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41) Marrow Island
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FICTION SMITH 2016
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FICTION SMITH 2016
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FICTION SMITH 2016
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FICTION SMITH 2016
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"A new novel from a former bookseller, author of the acclaimed Glaciers, tracks a young woman's return home to investigate a secretive community that has mysteriously rescued an island devastated by natural and chemical disaster -- and taken hold of one of her oldest friends. Twenty years ago Lucie Bowen left Marrow Island; along with her mother, she fled the aftermath of an earthquake that compromised the local refinery, killing her father and ravaging...
42) My year of meats
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OZE 1998
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FICTION OZE 1998
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FICTION OZE 1998
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FICTION OZE 1998
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FICTION OZE 1998
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FICTION OZE 1998
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CD FICTION OZE 2003 UNABRIDGED
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Jane, a female Japanese-American filmmaker, hired to produce a television program aimed at Japanese housewives extolling the pleasures of meat consumption, begins to have second thoughts about the dangers of meat and the practices of the meat industry. At the same time, Akiko, the abused wife of Jane's Japanese boss begins to question her role as a docile Japanese housewife when she views some of the "typical" Americans Jane is using in her television...
43) animals people
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FICTION MONTAG 2019
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FICTION MONTAG 2019
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SCIENCE FICTION MONTAG 2019
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SCIENCE FICTION MONTAG 2019
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MONTAG 2019
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SCIENCE FICTION MONTAG 2019
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"An unforgettable, inventive, and riveting epic saga, After the flood signals the arrival of a game-changing and necessary new voice in fiction"--
A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America's great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse...
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FICTION COOK 2020
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FICTION COOK 2020
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FICTION COOK 2020
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FICTION COOK 2020
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A mother desperate to save her dying daughter in a world ravaged by climate change joins a hunter-gatherer initiative to test humanity's capacity to survive in the wilderness without destroying it.
46) Weather: a novel
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OFFILL 2020
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FICTION OFFILL 2020
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FICTION OFFILL 2020
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FICTION OFFILL 2020
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FICTION OFFILL 2020
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FICTION OFFILL 2020
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"Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. She's become...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GHOSH 2019
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FICTION GHOSH 2019
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It is in his hometown of Kolkata where Dr. Deen Datta meets, by chance, a distant relative who upends his world with the mention of a figure which has long haunted Deen's imagination: Bonduki Sadagar, the mysterious Gun Merchant of Bengali legend. A Brooklyn-based dealer in rare books, Deen, on the cusp of retirement, suddenly finds himself propelled into the depths of the snake-infested Sundarbans, in search of a shrine to the Merchant. Thus begins...
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Climate novels volume 1
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"In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees--and to their children and one another--against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis. England, 1852. William is a biologist and seed merchant, who sets out to build a new type of beehive--one that will give both...
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Climate novels volume 2
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LUNDE 2020
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FICTION LUNDE 2020
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From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future. In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives....
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Climate novels volume 3
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LUNDE 2022
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FICTION LUNDE 2022
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"Mikhail lives in Russia in 1881. When a skeleton of a rare wild horse is brought to him, the zoologist plans an expedition to Mongolia to find the fabled Przewalski horse...In 1992, Karin, alongside her troubled son Mathias and several Przewalski horses, travels to Mongolia to re-introduce the magnificent horses to their native land...Europe’s future is uncertain in 2064, but Eva is willing to sacrifice nearly everything to hold onto her family’s...
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Cadie returns to her childhood home to confront her estranged best friend and the dark secret they both share and must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the people and the land she loves.
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FICTION CONKLI 2019
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FICTION CONKLI 2019
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FICTION CONKLI 2019
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FICTION CONKLI 2019
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FICTION CONKLI 2019
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FICTION CONKLI 2019
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When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that...
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In an alternate-world modern London submerged below flood waters, a woman who has just given birth to her first child is forced to flee her home with her baby to seek refuge in a variety of locations while the baby thrives against all odds.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5 ELLSWO 2021
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741.5 ELLSWO 2021
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"At the centre of Secret Life is The Building, an office building wherein several factions vie for dominance... Jeff VanderMeer's ecological speculations overlap with Theo Ellsworth's deep-layered style to create a mind-bending narrative that defamiliarizes the mundanity of office work and makes the arcane rituals of The Building home... Secret Life observes the sinister individualism of bureaucratic settings in contrast with an unconcerned natural...
55) Pod: a novel
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FICTION PAULL 2023
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FICTION PAULL 2023
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"Ea has always felt like an outsider. As a spinner dolphin who has recently come of age, she's now expected to join in the elaborate rituals that unite her pod. But Ea suffers from a type of deafness that prevents her from mastering the art of spinning. When catastrophe befalls her family and Ea knows she is partly to blame, she decides to make the ultimate sacrifice and leave the pod. As Ea ventures into the vast, she discovers dangers everywhere,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MILLET 2022
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FICTION MILLET 2022
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ROMANCE MILLET 2022
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ROMANCE MILLET 2022
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"Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Boston Globe, Literary Hub and The Millions A stunning new novel from the author of A Children’s Bible, a National Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2020. Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction...
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When his wife, Ada, vanishes from their bed one night, with their son, Gilles, in the next room, Danny discovers mothers around the world are vanishing from their homes and wonders if the mystery is linked to the forest she seemed magnetically drawn to.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNS 2023
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FICTION JOHNS 2023
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In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home. "A mystery and a horror story about grief, but one with defiant hope in its beating heart." —Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed...
59) The light pirate
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FICTION BROOKS 2022
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FICTION BROOKS 2022
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BROOKS 2022
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FICTION BROOKS 2022
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FICTION BROOKS 2022
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FICTION BROOKS 2022
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"From the author of Good Morning, Midnight comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world. Florida as we know it is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MARKLE 2022
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FICTION MARKLE 2022
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FICTION MARKLE 2022
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FICTION MARKLE 2022
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"In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters—a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist,...