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Montecito Book Club pick: September 2021
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
PANDYA,S
1 available
PANDYA,S
1 available
Eastside Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
PANDYA,S
1 available
PANDYA,S
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
PANDYA,S
1 available
PANDYA,S
1 available
Description
"First the white members of Raj Bhatt's posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way, he wonders: where does he, a brown man, belong in America?"--
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Montecito Book Club pick, November 2021
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
WOODSON,J
1 available
WOODSON,J
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
WOODSON,J
1 available
WOODSON,J
1 available
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Central Library - Media - Main Level - Audiobook CDs
WOODSON, J
1 available
WOODSON, J
1 available
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Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
eAudiobook
Available Online
Available Online
Description
For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there...
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Montecito Book Club pick, December 2021
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Central Library - Media - Main Level - Audiobook CDs
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
Description
"From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of...
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Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
306.768 NUTT
1 available
306.768 NUTT
1 available
Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
306.76809 N976
1 available
306.76809 N976
1 available
Description
"The inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family's extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter for The Washington Post When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys, they thought their lives were complete. But it wasn't long before they noticed a marked difference between Jonas and his brother,...
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
WINGATE,L
1 available
WINGATE,L
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
WINGATE,L
1 available
WINGATE,L
1 available
eAudiobook
Available Online
Available Online
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Central Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Main Level - Large Print Area
WINGATE,L
1 available
WINGATE,L
1 available
Description
"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
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Montecito Library - Adult Nonfiction - Nonfiction Area
331.481 LAND
1 available
331.481 LAND
1 available
eAudiobook
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Description
A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
Stradal,J
3 available
Stradal,J
3 available
Description
"When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine--and a dashing sommelier--he's left to raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He's determined to pass on his love of food to his daughter--starting with puréed pork shoulder. As Eva grows, she finds her solace and salvation in the flavors of her native Minnesota. From Scandinavian lutefisk to hydroponic chocolate habaneros, each ingredient represents one part of Eva's journey as she becomes...
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
MASON,D
2 available
MASON,D
2 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives--at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains--he discovers a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single mysterious nurse...
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
NG,C
2 available
NG,C
2 available
Eastside Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
NG,C
1 available
NG,C
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
NG,C
2 available
NG,C
2 available
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Central Library - Media - Main Level - Audiobook CDs
NG,C
1 available
NG,C
1 available
Montecito Library - Media - Audiobook CDs
NG,C
2 available
NG,C
2 available
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Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
eAudiobook
Available Online
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Montecito Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Large Print
NG,C
1 available
NG,C
1 available
Description
From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, the intertwined stories of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mother and daughter who upend their lives "I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting. With brilliance and beauty, Celeste Ng dissects a microcosm of American society just when we need to see it beneath the microscope ..."--Jodi Picoult, New York Times -bestselling author of Small Great Things and...
10) Frankenstein
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Series
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
SHELLEY,M
1 available
SHELLEY,M
1 available
Description
A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
11) Normal people
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
ROONEY,S
3 available
ROONEY,S
3 available
Eastside Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
ROONEY,S
1 available
ROONEY,S
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
ROONEY,S
2 available
ROONEY,S
2 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
eAudiobook
Available Online
eBook
Checked Out
2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
Checked Out
2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Main Level - Large Print Area
ROONEY,S
1 available
ROONEY,S
1 available
Description
"At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her...
Author
Series
Santa Barbara novels volume 1
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
RIGGS,C
6 available
RIGGS,C
6 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
RIGGS,C
1 available
RIGGS,C
1 available
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Central Library - Media - Main Level - Audiobook CDs
RIGGS, C
1 available
RIGGS, C
1 available
Description
"Imagining the best way to destroy a person's happiness is Crystal Love's favorite game. Devious and unpolished, the plus-sized loan analyst couldn't be more out of place in her new town of Santa Barbara, where the beautifully manicured women never age and the ocean views stretch farther than the million-dollar lawns. And yet her eye for the power dynamics at play in this tony community is dead accurate."--Amazon.com.
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
SEMPLE,M
1 available
SEMPLE,M
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
SEMPLE,M
1 available
SEMPLE,M
1 available
Description
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her.
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Series
Amgash novels volume 1
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
STROUT,E
1 available
STROUT,E
1 available
Eastside Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
STROUT,E
1 available
STROUT,E
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
STROUT,E
1 available
STROUT,E
1 available
On Shelf
Montecito Library - Media - Audiobook CDs
Strout,El
1 available
Strout,El
1 available
eAudiobook
Available Online
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Central Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Main Level - Large Print Area
STROUT,E
1 available
STROUT,E
1 available
Description
Shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all--the one between mother and daughter. Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every...
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
HAWLEY,N
2 available
HAWLEY,N
2 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
HAWLEY,N
1 available
HAWLEY,N
1 available
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Montecito Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Large Print
FICTION HAWLEY,N
1 available
FICTION HAWLEY,N
1 available
Description
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs--a struggling painter--and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of a wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the tragedy and the...
16) The nix
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
HILL,N
1 available
HILL,N
1 available
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Central Library - Media - Main Level - Audiobook CDs
HILL, N
1 available
HILL, N
1 available
Description
"An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own"--
17) Homegoing
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
GYASI,Y
5 available
GYASI,Y
5 available
Eastside Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
GYASI,Y
1 available
GYASI,Y
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
GYASI,Y
1 available
GYASI,Y
1 available
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Central Library - Media - Main Level - Audiobook CDs
GYASI,Y
1 available
GYASI,Y
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
Available Online
Available Online
eBook
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Main Level - Large Print Area
GYASI,Y
1 available
GYASI,Y
1 available
Description
"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...
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Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
HELLER,P
1 available
HELLER,P
1 available
eAudiobook
Available Online
Description
"A novel about two college friends on a summer wilderness canoe trip"--
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
WARD,J
4 available
WARD,J
4 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
WARD,J
1 available
WARD,J
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Media - Main Level - Audiobook CDs
WARD,J
1 available
WARD,J
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Main Level - Large Print Area
FICTION WARD,J
1 available
FICTION WARD,J
1 available
Description
"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...
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Montecito Book Club pick: January 2022 and May 2022
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
364.66 HINTON
1 available
364.66 HINTON
1 available
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364.66
1 available
364.66
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
Description
"But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silencefull of despair and anger toward all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. For the next twenty-seven...