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161) A "working life"
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"From "one of the essential voices in American poetry" (New York Times) comes a rich new collection of expansive, light-footed, and cheerily morose poems oddly in tune with our strange and evolving present. The first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, a "Working Life" unerringly captures the measure of life. Whether alone or in a relationship, on city sidewalks or in the country, their lyrics...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO SMITH 2023
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BIO SMITH 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
BIO SMITH 2023
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BIO SMITH 2023
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“In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman’s personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With the...
163) Above ground: poems
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.6 SMITH 2023
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811.6 SMITH 2023
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.6 SMITH 2023
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811.6 SMITH 2023
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn) from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed. Clint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world. There are poems that interrogate the...
164) Magpie murders
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Magpie murders volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOROWI 2017
1 available
FICTION HOROWI 2017
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOROWI 2017
3 available
FICTION HOROWI 2017
3 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY HOROWI 2017
1 available
MYSTERY HOROWI 2017
1 available
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"When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pund who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan's traditional formula has...
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A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
166) Redshirts
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SCALZI 2012
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SCIENCE FICTION SCALZI 2012
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SCALZI 2012
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION SCALZI 2012
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SCALZI 2012
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION SCALZI 2012
1 available
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose.
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Zoe Washington stories volume 1
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South Valleys Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION MARKS 2020
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J FICTION MARKS 2020
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"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
168) The bridge home
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION VENKAT 2019
1 available
J FICTION VENKAT 2019
1 available
Sparks Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION VENKAT 2019
1 available
J FICTION VENKAT 2019
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Children's Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
J CD FICTION VENKAT 2019
1 available
J CD FICTION VENKAT 2019
1 available
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Duncan/Traner Community Library - Children's Fiction - Large Print Shelf
J LP FICTION VENKAT 2019
1 available
J LP FICTION VENKAT 2019
1 available
Incline Village Library - Children's Fiction - Large Print Shelf
J LP FICTION VENKAT 2019
1 available
J LP FICTION VENKAT 2019
1 available
North Valleys Library - Children's Fiction - Large Print Shelf
J LP FICTION VENKAT 2019
1 available
J LP FICTION VENKAT 2019
1 available
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"Readers will be captivated by this beautifully written novel about young people who must use their instincts and grit to survive. Padma shares with us an unflinching peek into the reality millions of homeless children live every day but also infuses her story with hope and bravery that will inspire readers and stay with them long after turning the final page."--Aisha Saeed, author of the New York Times Bestselling Amal Unbound. Four determined homeless...
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION PEREZ 2017
1 available
J FICTION PEREZ 2017
1 available
South Valleys Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION PEREZ 2017
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J FICTION PEREZ 2017
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Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
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If you want to understand how our world works, the periodic table holds the answers. When the seventh row of the periodic table of elements was completed in June 2016 with the addition of four final elementsnihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganessonwe at last could identify all the ingredients necessary to construct our world.In Elemental, chemist and science educator Tim James provides an informative, entertaining, and quirkily illustrated guide...
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"This visual wellspring of the cosmos is the perfect companion for every stargazer. FILLED WITH PAGE AFTER PAGE OF MAGNIFICENT PHOTOGRAPHS, this book offers a deep dive into the past, present, and future of our home galaxy: the Milky Way. Embark on this dramatic journey by witnessing the stunning birth, life, and death of stars--including story of our own sun and the solar system it sustains. Continue on to discover our galaxy within the known universe...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
530.42 MIODOW 2019
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530.42 MIODOW 2019
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
530.42 MIODOW 2019
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530.42 MIODOW 2019
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A tour of the scientific world of liquids is set on an overseas flight and explores the properties and power of examples ranging from molecules and rain to everyday beverages and ocean waves. By the author of Stuff Matters. 75,000 first printing.
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
153.753 ODELL 2023
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153.753 ODELL 2023
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
153.753 ODELL 2023
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153.753 ODELL 2023
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"We are living on the wrong clock, and it is destroying us. The New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing offers us different ways to experience time in this dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful book. In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from the “attention economy” to spend time in quiet contemplation. But what if you don’t have time to spend? In order to answer this...
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"Madeline Miller's Circe meets Cersei Lannister in a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious heroine of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen. As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her best... You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant. You stand by helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign...
175) Birnam Wood
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CATTON 2023
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FICTION CATTON 2023
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CATTON 2023
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FICTION CATTON 2023
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION CATTON 2023
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FICTION CATTON 2023
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6 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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""Birnam Wood is terrific. As a multilayered, character-driven thriller, it's as good as it gets. Ruth Rendell would have loved it. A beautifully textured work-what a treat." -Stephen King "One of the finest writers of our time." -Jonathan Ruppin, The Independent The Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive. Birnam Wood is on the...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
304.8097 WILKER 2010
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304.8097 WILKER 2010
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
304.8097 WILKER 2010
1 available
304.8097 WILKER 2010
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
CD 304.8097 WILKER 2013
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CD 304.8097 WILKER 2013
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO STILL 2022
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BIO STILL 2022
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"The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia—the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon Line—helping hundreds of people escape from slavery. Born free in 1821 to two parents who had been enslaved, William Still was drawn to antislavery work from a young age. Hired as a clerk at the Anti-Slavery office...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.8009 ZUCCHI 2020
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305.8009 ZUCCHI 2020
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"By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community-a bustling port city with a thriving African American middle class and a government made up of Republicans and Populists, including black alderman, police officers, and magistrates. But across the state-and the South-white supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progeny. They were plotting to take back the state legislature...
179) Midnight riot
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Rivers of London volume 1
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY AARONO 2011
1 available
MYSTERY AARONO 2011
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"As a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic"-- P. [4] of cover.
180) The rook: a novel
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Checquy files volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OMALLE 2012
1 available
FICTION OMALLE 2012
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OMALLE 2012
1 available
FICTION OMALLE 2012
1 available
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A high-ranking member of a secret organization that battles supernatural forces wakes up in a London park with no memory, no idea who she is, and with a letter that provides instructions to help her uncover a far-reaching conspiracy.