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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIS 2020
1 available
FICTION DAVIS 2020
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIS 2020
1 available
FICTION DAVIS 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIS 2020
1 available
FICTION DAVIS 2020
1 available
Description
"It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life-her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OBR 2008
1 available
FICTION OBR 2008
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OBR 2008
1 available
FICTION OBR 2008
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GREENI 2021
1 available
FICTION GREENI 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GREENI 2021
1 available
FICTION GREENI 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GREENI 2021
1 available
FICTION GREENI 2021
1 available
Description
"Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie will go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie feels stifled by her mother's choices and is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOWLER 2018
1 available
FICTION FOWLER 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOWLER 2018
1 available
FICTION FOWLER 2018
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Drawing from religion and the human sciences, particularly psychology after Freud, the author attempts to demonstrate that the fear of death is man's central concern.
Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York's old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built 9 mansions, hosted...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
Senior Center Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2021
2 available
FICTION BENEDI 2021
2 available
Checked Out
5 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
LP FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
Description
"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books,...
On Shelf
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STORIE 2020
1 available
FICTION STORIE 2020
1 available
Description
"From a chorus of bestselling historical fiction writers, a breathtaking book inspired by the day tens of thousands of women marched for the right to vote on October, 23, 1915. Includes an introduction by Kristin Hannah and stories by Lisa Wingate, M. J. Rose, Steve Berry, Paula McLain, Katherine J. Chen, Christina Baker Kline, Jamie Ford, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Megan Chance, Alyson Richman, Chris Bohjalian, and Fiona Davis"--
27) Violeta: a novel
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLEND 2022
1 available
FICTION ALLEND 2022
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLEND 2022
1 available
FICTION ALLEND 2022
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLEND 2022
1 available
FICTION ALLEND 2022
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION ALLEND 2022
1 available
LP FICTION ALLEND 2022
1 available
Description
"Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father’s prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KIDD 2014
1 available
FICTION KIDD 2014
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KIDD 2014
1 available
FICTION KIDD 2014
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KIDD 2014
1 available
FICTION KIDD 2014
1 available
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION KIDD 2014
1 available
LP FICTION KIDD 2014
1 available
Description
On Sarah Grimke's eleventh birthday, she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, a Charleston slave, who is to be her handmaid. Follow their journey over the next thirty-five years as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other's destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love.
From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
Description
Reimagines the life of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt as the reluctant and bullied bride of the Duke of Marlborough before she finds the inner strength to fight for women's equality.
Before there was Meghan Markle, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American Duchess. Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “The Wedding of the Century” to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind “the glitter...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENJAM 2013
1 available
FICTION BENJAM 2013
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION BENJAM 2013 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION BENJAM 2013 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Description
For much of her life, Anne Morrow, the shy daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has stood in the shadows of those around her, including her millionaire father and vibrant older sister, who often steals the spotlight. Then Anne, a college senior with hidden literary aspirations, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family. There she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Enthralled...
31) Great circle
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHIPST 2021
2 available
FICTION SHIPST 2021
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHIPST 2021
2 available
FICTION SHIPST 2021
2 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHIPST 2021
1 available
FICTION SHIPST 2021
1 available
Description
A century after daredevil female aviator Marian Graves's disappearance in Antarctica, actress Hadley Baxter is cast to play her and immerses herself in the role as their fates - and their dreams - become intertwined.
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCLAIN 2015
1 available
FICTION MCLAIN 2015
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCLAIN 2015
2 available
FICTION MCLAIN 2015
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCLAIN 2015
1 available
FICTION MCLAIN 2015
1 available
On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION MCLAIN 2015 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION MCLAIN 2015 UNABRIDGED
1 available
On Shelf
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION MCLAIN 2015
1 available
LP FICTION MCLAIN 2015
1 available
Description
"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...
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Series
Book woman of Trouble Creek volume 1
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On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RICHAR 2019
1 available
FICTION RICHAR 2019
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RICHAR 2019
1 available
FICTION RICHAR 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RICHAR 2019
1 available
FICTION RICHAR 2019
1 available
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION RICHAR 2019
1 available
CD FICTION RICHAR 2019
1 available
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION RICHAR 2019
1 available
LP FICTION RICHAR 2019
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION RICHAR 2019
1 available
LP FICTION RICHAR 2019
1 available
Description
The folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everythingeverything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however; she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the government's new book program, and along her treacherous route,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SCHWAB 2020
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION SCHWAB 2020
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SCHWAB 2020
2 available
SCIENCE FICTION SCHWAB 2020
2 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SCHWAB 2020
2 available
SCIENCE FICTION SCHWAB 2020
2 available
Checked Out
16 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 55 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 55 people are on the wait list.
Description
Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RUM 2019
1 available
FICTION RUM 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RUM 2019
1 available
FICTION RUM 2019
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Three generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy, and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture.
Author
Series
Caroline Ferriday volume 2
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KELLY 2019
1 available
FICTION KELLY 2019
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KELLY 2019
1 available
FICTION KELLY 2019
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KELLY 2019
1 available
FICTION KELLY 2019
1 available
Description
"It is 1914 and the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SPERA 2019
1 available
FICTION SPERA 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SPERA 2019
1 available
FICTION SPERA 2019
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
A stunning tour de force following three fierce, unforgettable Southern women in the years leading up to the Great DepressionIts 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband. Retta is navigating a harsh world as...
38) Patsy: a novel
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DENNIS 2019
1 available
FICTION DENNIS 2019
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DENNIS 2019
1 available
FICTION DENNIS 2019
1 available
Description
Receiving her long-coveted visa to America, Patsy leaves behind her family in Jamaica, only to discover that life as an undocumented immigrant is not what her best friend had described.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STRADA 2015
2 available
FICTION STRADA 2015
2 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STRADA 2015
1 available
FICTION STRADA 2015
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine--and a dashing sommelier--he's left to raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He's determined to pass on his love of food to his daughter--starting with puréed pork shoulder. As Eva grows, she finds her solace and salvation in the flavors of her native Minnesota. From Scandinavian lutefisk to hydroponic chocolate habaneros, each ingredient represents one part of Eva's journey as she becomes...
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On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRESCO 2019
3 available
FICTION PRESCO 2019
3 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRESCO 2019
1 available
FICTION PRESCO 2019
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRESCO 2019
1 available
FICTION PRESCO 2019
1 available
On Shelf
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION PRESCO 2019
1 available
LP FICTION PRESCO 2019
1 available
Description
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago. At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out...