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With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this updated edition of the classic national bestseller reviews the books thirty-five year history and demonstrates once again why it is a significant contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history. Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STEINB 1964
1 available
FICTION STEINB 1964
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STEINB 2006
1 available
FICTION STEINB 2006
1 available
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Set in the California apple country this novel portrays a strike by migrant workers that metamorphoses from principled defiance into blind fanaticism
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STEINB 2005
1 available
FICTION STEINB 2005
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STEINB 2005
1 available
FICTION STEINB 2005
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STEINB 2005
1 available
FICTION STEINB 2005
1 available
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION STE 1998 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION STE 1998 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION STEINB 2008
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LP FICTION STEINB 2008
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Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HANNAH 2021
3 available
FICTION HANNAH 2021
3 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HANNAH 2021
3 available
FICTION HANNAH 2021
3 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
CD FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
CD FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 64 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 64 people are on the wait list.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
2 available
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
1 available
Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
2 available
LP FICTION HANNAH 2021
2 available
Description
"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
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From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After a million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALTER 2020
1 available
FICTION WALTER 2020
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALTER 2020
1 available
FICTION WALTER 2020
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALTER 2020
1 available
FICTION WALTER 2020
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WALTER 2020
1 available
LP FICTION WALTER 2020
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WALTER 2020
1 available
LP FICTION WALTER 2020
1 available
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"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause....
7) The jungle
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SINCLA 2003
1 available
FICTION SINCLA 2003
1 available
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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The horrifying conditions of the Chicago stockyards are revealed through this narrative of a young immigrant's struggles in America.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE SCHULT 2020
1 available
ROMANCE SCHULT 2020
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE SCHULT 2020
1 available
ROMANCE SCHULT 2020
1 available
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"In the 1950s, Ellie and Brick are teenagers in love. A basketball star, Brick could escape his abusive father and be the first person in his working-class family to go to college. But when Ellie becomes pregnant, they marry, she gives up her dream of nursing school, and Brick gets a union card instead. This riveting novel tells the story of three generations in a working-class family; especially Brick and Ellie's daughter Samantha. Illuminating issues...
9) Modern times
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Criterion collection volume 543
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Sierra View Library - DVD / Blu-rays
DVD VIDEO MODERN FULL
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DVD VIDEO MODERN FULL
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When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LAND 2019
1 available
BIO LAND 2019
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LAND 2019
1 available
BIO LAND 2019
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LAND 2019
2 available
BIO LAND 2019
2 available
Description
Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping...
11) The Great Gatsby
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FITZGE 2018
1 available
FICTION FITZGE 2018
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FITZGE 2002
1 available
FICTION FITZGE 2002
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION FITZGE 2002 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION FITZGE 2002 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Description
Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back
"Gatsby embodies the naive American notion that it is possible to invent oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition. Gatsby's youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated by both the display of enormous wealth and the essential integrity that he perceives in Gatsby's vision,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.569 EHRENR 2021
1 available
305.569 EHRENR 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.569 EHR 2001
1 available
305.569 EHR 2001
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.569 EHRENR 2021
1 available
305.569 EHRENR 2021
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Description
In an attempt to understand the lives of Americans earning near-minimum wages, Ehrenreich works as a waitress in Florida, a cleaning woman in Maine, and a sales clerk in Minnesota.
"The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
331.398 BRUDER 2017
1 available
331.398 BRUDER 2017
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
331.398 BRUDER 2017
1 available
331.398 BRUDER 2017
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
331.398 BRUDER 2017
1 available
331.398 BRUDER 2017
1 available
Description
"From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.562 LASKAS 2012
1 available
305.562 LASKAS 2012
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.562 LASKAS 2012
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305.562 LASKAS 2012
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Looks at the remarkable men and women whose low-profile accomplishments contribute to the running of the nation, from coal miners and oil rig workers to migrant laborers and air traffic controllers.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
331.6396 KELLEY 2023
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331.6396 KELLEY 2023
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
331.6396 KELLEY 2023
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331.6396 KELLEY 2023
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An award-winning historian shows how the experiences of the Black working class, from the earliest days of the republic to the essential worker of the Covid pandemic, is essential to a full understanding of the American story.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
331 CRAWFO 2010
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331 CRAWFO 2010
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
331 CRAWFO 2010
1 available
331 CRAWFO 2010
1 available
Description
In this wise and often funny book, a philosopher/mechanic systematically destroys the pretensions of the high-prestige workplace and makes an irresistible case for working with one's hands.
A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands “This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowledge. The book is also quirky, surprising, and sometimes quite...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.36 STOLZO 2023
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306.36 STOLZO 2023
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.36 STOLZO 2023
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306.36 STOLZO 2023
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"Superb."-Oliver Burkeman A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives from its clutches. From the moment we ask children what they want to "be" when they grow up, we exalt the dream job as if it were life's ultimate objective. Many entangle their identities with their jobs, with predictable damage to happiness, wellbeing, and even professional success. In The Good Enough Job, journalist Simone Stolzoff traces how work has...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
331.88 HILLST 2011
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331.88 HILLST 2011
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"Explains the history of the American labor movement from its earliest origins through 19th-century industrialization, the growth of the labor movement, the current declining influence of labor, and efforts to revitalize American unions. Features include a narrative overview, biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index"--Provided by publisher.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BERLIN 2015
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FICTION BERLIN 2015
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"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions." --Paul Metcalf A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With her trademark blend of humor and melancholy, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday--uncovering moments of...
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
331.8929 LOOMIS 2018
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331.8929 LOOMIS 2018
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A thrilling and timely account of ten moments in history when labor challenged the very nature of power in America, by the author called “a brilliant historian” by The Progressive magazine. Powerful and accessible, A History of America in Ten Strikes challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers. In this brilliant book, labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers strikes in American labor...