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1) Alias Grace
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATWOOD 1996
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FICTION ATWOOD 1996
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ATW 1996
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FICTION ATW 1996
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The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time). • A Netflix original miniseries.
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress.
Some believe Grace is innocent; others think...
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress.
Some believe Grace is innocent; others think...
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Investigating the suspicious death of his estranged father at a hotel that was once the site of a Spanish mission, a California university employee begins experiencing hallucinatory daydreams as his academic colleagues turn increasingly hostile.--
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"[An] intricate and unsettling new novel . . . Death in Her Hands is not a murder mystery, nor is it really a story about self-deception or the perils of escapism. Rather, it's a haunting meditation on the nature and meaning of art."
-Kevin Power, The New Yorker
From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned...
-Kevin Power, The New Yorker
From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE CHOI 2019
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ROMANCE CHOI 2019
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE CHOI 2019
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ROMANCE CHOI 2019
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE CHOI 2019
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ROMANCE CHOI 2019
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In 1982 in a southern city, David and Sarah, two freshmen at a highly competitive performing arts high school, thrive alongside their school peers in a rarified bubble, ambitiously devoting themselves to their studiesto music, to movement, to Shakespeare and, particularly, to classes taught by the magnetic acting teacher Mr. Kingsley. It is here in these halls that David and Sarah fall innocently and powerfully into first love. And also where, as...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BANKS 2021
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FICTION BANKS 2021
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A septuagenarian leftist documentary filmmaker gives a last interview from his mythologized life to a former star student to whom he discloses his experiences as a draft dodger who fled to a new life in Montreal.
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Best friends Rosie and Lisa's families had always been inseparable. But that summer, Lisa had an affair with Rosie's husband, Nick. None of them would forget that week on the wild Norfolk seacoast. Relationships were torn apart. Friendships shattered. And childish innocence destroyed. Now, after years of silence, a letter arrives that begs for help. A letter that exposes dark secrets. Then Rosies daughter Daisy's fragile hold on reality begins to...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION YATES 2017
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FICTION YATES 2017
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION YATES 2017
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FICTION YATES 2017
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION YATES 2017
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CD FICTION YATES 2017
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"Four distinct voices tell the story of a disturbing incident and its far-reaching aftermath...It's a labyrinth of shifting perspectives, but the narrators keep this grim story focused and mesmerizing." AudioFile Magazine. The highly anticipated new audiobook from the author whose debut was called “The smart summer thriller youve been waiting for...The novel you should be reading tonight” (NPRs All Things Considered) and was named a Book of the...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION YANAGI 2013
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FICTION YANAGI 2013
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION YANAGI 2013
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FICTION YANAGI 2013
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Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked to a rare turtle, a finding that brings worldwide fame and unexpected consequence.
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"The #1 book of 2009...Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly. One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens...
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Everyman's library volume 349
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ISHIGU 2012
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FICTION ISHIGU 2012
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ISHIGU 1989
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FICTION ISHIGU 1989
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ISHIGU 2012
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FICTION ISHIGU 2012
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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A compelling portrait of the perfect English butler, who, at the end of his career in postwar England, reviews his life and secretly questions the "greatness" of the nobleman he served.
From the Nobel Prizewinning author, here is an elegant Everyman's Library hardcover edition of the universally acclaimed novelwinner of the Booker Prize, a bestseller, and the basis for an award-winning filmwith full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology,...
11) Atonement
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCE 2002
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FICTION MCE 2002
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCEWAN 2002
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FICTION MCEWAN 2002
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCE 2001
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FICTION MCE 2001
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION MCE 2002 UNABRIDGED
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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.
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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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DIAZ 2007
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FICTION DIAZ 2007
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DIAZ 2007
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FICTION DIAZ 2007
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Oscar, an overweight Dominican from a New Jersey ghetto, dreams of becoming a writer and finding love, but a Fuku curse has haunted his family for generations, and may well prevent him from attaining his desires.
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A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
14) Sisters
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNSO 2020
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FICTION JOHNSO 2020
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"Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins. Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MACALL 2015
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FICTION MACALL 2015
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"The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half on stage. One night in Waterloo, Iowa, with young policeman Virgil Holt watching from the audience, she swaps her trademark saw for a fire ax. Is it a new version of the illusion, or an all-too-real murder? When Arden's husband is found lifeless beneath the stage later that night, the answer seems clear."--Dust flap.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COLE 2011
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FICTION COLE 2011
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“Cerebral and capacious, Teju Cole’s novel asks what it means to roam freely.”—The New York Times (One of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years)
“Influential . . . makes you think about what kind of city is revealed to us based on where we cannot go.”—Katie Kitamura, bestselling author of Intimacies
ONE OF THE TEN BEST...
“Influential . . . makes you think about what kind of city is revealed to us based on where we cannot go.”—Katie Kitamura, bestselling author of Intimacies
ONE OF THE TEN BEST...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BURNET 2015
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MYSTERY BURNET 2015
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BURNET 2015
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MYSTERY BURNET 2015
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY BURNET 2015
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MYSTERY BURNET 2015
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The year is 1869. After a brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands, a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae is arrested for the crime. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but the police and the courts must decide what drove him to murder the local village constable. And why did he kill his other two victims? Was he insane? Or was this the act of a man in possession of his senses? Only the...
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Certain that society is on the verge of economic and environmental collapse, five disillusioned twenty-somethings make a bold decision: They gather in upstate New York to transform an abandoned farm, once the site of a turn-of-the-century socialist commune, into an idyllic self-sustaining compound called the Homestead.Mack, a publicly disgraced grad-school dropout, believes its her calling to write their story. She immediately falls in love with all...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FULLER 2015
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FICTION FULLER 2015
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FULLER 2015
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FICTION FULLER 2015
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"Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. They repair the hut, bathe in water from the river, hunt and gather food in the summers and almost starve in the harsh winters. They mark their days only by the sun and the seasons. When...
20) Shutter Island
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEH 2003
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FICTION LEH 2003
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEH 2003
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FICTION LEH 2003
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEH 2003
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FICTION LEH 2003
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION LEHANE 2009 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION LEHANE 2009 UNABRIDGED
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In the summer of 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels comes to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry?...