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In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, 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 desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her 'little problem' taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined...
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Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
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Morro Bay Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
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A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink--who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal. and stalled-the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across...
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Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
Cayucos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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Los Osos Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
Nipomo Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
eAudiobook
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3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"También de este lado hay sueños. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
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0 copies available. 51 copies on order.
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"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--
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5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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Oceano Library - Large Print Fiction - Large Print
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1 available
FIC LT
1 available
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A first-generation Ivy League student uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death.
"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill,...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
2 available
Fiction
2 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
eAudiobook
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San Luis Obispo Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT PBK
1 available
FIC LT PBK
1 available
Atascadero Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Cambria Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
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The Delaney family love one another dearly-it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . . If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They're killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable....
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Nipomo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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"Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyaltyand Jende is eager to please. Clarks wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at...
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Santa Margarita Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental...
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Los Osos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Santa Margarita Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Shell Beach Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
Morro Bay Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
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San Luis Obispo Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Cayucos Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
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Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.
10) Black buck
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0 copies available. 6 copies on order.
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0 copies available. 23 copies on order.
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An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of...
11) Book lovers
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Cambria Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Cayucos Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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San Luis Obispo Library - Large Print Fiction - Large Print
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Atascadero Library - Large Print Fiction - Large Print
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
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Arroyo Grande Library - Audiobook Playaway - Place a Hold
PLAYAWAY
1 available
PLAYAWAY
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"Nora Stephens life is books-she's read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters'...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
eAudiobook
eBook
Available Online
0 copies available. 17 copies on order.
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"Sonya used to perform on stage. She used to attend glamorous parties, date handsome men, ride in fast cars. But somewhere along the way, the stage lights Sonya lived for dimmed for good. And then, in their absence, came darkness--blackouts, empty cupboards, hazy nights she can't remember. Haunted by her failed career and unresolved childhood trauma, Sonya has fallen deep into an alcoholic abyss. What keeps Sonya from losing herself completely is...
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Nipomo Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Shandon Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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Nipomo Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And, if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one of those victories. After all, her dad-a former champion tennis player himself-has trained her for this...
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Nipomo Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
eAudiobook
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Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is a creature of habit. She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend, Will) and strongly dislikes what she doesn't (mess, change, her boss drinking out of her mug). Her life runs in a pleasing, predictable order...until now. She's just been dumped. She's just been fired. Her local cafe has run out of banana muffins. Then, something truly unexpected happens: Cassie discovers she can go back and change the...
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Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Los Osos Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desperate enough to destroy another woman's marriage? How deeply can a person crave revenge? In 1925, Miss Nan O’Dea infiltrated the wealthy, rarefied world of author Agatha Christie and her husband, Archie. In every way, she became a part of their life––first, both Christies. Then, just Archie. Soon, Nan became Archie’s mistress, luring him away...
16) The cliffs
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"The crumbling Victorian had been abandoned long before Jane ever discovered it as a child. It was painted a sweet violet color, and the gingerbread trim was blue and green, but inside was shambles--broken glass, a dollhouse ravaged by mice, bedsheets twisted as though someone had left in a hurry. Still, the house became a hideaway whenever Jane needed to escape her volatile mother. Twenty years later, now a Harvard archivist, she returns home to...
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"Con ingenio y humor, María Amparo Escandón sigue a la familia Alvarado mientras esta lucha con evacuaciones inminentes, secretos, engaños y traiciones, y con la decisión más difícil que deben tomar hasta el momento: permanecer unidos o quemarlo todo. L.A. está seco como un desierto, Oscar, el patriarca de la familia Alvarado, está obsesionado con el clima y solo quiere un poco de lluvia. En realidad, alberga un secreto que lo distrae de todo...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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Everyone's dying to join ... The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members' clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media. The most spectacular of all is Island Home--a closely-guarded, ultraluxurious resort, just off the English coast--and its three-day launch party is easily the most coveted A-list invite of the decade....
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"A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity-industrial complex Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend's luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Jane's sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel,...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Morro Bay Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Santa Margarita Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Cambria Library - Large Print Fiction - Large Print
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
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"It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue. A...portrait of desire, consumption, and reckless abandon, Come and Get It...