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21) Who asked you?
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"Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back With her wise, wry, and poignant novels of families and friendships-Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short among them-Terry McMillan has touched millions of readers. Now, in her eighth novel, McMillan gives exuberant voice to characters who reveal how we live now-at...
22) All our names
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Mengestu
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FICTION Mengestu
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An unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s America and an unflinching novel about the fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories. All Our Names is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
MYSTERY MOORE,G
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MYSTERY MOORE,G
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"It's the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school. Her teacher Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American man, is the prime suspect after illicit text messages are discovered between them--and Jessica's blood is found in his car. The subsequent trial taps straight into America's most pressing preoccupations: race, class, sex,...
24) There you are
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORAIS,M
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FICTION MORAIS,M
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"Octavian Munroe is haunted by the life and death of his older brother in one of the most racially segregated cities in the country. Mina Rose has never quite fit in and wishes she was anything but white. Once lovers, now estranged, they both left St. Louis for fresh starts in the wake of grief and heartbreak. Octavian and Mina travel homeward in the aftermath of Michael Brown's death and the awakening of the Black Lives Matter movement. In search...
25) A mercy
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Morrison
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FICTION Morrison
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRISON,T
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FICTION MORRISON,T
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In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.
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King Oliver novels volume 1
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After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate.
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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"--
28) Deadly Cross
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Alex Cross novels volume 28
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PATTERSON,J
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FICTION PATTERSON,J
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
MYSTERY PATTERSON,J
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MYSTERY PATTERSON,J
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PATTERSON,J
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FICTION PATTERSON,J
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"A scandalous double homicide in the nation's capital opens the psychological case files on Detective Alex Cross. Until Kay Willingham's shocking murder inside a luxury limousine, the Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and ex-wife of the sitting vice-president led a public life. Yet few, including her onetime psychologist, had any inkling of Kay's troubled past in the Deep South. Murdered alongside her is Randall Christopher, a respected educator...
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION PICOULT,J
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FICTION PICOULT,J
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT PICOULT,J
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LARGE PRINT PICOULT,J
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"A woman and her husband admitted to a hospital to have a baby requests that their nurse be reassigned - they are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is black, to touch their baby. The hospital complies, but the baby later goes into cardiac distress when Ruth is on duty. She hesitates before rushing in to perform CPR. When her indecision ends in tragedy, Ruth finds herself on trial, represented by a white public defender who warns against...
30) last thing you surrender
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31) time of our singing
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REID,K
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FICTION REID,K
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REID,K
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FICTION REID,K
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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....
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Lovecraft Country volume 1
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RUFF,M
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FICTION RUFF,M
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Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George-- publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide-- and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite, heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus's ancestors, they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEXTON,M
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FICTION SEXTON,M
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The story of emancipated slave Elizabeth Mayfield traces her rise as the matriarch of a family of musically gifted Southern women who overcome brutal obstacles while witnessing key moments in American history.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SOLOMON,R
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SCIENCE FICTION SOLOMON,R
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"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION THOMPSON-SPIRES,N
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FICTION THOMPSON-SPIRES,N
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"Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of new, utterly original characters. Some are darkly humorous-from two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids' backpacks, to the young girl contemplating how best to notify her Facebook friends of her impending suicide-while others are devastatingly poignant-a new mother and funeral singer who is driven to madness with grief for the young black boys who have fallen victim...
39) The color purple
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALKER,A
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FICTION WALKER,A
2 available
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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"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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FICTION WARD,J
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FICTION WARD,J
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Santa Ynez Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD,J
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FICTION WARD,J
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WARD,J
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FICTION WARD,J
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"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...