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1) 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
1 available
Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALVAREZ,J
1 available
FICTION ALVAREZ,J
1 available
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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"--
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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.
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August 2020
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KEANE,M
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FICTION KEANE,M
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
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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March 2020
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
MYSTERY MORIARTY,L
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MYSTERY MORIARTY,L
1 available
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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
1 available
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.
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February 2021
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Oyeyemi,H
1 available
FICTION Oyeyemi,H
1 available
Los Olivos Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Oyeyemi,H
1 available
FICTION Oyeyemi,H
1 available
Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Oyeyemi,H
1 available
FICTION Oyeyemi,H
1 available
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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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June 2021
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MILLER,M
1 available
FICTION MILLER,M
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Miller,M
1 available
FICTION Miller,M
1 available
Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MILLER,M
1 available
FICTION MILLER,M
1 available
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION MILLER,M
1 available
FICTION MILLER,M
1 available
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3 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
Description
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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December 2020
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GILBERT,E
1 available
FICTION GILBERT,E
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GILBERT,E
1 available
FICTION GILBERT,E
1 available
Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GILBERT,E
1 available
FICTION GILBERT,E
1 available
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION GILBERT,E
1 available
FICTION GILBERT,E
1 available
Solvang Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION GILBERT,E
1 available
FICTION GILBERT,E
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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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT GILBERT,E
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LARGE PRINT GILBERT,E
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Description
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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July 2019
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FRAZIER,C
1 available
FICTION FRAZIER,C
1 available
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Description
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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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...
10) daisy jones and the six
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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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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOKARCZUK,O
1 available
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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June 2019
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LEE,M
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FICTION LEE,M
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Description
"A tender but unflinching portrayal of the bond between two sisters."--Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You. A dazzling novel of two sisters and their emotional journey through love, loyalty, and heartbreak Two sisters--Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing....
13) 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
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION CHIANG,T
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHIANG,T
1 available
FICTION CHIANG,T
1 available
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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...
14) 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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Description
"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...
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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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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"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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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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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HURSTON,Z
1 available
FICTION HURSTON,Z
1 available
Description
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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December 2021
Checked Out
5 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Description
"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...
18) The immortalists
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October 2019
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENJAMIN,C
1 available
FICTION BENJAMIN,C
1 available
Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENJAMIN,C
1 available
FICTION BENJAMIN,C
1 available
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...
19) interior chinatown
This entry no longer exists in the catalog
20) Less: a novel
Author
Series
Arthur Less novels volume 1
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April 2019
On Shelf
Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GREER,A
1 available
FICTION GREER,A
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
GREER,A
1 available
GREER,A
1 available
Description
Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.