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13 copies, 103 people are on the wait list.
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13 copies, 103 people are on the wait list.
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"The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under--but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewelry on eBay, while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way through her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to...
2) Prophet song
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6 copies, 46 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 46 people are on the wait list.
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"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BARRY 2023
1 available
FICTION BARRY 2023
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION BARRY 2023
1 available
FICTION BARRY 2023
1 available
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"“You should be reading Sebastian Barry. [He] has a special understanding of the human heart.” —Adam Begley, The Atlantic “This is an unforgettable novel from one of our finest writers.” —Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain From the two-time Booker Prize finalist, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, grief, and long-buried secrets Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to...
5) Snow
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BANVIL 2020
1 available
MYSTERY BANVIL 2020
1 available
Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BANVIL 2020
1 available
MYSTERY BANVIL 2020
1 available
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Investigating the murder of a County Wexford priest in 1957, Detective Inspector St. John Strafford navigates harsh winter weather and the community's culture of silence to expose an aristocratic family's dangerous secrets.
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DONOGH 2022
1 available
FICTION DONOGH 2022
1 available
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"In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OFARRE 2016
1 available
FICTION OFARRE 2016
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Daniel Sullivan, a young American professor reeling from a failed marriage and a brutal custody battle, is on holiday in Ireland when he falls in love with Claudette, a world famous sexual icon and actress who fled fame for a reclusive life in a rural village. Together, they make an idyllic life in the country, raising two more children in blissful seclusion until a secret from Daniel's past threatens to destroy their meticulously constructed and...
8) Trespasses
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION KENNED 2022
1 available
FICTION KENNED 2022
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KENNED 2022
1 available
FICTION KENNED 2022
1 available
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"“Brilliant, beautiful, heartbreaking.”٬٢٠١٤؛J.Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Book Review “TRESPASSES vaults Kennedy into the ranks of such contemporary masters as McCann, Claire Keegan, Colin Barrett, and fellow Sligo resident, Kevin Barry.” —Oprah Daily Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion. Amid daily reports...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION KEEGAN 2023
1 available
FICTION KEEGAN 2023
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION KEEGAN 2023
1 available
FICTION KEEGAN 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION KEEGAN 2023
1 available
FICTION KEEGAN 2023
1 available
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"Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work. In "So Late in the Day," Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently; in "The Long and Painful Death" a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll...
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"Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that livesand works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to the town in...
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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You don't see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you've been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still, and you raise your head so your eyes can make sense of what your ears have already told you, which at first is only: something has changed. The rain is stopping. Nobody in the small, forgotten village of Faha remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard was a...
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for generations to come, Small Things...
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Three generations of a boisterous Irish family are upended by a matriarch's shoplifting activities and an upbeat American home aide whose initial support catapults the family into the worst crisis they have ever faced.
14) Love
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DOYLE 2020
1 available
FICTION DOYLE 2020
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DOYLE 2020
1 available
FICTION DOYLE 2020
1 available
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"Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Davy and Joe were drinking pals back in their Dublin youth. Davy rarely sees Joe for a pint anymore--maybe one or two when Davy comes over from England to check on his elderly father. But tonight Davy's father is dying in the hospice, and Joe has a secret that...
15) 56 days
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOWARD 2021
1 available
FICTION HOWARD 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOWARD 2021
1 available
FICTION HOWARD 2021
1 available
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"No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead. 56 DAYS AGO. Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO. When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests they move in together. Ciara sees a unique opportunity for a relationship to flourish without the scrutiny of family and friends. Oliver sees a chance to hide who—and what—he really...
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Ructions O'Hare volume 1
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ORAWE 2021
1 available
FICTION ORAWE 2021
1 available
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Written by a former IRA operative, this debut novel follows James “Ructions” O’Hare as he tries to keep his plan to rob the biggest bank in Belfast from the IRA, which will require all of his cunning and skill.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BERRY 2021
2 available
MYSTERY BERRY 2021
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BERRY 2021
1 available
MYSTERY BERRY 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BERRY 2021
1 available
MYSTERY BERRY 2021
1 available
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"A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid - a robbery at...
19) The ninth hour
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCDERM 2017
1 available
FICTION MCDERM 2017
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCDERM 2017
1 available
FICTION MCDERM 2017
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCDERM 2017
2 available
FICTION MCDERM 2017
2 available
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On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove--to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife--"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a Little Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child....
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SULLIV 2017
2 available
FICTION SULLIV 2017
2 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SULLIV 2017
1 available
FICTION SULLIV 2017
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SULLIV 2017
1 available
FICTION SULLIV 2017
1 available
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"A sweeping, unforgettable novel fromThe New York Timesbest-selling author ofMaine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart. Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by...