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Being able to taste people's emotions in food may at first be horrifying. But young, unassuming Rose Edelstein grows up learning to harness her gift as she becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENJAMIN,C
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FICTION BENJAMIN,C
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENJAMIN,C
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FICTION BENJAMIN,C
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It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas...
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Presents the stories of four individuals whose lives are irrevocably shaped by the pull and spirits of the water, from Owen, who believes his younger sister was stolen by merfolk in childhood; to abused orphan Naomi, who escapes into the ocean while harboring a powerful secret.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BRADBURY,R
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FICTION BRADBURY,R
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BRADBURY,R
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FICTION BRADBURY,R
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"The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding?remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury."--Amazon.com.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DIAZ,J
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FICTION DIAZ,J
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Solvang Library - Book Club
BOOK CLUB KIT
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BOOK CLUB KIT
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Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness.
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7) 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, 1 person is 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...
8) Exit west
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAMID,M
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FICTION HAMID,M
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"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...
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A childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness, with a red fox as a companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own.
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Everyman's library volume 223
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GARCIA MARQUEZ,G
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FICTION GARCIA MARQUEZ,G
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION Garcia Ma
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FICTION Garcia Ma
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION
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FICTION
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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. A fabulist novel that combines the delight of Kipling's Just So Stories with the metaphysical adventure of Jonah and the Whale.
12) 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 - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION
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FICTION
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton.
Now with a new introduction by the author.
Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for...
Now with a new introduction by the author.
Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for...
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A story of Northeast Gaomi Township narrated omnisciently by a young man at the end of the cultural revolution.
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