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Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
338.476 WIENER
2 available
338.476 WIENER
2 available
Eastside Library - Adult Nonfiction - Nonfiction Area
338.476 WIENER
1 available
338.476 WIENER
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Nonfiction - Nonfiction Area
338.476 WIENER
1 available
338.476 WIENER
1 available
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"The story of Anna Wiener's time spent working in Silicon Valley as the tech industry went through monumental changes"--
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Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
305.488 FORD
3 available
305.488 FORD
3 available
Montecito Library - Adult Nonfiction - Nonfiction Area
305.488 FORD
1 available
305.488 FORD
1 available
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One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who understands...
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Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
814.6 BROOM
3 available
814.6 BROOM
3 available
Montecito Library - Adult Nonfiction - Nonfiction Area
814.6 BROOM
1 available
814.6 BROOM
1 available
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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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Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
306.766 WIZENBERG
1 available
306.766 WIZENBERG
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"At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irrevocably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we'd like to believe. Like many of us, Wizenberg had long understood...
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"Two of the nation's leading feminists and hosts of the hit podcast "Call Your Girlfriend" make the bold and compelling argument that a close friendship is the most influential and important relationship a human life can contain-helping you improve as a person and in your relationships with others"--
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Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
305.489 HONG
2 available
305.489 HONG
2 available
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Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
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"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...
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Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
651.374 DOREY-STEIN
1 available
651.374 DOREY-STEIN
1 available
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Montecito Library - Adult Large Print Nonfiction - Large Print
973.932 DOREY-STEIN
1 available
973.932 DOREY-STEIN
1 available
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"In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in DC when a posting on Craigslist landed her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama's stenographers. For five years, Beck was a part of the elite team of men and women who accompanied the president wherever he went, recorder and mic in hand. She got to know everyone from the White House butler to the secret servicemen, advance team, speechwriters, photographers, and press secretaries,...
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Montecito Library - Adult Nonfiction - Nonfiction Area
792.802 WHITTET
1 available
792.802 WHITTET
1 available
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"A lyrical and meditative memoir on the damage we inflict in the pursuit of perfection, the pain of losing our dreams, and the power of letting go of both. With a promising career in classical ballet ahead of her, Ellen O'Connell Whittet was devastated when a misstep in rehearsal caused a career-ending injury. Ballet was the love of her life. She lived for her moments under the glare of the stage-lights--gliding through the air, pretending however...
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Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
299.94 GARCIA
1 available
299.94 GARCIA
1 available
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"Descending into the underworlds of poverty, sex work, and misogyny, Initiated describes Amanda's journey to return to her body, harness her power, and create the magical world she longed for through witchcraft. Hailed by crows, seduced by magicians, and haunted by ancestors broken beneath the wheels of patriarchy, Amanda's quest for self-discovery and empowerment is a deep exploration of a modern witch's trials - healing ancient wounds, chafing against...
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Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
811.6 LOCKWOOD
1 available
811.6 LOCKWOOD
1 available
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Central Library - Book Club - Main Level - Fiction Area
BOOK CLUB
1 available
BOOK CLUB
1 available
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"In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescencefrom an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested to her involvement in a cultlike Catholic youth group with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents household after a decade of living on their own. Lockwood details her education of a seminarian who is also living at...
11) Wave
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Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
954.93 DERANIYAGALA
1 available
954.93 DERANIYAGALA
1 available
Montecito Library - Adult Nonfiction - Nonfiction Area
954.93032 D427
1 available
954.93032 D427
1 available
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Central Library - Media - Main Level - Audiobook CDs
954.93032 D427
1 available
954.93032 D427
1 available
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"On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously...
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"In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and master class, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the questions which run through it. How might we go about capturing on the page the relationships that have formed us? How do we write about our bodies, their desires and traumas? What does it mean for an author's way of writing,...
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Central Library - Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level - Nonfiction
818.603 ROJAS CONTRERAS
1 available
818.603 ROJAS CONTRERAS
1 available
Eastside Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Books
818.603 ROJAS CONTRERAS
1 available
818.603 ROJAS CONTRERAS
1 available
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"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...