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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...
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Adichie,C
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FICTION Adichie,C
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"A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--
3) 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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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
305.80097 C652
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305.80097 C652
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
305.80097 COATES
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305.80097 COATES
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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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Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 1
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JAMES,M
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SCIENCE FICTION JAMES,M
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION JAMES,M
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FICTION JAMES,M
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"In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child"--
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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
811.6 BIDEN
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811.6 BIDEN
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
811.6 BIDEN
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811.6 BIDEN
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Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
811.6 GORMAN
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811.6 GORMAN
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The presidential inaugural poet--and unforgettable new voice in American poetry--presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALKER,A
2 available
FICTION WALKER,A
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALKER,A
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FICTION WALKER,A
2 available
Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALKER,A
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FICTION WALKER,A
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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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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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCBRIDE,J
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FICTION MCBRIDE,J
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION MCBRIDE,J
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FICTION MCBRIDE,J
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since...
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Broken Earth novels volume 1
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years, collapses as its greatest city is destroyed by a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heartland of the world's sole continent,...
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EVARISTO,B
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FICTION EVARISTO,B
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EVARISTO,B
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FICTION EVARISTO,B
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION EVARISTO,B
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FICTION EVARISTO,B
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Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood. Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic...
11) Homegoing
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Buellton 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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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
GYASI, Y
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GYASI, Y
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Solvang Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
GYASI,Y
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GYASI,Y
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3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MBUE,I
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FICTION MBUE,I
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MBUE,I
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FICTION MBUE,I
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MBUE,I
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FICTION MBUE,I
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"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel 'How Beautiful We Were.' Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to...
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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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Description
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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Goleta Valley Library Book Van - Adult Fiction - New
FICTION JEFFERS,H
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FICTION JEFFERS,H
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
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.
15) mejores años
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16) 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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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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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BRAITHWAITE,O
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FICTION BRAITHWAITE,O
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Goleta Valley Library Book Van - Adult Fiction
FICTION BRAITHWAITE,O
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FICTION BRAITHWAITE,O
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"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality...
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Goleta Valley Library Book Van - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEHEAD,C
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FICTION WHITEHEAD,C
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEHEAD,C
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FICTION WHITEHEAD,C
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Checked Out
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 WHITEHEAD,C
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LARGE PRINT WHITEHEAD,C
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Solvang Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT WHITEHEAD,C
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LARGE PRINT 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...
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"Marabout Ahmed, is a highly regarded Koranic teacher who runs a religious school for young boys in the capital city where Ibrahimah is sent to join his cousin Etienne to study for a year--the local custom for many families. Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves swiping pastries from his mother's kitchen, harvesting green beans with his father, and racing down to the beach after the mosque in search of sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached...