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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
153.44 G543
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153.44 G543
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
153.44 GLADWELL
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153.44 GLADWELL
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Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
153.44
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153.44
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT 153.44 G543
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LARGE PRINT 153.44 G543
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How do we think without thinking, seem to make choices in an instant--in the blink of an eye--that actually aren't as simple as they seem? Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others? Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology,...
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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
270.092 WESTOVER
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270.092 WESTOVER
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Goleta Valley Library Book Van - Adult Non-Fiction
270.092 WESTOVER
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270.092 WESTOVER
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Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
270.092 WESTOVER
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270.092 WESTOVER
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Buellton Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
270.092
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270.092
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
270.092
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270.092
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
270.092 WESTOVER
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270.092 WESTOVER
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Buellton Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT 270.092 WESTOVER
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LARGE PRINT 270.092 WESTOVER
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT 270.092 WESTOVER
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LARGE PRINT 270.092 WESTOVER
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
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"Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life--from...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
362.82092 W215
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362.82092 W215
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"Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing...
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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
364.1532 MILLER
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364.1532 MILLER
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
364.1532 MILLER
1 available
364.1532 MILLER
1 available
Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
364.1532 MILLER
1 available
364.1532 MILLER
1 available
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"She was know to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral--viewed by almost eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
571.0919
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571.0919
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
571.0919
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571.0919
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The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can't walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers?...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
394.263 GORDON-REED
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394.263 GORDON-REED
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Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
394.263 GORDON-REED
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394.263 GORDON-REED
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""It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States." -Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian andTexas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
598.764 SHEWEY
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598.764 SHEWEY
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"Brimming with astonishing facts, practical advice, and important ecological information, The Hummingbird Handbook is a must-have guide to attracting, understanding, and protecting hummingbirds. From advice on feeders to planting and landscaping techniques that will have your garden whirring with tiny wings, lifelong birder John Shewey provides all you need to know to entice these delightful creatures. An identification guide makes them easy to spot...
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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
616.994 KALANITHI
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616.994 KALANITHI
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Los Olivos Library - Adult Non-Fiction
616.994 KALANITHI
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616.994 KALANITHI
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Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
616.994 KALANITHI
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616.994 KALANITHI
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
616.994 KALANITHI
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616.994 KALANITHI
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT 616.994 KALANITHI
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LARGE PRINT 616.994 KALANITHI
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"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and...
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With intimate, fly-on-the-wall detail, "When the Game Was Ours" transports readers to an electric era of basketball and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players--Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson--dead set on besting one another.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction - New
796.522 KRAKAUER
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796.522 KRAKAUER
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
796.522 K89
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796.522 K89
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Santa Ynez Library - Adult Non-Fiction
796.522 K89
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796.522 K89
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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A history of Mount Everest expedition is intertwined with the disastrous expedition the author was a part of, during which five members were killed by a hurricane-strength blizzard. When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty...
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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 K54
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813.54 K54
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction - Writers’ Corner
813.54 KING
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813.54 KING
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Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 K54
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813.54 K54
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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.
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Stephen King reflects on how his writing has helped him through difficult times and describes various aspects of the art of writing.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
813.6 S913
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813.6 S913
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Los Olivos Library - Adult Non-Fiction
813.6 S913
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813.6 S913
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Santa Ynez Library - Adult Non-Fiction
813.6 S913
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813.6 S913
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
813.6 S913
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813.6 S913
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"A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe- and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest...
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve 'the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century': what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett. In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization. For centuries Europeans believed the world's largest jungle concealed the glittering El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many convinced that the Amazon was...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
975.872 BERENDT
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975.872 BERENDT
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Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
975.8724
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975.8724
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book Review • 30th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword by the Author.
Shots...
Shots...
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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
970.011
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970.011
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Los Olivos Library - Adult Non-Fiction
970.011 M281
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970.011 M281
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Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
970.011
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970.011
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"Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities--such as Tenochtitla?n, the Aztec capital--were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitla?n, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
973.92092 E29
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973.92092 E29
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Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
973.92092 E29
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973.92092 E29
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT 973.92092 E29
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LARGE PRINT 973.92092 E29
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"A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together."--Amazon.com....
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Who was Ruth McBride Jordan? Not even her son knew the answer to that question until he embarked on a twelve-year journey that changed himself and his family forever. Born Rachel Deborah Shilsky, she began life as the daughter of an angry, failed orthodox Jewish rabbi in the South. To escape her unhappy childhood, Ruth ran away to Harlem, married a black man, became Baptist and started an all-black church. Her son James tells of growing up with
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
158.1 KROSS
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158.1 KROSS
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"An award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how we can harness it to live healthier, more satisfying, and productive lives. Tell a stranger that you talk to yourself, and you're likely to get written off as eccentric. But the truth is that we all have a voice in our head. When we talk to ourselves, we often hope to tap into our inner coach but find our inner critic instead. When we're facing a tough task, our...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
291.13 C188
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291.13 C188
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Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
291.13 C188
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291.13 C188
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"The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people--including Star Wars creator George Lucas. To Campbell, mythology was the “song of the universe, the music of the spheres.” With Bill Moyers, one of America?s most prominent journalists, as his thoughtful and engaging interviewer, The Power of Myth...