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150.92 TURKLE
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150.92 TURKLE
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150.92 TURKLE
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150.92 TURKLE
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
150.92 TURKLE
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150.92 TURKLE
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150.92 TURKLE
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150.92 TURKLE
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"MIT psychologist and bestselling author of RECLAIMING CONVERSATION and ALONE TOGETHER, Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and work In this vivid and poignant narrative, Sherry Turkle ties together her coming-of-age story and her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Growing up in post-war Brooklyn in a house filled with mysteries, Turkle searched for clues. She mastered the codes that governed her secretive mother's world....
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In this diary-like memoir, composed of his most poignant and insightful journal entries, The Intimate Merton lays bare the steep ways of Thomas Merton's spiritual path. Culled from the seven volumes of his personal journals, this twenty nine year chronicle deepens and extends the story Thomas Merton recounted and made famous in The Seven Storey Mountain. This book is the spiritual autobiography of our century's most celebrated monk -- the wisdom gained...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
305.4097 GALLAGHER
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305.4097 GALLAGHER
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305.4097 GALLAGHER
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305.4097 GALLAGHER
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
305.4097 GALLAGHER
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305.4097 GALLAGHER
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305.4097 GALLAGHER
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305.4097 GALLAGHER
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"A riveting history of the American West told for the first time through the pioneering women who used the challenges of migration and settlement as opportunities to advocate for their rights, and transformed the country in the process. Between 1840 and 1910, over half a million men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, the vast lands that extended from the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean. Survival in this uncharted region...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
508.092 MCANULTY
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508.092 MCANULTY
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
508.092 MCANULTY
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508.092 MCANULTY
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"From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it"--
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796.64 B995
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796.64 B995
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796.64 B995
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796.64 B995
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Since the early 1980s, renowned musician and visual artist David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them with him when traveling around the world. Byrne's choice was initially made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and...
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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
814.54 SEDARIS
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814.54 SEDARIS
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814.54 SEDARIS
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814.54 SEDARIS
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814.54 SEDARIS
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814.54 SEDARIS
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814.54 SEDARIS
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814.54 SEDARIS
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814.54 SEDARIS
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814.54 SEDARIS
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814.54 SEDARIS
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814.54 SEDARIS
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814.54
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814.54
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814.54
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814.54
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For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunning, surprising sentences. Now, Sedaris shares his private writings with the world. Theft by Finding, the first of two volumes, is the story of how...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
818.5203 N714
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818.5203 N714
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
818.5203 N714
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818.5203 N714
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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
818.5403 SEDARIS
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818.5403 SEDARIS
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818.5403 SEDARIS
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818.5403 SEDARIS
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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
818.5403 SEDARIS
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818.5403 SEDARIS
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818.5403 SEDARIS
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818.5403 SEDARIS
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In this follow-up to his previous volume of diaries, Theft by Finding, the award-winning humorist chronicles the years 2003-2020, charting the years of his rise to fame with his trademark misanthropic charm and wry wit.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
818.5209 L742
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818.5209 L742
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1st ed.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
818.5209 L742
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818.5209 L742
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A final collection of selected letters and diary entries by the National Aviation Hall of Fame inductee follows her struggles over an unplanned pregnancy, the evolution of "Gift from the Sea," and her views on politics during the Vietnam War.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
818.603 PAUL
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818.603 PAUL
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818.603 PAUL
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818.603 PAUL
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818.603 PAUL
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818.603 PAUL
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818.603 PAUL
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818.603 PAUL
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"Imagine keeping a record of every book you ever read. What would those titles say about you? With humor and warmth, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her life. For twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books she reads, rather than the life she leads. Or does it? Over time, it's become clear that this Book of Books, or Bob, as she calls him, tells a much bigger story....
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A moving testament to one of the literary world's most celebrated marriages: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia Fraser.
In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally renowned dramatist. In essence, it is a love story and a marvelously insightful account of their years together, beginning with their initial...
In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally renowned dramatist. In essence, it is a love story and a marvelously insightful account of their years together, beginning with their initial...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
863.64 GARCIA
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863.64 GARCIA
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863.64 GARCIA
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863.64 GARCIA
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"In March 2014, Gabriel García Márquez, one of the most internationally beloved writers of the 20th century, came down with a cold. He was almost 87 years old, and battling dementia. 'I don't think we'll get out of this one,' Mercedes Barcha, his wife of over fifty years, told Rodrigo, their son. As reality begins to sink in, Rodrigo asks himself, 'Is this how the end begins?' Instead of waiting for an answer, Rodrigo starts to write about the beginning...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
914.56304
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914.56304
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Everyman's library volume no. 333
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Buellton Library - Children's Non-Fiction
J 940.5349 FRANK
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J 940.5349 FRANK
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
940.531 FRANK
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940.531 FRANK
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Buellton Library - Children's Non-Fiction
J 940.5349 FRANK
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J 940.5349 FRANK
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
940.531 FRANK
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940.531 FRANK
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The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new introduction, a bibliography, and a chronology of Anne Frank's...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
941.3408 SUMMERSCALE
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941.3408 SUMMERSCALE
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1st U.S. ed.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
941.3408 SUMMERSCALE
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941.3408 SUMMERSCALE
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Traces the story of a scandalous trial that rocked Victorian England, describing how Isabella Robinson recorded sexual fantasies in her private diary, which was discovered and read by her husband, who petitioned for divorce on the grounds of adultery.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
974.71
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974.71
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Writings culled from the archives of libraries, historical societies, and private estates have been assembled to offer a view of the iconic metropolis of New York. Includes excerpts from the writings of Henry Hudson, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Andy Warhol, and many others
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
976.24 HAMILTON
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976.24 HAMILTON
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First Little, Brown and Company edition.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
976.24 HAMILTON
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976.24 HAMILTON
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"Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) was encouraged to record her experiences as a female pioneer. The result is the only known firsthand account of a remarkable woman thrust into the center of taming the American South-surviving floods, tornadoes, and fires; facing bears, panthers, and snakes; managing a boardinghouse in Arkansas that was home to an eccentric group of settlers; and running a logging camp in Mississippi that...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
976.4139
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976.4139
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
976.4139
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976.4139
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he was based, was to him preposterous, "an absurd delusion." It was 1900, a year when America felt bigger and stronger than ever before. Nothing...