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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC UMRIGA 2022
1 available
FIC UMRIGA 2022
1 available
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Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LP FIC UMRIGA 2022
1 available
LP FIC UMRIGA 2022
1 available
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"Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case of Meena--a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and her own family for marrying a Muslim man--Smita comes face to face with a society where tradition carries more weight than one's own heart, and a story that threatens to unearth the painful...
2) Lucky
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Lucky Armstrong is a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. She?s ready to start a brand-new life, with a new identity?when things go sideways. Lucky finds herself alone for the first time, navigating the world without the help of either her father or her boyfriend, the two figures from whom she?s learned the art of the scam. When she discovers that a lottery ticket she bought on a whim is...
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Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction
FIC SHAFAK 2021
1 available
FIC SHAFAK 2021
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC SHAFAK 2021
1 available
FIC SHAFAK 2021
1 available
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"Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when...
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Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction
FIC ONUZO 2021
1 available
FIC ONUZO 2021
1 available
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"When Anna, wondering who she really is, discovers that the African father she never knew is still alive, she embarks on a journey to a small nation in West Africa where she searches for her family's hidden roots"--
5) L.A. weather
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Santa Maria Bookmobile - Adult Fiction
FIC ESCAND 2021
1 available
FIC ESCAND 2021
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Popular Library
FIC ESCAND 2021
1 available
FIC ESCAND 2021
1 available
Description
"FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, theweather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life...
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Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction
FIC BARTZ 2021
1 available
FIC BARTZ 2021
1 available
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"An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd. Emily is having the time of her life--she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of their trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker...
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Santa Maria Public Library - Teen Fiction
YA FIC
1 available
YA FIC
1 available
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"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC COWLEY 2021
1 available
FIC COWLEY 2021
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is 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.
On Shelf
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LP FIC COWLEY 2021
1 available
LP FIC COWLEY 2021
1 available
Description
It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace"-- the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different, because last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Now, over the next 24 hours, Elle will...
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC WILLIA 2021
1 available
FIC WILLIA 2021
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and...
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On Shelf
Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction
FIC DAVE 2021
1 available
FIC DAVE 2021
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC DAVE 2021
2 available
FIC DAVE 2021
2 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers?Owen?s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah?s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen?s boss, as a US marshal...
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Guadalupe Library - Adult - Mystery
FIC M BERRY 2021
1 available
FIC M BERRY 2021
1 available
Description
"A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid - a robbery at...
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On Shelf
Los Alamos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC ENGEL 2021
1 available
FIC ENGEL 2021
1 available
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"Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north. How this...
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Detective Elin Warner novels volume 1
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On Shelf
Orcutt Library - Adult
FIC M PEARSE 2021
1 available
FIC M PEARSE 2021
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult
FIC M PEARSE 2021
1 available
FIC M PEARSE 2021
1 available
Description
"Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Once a sanatorium treating tuberculosis patients, it was abandoned years ago and had fallen into disrepair. Long plagued by troubling rumours, it has recently been renovated into a lavish hotel. And an imposing, isolated hotel, high up in the Swiss Alps, is the last place detective Elin Warner wants to be. But having received an invitation out...
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"The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the...
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
"A charming, hilarious, feel-good story about the kind of bonds & rivalries only sisters can share. Also, a great present for your sister for the holidays!!"—Reese Witherspoon
Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster.
In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken...
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
"A charming, hilarious, feel-good story about the kind of bonds & rivalries only sisters can share. Also, a great present for your sister for the holidays!!"—Reese Witherspoon
Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster.
In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken...
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On Shelf
Orcutt Library - Adult Non-Fiction
616.89153 TATE 2020
1 available
616.89153 TATE 2020
1 available
Description
A top law school graduate struggling with suicidal thoughts and an eating disorder describes her reluctant participation in a therapeutic support group that taught her the meaning of human connection and intimacy.
17) his only wife
This entry no longer exists in the catalog
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On Shelf
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LP FIC KIM 2020
1 available
LP FIC KIM 2020
1 available
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"Margot Lee's mother isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown and finds her mother dead under suspicious circumstances. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the facts of Mina's life as a Korean War orphan and undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother"--Dust jacket flap.