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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
FICTION MORRIS 2018
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FICTION MORRIS 2018
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRIS 2018
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FICTION MORRIS 2018
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
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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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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2017
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FICTION BENEDI 2017
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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...
44) way to paradise
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45) What Is the What
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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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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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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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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
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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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HUNEVE 2022
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FICTION HUNEVE 2022
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South Valleys 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...