- Catalog Home
- » Your Account
- » List
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
CHIANG,T
1 available
CHIANG,T
1 available
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
CHIANG,T
1 available
CHIANG,T
1 available
Available Online
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Source
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Source
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Stories of your life and others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change -- the inevitable rise of automations or the appearance of aliens -- while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy.
2) Whereabouts
Author
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
LAHIRI,J
3 available
LAHIRI,J
3 available
Eastside Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
LAHIRI,J
1 available
LAHIRI,J
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
LAHIRI,J
1 available
LAHIRI,J
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
LAHIRI,J
3 available
LAHIRI,J
3 available
Eastside Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
LAHIRI,J
1 available
LAHIRI,J
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
LAHIRI,J
1 available
LAHIRI,J
1 available
Available Online
Source
Checked Out
Source
Checked Out
On Shelf
Montecito Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Large Print
FICTION LAHIRI,J
1 available
FICTION LAHIRI,J
1 available
Published
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Description
On Shelf
Montecito Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Large Print
FICTION LAHIRI,J
1 available
FICTION LAHIRI,J
1 available
Description
"A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant:...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
KWON,R
1 available
KWON,R
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
KWON,R
1 available
KWON,R
1 available
Published
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
KWON,R
1 available
KWON,R
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
KWON,R
1 available
KWON,R
1 available
Available Online
Published
Source
Available Online
Published
Source
Available Online
Description
"Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive cult founded by a charismatic former student with an enigmatic past. When the group commits a violent act in the name of faith, Will finds himself struggling to confront a new version of the fanaticism he's worked so hard to escape. Haunting and intense, The Incendiaries is a fractured love story that explores what can befall those who lose what they love most."--Amazon.com.
Author
On Shelf
Eastside Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
VUONG,O
1 available
VUONG,O
1 available
Published
Physical Description
On Shelf
Eastside Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
VUONG,O
1 available
VUONG,O
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Published
Source
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Published
Source
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Main Level - Large Print Area
VUONG,O
1 available
VUONG,O
1 available
Published
Edition
First large print edition.
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Main Level - Large Print Area
VUONG,O
1 available
VUONG,O
1 available
Description
"A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is...
5) The leavers
Author
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
KO,L
2 available
KO,L
2 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
KO,L
1 available
KO,L
1 available
Published
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
KO,L
2 available
KO,L
2 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
KO,L
1 available
KO,L
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Media - Main Level - Audiobook CDs
KO,L
1 available
KO,L
1 available
Published
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Media - Main Level - Audiobook CDs
KO,L
1 available
KO,L
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
Published
On Shelf
Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
Available Online
Available Online
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Published
Source
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Published
Source
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Main Level - Large Print Area
KO,L
1 available
KO,L
1 available
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Main Level - Large Print Area
KO,L
1 available
KO,L
1 available
Description
"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
6) The refugees
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
NGUYEN,V
1 available
NGUYEN,V
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
NGUYEN,V
1 available
NGUYEN,V
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
NGUYEN,V
1 available
NGUYEN,V
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
NGUYEN,V
1 available
NGUYEN,V
1 available
Published
Source
Available Online
Published
Source
Available Online
Description
A collection of stories, written over a twenty-year period, examines the Vietnamese experience in America as well as questions of home, family, and identity.
7) Pachinko
Author
On Shelf
Montecito Library - Media - Audiobook CDs
LEE,M
1 available
LEE,M
1 available
Published
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Description
On Shelf
Montecito Library - Media - Audiobook CDs
LEE,M
1 available
LEE,M
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Published
Source
Available Online
Published
Source
Available Online
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Main Level - Large Print Area
LEE,M
1 available
LEE,M
1 available
Published
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Main Level - Large Print Area
LEE,M
1 available
LEE,M
1 available
Description
"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
8) Parachutes
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Teen Area
YANG,K
1 available
YANG,K
1 available
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Teen Area
YANG,K
1 available
YANG,K
1 available
Published
Source
Available Online
Published
Source
Available Online
Description
A wealthy Chinese teen is sent to America on her own to attend private school. Claire is a rich 11th grader in Shanghai; Dani is a scholarship student at a private school in Southern California who helps her mother clean houses. When Claire is parachuted into America to finish high school and Dani's mother needs the income from a boarder, they become unlikely housemates.
Author
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Graphic Novels
940.53 ABE
1 available
940.53 ABE
1 available
Published
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Graphic Novels
940.53 ABE
1 available
940.53 ABE
1 available
Description
"Three Japanese American individuals with different beliefs and backgrounds decided to resist imprisonment by the United States government during World War II in different ways. Jim Akutsu, considered by some to be the inspiration for John Okada's No-No Boy, resisted the draft and argued that he had no obligation to serve the US military because he was classified as an enemy alien. Hiroshi Kashiwagi renounced his United States citizenship and refused...
10) Severance
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
MA,L
1 available
MA,L
1 available
Published
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
MA,L
1 available
MA,L
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Published
Source
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Published
Source
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she's had her fill of uncertainty. She's content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend..."--Amazon.com.
Author
On Shelf
Eastside Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
YU,C
1 available
YU,C
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
YU,C
1 available
YU,C
1 available
Published
Physical Description
On Shelf
Eastside Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
YU,C
1 available
YU,C
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
YU,C
1 available
YU,C
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
Published
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
Available Online
Available Online
Source
Available Online
Source
Available Online
Description
Willis Wu doesn?t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he?s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He?s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being...
12) The book of salt
Author
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
TRUONG,M
1 available
TRUONG,M
1 available
Published
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
TRUONG,M
1 available
TRUONG,M
1 available
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
CHEN,T
1 available
CHEN,T
1 available
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
CHEN,T
1 available
CHEN,T
1 available
Published
Source
Available Online
Published
Source
Available Online
Description
"Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled-messily, violently, but still beautifully-into the present. A debut story collection offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of life for contemporary Chinese people, set between China and the United States"--
Author
Series
Formats:
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
811.6 VUONG
1 available
811.6 VUONG
1 available
Published
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
811.6 VUONG
1 available
811.6 VUONG
1 available
Published
Source
Available Online
Published
Source
Available Online
Description
A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty.
Author
Series
Formats:
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
Tan,Amy
1 available
Tan,Amy
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
TAN,A
1 available
TAN,A
1 available
Published
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
Tan,Amy
1 available
Tan,Amy
1 available
Published
Physical Description
On Shelf
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
TAN,A
1 available
TAN,A
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
Checked Out
Published
Source
Available Online
Published
Source
Available Online
Description
In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
CHIN,Y
1 available
CHIN,Y
1 available
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
CHIN,Y
1 available
CHIN,Y
1 available
Published
Source
Available Online
Published
Source
Available Online
Description
"When her husband suddenly disappears, a young woman must uncover where he went-and who she might be without him-in this striking debut of immigration, identity, and marriage"--
Author
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
305.489 HONG
2 available
305.489 HONG
2 available
Published
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
305.489 HONG
2 available
305.489 HONG
2 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
Published
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
Checked Out
Description
"Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How...
Author
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
NG,C
1 available
NG,C
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
NG,C
1 available
NG,C
1 available
Published
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
NG,C
1 available
NG,C
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
NG,C
1 available
NG,C
1 available
On Shelf
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
Published
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Description
On Shelf
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
On Shelf
Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
Published
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
Available Online
Published
Source
Available Online
Published
Source
Available Online
On Shelf
Montecito Library - Adult Large Print Fiction - Large Print
NG,C
1 available
NG,C
1 available
Published
Physical Description
On Shelf
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...
Author
Series
Rich novels (Kevin Kwan) volume 1
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
KWAN,K
3 available
KWAN,K
3 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
KWAN,K
1 available
KWAN,K
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
KWAN,K
3 available
KWAN,K
3 available
Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
KWAN,K
1 available
KWAN,K
1 available
On Shelf
Montecito Library - Media - Audiobook CDs
KWAN,K
1 available
KWAN,K
1 available
Published
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Description
On Shelf
Montecito Library - Media - Audiobook CDs
KWAN,K
1 available
KWAN,K
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
Published
Physical Description
On Shelf
Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
Available Online
Source
Available Online
Source
Available Online
Description
Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.
Author
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
LIU,K
1 available
LIU,K
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
LIU,K
1 available
LIU,K
1 available
Description
Presents the author's selection of his best short stories, as well as a new piece, in a collection that includes "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary," "Mono No Aware" and "The Waves."