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Ruth Galloway mysteries volume 14
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MYSTERY GRIFFI 2022
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MYSTERY GRIFFI 2022
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY GRIFFI 2022
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MYSTERY GRIFFI 2022
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY GRIFFI 2022
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MYSTERY GRIFFI 2022
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Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor--until Nelson comes calling, investigating a decades-long string of murder-suicides that's looming ever closer. Three years after her late mother's death, Ruth is finally sorting through her things when she finds a curious relic: a decades-old photograph of Jean's Norfolk cottage with a peculiar inscription. Ruth returns to the cottage to uncover its meaning as...
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FICTION WHITEH 2011
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FICTION WHITEH 2011
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FICTION WHITEH 2011
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FICTION WHITEH 2011
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In a post-apocalyptic world decimated by zombies, survivor efforts to rebuild are focused on Manhattan, where civilian team member Mark Spitz works to eliminate remaining infected stragglers and remembers his horrifying experiences at the height of the zombie plague.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WRIGHT 2020
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FICTION WRIGHT 2020
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WRIGHT 2020
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FICTION WRIGHT 2020
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WRIGHT 2020
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FICTION WRIGHT 2020
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"In this propulsive medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY NESBO 2021
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MYSTERY NESBO 2021
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY NESBO 2021
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MYSTERY NESBO 2021
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A collection of short stories by the master of mystery and suspense includes tales about a detective on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a bereaved father contemplating vengeance after a pandemic brings about the collapse of society; and a hired assassin who matches wits against his greatest adversary.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION WALTON 2017
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SCIENCE FICTION WALTON 2017
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"What if the pandemic you thought would kill you made you more intelligent instead? In the Amazon jungle, a disease is spreading. To those who survive, it grants enhanced communication, memory, and pattern recognition. But the miracle may be the sinister survival mechanism of a fungal organism, manipulating the infected into serving it. Paul Johns, a mycologist, is convinced the fungal host is the next stage of human evolution, while his brother...
46) Afterland
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BEUKES 2020
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SCIENCE FICTION BEUKES 2020
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BEUKES 2020
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SCIENCE FICTION BEUKES 2020
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BEUKES 2020
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SCIENCE FICTION BEUKES 2020
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Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still hold, and life continues -- but a world run by women isn't always a better place. Twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence-and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie -- all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as...
47) Phase six
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHEPAR 2021
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FICTION SHEPAR 2021
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"A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged--that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing...
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SCIENCE FICTION GREGOR 2009
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SCIENCE FICTION GREGOR 2009
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From Daryl Gregory, whose Pandemonium was one of the most exciting debut novels in memory, comes an astonishing work of soaring imaginative power that breaks new ground in contemporary fantasy.
Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease–dubbed Transcription...
Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease–dubbed Transcription...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VILLAR 2018
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FICTION VILLAR 2018
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A pandemic virus stemming from a bizarre blood-solidifying mystery sweeps through the world, transforming victims into beautiful vampire-like beings who rise to prominence in all aspects of society, before one runs for political office.
50) The end of men
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"The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland--a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic--and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien--a women's world. What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MASELL 2013
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FICTION MASELL 2013
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Army epidemiologist Frank Slater is offered a job no one else wants -- to travel to a small island off the coast of Alaska and investigate a potentially lethal phenomenon: The permafrost has begun to melt, exposing bodies from a colony that was wiped out by the dreaded Spanish flu of 1918 and was once devoted to the mad Russian monk Rasputin. Frank must determine if the thawed remains still carry the deadly virus in their frozen flesh and, if so,...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEE 2019
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FICTION LEE 2019
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In this gripping sequel to The Line Between, which New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava calls “everything you want in a thriller,” cult escapee Wynter Roth and ex-soldier Chase Miller emerge from their bunker to find a country ravaged by disease, and Wynter is the only one who can save it. Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others, Wynter and Chase emerge to find the area abandoned. There is no sign of Noah and...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ENERSO 2021
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FICTION ENERSO 2021
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"Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging-and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France, while the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic overwhelms medical...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCDONE 2021
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FICTION MCDONE 2021
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"First came the pandemic, then came The Calamity. The few remaining humans are huddled in impoverished villages. The animals, meanwhile, have convened a gathering, each group sending a representative to debate and vote on whether to help the last human stragglers . . . or to kill and eat them. As each animal makes its case, the fate of humanity depends on whether each species will act in its own self-interest, or if they will follow the lead of the...
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"In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Station Eleven, a sweeping literary love story about two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart. America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. She agrees to a radical plan--time travel has been invented in the future to thwart the virus. If she signs up for a...
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CHEN 2020
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SCIENCE FICTION CHEN 2020
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How do you start over after the end of the world? "Not just an apocalyptic thriller, but also a timely reminder of what is most important in lifefamily, love, and hope.(3y(B Peng Shepherd, author of The Book of M. Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planets population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing cities, hippie communes and wasteland gangs.In postapocalyptic San Francisco, former pop star...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KUMAR 2021
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FICTION KUMAR 2021
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"When a writer named Satya attends a prestigious artist retreat, he finds the pressures of the outside world won't let up: President Trump rages online; a dangerous virus envelopes the globe; and the 24-hour news cycle throws fuel on every fire. For most of the retreat fellows, such stories are unbearable distractions; but for Satya, these Orwellian interruptions begin to crystalize into an idea for his new novel, Enemies of the People, about the...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
614.5924 COVID 2021
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614.5924 COVID 2021
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"A collection of short comics about the COVID-19 pandemic. Diverse artists address disruptions in work, school, and family life as well as failures in public policy, racial biases, and systemic inequalities revealed by the pandemic."--Provided by the publisher.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.2414 AND 2020
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616.2414 AND 2020
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Writers from around the world provide essays, stories, poems and artwork detailing the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HALL 2021
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ROMANCE HALL 2021
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"In an unnamed British city, the virus is spreading, and like everyone else, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness retreats inside. She isolates herself in her immense studio, Burntcoat, with Halit, the lover she barely knows. As life outside changes irreparably, inside Burntcoat, Edith and Halit find themselves changed as well: by the histories and responsibilities each carries and bears, by the fears and dangers of the world outside, and by the...