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813.6 LAYMON
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813.6 LAYMON
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"Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and to reckon with all of its myriad sources, from the most...
82) The yellow house
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"Sarah M. Broom's memoir The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina."--Worldcat.org.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
814.6 IRBY
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814.6 IRBY
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"Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state where she now hosts book clubs and makes mason...
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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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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 Non-Fiction
818.603 THOMAS
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818.603 THOMAS
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"R. Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went--whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or his Ivy League college in a big city--he found himself on the outside looking in. In essays by turns hysterical and heartfelt, Eric redefines what it means to be an "other" through the lens of his own life experience. He explores the two worlds of his childhood:...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
920 JENKINS
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920 JENKINS
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"Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, black women are objectified, silenced, and marginalized with devastating consequences, in ways both obvious and subtle, that are rarely acknowledged in our country?s larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social, cultural, and historical story of...
87) life upon these shores looking at african american
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
973.0496 GERALD
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973.0496 GERALD
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"Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off. His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously; for a brief idyll, he and his sister live like Boxcar...
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973.92092 A425
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973.92092 A425
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When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he'd highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so widespread, so embedded in the culture as to make the very thought of a black president inconceivable. He struck gold when he tracked down Eugene Allen, a butler who had served no fewer than eight presidents, from Harry...
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973.932 OBAMA
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973.932 OBAMA
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"'We were eight years in power' was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates...
91) Becoming
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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
973.932 OBAMA
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973.932 OBAMA
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
973.932 OBAMA
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973.932 OBAMA
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973.9320 OBAMA
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973.9320 OBAMA
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973.932 OBAMA
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973.932 OBAMA
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Buellton Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT 973.932 OBAMA
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LARGE PRINT 973.932 OBAMA
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT 973.932 OBAMA
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LARGE PRINT 973.932 OBAMA
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"In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her-from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and...
92) The sacrifice
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION Oates,Joy
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FICTION Oates,Joy
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When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades.
93) Jack
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Gilead novels volume 4
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FICTION ROBINSON,M
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FICTION ROBINSON,M
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROBINSON,M
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FICTION ROBINSON,M
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction - New
FICTION ROBINSON,M
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FICTION ROBINSON,M
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Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa--the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack--and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and his...
94) Push: a novel
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Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" ("Newsday") is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMITH,Z
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FICTION SMITH,Z
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Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMITH,Z
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FICTION SMITH,Z
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Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interleaving eleven completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, Smith presents a dizzyingly...
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070.92 GILLIAM
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070.92 GILLIAM
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S. Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written memoir by a "black first" looks back with searing insight on the decades of struggle, friendship, courage, humor and savvy that secured what seems commonplace...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
304.80973
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304.80973
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Solvang Library - Book Club
BOOK CLUB KIT
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BOOK CLUB KIT
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
305.509 ADBUL
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305.509 ADBUL
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Traces the evolution of the author's views on social justice, from his youth in the civil rights era to his current role as a cultural commentator on topics ranging from race and economic inequality to music and the influence of the media.
"Basketball legend and cultural commentator Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores how the America of today is a fractured society, sharply divided along the lines of race, gender, religion, political party and economic...
99) begin again james baldwins america and its urgent
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
305.89607 BROWN
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305.89607 BROWN
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"In a time when nearly all institutions (schools, churches, universities, businesses) claim to value "diversity" in their mission statements, I'm Still Here is a powerful account of how and why our actions so often fall short of our words. Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice, in stories that bear witness to the complexity of America's social fabric--from Black...