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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2003
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FICTION MOORE 2003
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A whale researcher's unusual observation of a humpback whale with "Bite Me" scrawled on its tail starts an adventure involving an age-old conspiracy, a megalomaniac undersea ruler, and a bizarre long-distance love affair.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
611 ROACH 2003
1 available
611 ROACH 2003
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
611 ROACH 2021
1 available
611 ROACH 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
611 ROA 2003
1 available
611 ROA 2003
1 available
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3 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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For two thousand years, cadavers – some willingly, some unwittingly – have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery,...
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Serge Storms novels volume 4
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY DOR 2002
1 available
MYSTERY DOR 2002
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY DOR 2002
1 available
MYSTERY DOR 2002
1 available
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Ensconced in a lovely tropical villa on idyllic Triggerfish Lane, Jim Davenport anticipates the good life to come. But this isn't living-it's Florida-and the neighborhood is not quite what it seems. It's got overly aggressive Little League parents, drug-free Rastafarians, homicidal hookers, unnatural sex and casual violence. Oh, yes, and there's a psychopathic serial killer-cum-Sunshine-State folklorist named Serge A. Storms living directly across...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2006
1 available
FICTION MOORE 2006
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION MOO 2006 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION MOO 2006 UNABRIDGED
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"Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male. But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2012
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FICTION MOORE 2012
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2012
1 available
FICTION MOORE 2012
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION MOORE Unabridged
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CD FICTION MOORE Unabridged
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Baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec vow to discover the truth behind the untimely death of their friend Vincent van Gogh, which leads them on a surreal odyssey and brothel-crawl deep into the art world of late-nineteenth-century Paris.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2002
1 available
FICTION MOORE 2002
1 available
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2003
1 available
FICTION MOORE 2003
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2003
1 available
FICTION MOORE 2003
1 available
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION MOO 2007 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION MOO 2007 UNABRIDGED
1 available
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A bold, hilarious, speculative novel fills in the lost years of Jesus life, told from the perspective of Biff, Christ's childhood best buddy. By the author of The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove. Reprint.
A humorous, speculative novel fills in the lost years of Jesus' life, told from the perspective of Biff, his childhood best friend.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LAWSON 2015
2 available
BIO LAWSON 2015
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LAWSON 2015
1 available
BIO LAWSON 2015
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO LAWSON 2015
2 available
BIO LAWSON 2015
2 available
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD BIO LAWSON 2015 UNABRIDGED
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CD BIO LAWSON 2015 UNABRIDGED
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"In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
070.92 LAWSON 2021
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070.92 LAWSON 2021
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
070.92 LAWSON 2021
1 available
070.92 LAWSON 2021
1 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
070.92 LAWSON 2021
1 available
070.92 LAWSON 2021
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
CD 070.92 LAWSON 2021
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CD 070.92 LAWSON 2021
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"As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the best possible way), she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor: "People do different things to distract themselves during each treatment. I embroider. It feels fitting. I'm being magnetically stabbed in the head thousands of times as I'm stabbing the embroidery myself....
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
070.92 LAWSON 2012
1 available
070.92 LAWSON 2012
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
070.92 LAWSON 2013
1 available
070.92 LAWSON 2013
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
070.92 LAWSON 2013
1 available
070.92 LAWSON 2013
1 available
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 070.92 LAWSON 2012 UNABRIDGED
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CD 070.92 LAWSON 2012 UNABRIDGED
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Overview: When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson's long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
612.3 ROACH 2013
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612.3 ROACH 2013
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
612.3 ROACH 2013
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612.3 ROACH 2013
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
612.3 ROACH 2013
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612.3 ROACH 2013
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Few of us realize what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal. In her trademark style, Mary Roach investigates the beginning, and end, of our food.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
591.5 ROACH 2021
4 available
591.5 ROACH 2021
4 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
591.5 ROACH 2021
1 available
591.5 ROACH 2021
1 available
Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
591.5 ROACH 2021
1 available
591.5 ROACH 2021
1 available
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 591.5 ROACH 2021
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CD 591.5 ROACH 2021
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1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
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"Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
910.202 FOER 2019
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910.202 FOER 2019
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
910.202 FOER 2016
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910.202 FOER 2016
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
910.202 FOER 2016
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910.202 FOER 2016
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Praised as the "bestest travel guide ever" (Mary Roach) and "a joy to read and reread" (Neil Gaiman), Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of travel books: "Odds are you won't get past three pages without being amazed" (San Francisco Chronicle). It rocketed to the top of bestseller lists and has over 626,000 copies in print since its publication in late 2016. Now the best gets better and the weirdest gets weirder with this completely revised and updated...
13) Cat's Cradle
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 1991
2 available
SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 1991
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 1991
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 1991
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD SCIENCE FICTION VON 2007 UNABRIDGED
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CD SCIENCE FICTION VON 2007 UNABRIDGED
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb.
Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 2006
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SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 2006
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 2011
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SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 2011
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 2011
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SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 2011
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION VON 2003 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION VON 2003 UNABRIDGED
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Aging writer Kilgore Trout finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is a murderous satire looking at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America
Dwayne Hoover, a successful automobile dealer in Midland City, suddenly decides that he is a machine and begins to act accordingly. Science fiction writer Kilgore Trout is on his way to the Midland City Festival of the Arts. When they meet,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROB 2000
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FICTION ROB 2000
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“As clever and witty a novel as anyone has written in a long time . . . Robbins takes readers on a wild, delightful ride. . . . A delight from beginning to end.”—Buffalo News
Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence,...
Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence,...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2004
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FICTION MOORE 2004
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOO 2004
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FICTION MOO 2004
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2004
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FICTION MOORE 2004
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A special holiday gift edition of the farcical tale by the author of Fluke follows what happens when a none-too-clever angel overhears a little boy, who, having witnessed Santa taking a shovel to the head, prays for Santa to return from the dead, in a volume with a new bonus chapter.
17) Secondhand souls
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2015
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FICTION MOORE 2015
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2015
1 available
FICTION MOORE 2015
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 2015
1 available
FICTION MOORE 2015
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing-and you know that can't be good-in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore's delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job. Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone-or something-is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE 1997
1 available
FICTION MOORE 1997
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOO 1997
1 available
FICTION MOO 1997
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION MOO 2009 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION MOO 2009 UNABRIDGED
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Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradisea world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when he demolishes his boss's pink plane during a drunken airborne liaison, Tuck must run for his life from Mary Jean's goons. Now...
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" The quintessential A to Z guide to British English-perfect for every egghead and bluestocking looking to conquer the language barrier Oscar Wilde once said the Brits have "everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." Any visitor to Old Blighty can sympathize with Mr. Wilde. After all, even fluent English speakers can be at sixes and sevens when told to pick up the "dog and bone" or "head to the loo," so they can "spend...
20) Why not me?
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.6 KALING 2015
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818.6 KALING 2015
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.6 KALING 2015
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818.6 KALING 2015
2 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.6 KALING 2015
1 available
818.6 KALING 2015
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 818.6 KALING 2015 UNABRIDGED
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CD 818.6 KALING 2015 UNABRIDGED
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Description
Kaling shares her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life, whether it's falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in lonely places, attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight without any behavior modification whatsoever, or most important, believing that you have a place in Hollywood when you're constantly reminded that no one looks like you.