Washoe County Library System

With Empire Falls Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America's most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it's Janine, Miles' soon-to-be ex-wife, who's taken...

"Set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands, this gritty debut is a brutal portrait of girlhood and the story of a devotion that festers into untenable desire over the course of one hot summer"--

Wealthy and domineering Thomas Mallen finds he must come to terms with a young man who bears a strong resemblance to him.--

A collection of stories featuring the working-class struggles and self-sabotaging betrayals of mother and daughter protagonists.

"A rousing and uproarious novel of the life, loves, and misadventures of a working-class rogue, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning marked the arrival of one of the most cherished authors in the twenty-first century. At twenty-two years of age, Arthur Seaton is a hard-drinking lathe operator in a bicycle factory. Sharp, rowdy, and attractive, he is a lover of life in the raw, and his enormous vitality comes pouring through, at a family party, at the county...

Sensational, engrossing, and heartbreaking, The Mysteries of Paris is doubtless one of the most entertaining and influential works to emerge from the nineteenth century. It was one of Frances first serial novels, and for sixteen months, Parisians rushed in droves to the newsstands each week for the latest installment. Eug�ene Sues intricate melodrama unfolds around a Paris where, despite the gulf between them, the fortunes of the rich and poor are...

"Sterling Beckenbauer is plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world one morning when they are attacked, then unfairly arrested, in their neighborhood in London. With the help of their friends, Sterling hosts a trial of their own in order to exoneratethemselves and to hold the powers that be to account"-- "Sterling Beckenbauer is plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world one morning when they are attacked, then unfairly arrested, in their...