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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRISON,T
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FICTION MORRISON,T
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FICTION MORRISON,T
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FICTION MORRISON,T
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"Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
818.5409 A584
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818.5409 A584
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
818.5409 ANGELOU
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818.5409 ANGELOU
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This memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women, Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting picture of the people--and the times--that touched her life.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JEFFERS,H
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FICTION JEFFERS,H
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FICTION JEFFERS,H
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FICTION JEFFERS,H
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FICTION JEFFERS,H
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FICTION JEFFERS,H
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To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family's past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black experience in itself.
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALKER,A
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FICTION WALKER,A
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALKER,A
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FICTION WALKER,A
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"Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence."--Page 4 of cover.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
304.80973
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304.80973
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
973 ONE
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973 ONE
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
973 HANNAH-JONES
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973 HANNAH-JONES
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973 HANNAH-JONES
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973 HANNAH-JONES
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"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
7) Beloved
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Everyman's library volume 268
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRISON,T
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FICTION MORRISON,T
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRISON,T
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FICTION MORRISON,T
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
812.54
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812.54
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When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS,N
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FICTION HARRIS,N
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT HARRIS,N
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LARGE PRINT HARRIS,N
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"In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother,...
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Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 2
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"From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy, his African Game of Thrones. In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened...
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One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who understands...
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Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
305.8009 COATES
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305.8009 COATES
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Buellton Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
305.80097
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305.80097
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
305.80097
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305.80097
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT 305.8009 COATES
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LARGE PRINT 305.8009 COATES
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Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men -- bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can...
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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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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - New
FICTION BENNETT,B
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FICTION BENNETT,B
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"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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Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar....
15) mejores años
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16) Red at the bone
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOODSON,J
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FICTION WOODSON,J
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOODSON,J
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FICTION WOODSON,J
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Goleta Valley Library Book Van - Adult Fiction
FICTION WOODSON,J
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FICTION WOODSON,J
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Two familes from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...
17) Real life
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"A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends -- some dating each other,...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GYASI,Y
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FICTION GYASI,Y
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GYASI,Y
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FICTION GYASI,Y
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Gifty is a sixth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even...
19) Memorial
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WASHINGTON,B
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FICTION WASHINGTON,B
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WASHINGTON,B
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FICTION WASHINGTON,B
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Japanese-American chef Mike and Black daycare teacher Benson begin reevaluating their stale relationship after Mike departs for Japan to visit his dying father and Benson is suddenly stuck with his visiting mother-in-law, who becomes an unconventional roommate.
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"The author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and insight to the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into the complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters' lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues...