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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY HEALEY 2014
1 available
MYSTERY HEALEY 2014
1 available
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When Maud, an aging grandmother who is slowly losing her memory, is convinced that her best friend Elizabeth is missing and in terrible danger, she becomes obsessed with saving her beloved friend despite the fact that no one believes her.
22) Olive Kitteridge
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Series
Olive novels volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STROUT 2008
2 available
FICTION STROUT 2008
2 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STROUT 2008
1 available
FICTION STROUT 2008
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STR 2008
1 available
FICTION STR 2008
1 available
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION STR 2008
1 available
LP FICTION STR 2008
1 available
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At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCBRID 2020
1 available
FICTION MCBRID 2020
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARUF 2015
1 available
FICTION HARUF 2015
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARUF 2015
1 available
FICTION HARUF 2015
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARUF 2015
1 available
FICTION HARUF 2015
1 available
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In Holt, Colorado, widower Louis Waters is initially thrown when the widowed Addie Moore suggests that they spend time together, in bed, to stave off loneliness, but soon they are exchanging the confidences and memories.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY COONEY 2020
1 available
MYSTERY COONEY 2020
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY COONEY 2020
1 available
MYSTERY COONEY 2020
1 available
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"Clementine Lakefield leads a simple life in her retirement community in Sun City, South Carolina. But while she plays cards, substitute teaches, and has learned to text with her niece and nephew, Clemmie is not who she says she is. Behind her carefree facade, she is hiding a lifetime of secrets. When Clemmie's curmudgeonly neighbor goes missing, Clemmie suddenly finds herself at the center of a dangerous conspiracy. From international bestselling...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOOD 2016
1 available
FICTION WOOD 2016
1 available
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After his eleven-year-old son dies, guitarist Quinn Porter does yard work for an aged Lithuanian immigrant, Ona Vitkus, whom his son had often visited and comes to a resolution about his son's death as Ona discusses his son's capacity to listen and learn.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REVOYR 2019
1 available
FICTION REVOYR 2019
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REVOYR 2019
1 available
FICTION REVOYR 2019
1 available
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Rick Nagano is a graduate student in the history department at USC, struggling to make rent on his South Los Angeles apartment near the neighborhood where his family once lived. When he lands a job as a research assistant for the elderly Mrs. W--, the heir to an oil fortune, he sees it first simply as a source of extra cash. But as he grows closer to the iconoclastic, charming, and feisty Mrs. W--, he gets drawn into a world of privilege and wealth...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOOPER 2015
2 available
FICTION HOOPER 2015
2 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOOPER 2015
1 available
FICTION HOOPER 2015
1 available
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Embarking on a more than 3,000-kilometer walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory and reality.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BARBER 2008
1 available
FICTION BARBER 2008
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BARBER 2008
1 available
FICTION BARBER 2008
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.
We are in an elegant hotel particulier in the center of Paris. Renee, the building's concierge, is short, ugly, and plump. She has bunions on her feet. She is cantankerous and addicted to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she is everything...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROONEY 2017
1 available
FICTION ROONEY 2017
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROONEY 2017
1 available
FICTION ROONEY 2017
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Fall 2016 Library Journal Editors' Pick "In my reckless and undiscouraged youth," Lillian Boxfish writes, "I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street..." She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy's to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, "in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it." Now it's the last night...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GAINES 2009
1 available
FICTION GAINES 2009
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
YA CD FICTION GAI 1994 UNABRIDGED
1 available
YA CD FICTION GAI 1994 UNABRIDGED
1 available
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Presents the life story of Miss Jane Pittman, who was born a slave on a Louisiana plantation before the Civil War and who lived to be 110 years old.
Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines’s now-classic novel—written as an autobiography—spans one hundred years of Miss Jane’s remarkable life,...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EVISON 2015
1 available
FICTION EVISON 2015
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EVISON 2015
1 available
FICTION EVISON 2015
1 available
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION EVISON 2015 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION EVISON 2015 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Description
With her husband Bernard two years in the grave, seventy-nine-year-old Harriet Chance sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise only to discover through a series of revelations that shes been living the past sixty years of her life under entirely false pretenses. There, amid the buffets and lounge singers, between the imagined appearance of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged daughter midway through the cruise, Harriet is...
33) Emily, alone
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ONAN 2011
1 available
FICTION ONAN 2011
1 available
Description
Newly independent widow Emily Maxwell dreams of visits by grandchildren and mourns changes in her quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood before realizing an inner strength to pursue developing opportunities.
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Series
Mason novels volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BERG 2017
1 available
FICTION BERG 2017
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BERG 2017
1 available
FICTION BERG 2017
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BERG 2017
1 available
FICTION BERG 2017
1 available
Description
"Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetary, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly...
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Series
Singaporean mysteries volume 1
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY YU 2013
1 available
MYSTERY YU 2013
1 available
Description
After losing her husband, Rosie Lee could have become one of Singapore's "tai tai," an idle rich lady. Instead she is building a culinary empire from her restaurant, Aunty Lee's Delights, where spicy Singaporean meals are graciously served to locals and tourists alike. But when a body is found in one of Singapore's tourist havens and one of her guests fails to show at a dinner party, Aunty Lee knows that the two events are likely connected. The murder...
36) Celine: a novel
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER 2017
1 available
FICTION HELLER 2017
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER 2017
1 available
FICTION HELLER 2017
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER 2017
1 available
FICTION HELLER 2017
1 available
Description
"From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, spine-tingling novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past"--
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CANNON 2018
1 available
FICTION CANNON 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CANNON 2018
1 available
FICTION CANNON 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CANNON 2018
2 available
FICTION CANNON 2018
2 available
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION CANNON 2018
1 available
CD FICTION CANNON 2018
1 available
Description
"A novel set in England about eighty-four-year-old Florence, a resident in a nursing home, who has fallen in her apartment, leading her to think about her childhood friend and the secrets of their past that are about to come to light"--
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PAGE 2018
1 available
FICTION PAGE 2018
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PAGE 2018
1 available
FICTION PAGE 2018
1 available
Description
"A tender, joyous debut novel about a cub reporter and her eighty-six-year-old subject--and the unlikely and life-changing friendship that develops between them. Kate is a twenty-six-year-old riddled with anxiety and panic attacks who works for a local paper in Brixton, London, covering forgettably small stories. When she's assigned to write about the closing of the local lido (an outdoor pool and recreation center), she meets Rosemary, an eighty-six-year-old...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PATRIC 2016
1 available
FICTION PATRIC 2016
1 available
Description
Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before. What follows...
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Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 9
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY OSBORN 2018
1 available
MYSTERY OSBORN 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY OSBORN 2018
1 available
MYSTERY OSBORN 2018
1 available
Description
"Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature's most enduring detectives back to life - as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure. The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe - now in his seventy-second year - is living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers, with...