Washoe County Library System

Focuses on Kimihiro Watanuki's relationship with Yuko, Kohane, and his new friend Sakura.

It's naptime, and Bear knows just how to help Penguin fall asleep. A nap snack! A nap song! A nap story! But Bear’s ideas are a bit too loud for Penguin. Will Penguin find a way to get some shut-eye? Full of energy and illustrated with vibrant art in a comic book style, this inventive board-book format adds narrative depth and engaging entry points for young readers and their caregivers.

Searching for a long-missing treasure in Scotland, Jane MacGuire experiences vivid dreams of a girl in danger at the same time she reconnects with a volatile ex and is confronted by stunning changes in the lives of those closest to her.

She's 33, unmarried, and stuffed into a Bubble Yum pink bridesmaid dress. And the whole town wants to fix her up with anyone with a dental plan .... Who's going to rescue Sadie Hollowell now? Everyone in Lovett, Texas knows Sadie has always been a "notional" kind of gal. She got a notion to leave town ASAP and never visit her daddy (bless his heart) again. Now she's back and got the notion to invite a good-looking, hard-muscled, total stranger to...

In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman. His wife worked double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream. The odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father...

In the land of the Ojibway a baby sleeps, protected from bad dreams, as the life of the tribe goes on around him.

Twenty-year-old Ingeborg Strand is certain she is destined to be an old maid. It's not that she's lacked suitors, but now she can no longer have the one she loved. With the future looking bleak, her mother suggests that she leave Norway and start afresh in America, as so many others have done before her. But how will she accomplish that with little money and no one to accompany her? Roald Bjorklund is a widower who has been planning to go to America,...

Zuhour, young Omani woman attempting to assimilate in Britain, reflects on the relationships that have been central to her life, including her bond with Bint Aamir, a woman she thought of as her grandmother, who passed away after Zuhour left the Arabian peninsula.

All Sasha Miller ever wanted was a place among the great scientists of her time. But when she falls for the seductive charms of Professor Theo Dexter, she loses her heart -- and the brilliant original theory that was going to jumpstart her career. Sasha is left with nothing -- except an unquenchable thirst for revenge. Eight years later, rich and famous Theo Dexter is the darling of the American media and every woman's fantasy. Every woman except...

Marian Caldwell has convinced everyone, including herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be. But one night, Marian answers a knock on the door, only to find Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off forever. As the two women embark on a journey to find the one thing missing in their lives, each will come to recognize that where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves....