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Thursday Next novels volume 1
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY FFO 2001
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MYSTERY FFO 2001
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY FFO 2001
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MYSTERY FFO 2001
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is disappointed by the ending of Jane Eyre. But in this world there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic - and a woman called Thursday Next.
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Thursday Next novels volume 2
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY FFO 2002
1 available
MYSTERY FFO 2002
1 available
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Thursday Next novels volume 3
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY FFO 2003
1 available
MYSTERY FFO 2003
1 available
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Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. After two rollicking New York Times-bestselling adventures through the Western literary canon, Britain's Prose Resource Operative was literally and literaturally at her wit's end -- not to mention pregnant. So what could be more welcome than a restful stint in the Character Exchange Program down in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots? But a vacation remains elusive. In no time, Thursday discovers...
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Thursday Next novels volume 4
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Tired of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction, literary sleuth Thursday Next packs up her son, Friday, to return to Swindon, accompanied by the Danish prince Hamlet, only to find herself coping with outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine.
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Thursday Next novels volume 5
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY FFO 2007
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MYSTERY FFO 2007
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY FFO 2007
1 available
MYSTERY FFO 2007
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP MYSTERY FFO 2007
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LP MYSTERY FFO 2007
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Fourteen years after the 1988 SuperHoop, Thursday finds herself entangled in cases involving the murders of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple before receiving a death threat of her own.
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Thursday Next novels volume 6
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP MYSTERY FFORDE 2011
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LP MYSTERY FFORDE 2011
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It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?
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Thursday Next novels volume 7
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY FFORDE 2012
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MYSTERY FFORDE 2012
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The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the Anti-Smote shield, needed in time to thwart an angry Deity's...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE FOWLES 1998
1 available
ROMANCE FOWLES 1998
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As part of Back Bay's ongoing effort to make the works of John Fowles available in uniform trade paperback editions, two major works in the Fowles canon are reissued to coincide with the publication of Wormholes, the author's long-awaited new collection of essays and occasional writings.
Perhaps the most beloved of Fowles's internationally bestselling works, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HADDON 2003
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FICTION HADDON 2003
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION HAD 2003 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION HAD 2003 UNABRIDGED
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Despite his overhwleming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
30) Glory road
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION HEINLE 2004
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SCIENCE FICTION HEINLE 2004
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E.C. "Scar" Gordon, a Vietnam veteran, answers an ad promising adventure and meets a mysterious beauty who transports him to another world.
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GAARDE 2007
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FICTION GAARDE 2007
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION GAA 2007 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION GAA 2007 UNABRIDGED
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"A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning,...
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 2011
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SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 2011
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 2011
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SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 2011
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 2006
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SCIENCE FICTION VONNEG 2006
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION VON 2003 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION VON 2003 UNABRIDGED
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Aging writer Kilgore Trout finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is a murderous satire looking at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America
Dwayne Hoover, a successful automobile dealer in Midland City, suddenly decides that he is a machine and begins to act accordingly. Science fiction writer Kilgore Trout is on his way to the Midland City Festival of the Arts. When they meet,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ECO 1980
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FICTION ECO 1980
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ECO 1983
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FICTION ECO 1983
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. His delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in seven days and night of apocalyptic terror. The body of one monk is found in a cask of pigs' blood, another is floating in a bathhouse, still another is crushed at the foot of a cliff.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATWOOD 2001
1 available
FICTION ATWOOD 2001
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATWOOD 2000
1 available
FICTION ATWOOD 2000
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION ATW 2005 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION ATW 2005 UNABRIDGED
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
Tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages.
35) Atonement
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCE 2002
1 available
FICTION MCE 2002
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCEWAN 2002
1 available
FICTION MCEWAN 2002
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCE 2001
1 available
FICTION MCE 2001
1 available
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION MCE 2002 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION MCE 2002 UNABRIDGED
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis wildly misinterprets the relationship between her sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, childhood friends home from Cambridge. So when her young cousin is assaulted, Briony gives in to her hyperactive imagination and blames the atrocity on Robbie. It is a terrible decision that alters lives and fills Briony with an everlasting sense of guilt.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALLAC 1996
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FICTION WALLAC 1996
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALLAC 1996
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FICTION WALLAC 1996
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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A spoof on our culture featuring a drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation house near Boston. The center becomes a hotbed of revolutionary activity by Quebec separatists in revolt against the Organization of North American Nations which now rules the continent.
Dr. James Incandenza, scientist turned filmmaker, creates a movie so entertaining viewers cannot quit watching and literally die laughing. After he commits suicide, his sons hustle to keep the film...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CLARKE 2020
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION CLARKE 2020
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CLARKE 2020
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION CLARKE 2020
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION CLA 2004 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION CLA 2004 UNABRIDGED
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
In nineteenth-century England, all is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr Norrell's pupil.
"English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OZEKI 2013
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FICTION OZEKI 2013
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
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Description
""A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in ways she...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MARTEL 2001
2 available
FICTION MARTEL 2001
2 available
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.