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Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
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FIC
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC BENEDI 2019
1 available
FIC BENEDI 2019
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LP FIC BENEDI 2019
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LP FIC BENEDI 2019
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Description
"Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star."--Amazon.com.
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Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
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FIC
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC BENJAM 2018
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FIC BENJAM 2018
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A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently...
3) becoming mrs lewis the improbable love story of jo
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From the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe and Twain's End comes a novel set during the Great Depression following two estranged sisters and their mother--who has spent a lifetime hiding a desperate secret that could dismantle the entire family.
5) The red tent
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC DIAMAN 1997
2 available
FIC DIAMAN 1997
2 available
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Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LP FIC DIAMAN 1997
1 available
LP FIC DIAMAN 1997
1 available
Description
The story of Dinah, a tragic character from the Bible whose great love, a prince, is killed by her brother, leaving her alone and pregnant. The novel traces her life from childhood to death, in the process examining sexual and religious practices of the day, and what it meant to be a woman.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Los Alamos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 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
4 copies, 43 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 43 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Santa Maria Bookmobile - Adult Fiction - Storage
FIC
1 available
FIC
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Description
"Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new “emancipation” bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is...
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Kitchen house volume 2
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC GRISSO 2016
1 available
FIC GRISSO 2016
1 available
Description
"The author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad. Published in 2010, The Kitchen House became a grassroots bestseller. Fans connected so deeply to the book's characters that the author, Kathleen Grissom, found herself being asked...
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Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Los Alamos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
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Description
1946, Manhattan: One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs-each of a different woman. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and quickly leaves the station. Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to a woman named Eleanor Trigg, leader...
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Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC KIDD 2014
2 available
FIC KIDD 2014
2 available
On Shelf
Santa Maria Public Library - Popular Library - Book on CD
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
On Shelf
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LP FIC KIDD 2014
1 available
LP FIC KIDD 2014
1 available
Description
Hetty "Handful" Grimké, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimké household. The Grimké's daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. Over...
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eAudiobook
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From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly...
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Los Alamos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Santa Maria Bookmobile - Adult Fiction - Storage
FIC MOYES 2019
1 available
FIC MOYES 2019
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC MOYES 2019
1 available
FIC MOYES 2019
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LP FIC MOYES 2019
1 available
LP FIC MOYES 2019
1 available
Description
"Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient...
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Los Alamos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC PRESCO 2019
2 available
FIC PRESCO 2019
2 available
Description
At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world--using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets...
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Checked Out
2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Description
"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find...
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Book woman of Trouble Creek volume 1
On Shelf
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC RICHAR 2019
1 available
FIC RICHAR 2019
1 available
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LP FIC RICHAR 2019
1 available
LP FIC RICHAR 2019
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Description
"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble...
16) The gown
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Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
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FIC
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC ROBSON 2019
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FIC ROBSON 2019
1 available
Description
"London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation in spite of their nation's recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers in the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their bond, along with their nascent hopes for a brighter future, are...
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC SEE 2005
1 available
FIC SEE 2005
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
A story of friendship set in nineteenth-century China follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC SHAFFE 2008
2 available
FIC SHAFFE 2008
2 available
On Shelf
Santa Maria Public Library - Popular Library - Book on CD
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
On Shelf
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LP FIC SHAFFE 2008
1 available
LP FIC SHAFFE 2008
1 available
Description
In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.
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Guadalupe Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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Santa Maria Public Library - Book Club
Book Club Set
1 available
Book Club Set
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Description
In 1940s Italy, teenager Pino Lella joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps and falls for a beautiful widow, he also becomes the personal driver of one of the Third Reich's most powerful commanders.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Adult Fiction
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
On Shelf
Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Description
"Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse:...