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SCIENCE FICTION 808.83 FUTURE 2018
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SCIENCE FICTION 808.83 FUTURE 2018
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"Bending and stretching its conventions to imagine new, more feminist futures and new ways of experiencing gender, visionary women writers have been from the beginning an essential if often overlooked force in American science fiction. Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the best of this female tradition, from the pioneers of the Pulp Era to the radical innovators of the 1960s New Wave, in a landmark...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOO 1956
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FICTION WOO 1956
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Orlando is one of the most unforgettable creations of twentieth-century literature. He emerges as a young man at the court of Queen Elizabeth I and progresses, with breathtaking ease, through three centuries until, by now a woman, she arrives in the bustle and diversion of the 1920s. For Virginia Woolf, a leading figure of the Bloomsbury Group, Orlando was more than a fantastic flight of imagination. It was a roman à clef, a love letter for her lover,...
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Alliance/Union series. Company wars volume 3
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CHERRY 2008
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SCIENCE FICTION CHERRY 2008
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CHERRY 2008
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SCIENCE FICTION CHERRY 2008
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"Pell's Station, orbiting the alien world simply called Downbelow, had always managed to remain neutral in the ever escalating conflict between "The Company," whose fleets from Earth had colonized space, and its increasingly independent and rebellious colony worlds. But Pell's location,on the outer edge of Earth's defensive perimeter, makes her the focal point in the titanic battle of colony worlds fighting for independence."--Amazon
24) The hunger games
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Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
YA CD FICTION COL 2008 UNABRIDGED
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YA CD FICTION COL 2008 UNABRIDGED
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Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
YA CD FICTION COLLIN 2008 UNABRIDGED
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YA CD FICTION COLLIN 2008 UNABRIDGED
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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
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Hainish series volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION LEGUIN 2003
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SCIENCE FICTION LEGUIN 2003
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION LEGUIN 2003
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SCIENCE FICTION LEGUIN 2003
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Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the anarchist moon Anarres, risks his life by traveling to the mother planet of Urras in the hope of offering wisdom to its inhabitants and to reunite the two long-alienated worlds
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHELLE 2003
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FICTION SHELLE 2003
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHELLE 1999
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FICTION SHELLE 1999
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature.
The worlds most famous work of horror fiction: a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read. Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to...
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Sierra View Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 741.5 LENGLE 2012
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J 741.5 LENGLE 2012
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A graphic novel adaptation of the classic tale in which Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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Time quintet volume 1
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Downtown Reno Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION LENGLE 1962
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J FICTION LENGLE 1962
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Duncan/Traner Community Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION LENGLE 1962
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J FICTION LENGLE 1962
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Sierra View Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION LENGLE 2007
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J FICTION LENGLE 2007
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North Valleys Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION LENGLE 1962
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J FICTION LENGLE 1962
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Spanish Springs Library - Children's Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
J CD FICTION LENGLE 2012 UNABRIDGED
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J CD FICTION LENGLE 2012 UNABRIDGED
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
29) The testaments
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Handmaid's tale volume 2
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATWOOD 2019
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FICTION ATWOOD 2019
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATWOOD 2019
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FICTION ATWOOD 2019
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In Processing - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATWOOD 2019
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FICTION ATWOOD 2019
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION ATWOOD 2019
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CD FICTION ATWOOD 2019
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Set 15 years after events in the Handmaid's tale, the theocratic regime in Gilead is beginning to show signs of rotting from within. At this crucial moment in time, the lives of three women converge. One is from Gilead, the privileged daughter of an important Commander; one is from Canada, where she marches in protests; and one is an enforcer for the regime, a woman whose power comes from secrets. When secrets bring the women together, there are explosive...
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Handmaid's tale volume 1
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATWOOD 2006
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FICTION ATWOOD 2006
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATWOOD 2006
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FICTION ATWOOD 2006
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION ATWOOD 2014
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CD FICTION ATWOOD 2014
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Now a Hulu Original Series, premiering in April The Handmaids Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans....
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Fullmetal alchemist volume 22
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5 ARAKAW 2009 V.22
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741.5 ARAKAW 2009 V.22
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"Having consumed Gluttony's powers, Pride may now be too much to handle for Ed and his allies. Their only chance could be the help of Al and Hohenheim, but will Ed trust his estranged father long enough for their plan to work? And back at Central City, Mustang and his team have started their attack. But does the army have a dangerous trick up its sleeve?" -- from publisher's web site.
32) Kindred
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
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SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
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SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
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SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2004
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"Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...