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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HUNEVE 2022
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FICTION HUNEVE 2022
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"This novel, written in the form of a memoir, follows the members of a search committee as they seek a new pastor for their church congregation. Secretly using her place on the church search committee to write a memoir, with recipes, about the experience, restaurant critic, food writer and longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation, Dana Potowski gets some good material until she realizes that she cares deeply about this...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARPER 2019
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FICTION HARPER 2019
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
FICTION HARPER 2019
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARPER 2019
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FICTION HARPER 2019
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Reimagines the life of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt as the reluctant and bullied bride of the Duke of Marlborough before she finds the inner strength to fight for women's equality.
Before there was Meghan Markle, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American Duchess. Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “The Wedding of the Century” to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind “the glitter...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAHER 2022
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FICTION MAHER 2022
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAHER 2022
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FICTION MAHER 2022
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"Discover the dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in the White Gloves. When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the course of literature itself. Shakespeare and Company...
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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A New York Times Notable Book, Critic's Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek
From one of today's most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of Hitler,...
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek
From one of today's most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of Hitler,...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom.
When he finally is resettled in the United...
When he finally is resettled in the United...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION MORRIS 2018
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FICTION MORRIS 2018
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
CD FICTION MORRIS 2018
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CD FICTION MORRIS 2018
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8 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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A novel based on the true story of an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor traces the experiences of a Jewish Slovakian who uses his position as a concentration-camp tattooist to secure food for his fellow prisoners.
"[Read by Richard Armitage] The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job...
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A fictional portrait of one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century follows the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, who sacrificed two husbands, three children, and scores of lovers in her fight for sexual equality and freedom.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2016
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FICTION BENEDI 2016
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION BENEDI 2016
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CD FICTION BENEDI 2016
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In the tradition of "The Paris Wife" and "Mrs. Poe," comes the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right. Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Mitza is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marriage. And then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an interest in her, and the world turns sideways. Theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of the heart, but there might not...
9) way to paradise
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BENEDI 2021
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MYSTERY BENEDI 2021
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BENEDI 2021
1 available
MYSTERY BENEDI 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BENEDI 2021
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MYSTERY BENEDI 2021
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"December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2016
2 available
FICTION MOORE 2016
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2016
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FICTION MOORE 2016
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals, and deception.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GORTNE 2015
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FICTION GORTNE 2015
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GORTNE 2015
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FICTION GORTNE 2015
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A creative reimagining of the life of iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel traces the development of her exceptional sewing skills in an orphanage, her transformation into a couturier and the private struggles behind her subsequent fame.
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCCOY 2015
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FICTION MCCOY 2015
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"When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. She boldly embraces this calling after being told the shocking news that she can't bear children, but as the country steers toward bloody civil war, Sarah...
14) Margot
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION CANTOR 2013
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FICTION CANTOR 2013
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CANTOR 2013
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FICTION CANTOR 2013
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Anne Frank has long been a symbol of bravery and hope, but there were two sisters hidden in the annex, two young Jewish girls, one a cultural icon made famous by her published diary and the other, nearly forgotten. In the spring of 1959, "The Diary of Anne Frank" has just come to the silver screen to great acclaim, and a young woman named Margie Franklin is working in Philadelphia as a secretary at a Jewish law firm. On the surface she lives a quiet...
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"The Lacuna is the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as well as an unforgettable portrait of the artist—and of art itself. This Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition features beautiful cover artwork on uncoated stock, French flaps, and deckle-edge pages, making it the perfect gift book. Born in the United States, raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd lacks a sense of home in either. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who...
16) in the sea there are crocodiles based on the true
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph—a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy.
From her
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TRIGAN 2015
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FICTION TRIGAN 2015
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TRIGAN 2015
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FICTION TRIGAN 2015
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TRIGIA 2015
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FICTION TRIGIA 2015
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION TRIGIA 2015 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION TRIGIA 2015 UNABRIDGED
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"The movie business is booming in 1935 when twenty-one-year-old Loretta Young meets thirty-four-year-old Clark Gable on the set of The Call of the Wild. Though he's already married, Gable falls for the stunning and vivacious young actress instantly. Far from the glittering lights of Hollywood, Sister Alda Ducci has been forced to leave her convent and begin a new journey that leads her to Loretta. Becoming Miss Young's secretary, the innocent and...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HIGGIN 2016
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FICTION HIGGIN 2016
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1864, Washington City. One has to be careful with talk of secession, of Confederate whispers falling on Northern ears. Better to speak only when in the company of the trustworthy. Like Mrs. Surratt. A widow who runs a small boardinghouse on H Street, Mary Surratt isn't half as committed to the cause as her son, Johnny. If he's not delivering messages or escorting veiled spies, he's invited home men like John Wilkes Booth, the actor who is even more...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CANTOR 2021
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FICTION CANTOR 2021
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A reimagining of the life of Marie Curie is told through two parallel timelines, including one that reflects her real-world achievements and another that explores how the world might be different had she made other choices.