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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Classics
FIC CLA ANDERS 2002
1 available
FIC CLA ANDERS 2002
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Profiles the people of a small Midwestern town in the early 1900s, revealing the consequences of human misunderstanding. This short story cycle is structured around the life of protagonist George Willard from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg as a young man; the style of the work progresses as the complexity of his life increases.
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Classics
FIC CLA BALDWI 1953
1 available
FIC CLA BALDWI 1953
1 available
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Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, starkly contrasting the attitudes of two generations of an embattled family, this book is a portrayal of human beings caught up in a dramatic struggle and of a society confronting inevitable change.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Adult - Classics
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Orcutt Library - Teen Fiction
YA FIC
1 available
YA FIC
1 available
eBook
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A war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871?1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound?a "red badge of courage"?to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as standard-bearer.
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Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC DREISE 1925
1 available
FIC DREISE 1925
1 available
eBook
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This novel tracks the process by which an ordinary young man is capable of committing a ruthless murder, and the further process by which social and political forces come into play after his arrest. In Clyde Griffiths, the impoverished, restless offspring of a family of street preachers, we see a portrait of a man whose circumstances and dreams of self-betterment conspire to pull him toward an act of unforgivable violence.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Adult - Classics
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures.
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Several stories are woven together to show man's inner alienation from the society about him. A country girl, well advanced in pregnancy, is seeking the lover who has promised to marry her. Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Adult - Classics
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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eBook
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On Long Island in the early 1920s the mysterious Jay Gatsby tries to rekindle his romance with Daisy, a young woman who has married another man.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Children's - Classics
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction
FIC GOLDIN 1962
1 available
FIC GOLDIN 1962
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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Santa Maria Public Library - Popular Library - Book on CD
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Description
The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own nature. Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature.
9) Catch-22
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Cuyama Valley Library - Adult - Classics
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Classics
FIC CLA HELLER 1961
3 available
FIC CLA HELLER 1961
3 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Teen Fiction - Classics
YA FIC
1 available
YA FIC
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Depicts the struggles of a U.S. airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II base. This satirical, historical novel is set during the later stages of World War II from 1944 onwards. It has a distinctive non-chronological style where events are described from different characters' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Adult - Classics
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction - Classics
FIC CLASSICS
1 available
FIC CLASSICS
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman ? clef out a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor...
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Santa Maria Public Library - Popular Library - Book on CD
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
eBook
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930's, journeys from being a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance.
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Classics
FIC CLA JAMES 1902
1 available
FIC CLA JAMES 1902
1 available
eBook
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Presents Henry James' 1902 novel, set in London and Venice, in which Milly Theale, a young heiress with a short time to live, sets out to make her life worthwhile--as Merton Densher and Kate Croy set forth on a plan of betrayal.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Adult - Classics
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
A criminal feigns insanity and is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.
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Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
On Shelf
Cuyama Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
3 available
FIC
3 available
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Orcutt Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Popular Library - Book on CD
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
FIC LT
2 available
FIC LT
2 available
Description
A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.
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Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Classics
FIC CLA MCCULL 1940
2 available
FIC CLA MCCULL 1940
2 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC MCCULL 1940
1 available
FIC MCCULL 1940
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types...
16) Beloved
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Series
Everyman's library volume 268
On Shelf
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC MORRIS 1987
1 available
FIC MORRIS 1987
1 available
Description
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose...
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Cuyama Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
818.39
1 available
818.39
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Non-Fiction
818.309
2 available
818.309
2 available
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Part of the Timeless Classics series, The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe contains every know tale written by the famous gothic American writer. His often macabre and dark works, which span the years from 1827 to his death in 1849, include "The Raven," "The Black Cat," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "Annabelle Lee."
For Poe fans worldwide, this elegant collector's edition includes over 70 of Poe's short stories, more than 40 melodious poems,...
18) The fountainhead
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Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC RAND 1993
1 available
FIC RAND 1993
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC RAND 1952
1 available
FIC RAND 1952
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Here is the story of an intransigent young architect, Howard Roark, of his violent battle against a mindless status quo, and of his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who worships him yet struggles to defeat him. In order to build his kind of buildings according to his own standards, Roark must fight against every variant of human corruption.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Adult - Classics
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
Description
"The hero-narrator of this novel is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he...
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Los Alamos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
3 available
FIC
3 available
Santa Maria Bookmobile - Adult Fiction - Storage
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
eAudiobook
Available Online
Description
The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.