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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION KHONG 2024
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FICTION KHONG 2024
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1 copy, 16 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 59 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 59 people are on the wait list.
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"Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao's Cultural Revolution. Despite all...
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5 copies, 39 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 50 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 50 people are on the wait list.
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"A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in asking: how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options? ("A time-bending gem"—Gabrielle Zevin; "Kaleidoscopic and bright and very, very funny." –Claire Lombardo) When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There's only one problem—she's not married. She's never seen this...
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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The story of a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive surroundings.
For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness.
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2 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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"A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the decision of his son, Omar, to work as a digger in the excavation zone. But...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ALDERT 2024
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FICTION ALDERT 2024
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3 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
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"From the New York Times best-selling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both. Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped. Now he is. . . Without a home Waiting for his stand-up career to take off Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of...
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the soul of a small town. On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp-an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan-herbalist and eccentric Hermine "Herself" Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart,...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION GRODST 2023
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FICTION GRODST 2023
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2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"Adam, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Will he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people he interviews is his flatmate Sala, who is stoic, determined, and funny-and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION FADIPE 2023
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FICTION FADIPE 2023
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION FADIPE 2023
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FICTION FADIPE 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION FADIPE 2023
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FICTION FADIPE 2023
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"The Lion City has gone by many names and is famous for many things—its decadent street food, its world-class shopping, its lush gardens that burst with tropical blooms. But paradise is always hiding a snake. For Dara, a workaholic lawyer from the UK, Singapore is opportunity. Every day, brokering deals for her firm’s wealthy clientele, she gets closer to her ultimate goal: making partner. For Amaka, a sharp-tongued banker from Nigeria, Singapore...
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3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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"How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father’s strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman and poet. Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION LITTLE 2023
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FICTION LITTLE 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION LITTLE 2023
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FICTION LITTLE 2023
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION LITTLE 2023
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FICTION LITTLE 2023
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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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"A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette, Eleanor Oliphant, Rosie, Ove . . . meet Amazing Grace Adams, the funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink―who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled―the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she’s really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally...
11) Summer sisters
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BLUME 1998
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FICTION BLUME 1998
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BLUME 1998
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FICTION BLUME 1998
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BLUME 1998
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FICTION BLUME 1998
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION BLUME 1998
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LP FICTION BLUME 1998
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Two women from very different families become inseparable companions during summers on Martha's Vineyard during their coming-of-age years, forging the bonds of a lifelong friendship that weathers growing up, marriage, children, careers, and betrayal.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION THAI 2023
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FICTION THAI 2023
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP FICTION THAI 2023
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LP FICTION THAI 2023
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"A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories. When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life—a beautiful lake...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ROWLEY 2023
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FICTION ROWLEY 2023
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ROWLEY 2023
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FICTION ROWLEY 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ROWLEY 2023
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FICTION ROWLEY 2023
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A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselves—by the bestselling and beloved author of The Guncle. It’s been a minute—or five years—since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION ADJEIB 2023
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FICTION ADJEIB 2023
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ADJEIB 2023
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FICTION ADJEIB 2023
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3 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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"Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black. She felt their eyes, all those executioners… Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION STERLI 2023
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SCIENCE FICTION STERLI 2023
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
SCIENCE FICTION STERLI 2023
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SCIENCE FICTION STERLI 2023
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"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BROWN 2023
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FICTION BROWN 2023
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"A warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family curse, and one very complicated year of heartache, miscommunication, and learning to let go Generations of Montrose women—Augusta, Victoria, Willow—have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between...
17) Maame
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GEORGE 2023
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FICTION GEORGE 2023
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION GEORGE 2023
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FICTION GEORGE 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GEORGE 2023
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FICTION GEORGE 2023
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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""An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys--and the guilt--of trying to find your own way in life." --Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Meeting Maame feels like falling in love for the first time: warm, awkward, joyous, a little bit heartbreaking and, most of all, unforgettable." --Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means...
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TARTT 2004
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FICTION TARTT 2004
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4 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable.
From the publisher. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY HAYS 2022
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MYSTERY HAYS 2022
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY HAYS 2022
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MYSTERY HAYS 2022
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAYS 2022
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FICTION HAYS 2022
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"The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION QUINN 2022
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FICTION QUINN 2022
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION QUINN 2022
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FICTION QUINN 2022
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION QUINN 2022
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FICTION QUINN 2022
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"An utterly enchanting, immersive novel about an irrepressible young heroine who becomes an undercover agent during World War II-a sparkling debut, by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking. One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, all whales belong to the King, but twelve-year-old Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household and their guests-her sister, Flossie (known affectionately...