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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BEANLA 2020
2 available
FICTION BEANLA 2020
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BEANLA 2020
1 available
FICTION BEANLA 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BEANLA 2020
1 available
FICTION BEANLA 2020
1 available
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"Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to "America's Playground" and move into the apartment above their bakery. The apartment is where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence, and, despite the cramped quarters, it still feels like home. Now Florence has returned from college, determined to spend the summer training to swim the English Channel, and Fannie, pregnant again...
22) A star is bored
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"A hilariously heartfelt novel about living life at full force, and discovering family when you least expect it, influenced in part by the author's time as Carrie Fisher's beloved assistant. Charlie Besson is about to have an insane job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon. THE Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and People magazine's worst dressed list. She needs an assistant. He needs a hero....
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SKESLI 2021
1 available
FICTION SKESLI 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SKESLI 2021
1 available
FICTION SKESLI 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SKESLI 2021
2 available
FICTION SKESLI 2021
2 available
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION SKESLI 2021
1 available
LP FICTION SKESLI 2021
1 available
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Based on a true story, describes how a lonely teenager in 1983 Montana befriends an elderly neighbor and uncovers her past as a librarian at the American Library in Paris who joined the Resistance when the Nazis arrived.
"Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris,...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARMEL 2020
1 available
FICTION HARMEL 2020
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
CD FICTION HARMEL 2020
1 available
CD FICTION HARMEL 2020
1 available
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2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 28 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 28 people are on the wait list.
Description
As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. Sixty-five years later, a book...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE SCOTT 2020
1 available
ROMANCE SCOTT 2020
1 available
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"In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the "wakaresaseya" (literally "breaker-upper"), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Sato hires Kaitaro, a wakaresaseya agent, to have an affair with his wife, Rina, he assumes it will be an easy case. But Sato has never truly understood Rina or her desires and Kaitaro's job is to do exactly that--until he does it too well. While...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ELIASB 2020
1 available
FICTION ELIASB 2020
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ELIASB 2020
1 available
FICTION ELIASB 2020
1 available
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A "mesmerizing" re-imagination of the final months of World War II, Hannah's War is an unforgettable love story about an exceptional woman, and the dangerous power of her greatest discovery (Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network) Berlin, 1938: Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century -- splitting the atom. She understands that the energy released by her discovery can power entire cities...
27) Beheld: a novel
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY NESBIT 2020
1 available
MYSTERY NESBIT 2020
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY NESBIT 2020
1 available
MYSTERY NESBIT 2020
1 available
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From the bestselling author of The Wives of Los Alamos comes the riveting story of a strangers arrival in the fledgling colony of Plymouth, Massachusettsand a crime that shakes the divided community to its core.
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY ANAPPA 2020
1 available
MYSTERY ANAPPA 2020
1 available
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"Based on a true story--Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality police shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she gets the best grades), and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants and together they draw up lists of people...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHA 2019
1 available
FICTION CHA 2019
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHA 2019
1 available
FICTION CHA 2019
1 available
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“[A] suspense-filled page-turner about murder, repentance, and forgiveness.” Viet Thanh Nguyen. “A marvel.” Michael Connelly. "A touching portrait of two families bound together by a split-second decision.” Attica Locke. In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as its been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious,...
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Senior Center Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
FICTION WILKIN 2018
1 available
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Marie Mitchell, a Cold War FBI intelligence officer, joins an undercover task force to undermine Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary Communist president of Burkina Faso, who she secretly admires and comes to love, in a novel inspired by true events.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRESCO 2019
3 available
FICTION PRESCO 2019
3 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRESCO 2019
1 available
FICTION PRESCO 2019
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRESCO 2019
1 available
FICTION PRESCO 2019
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION PRESCO 2019
1 available
LP FICTION PRESCO 2019
1 available
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A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago. At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WINGAT 2017
1 available
FICTION WINGAT 2017
1 available
Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION WINGAT 2017
1 available
FICTION WINGAT 2017
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WINGAT 2018
1 available
CD FICTION WINGAT 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WINGAT 2018
1 available
CD FICTION WINGAT 2018
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WINGAT 2017
3 available
LP FICTION WINGAT 2017
3 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WINGAT 2017
1 available
LP FICTION WINGAT 2017
1 available
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"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
33) Cilka's journey
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION MORRIS 2019
2 available
FICTION MORRIS 2019
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRIS 2019
2 available
FICTION MORRIS 2019
2 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
CD FICTION MORRIS 2019
1 available
CD FICTION MORRIS 2019
1 available
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY SCHMID 2017
1 available
MYSTERY SCHMID 2017
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY SCHMID 2017
1 available
MYSTERY SCHMID 2017
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY SCHMID 2017
1 available
MYSTERY SCHMID 2017
1 available
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"See What I Have Done, Sarah Schmidt's "eerie and compelling" (Paula Hawkins) debut novel, is a wholly unique reimagining of the infamous true story of Lizzie Borden, who gained celebrity status after being tried and acquitted for the murders of her father and stepmother. On the morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden calls out to the maid: Someone's killed father. The brutal axe-murder of Andrew and Abby Borden in their house in Fall River, Massachusetts...
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, a tainted bolt of cloth from London carries bubonic infection to this isolated settlement of shepherds and lead miners. A visionary young preacher convinces the villagers to seal themselves off in a deadly quarantine to prevent the spread of disease. The story is told through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna...
36) Beautiful exiles
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CLAYTO 2018
1 available
FICTION CLAYTO 2018
1 available
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Key West, 1936. Headstrong, accomplished journalist Martha Gellhorn is confident with words but less so with men when she meets disheveled literary titan Ernest Hemingway in a dive bar. Their friendshipforged over writing, talk, and family dinnersflourishes into something undeniable in Madrid while theyre covering the Spanish Civil War. Martha reveres him. The very married Hemingway is taken with Marthaher beauty, her ambition, and her fearless spirit....
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ORRING 2019
1 available
FICTION ORRING 2019
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ORRING 2019
1 available
FICTION ORRING 2019
1 available
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"The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARGRA 2020
1 available
FICTION HARGRA 2020
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARGRA 2020
1 available
FICTION HARGRA 2020
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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After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this "perfectly told" 1600s parable of "a world gone mad" (Adriana Trigiani). Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HORAN 2007
1 available
FICTION HORAN 2007
1 available
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Publisher description: I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction...
40) The convert
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HERTMA 2019
1 available
ROMANCE HERTMA 2019
1 available
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"The Middle Ages have just begun when Vigdis Adelaïs, a young woman from a prosperous French family, falls in love with David Todros, a student at the city's yeshiva, and the son of a rabbi. To be together, they must flee their city, Vigdis renouncing a life of privilege and comfort. Pursued by her father's knights and in constant danger of betrayal, the lovers embark on a dangerous journey to the south of France, only to find their brief happiness...