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December 2021
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"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
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November 2021 - SB Reads Companion
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION ERDRICH,L
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FICTION ERDRICH,L
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FICTION ERDRICH,L
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FICTION ERDRICH,L
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LARGE PRINT ERDRICH,L
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"Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new “emancipation” bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is...
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October 2021
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORENO GARCIA,S
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FICTION MORENO GARCIA,S
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FICTION MORENO GARCIA,S
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FICTION MORENO GARCIA,S
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noem? Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She?s not sure what she will find?her cousin?s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noem? knows little about the region. Noem? is also an unlikely rescuer: She?s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited...
4) interior chinatown
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August 2021
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOKARCZUK,O
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FICTION TOKARCZUK,O
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FICTION TOKARCZUK,O
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FICTION TOKARCZUK,O
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"In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount,...
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July 2021
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"Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
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June 2021
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MILLER,M
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FICTION MILLER,M
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Miller,M
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FICTION Miller,M
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FICTION MILLER,M
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FICTION MILLER,M
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FICTION MILLER,M
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FICTION MILLER,M
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3 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
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May 2021
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLENDE,I
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FICTION ALLENDE,I
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FICTION ALLENDE,I
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FICTION ALLENDE,I
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Goleta Valley Library Book Van - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLENDE,I
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FICTION ALLENDE,I
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FICTION ALLENDE,I
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FICTION ALLENDE,I
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FICTION ALLENDE,I
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FICTION ALLENDE,I
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
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LARGE PRINT ALLENDE,I
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"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
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March 2021
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HILDERBRAND,E
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FICTION HILDERBRAND,E
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FICTION HILDERBRAND,E
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FICTION HILDERBRAND,E
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Los Olivos Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HILDERBRAND,E
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FICTION HILDERBRAND,E
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
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LARGE PRINT HILDERBRAND,E
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Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling...
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February 2021
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Oyeyemi,H
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FICTION Oyeyemi,H
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Los Olivos Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Oyeyemi,H
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FICTION Oyeyemi,H
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FICTION Oyeyemi,H
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FICTION Oyeyemi,H
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"A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"--
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January 2021
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LERNER,B
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FICTION LERNER,B
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FICTION LERNER,B
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FICTION LERNER,B
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FICTION LERNER,B
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FICTION LERNER,B
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"Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting “lost boys” to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting...
12) City of girls
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December 2020
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GILBERT,E
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FICTION GILBERT,E
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GILBERT,E
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FICTION GILBERT,E
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FICTION GILBERT,E
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FICTION GILBERT,E
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION GILBERT,E
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FICTION GILBERT,E
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FICTION GILBERT,E
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FICTION GILBERT,E
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
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LARGE PRINT GILBERT,E
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In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a...
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November 2020
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAKKAI,R
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FICTION MAKKAI,R
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"A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic...
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October 2020
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BRAITHWAITE,O
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FICTION BRAITHWAITE,O
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Goleta Valley Library Book Van - Adult Fiction
FICTION BRAITHWAITE,O
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FICTION BRAITHWAITE,O
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"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality...
15) Normal people
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September 2020
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROONEY,S
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FICTION ROONEY,S
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROONEY,S
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FICTION ROONEY,S
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description
Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells...
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August 2020
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FICTION KEANE,M
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FICTION KEANE,M
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FICTION KEANE,M
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FICTION KEANE,M
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"A family saga about two Irish American families in a New York suburb, the love between two of their children, and the tragedies that threaten to tear them apart and destroy their futures"--
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July 2020
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HURSTON,Z
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FICTION HURSTON,Z
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FICTION HURSTON,Z
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FICTION HURSTON,Z
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From "one of the greatest writers of our time" (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight "lost" Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.
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18) Afterlife
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June 2020
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALVAREZ,J
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FICTION ALVAREZ,J
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FICTION ALVAREZ,J
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FICTION ALVAREZ,J
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"A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"--
19) daisy jones and the six
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20) Exit west
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April 2020
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAMID,M
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FICTION HAMID,M
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"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...