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by
Ellen Hopkins
Series:
Impulse Series
(28,090)
Summary: Northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre, tell in their own voices of their very different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes.
BOOK
Call #: YA F HOPKINS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Christine Feehan
(2,111)
Summary: Vienna Mortenson isn't your typical gambler. She prefers to stay under the radar, using her poker winnings to support her family and her community, including the local search and rescue team, which...
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BOOK
Call #: F FEEHAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ellen Hopkins
Series:
Burned Series
(63,718)
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love...
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by
Willy Vlautin
(2,853)
Summary: Horace Hopper is ashamed of his half-Paiute, half-Irish heritage. He's spent most of his life on a Nevada sheep ranch after the Reeses took him in. They've treated him like a son, intending to leave...
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BOOK
Call #: F VLAUTIN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Candice Fox
(2,421)
Summary: When 650 of the world's most violent human beings pour out of the Pronghorn Correctional Facility into the Nevada Desert, the biggest manhunt in US history begins. For John Kradle, this is his chance...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F FOX
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Victor Methos
Series:
Desert Plains - #3
(7,314)
Summary: Two couples cut to bits near a canyon close to the Nevada border. The police pull over blood-soaked Arlo Ward not far from the site of the grisly murders; he fully cooperates with the officers,...
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BOOK
Call #: F METHOS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kate A. Boorman
(894)
Summary: Siblings Liv and Jory Brewer have grown up resenting each another. Liv--former pageant queen and reality TV star--was groomed for a life in the spotlight, while her older brother, Jory, born with a...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F BOORMAN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Andrew Bourelle
(668)
Summary: Serving a ten-year sentence in a Nevada prison for armed robbery, Ethan Lockhart hopes that he can one day become a productive, law-abiding member of society. But society has other plans for Ethan....
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BOOK
Call #: F BOURELLE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Elizabeth Lowell
(1,589)
Summary: "Nevada is home to Hope Gardener, it's rugged majestic beauty a balm for the aches of her heart and spirit. But the cattle ranch she owns and loves us dying, thanks to the worst draught the area has...
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BOOK
Call #: F LOWELL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Anthony Horowitz
Series:
Gatekeepers Series - #3
(14,466)
Summary: As fourteen-year-old telepathic twins struggle to escape the clutches of the Nightrise Corporation, one of them travels through dreams to a time when the evil Old Ones ruled and learns the role that...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F HOROWITZ
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Joe Hill
(1,857)
Summary: Acclaimed novelist/Eisner-winning graphic novelist Joe Hill collaborated with his father, Stephen King, in Throttle, for the first time on a tale that paid tribute to Richard Matheson's classic tale,...
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BOOK
Call #: 741.59 HIL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Louis L'Amour
(2,737)
Summary: Macon had never needed more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun; he was counting on those things now as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers to an abandoned mining town. But while...
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BOOK
Call #: PB L'AM
Location: Adult Paperbacks
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Victor Methos
Series:
Desert Plains - #1
(36,985)
Summary: Fourteen years ago, prosecutor Jessica Yardley's husband went to prison for a series of brutal murders. She's finally created a life with her daughter and is a well-respected attorney. She's moving...
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BOOK
Call #: F METHOS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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by
Victor Methos
Series:
Desert Plains - #2
(10,327)
Summary: Retiring prosecutor Jessica Yardley can't turn down one last investigation. This time, it's a set of murders inspired by a series of grisly paintings called The Night Things. She's the only one who...
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BOOK
Call #: F METHOS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Chelsea Sedoti
(4,110)
Summary: Madison is a small town in the Mojave desert on the road between nothing and nowhere. The town has a secret: in Madison, everyone can make one wish on their eighteenth birthday-- and that wish always...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F SEDOTI
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Louis L'Amour (read by Jason Culp)
(2,748)
Summary: Macon had never needed more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun; he was counting on those things now as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers to an abandoned mining town. But while...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F L'AMOUR
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
(5,871)
Summary: Set in 1885, this is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy...
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BOOK
Call #: F CLARK
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Patricia Hermes
Series:
Emma Dilemma Series - #8
(463)
Summary: Despite the dangers, Black Cloud enjoys his life as a wild mustang colt in 1951 Nevada but when humans round up and slaughter his herd, he is rescued by a talkative girl named Annie who gives him a...
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BOOK
Call #: J F HORSE
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Nina Revoyr
(658)
Summary: Four hikers from Los Angeles journey to the Sierra Nevada and discover an untraversed trail which leads them into unexpected territory.
BOOK
Call #: F REVOYR
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Shing Yin Khor , illustrator
(2,345)
Summary: In a Sierra Nevada logging camp in 1885, thirteen-year-old Mei bakes the most delicious pies and tells the best stories about Auntie Po, a gigantic elderly Chinese matriarch who could probably cut...
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BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL KHO
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Christine Feehan
(3,583)
Summary: Stella Harrison thought she had gotten away from the traumas of her past. Running the Sunrise Lake Resort high in the Sierra Nevada mountains has brought her peace, even though she doesn't truly...
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BOOK
Call #: F FEEHAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Douglas J. Preston
(13,895)
Summary: After a shoot-out Swanson is involved in leaves a senior FBI agent gravely wounded, Corrie finds herself under investigation. Her supervisor assures her she's not to blame and the black mark on her...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F PRESTON
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Allan Wolf
(733)
Summary: In 1846, a group of emigrants bound for California face a choice: continue on their planned route or take a shortcut into the wilderness. Eighty-nine of them opt for the untested trail, a decision...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F WOLF
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Earlene Fowler
Series:
Ruby McGavin Series
(717)
Summary: Hoping to help her alcoholic brother, Nash, make a fresh start, Ruby McGavin returns to Cardinal, California, where she must confront her estranged mother and a terrible secret.
BOOK
Call #: F FOWLER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Margarita Engle
(1,643)
Summary: When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the...
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BOOK
Call #: J F ENGLE
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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