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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION FAU 1984
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LP FICTION FAU 1984
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the...
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION GAINES 1997
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FICTION GAINES 1997
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From the author of, A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man returns to 1940s Cajun, he visits and forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. Best Books for Young Teen Readers. In the 1940s in rural Louisiana,...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GAINES 2009
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FICTION GAINES 2009
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
YA CD FICTION GAI 1994 UNABRIDGED
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YA CD FICTION GAI 1994 UNABRIDGED
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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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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WATTS 2017
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FICTION WATTS 2017
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WATTS 2017
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FICTION WATTS 2017
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A tale inspired by The Great Gatsby is set in the contemporary South and follows the difficulties endured by an extended black family with colliding visions of the American dream. A first novel by the author of We Are Taking Only What We Need.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COSBY 2020
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FICTION COSBY 2020
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COSBY 2020
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FICTION COSBY 2020
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION COSBY 2020
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FICTION COSBY 2020
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"A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BLOOMS 2020
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FICTION BLOOMS 2020
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"In her rural Appalachian holler, ten-year-old Misty's closest friends are the crawdads. Misty can speak to them, to the birds, to the creek, to everything outside, and she understands how they think. She knows that if she could just speak to her parents in the same way, she could stop all the fighting. But it's too hard. When her only friend William takes their friendship too far, Misty doesn't know how to get help. This is the story of one tough-as-nails...
27) The nickel boys
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2019
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FICTION WHITEH 2019
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2019
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FICTION WHITEH 2019
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEH 2019
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FICTION WHITEH 2019
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WHITEH 2019
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CD FICTION WHITEH 2019
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION WHITEH 2019
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LP FICTION WHITEH 2019
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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin...
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This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the title story, confronting the murderous Misfit; a neglected four-year-old boy looking for the Kingdom of Christ in the fast-flowing waters of the river;
...29) The moviegoer
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The late author's classic novel, a winner of the National Book Award, follows a young New Orleans stockbroker who resorts to movies to fill his life on a hare-brained quest during Mardi Gras. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOOLE 1980
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FICTION TOOLE 1980
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOOLE 1980
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FICTION TOOLE 1980
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOOLE 1980
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FICTION TOOLE 1980
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION TOOLE 1997
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CD FICTION TOOLE 1997
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After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide, and it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece has sold more than two million copies in twenty-three languages. The 35th...
31) Cold Sassy tree
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Cold Sassy series volume 1
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BURNS 1984
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FICTION BURNS 1984
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BURNS 1984
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FICTION BURNS 1984
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BURNS 1984
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FICTION BURNS 1984
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Young Will Tweedy becomes chaperon, conspirator, and confidant to his renegade grandpa, E. Rucker Blakeslee, and the old man's young new wife, Miss Love Simpson, in a new edition of the classic novel set against the backdrop of Cold Sassy, Georgia, at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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New York Times bestseller: A "powerful" Southern drama about the destructive repercussions of keeping an unspeakable family secret (The Atlanta Journal).
Tom Wingo has lost his job, and is on the verge of losing his marriage, when he learns that his twin sister, Savannah, has attempted suicide again. At the behest of Savannah's psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Lowenstein, Tom reluctantly leaves his home in South Carolina to...
Tom Wingo has lost his job, and is on the verge of losing his marriage, when he learns that his twin sister, Savannah, has attempted suicide again. At the behest of Savannah's psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Lowenstein, Tom reluctantly leaves his home in South Carolina to...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHO 2000
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FICTION CHO 2000
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34) The last ballad
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CASH 2017
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FICTION CASH 2017
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CASH 2017
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FICTION CASH 2017
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"The eagerly awaited next novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling A Land More Kind Than Home about a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together in the years before the Great Depression, a haunting and moving story of cowardice, courage and sacrifice"--
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOUSE 2018
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FICTION HOUSE 2018
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOUSE 2018
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FICTION HOUSE 2018
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"When an evangelical preacher in Tennessee offers shelter to two gay men after a catastrophic flood, he's met with resistance by his wife and congregation, and eventually loses custody of his son. He decides to kidnap his son and flee to Key West, where he suspects his estranged gay brother is living"--
36) Song Yet Sung
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March, 1850. In the tense days before the Civil War, a slave breakout in the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore sets loose a riveting drama of violence, hope, and redemption among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves, and free blacks. Liz Spocott, a beautiful runaway slave, shot and near death, is wracked by disturbing visions of the future as she lies shackled to an old woman in the prison attic of the notorious...