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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MALHOT 2022
1 available
FICTION MALHOT 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MALHOT 2022
1 available
FICTION MALHOT 2022
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MALHOT 2022
1 available
FICTION MALHOT 2022
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"On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perfume bottles in his family’s ittar shop in Lahore. Over the years that follow, the perfumer’s apprentice and calligrapher’s apprentice fall in love with their ancient crafts and with each other, dreaming of the life they will one day share. But as the struggle for Indian independence gathers force, their beloved city is ravaged by Partition. Suddenly,...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION DESAI 2023
1 available
FICTION DESAI 2023
1 available
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"To exonerate her best friend, one woman must mastermind a jewelry heist during the wedding of the season in this hilarious romantic-comedy caper. Simi Chopra is on a bad-luck streak. She's lost yet another job, her student loan debt won't stop growing, her basement apartment is a certifiable flood zone, and now her best friend has been accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond necklace. To put it lightly, she's desperate for a break-that's...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
MYSTERY SUTANT 2023
1 available
MYSTERY SUTANT 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY SUTANT 2023
2 available
MYSTERY SUTANT 2023
2 available
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5 copies, 43 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP MYSTERY SUTANT 2023
1 available
LP MYSTERY SUTANT 2023
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"Knives Out meets Kim's Convenience in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady-ah, lady of a certain age-who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GUNS 2023
1 available
FICTION GUNS 2023
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GUNS 2023
1 available
FICTION GUNS 2023
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"In this spiky and hilarious 21st century reboot of the iconic film Taxi Driver, a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity and a living wage . . . until she decides she's done waiting. Damani is tired. Her father justpassed away and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in the basement of her parents' old house, caring for her mom, and driving for an app to (not even) pay the bills. Protests are all the rage--everybody's...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CHANGE 2023
1 available
FICTION CHANGE 2023
1 available
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"For readers of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a dazzling historical novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power. Named a Most Anticipated Novel by: Washington Post * Goodreads * LitHub * NetGalley's We Are Bookish * Debutiful * Our Culture * The Chicago Review of Books * The Rumpus * Tor.com When Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay...
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""I have a soft spot for underdogs. And late bloomers. You’ve told me a lot of things about yourself, so let me tell you something about me." After thirty-six years of a dutiful but unhappy arranged marriage, recently divorced Suresh and Lata Raman find themselves starting new paths in life. Suresh is trying to navigate the world of online dating on a website that caters to Indians and is striking out at every turn—until he meets a mysterious,...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PIN 2023
1 available
FICTION PIN 2023
1 available
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"A boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, expanding into a luminous meditation on ancestry and love. After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JHA 2023
1 available
FICTION JHA 2023
1 available
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"Dr. Oliver Harding, a tenured professor of English, is long settled into the routines of a divorced, aging academic. But his quiet, staid life is upended by his new colleague, Ruhaba Khan, a dynamic Pakistani Muslim law professor. Ruhaba unexpectedly ignites Oliver's long-dormant passions, a secret desire that quickly tips towards obsession after her teenaged nephew, Adil Alam, arrives from France to stay with her. Getting to know them, Oliver tries...
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"A young woman's rootless past and uncertain future collide when she brings her white fiancé home to meet her Chinese immigrant parents, toppling her carefully constructed life in this vibrant, insightful debut from an exciting new voice in fiction. Audrey Zhou left Hickory Grove, the tiny town in central Illinois where she grew up, as soon as high school ended, and she never looked back. She moved to New York City and became the person she always...
30) The rope artist
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"The aftermath of the murder of a bondage teacher reveals the darkest corners of the human mind in this chilling new mystery from the master of Japanese literary noir. Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body— then two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan’s underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, cleansing, and sacrifice. As Togashi,...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION YU 2023
1 available
FICTION YU 2023
1 available
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An epic multigenerational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation"--
"From the National Book Award winning author, an extraordinary, ground-breaking, epic multi-generational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation. In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag. Nearly a century later,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
SCIENCE FICTION MIN 2023
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION MIN 2023
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
SCIENCE FICTION MIN 2023
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION MIN 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MIN 2023
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION MIN 2023
1 available
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"The mere act of walking on the Earth is a challenge for our most unusual protagonist -- a shapeshifting, gender-bending alien. After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, they find themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet, where gravity isa disabling force. They'll need to practice walking in the Earth's atmosphere to survive. And what better way to practice than hunt delicious humans? They chooses their prey, shifts their gender,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Children's Fiction
FICTION GITANJ 2023
1 available
FICTION GITANJ 2023
1 available
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"WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic about a family-especially its inimitable octogenarian matriarch-in northern India. An eighty-year-old woman, Ma, slips into a deep depression after the death ofher husband. Despite her family's cajoling, she refuses to get up from bed. Her responsible eldest son, Bade, and dutiful, Reebok-sporting daughter-in-law, Bahu, flit around trying to attend to Ma's...
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"In a small coastal town just a stone's throw from Tokyo, a prestigious piano competition is underway. Over the course of two feverish weeks, three students will experience some of the most joyous--and painful--moments of their lives. Though they don't know it yet, each will profoundly and unpredictably change the others, forever"--
"Tender and intense, Honeybees and Distant Thunder is the unflinching story of love, courage and rivalry as three young...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY JASWAL 2023
1 available
MYSTERY JASWAL 2023
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY JASWAL 2023
1 available
MYSTERY JASWAL 2023
1 available
Description
"Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help!From Reese’s Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes a wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own. “Tender and heartfelt, Now You See us also manages to be laugh-out-loud funny. An uplifting story of courage and hope that will keep you enthralled until the very last page.—Jean...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHROFF 2023
1 available
FICTION SHROFF 2023
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHROFF 2023
1 available
FICTION SHROFF 2023
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHROFF 2023
1 available
FICTION SHROFF 2023
1 available
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In the five years since her husband's disappearance, Geeta has become accustomed to a solitary life; you'd be surprised how difficult it is to make friends when your entire village believes you're a witch who murdered your husband. And since she can't convince anyone that she didn't murder him, she figures she might as well use her fearsome reputation to protect herselfas a woman on her own. But when other women in the village decide that they, too,...
37) Age of vice
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KAPOOR 2023
3 available
FICTION KAPOOR 2023
3 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KAPOOR 2023
3 available
FICTION KAPOOR 2023
3 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KAPOOR 2023
2 available
FICTION KAPOOR 2023
2 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION KAPOOR 2023
1 available
LP FICTION KAPOOR 2023
1 available
Description
"Binge-worthy reading at its best: an addictive, action-packed page-turner of epic proportions about the machinations of one dizzyingly wealthy family in contemporary India and the outsiders who are drawn into their treacherous web"--
"This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ZHANG 2017
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FICTION ZHANG 2017
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"A debut collection of stories that plunge readers into the tender and chaotic hearts of adolescent girls growing up in New York City, from celebrated poet and National Magazine Award nominee Jenny Zhang"--
"Centered on a community of immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life at the poverty line in 1990s New York City, Zhang's exhilarating collection examines the many ways that...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REHMAN 2022
1 available
FICTION REHMAN 2022
1 available
Description
"In the vein of Dominicana and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Pakistani-American community Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. But when a family rift drives the girls apart, Razia's idyllic childhood is shattered forever. In middle school, Razia befriends a new girl, Taslima, and they begin to chafe...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MIRZA 2018
1 available
FICTION MIRZA 2018
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MIRZA 2018
1 available
FICTION MIRZA 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MIRZA 2018
1 available
FICTION MIRZA 2018
1 available
Description
A story of family identity and belonging follows an Indian family through the marriage of their daughter, from the parents' arrival in the United States to the return of their estranged son.