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41) Sophie's choice
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As the fierce lovemaking and fights of Nathan, a paranoid Jewish intellectual, and Sophie, a Polish-Catholic concentration-camp survivor, intensify, Stingo, a writer who lives below them in a cheap rooming house, becomes more and more involved in their lives.
42) The goldfinch
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION
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FICTION
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
Tartt,Don
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Tartt,Don
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Solvang Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION Tartt,Don
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FICTION Tartt,Don
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT TARTT,DON
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LARGE PRINT TARTT,DON
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"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WEIR,A
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FICTION WEIR,A
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION WEIR,A
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SCIENCE FICTION WEIR,A
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WEIR,A
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FICTION WEIR,A
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3 copies, 37 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 37 people are on the wait list.
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Buellton Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT WEIR,A
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LARGE PRINT WEIR,A
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print
LARGE PRINT WEIR,A
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LARGE PRINT WEIR,A
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"Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission-and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company....
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION WILLIAMS,D
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SCIENCE FICTION WILLIAMS,D
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Seen through the diary of Jacob, an Amish farmer trying to protect his family and his way of life, the book examines the idea of peace in the face of deadly chaos when an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath of a catastrophic solar storm and the subsequent collapse of modern civilization.
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The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results
A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred...
A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
363.11962 T628
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363.11962 T628
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A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San José mine collapse outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010.
47) Before the fall
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Los Olivos Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAWLEY,N
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FICTION HAWLEY,N
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAWLEY,N
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FICTION HAWLEY,N
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
HAWLEY,N
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HAWLEY,N
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On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs--a struggling painter--and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of a wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the tragedy and the...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION
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FICTION
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER,P
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FICTION HELLER,P
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Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and to pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep...
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HENDRIX,G
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FICTION HENDRIX,G
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HENDRIX,G
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FICTION HENDRIX,G
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to her? Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre twenty-two years ago, and it has defined every day of her life since. For more than a decade she's been meeting with five other actual final girls and...
50) Silent creed
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Ryder Creed novels volume 2
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
MYSTERY Kava,Alex
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MYSTERY Kava,Alex
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"When Ryder Creed responds to a devastating mudslide in North Carolina, he knows that the difference between finding survivors and the dead is time. He and his sturdiest search-and-rescue dog, Bolo, get to work immediately, but the scene is rife with danger: continued rainfall prevents the rescue teams from stabilizing the land; toxic household substances spread by the crushing slide fill the area with hazardous waste; and the detritus and debris...
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"In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America -- a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador P?nfilo de Narv?ez sailed from the port of Sanl?car de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and,...