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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCCARTHY,C
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FICTION MCCARTHY,C
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road
All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With...
All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With...
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Los Olivos Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
MYSTERY Christie
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MYSTERY Christie
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION
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FICTION
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Considered one of the greatest mysteries of all times, ten strangers, each with a dark secret, are gathered together on an isolated island by a mysterious host. One by one, they die, and before the weekend is out, there will be none.
3) The BFG
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Los Olivos Library - Children's Fiction
Dahl,Roa
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Dahl,Roa
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Santa Ynez Library - Children's Fiction
FICTION
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FICTION
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Solvang Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC
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J FIC
1 available
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Solvang Library - Children's Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION Dahl,Roal
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FICTION Dahl,Roal
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Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
MYSTERY MORIARTY,L
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MYSTERY MORIARTY,L
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION MORIARTY,L
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FICTION MORIARTY,L
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Goleta Valley Library Book Van - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION MORIARTY,L
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FICTION MORIARTY,L
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Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION FOUNTAIN
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FICTION FOUNTAIN
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A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.
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Bridget Jones volume 1
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Bridget confides to her diary that her promises for the coming year include the reduction of each thigh's circumference by 1 1/2 ", a visit to the gym at least 3 times a week, and the formation of a functional relationship with a responsible adult.
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In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of...
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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
2 available
FICTION WALKER,A
2 available
Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALKER,A
1 available
FICTION WALKER,A
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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"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.
10) Dear John
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Sparks, Ni
1 available
FICTION Sparks, Ni
1 available
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT
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LARGE PRINT
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John, a high school dropout, enlists in the Army not knowing what else to do with his life. While in the Army he meets Savannah, they fall in love and she awaits his return from the Army. After 9/11 John feels it's his duty to re-enlist. During their long separation Savannah falls in love and marries someone else.
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"Masterful...A big story about human connection and emotional survival" - Los Angeles Times
The first book ever chosen by Oprah's Book Club
Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story—a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every...
The first book ever chosen by Oprah's Book Club
Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story—a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every...
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Everyman's library volume no. 333
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Buellton Library - Children's Non-Fiction
J 940.5349 FRANK
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J 940.5349 FRANK
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
940.531 FRANK
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940.531 FRANK
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The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new introduction, a bibliography, and a chronology of Anne Frank's...
13) A dog's purpose
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Dog's purpose volume 1
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
CAMERON, W
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CAMERON, W
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This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, this touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8 year...
14) East of Eden
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This novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected by his father.
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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC ROWLING,J
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J FIC ROWLING,J
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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction
ROWLING,J
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ROWLING,J
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Solvang Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC ROWLING,J
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J FIC ROWLING,J
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"J.K. Rowling's screenwriting debut is captured in this exciting hardcover edition of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay."--Amazon.com.
While attending the Magical Congress of the United States of America in 1926, Newt Scamander is pursued by the wizarding authorities when dangerous beasts and their habitats escape from his magical briefcase.
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Relates the experiences of Bathsheba Everdene as she is courted and married to three different men. Bathsheba Everdene and the three men who love her move through a beautifully realized late nineteenth-century agrarian landscape, still almost untouched by the industrial revolution, and the encroachment of modern life. Takes place in Wessex in the 1840s.
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Goleta Valley Library Book Van - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAWKINS,P
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FICTION HAWKINS,P
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Los Olivos Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAWKINS,P
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FICTION HAWKINS,P
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Hawkins,P
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FICTION Hawkins,P
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Buellton Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION HAWKINS,P
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FICTION HAWKINS,P
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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
FICTION Hawkins
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FICTION Hawkins
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT Hawkins,P
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LARGE PRINT Hawkins,P
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Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a...
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Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 1
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Solvang Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION
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FICTION
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"The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed...
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JACKSON,S
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FICTION JACKSON,S
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Jackson,S
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FICTION Jackson,S
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JACKSON,S
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FICTION JACKSON,S
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"First published in 1959, [this book] has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a 'haunting'; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined...
20) The help
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STOCKETT,K
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FICTION STOCKETT,K
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION
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FICTION
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Solvang Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION Stockett
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FICTION Stockett
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"Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. Aibileen is a wise, regal black maid raising her seventeenth white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, can cook like nobody's business but can't mind her tongue. It is 1962, and these three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step that forever changes a town and the way women --mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends -- view one another"--Cover, P....