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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MICHAL 2022
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FICTION MICHAL 2022
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"In this beautiful, grounded, and darkly magical modern-day reimagining of J.M. Barrie's classic, one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan-who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to be-to save her daughter's life. Life is looking up for Holly Darling, granddaughter of Wendy-yes, t h a t Wendy. She's running a successful skincare company, her son Jack is happy and healthy, and the tragedy of her past is well behind her......
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHANG 2022
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FICTION CHANG 2022
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHANG 2022
1 available
FICTION CHANG 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHANG 2022
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FICTION CHANG 2022
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"An acclaimed storyteller returns with "a gorgeous and gripping literary mystery" that explores "family, betrayal, passion, race, culture and the American Dream" (Jean Kwok). The residents of Haven, Wisconsin have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant's delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, happy to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. But when brash, charismatic, and tyrannical patriarch Leo Chao is found dead-presumed...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCEWAN 2019
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FICTION MCEWAN 2019
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A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other: here is Ian McEwan's Brexit-era take on Kafka's Metamorphosis, centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England. An Anchor Original. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation...
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Malice duology volume 1
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALTER 2021
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FICTION WALTER 2021
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"In this darkly magical retelling of Sleeping Beauty, Alyce, an evil sorceress, finds an ally in Princess Aurora and wonders if she can lift Aurora’s curse so that together they can forge a new world"--
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION GRUSHI 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION GRUSHI 2021
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"Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, two children and thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron,...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY RUSSEL 2021
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MYSTERY RUSSEL 2021
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"Victorian Edinburgh. Captain Edward Henry Hyde is chief detective for the City of Edinburgh Police; as such, he is responsible for investigating all murders and serious crimes in the city. Hyde is a striking but severe-looking man who provokes unease, and often fear, in those who encounter him. Nevertheless, Edward Hyde is truly a good man … though he wrestles fiercely with his own unique demons. When Hyde finds himself at the scene of a heinous...
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Fractured fables volume 1
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION HARROW 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION HARROW 2021
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION HARROW 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION HARROW 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION HARROW 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION HARROW 2021
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Left with a rare condition caused by an industrial accident, Zinnia Gray celebrates her 21st, and possibly last, birthday and pricks her finger on a spinning wheel at a party, in a modern retelling of Sleeping Beauty.
"USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined....
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE GREELE 2021
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ROMANCE GREELE 2021
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"As a fussy baby, Anne de Bourgh’s doctor prescribed laudanum to quiet her, and now the young woman must take the opium-heavy tincture every day. Growing up sheltered and confined, removed from sunshine and fresh air, the pale and overly slender Anne grew up with few companions except her cousins, including Fitzwilliam Darcy. Throughout their childhoods, it was understood that Darcy and Anne would marry and combine their vast estates of Pemberley...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE BABALO 2021
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ROMANCE BABALO 2021
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"In her debut collection, internationally acclaimed writer Bolu Babalola retells the most beautiful love stories from history and mythology with incredible new detail and vivacity. Focusing on the magical folktales of West Africa, Babalola also reimagines Greek myths, ancient legends from the Middle East, and stories from long-erased places"--
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE HADLOW 2020
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ROMANCE HADLOW 2020
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"A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than she bargained for when she wakes up trapped in a book and realizes that somethings cut deeper than paper...things like marriage...to a book...because it's a LOT of paper.."--
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY MARCOT 2021
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MYSTERY MARCOT 2021
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"Jane has lost everything: job, mother, relationships, even her home. A friend calls to offer an unusual deal--a cottage above the crashing surf of Big Sur on the estate of his employer, Evan Rochester. In return, Jane will tutor his teenage daughter. She accepts. But nothing is quite as it seems at the Rochester estate. Though he's been accused of murdering his glamorous and troubled wife, Evan Rochester insists she drowned herself. Jane is skeptical,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HENRY 2021
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FICTION HENRY 2021
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"Revisit the village of Sleepy Hollow and discover that the oldest legends can be the hungriest, in this atmospheric, terrifying new novel from the author of Alice and The Girl in Red. Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him. Not even Ben Van Brunt's grandfather, Brom Bones, who was there when it was said the Horseman chased the upstart Ichabod Crane out of town-or snuffed out Crane's life by throwing...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FAYE 2021
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FICTION FAYE 2021
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"In this lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City, a neuro-atypical philosopher, along with his best friend Horatio and artist ex-fiance Lia, are caught up in the otherworldly events surrounding the death of his father"--
15) Wendy, darling
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Neverland novels volume 1
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION WISE 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION WISE 2021
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION WISE 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION WISE 2021
1 available
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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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When Peter Pan returns, taking her daughter Jane instead of her, Wendy must follow Peter back to Neverland and rescue Jane--and finally face the darkness at the heart of the island.
16) Ariadne
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SAINT 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION SAINT 2021
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"A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe. Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid's stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice every year. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE STARLE 2021
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ROMANCE STARLE 2021
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Leaving Avonlea, Long Island, to attend grad school in Manhattan, Anne is shocked when her long-time archrival, Gilbert, returns from California to attend as well in this modern adaptation of the beloved Anne of Green Gables.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BARKER 2021
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FICTION BARKER 2021
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Held captive by the victorious Greeks, one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles' slave, forges alliances when she can with Priam's aged wife, the defiant Hecuba, and the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.
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Love & tacos volume 1
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE QUINTA 2022
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ROMANCE QUINTA 2022
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"When fate and tacos bring Ramon and Julieta together on the Day of the Dead, the star-crossed pair must make a choice: accept the bitter food rivalry that drives them apart or surrender to a love that consumes them. Ramon Montez always achieves his goals. Whether that means collecting Ivy League degrees or growing his father's fast-food empire, nothing sets Ramon off course. So when the sexy senorita who kissed him on the Day of the Dead runs off...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRINS 2022
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FICTION PRINS 2022
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRINS 2022
1 available
FICTION PRINS 2022
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PRINS 2022
1 available
FICTION PRINS 2022
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"In this wickedly sharp, propulsive debut, a classicist must outmaneuver her manipulative mentor. Tessa Templeton has thrived at Oxford University, under the tutelage and praise of esteemed classics professor Christopher Eccles. Yet shortly before her thesis defense, Tessa learns that Chris has sabotaged her career-and realizes their relationship is not at all what she believed. Driven by what he mistakes as love for Tessa, Chris has ensured that...