieve without striving to always be perfect and to appreciate and love who they are just as they are, not for what they do or accomplish. Finding a balance between work and play is key. Challenging perfectionism is about the pursuit of happiness. When teens can recognize...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION ESCOBA 2021
1 available
FICTION ESCOBA 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ESCOBA 2021
1 available
FICTION ESCOBA 2021
1 available
Description
"Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - World Languages
SPANISH FICTION ESCOBA 2020
1 available
SPANISH FICTION ESCOBA 2020
1 available
Description
Both Jocelyn's husband and her beloved Saint-Malo Library are threatened by the arrival of German troops, among them Captain Hermann von Choltitz, who has been sent to purge Paris's libraries, but the book-loving captain refuses to destroy libraries and an unexpected bond develops between him and Jocelyn.
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE CRIMP 2022
1 available
ROMANCE CRIMP 2022
1 available
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"Anna doesn’t fit in. Not with her wealthy classmates at the selective London Conservatory where she unexpectedly wins a place after university, not with the family she left behind, and definitely not with Max, a man she meets in the bar where she sings for cash. He’s everything she’s not—rich, tailored to precision, impossible to read—and before long Anna is hooked, desperate to hold his attention, and determined to ignore the warning signs...
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Checked Out
3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
Drawing on her years of professional experience as a clinical psychologist, the author offers expert advice and powerful coping techniques for fortifying and maintaining mental health, even in the most trying of times.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This inspiring meditation on kindness from the author of Lincoln in the Bardo is based on his popular commencement address.
Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting message struck a deep chord. Within days, it had...
Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting message struck a deep chord. Within days, it had...