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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
153 MONTEL 2024
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153 MONTEL 2024
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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''From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her "witty and brilliant" (Blyth Roberson, author of America the Beautiful?) first book Wordslut and the sociological explorations of her breakout hit Cultish, Amanda...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
305.4842 ROY 2024
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305.4842 ROY 2024
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"The Sally sisters, raised in a rural Jehovah's Witness community in Arkansas, spent their teens and twenties moving between cities and towns in the South and Midwest, working difficult and poorly-paid jobs and falling in and out of relationships. Caughtin an eternal sibling rivalry -- where Lori, younger by a year, protected bold, outgoing, reckless Sam -- the two women eventually married a pair of brothers and settled down in Elkhart, Indiana, just...
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"The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called “burned-over district” of upstate New York, which was producing seers and prophets daily. Most of the new creeds flamed out; Smith’s would endure, becoming the most significant homegrown...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
908.996 GATES 2024
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908.996 GATES 2024
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
908.996 GATES 2024
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908.996 GATES 2024
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"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
363.124 HIGGIN 2024
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363.124 HIGGIN 2024
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting-a riveting history that reads like a thriller"--
"Space Flight See all formats and editions "Vivid…A true-life thriller." —The New York Times • "Gripping history." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) • "Dramatic…[A] moving...
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
289.95 GRISWO 2024
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289.95 GRISWO 2024
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"From the Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold, Circle of Hope is an intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis. "The revolution I wanted to be part of was in the church." Americans have been leaving their churches. Some drift away. Some stay home. And some have been searching for—and finding—more authentic ways to find and follow Jesus. This is the story of one such "radical outpost of Jesus followers" dedicated...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
973.711 LARSON 2024
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973.711 LARSON 2024
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
973.711 LARSON 2024
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973.711 LARSON 2024
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
973.711 LARSON 2024
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973.711 LARSON 2024
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9 copies, 48 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 69 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 69 people are on the wait list.
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP 973.711 LARSON 2024
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LP 973.711 LARSON 2024
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"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson...
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4 copies, 42 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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"A deliciously witty and inspiring memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free. In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to breakthrough as an actor, Bethany Joy Lenz was finally cast as one of the leads on the hit drama One Tree Hill. Her career was about to take off, but her personal life was slowly beginning to unravel. What none of the show’s millions of fans knew,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
277.3083 MCCAMM 2024
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277.3083 MCCAMM 2024
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
277.3083 MCCAMM 2024
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277.3083 MCCAMM 2024
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
277.3083 MCCAMM 2024
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277.3083 MCCAMM 2024
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"An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon's story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes and fears of millions of Americans." Kristin Kobes Du Mez, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus and John Wayne The first definitive book that names the massive social...
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"An award-winning journalist obsessed with obsession, Bianca Bosker's existence was upended when she wandered into the art world—and couldn't look away. Intrigued by artists who hyperventilate around their favorite colors and art fiends who max out credit cards to show hunks of metal they think can change the world, Bosker grew fixated on understanding why art matters and how she—or any of us—could engage with it more deeply. In Get the Picture,...
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"A radical vision for setting impossible goals and being brave enough to see them through-no matter the risk or the challenge-from the creator of hit YouTube channel Ghost Town Living"--
"A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more���a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing impractical dreams. "Inspiring and meditative���the story...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
155.93 CROSLE 2024
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155.93 CROSLE 2024
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
155.93 CROSLE 2024
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155.93 CROSLE 2024
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"How do we live without the ones we love? Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss that is profuse with life. Sloane Crosley is one of our most renowned observers of contemporary behavior, and now the pathos that has been ever present in her trademark wit is on full display. After the pain and confusion of losing her closest friend to suicide, Crosley looks for answers in philosophy and art,...
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"It's been a minute. Readers last sat down with Tiffany in her bestselling debut The Last Black Unicorn. Since then, Haddish has catapulted to A-list fame as the breakout star of Girls Trip. She's walked the Oscars red carpet, released a hit stand-up special with Netflix, and made history as the first Black female comedian to host Saturday Night Live and Shark Week. But it hasn't been all VIP parties and free diving with apex predators. In these...
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The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis.
"For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940–2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into "good trouble." In this first book-length biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis’s upbringing in rural...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO RUSHDIE 2024
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BIO RUSHDIE 2024
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO RUSHDIE 2024
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BIO RUSHDIE 2024
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO RUSHDIE 2024
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BIO RUSHDIE 2024
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP BIO RUSHDIE 2024
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LP BIO RUSHDIE 2024
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''From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife...
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"If you're muddling through the day in a fog, often forgetting why you walked into a room . . . If you feel emotionally flattened, lacking the energy to socialize or feel joy in the small things . . . If you feel an inner void-like something is missing, but you aren't sure what . . . Then this book is for you. Languishing-the state of mental weariness that erodes our self-esteem, motivation, and sense of meaning-can be easy to brush off as the...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
610.82 BLACKS 2024
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610.82 BLACKS 2024
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend...
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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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 book exploring the emerging science on plant intelligence, uncovering plants' complex and unimaginable capabilities and calling into question what we consider to be conscious agents in the natural world"--
"It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
362.2109 HYLTON 2024
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362.2109 HYLTON 2024
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
362.2109 HYLTON 2024
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362.2109 HYLTON 2024
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
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4 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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Recounting her experience in a psychiatric hospital as well as pivotal moments in her life that preceded and followed, a popular artist, in this stunning literary self-portrait, examines the unreasonable expectations and pressures women face in the 21st century as well as the insidious ways men impact their lives.