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April 2022
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FICTION WHITEHEAD,C
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FICTION WHITEHEAD,C
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FICTION WHITEHEAD,C
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FICTION WHITEHEAD,C
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Description
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood...
2) paris library
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3) There there
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January 2020
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ORANGE,T
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FICTION ORANGE,T
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ORANGE,T
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ORANGE,T
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"We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see ourselves as we are, in our regalia, and something in our blood will recoil...
4) Exhalation
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March 2022
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CHIANG,T
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SCIENCE FICTION CHIANG,T
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - New
SCIENCE FICTION CHIANG,T
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SCIENCE FICTION CHIANG,T
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHIANG,T
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FICTION CHIANG,T
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Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others
Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the...
Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the...
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February 2022
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENNETT,B
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FICTION BENNETT,B
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
MYSTERY BENNETT,B
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MYSTERY BENNETT,B
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FICTION BENNETT,B
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FICTION BENNETT,B
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Description
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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July 2019
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FRAZIER,C
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FICTION FRAZIER,C
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The impact of the Civil War on lovers. Inman is not the man he used to be, as wounded in battle he slowly makes his way home to North Carolina. His sweetheart, Ada, too has changed, no longer a flighty belle but a hard-working farm woman. Will love be the same?
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April 2021
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FICTION BOYLE,T
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FICTION BOYLE,T
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FICTION BOYLE,T
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FICTION BOYLE,T
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FICTION BOYLE,T
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FICTION BOYLE,T
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION BOYLE,T
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FICTION BOYLE,T
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A novel inspired by the controversial psychedelic drug experiments of Timothy Leary traces the impact of LSD and communal living on a 1960s Harvard grad student and his wife.
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May 2019
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALDERMAN,N
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FICTION ALDERMAN,N
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FICTION ALDERMAN,N
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FICTION ALDERMAN,N
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FICTION ALDERMAN, N
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FICTION ALDERMAN, N
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Description
In a novel of speculative fiction, an award-winning author contemplates a world where teenage girls now have immense physical power?they can cause agonizing pain and even death, drastically resetting the balance of the world.
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February 2019
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The story of American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II. Although the couple apear to be smart, independent travelers, they are not equipped to travel into the desert.Thus, each time hardship strikes, pieces of their comfortable lives and the identities they had constructed seem to peel away. The shifting sands and unforgiving sun are metaphors for the shocking and vulgar circumstances that befall them.
10) Salt houses
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January 2019
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALYAN,H
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FICTION ALYAN,H
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"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted...
11) 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"--
12) daisy jones and the six
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13) 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...
14) Big little lies
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March 2020
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
MYSTERY MORIARTY,L
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MYSTERY MORIARTY,L
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION MORIARTY,L
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FICTION MORIARTY,L
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Goleta Valley Library Book Van - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION MORIARTY,L
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FICTION MORIARTY,L
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Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.
15) Washington Black
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February 2020
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EDUGYAN,E
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FICTION EDUGYAN,E
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FICTION EDUGYAN,E
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FICTION EDUGYAN,E
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"FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE and THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE. George Washington Black, or "Wash," an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified to be chosen by his master's brother as his manservant. To his surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even...
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December 2019
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ONDAATJE,M
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FICTION ONDAATJE,M
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ONDAATJE,M.
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FICTION ONDAATJE,M.
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Solvang Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT ONDAATJE,M
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LARGE PRINT ONDAATJE,M
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Description
In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we follow the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his...
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Aristotle and Dante volume 1
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November 2019
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Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
18) The immortalists
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October 2019
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENJAMIN,C
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FICTION BENJAMIN,C
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FICTION BENJAMIN,C
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FICTION BENJAMIN,C
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Description
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas...
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September 2019
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KUSHNER,R.
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FICTION KUSHNER,R.
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"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley....
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August 2019
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ARIMAH,L
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FICTION ARIMAH,L
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"A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground....