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61) No longer human
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Nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche. Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death. Osamu Dazai's...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5 REYNOL 2020
1 available
741.5 REYNOL 2020
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.
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Graceling volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5 HINDS 2021 v.1
1 available
741.5 HINDS 2021 v.1
1 available
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In graphic novel format, retells the story of Katsa, a girl who lives in a world where some people are born with supernatural abilities called Graces, and who seeks redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION WALTER 2023
1 available
FICTION WALTER 2023
1 available
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALTER 2023
1 available
FICTION WALTER 2023
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION WALTER 2023
1 available
FICTION WALTER 2023
1 available
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"In this twisty and electrifying debut novel, a young woman goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria, and her estranged auntie will stop at nothing to find the truth behind her disappearance. Perfect for fans of My Sister, the Serial Killer and The Last Thing He Told Me. Nicole Oruwari has the perfect life: a handsome husband; a palatial house in the heart of glittering Lagos, Nigeria; and a glamorous group of friends. She left gloomy London and a troubled...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
CD FICTION SITTEN 2023
1 available
CD FICTION SITTEN 2023
1 available
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4 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP FICTION SITTEN 2023
1 available
LP FICTION SITTEN 2023
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"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success,and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the show,...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
975.598 FAUST 2023
1 available
975.598 FAUST 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
975.598 FAUST 2023
2 available
975.598 FAUST 2023
2 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
975.598 FAUST 2023
1 available
975.598 FAUST 2023
1 available
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"Drew Gilpin Faust writes about coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America"--
"A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions―not only in global...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
708.1471 BRINGL 2023
1 available
708.1471 BRINGL 2023
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
708.1471 BRINGL 2023
1 available
708.1471 BRINGL 2023
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
708.1471 BRINGL 2023
1 available
708.1471 BRINGL 2023
1 available
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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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"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Nevada Shelf
BIO LAXALT 1957
1 available
BIO LAXALT 1957
1 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction - Nevada Shelf
BIO LAXALT 1957
1 available
BIO LAXALT 1957
1 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction - Nevada Shelf
BIO LAXALT 1974
1 available
BIO LAXALT 1974
1 available
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The account a son writes of his father, an old Basque sheepherder who lived and worked in the American West for most of his life, who, in fulfilling his dream of returning to the Pyrenees, came to a new realization of what America meant to him.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Nevada Shelf
FICTION CLA 1991
1 available
FICTION CLA 1991
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Nevada Shelf
FICTION CLA 1945
1 available
FICTION CLA 1945
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Nevada Shelf
FICTION CLARK 1991
1 available
FICTION CLARK 1991
1 available
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Story of adolescence, of love, and of a boy who emerged from the tumult as a man and composer.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WATKIN 2021
2 available
FICTION WATKIN 2021
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WATKIN 2021
1 available
FICTION WATKIN 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
FICTION WATKIN 2021
1 available
FICTION WATKIN 2021
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"From "the most captivating voice to come out of the West since Annie Proulx" (Vogue), the furious, hilarious, soul-rending story of one woman's reckoning with marriage, work, sex, and motherhood. Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as much now. c) Not so much now. d) Not at all. Leaving behind her husband, Theo, and their young daughter, Claire, a writer, gets...
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VLAUTI 2007
1 available
FICTION VLAUTI 2007
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VLA 2006
1 available
FICTION VLA 2006
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VLAUTI 2007
1 available
FICTION VLAUTI 2007
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Brothers Frank and Jerry Lee are on the run after a hit-and-run accident. Interweaving past and present, Vlautin unfolds the story of their unhappy lives--lives afflicted by drink, bleak economic circumstances, and family misfortune.
72) Battleborn
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Nevada Shelf
FICTION WATKIN 2012
2 available
FICTION WATKIN 2012
2 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Nevada Shelf
FICTION WATKIN 2012
1 available
FICTION WATKIN 2012
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Nevada Shelf
FICTION WATKIN 2012
1 available
FICTION WATKIN 2012
1 available
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Arcing from the sweeping and sublime to the minute and personal, from Gold Rush to ghost town to desert to brothel, the collection echoes not only in its title but also in its fierce, undefeated spirit the motto of her home state.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Nevada Shelf
FICTION MAYNAR 2012
3 available
FICTION MAYNAR 2012
3 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Nevada Shelf
FICTION MAYNAR 2012
4 available
FICTION MAYNAR 2012
4 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction - Nevada Shelf
FICTION MAYNAR 2012
1 available
FICTION MAYNAR 2012
1 available
74) Mexican Gothic
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORENO 2020
1 available
FICTION MORENO 2020
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORENO 2020
1 available
FICTION MORENO 2020
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORENO 2020
1 available
FICTION MORENO 2020
1 available
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2 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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"The acclaimed author of Gods of Jade and Shadow returns with a darkly enchanting reimagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a spirited young woman discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico"--
75) The shining
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KING 1977
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FICTION KING 1977
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KING 1977
1 available
FICTION KING 1977
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror. Jack Torrance takes a job as the caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel. As the brutal winter sets in, the hotel's dark secrets begin to unravel.
“An undisputed master of suspense and terror.”...
“An undisputed master of suspense and terror.”...
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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First published in 1959, Shirley Jacksons The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House....
77) Silent shadows
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - World Languages
TAGALOG SCIENCE FICTION NIMWEY 2016
1 available
TAGALOG SCIENCE FICTION NIMWEY 2016
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"The great turmoil abounds in the human world when Corvus, the bogeyman enters and produces a deadly, dark mist and black rains to turn it into the world of Shadows. The living humans' shadows, which believe to be the human souls are turned into Shadows of Darkness by inhaling the mist, causing the victims to die and turn into stones. Alexis Briant, who is an asthmatic high school teacher also inhales the deadly mist and loses consciousness to his...
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Vampire chronicles volume 1
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - World Languages
SPANISH FICTION RICE 2021
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SPANISH FICTION RICE 2021
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The time is now. We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. . . He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir--young, romantic, cultivated--to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister...
79) Gótico
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
SPANISH FICTION MORENO 2021
1 available
SPANISH FICTION MORENO 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - World Languages
SPANISH FICTION MORENO 2021
1 available
SPANISH FICTION MORENO 2021
1 available
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Tras recibir una extrana carta de su prima recien casada, Noemi Taboada se dirige a High Place, una casa en el campo en Mexico, sin saber que encontrara alli. Noemi no parece tener dotes de salvadora: es glamurosa, mas acostumbrada a asistir a cocteles que a las tareas de detective. Pero tambien es fuerte, inteligente y no tiene miedo: ni del nuevo marido de su prima, un ingles amenazante y seductor; ni de su padre, el antiguo patriarca que parece...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
MYSTERY SUTANT 2023
1 available
MYSTERY SUTANT 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY SUTANT 2023
2 available
MYSTERY SUTANT 2023
2 available
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5 copies, 42 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
LP MYSTERY SUTANT 2023
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LP MYSTERY SUTANT 2023
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"Knives Out meets Kim's Convenience in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady-ah, lady of a certain age-who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her...