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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
5 available
FIC
5 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT PBK
1 available
FIC LT PBK
1 available
Cayucos Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT PBK
1 available
FIC LT PBK
1 available
Morro Bay Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT PBK
1 available
FIC LT PBK
1 available
Description
"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities -- watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous...
Author
Series
Arthur Less novels volume 1
On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
4 available
FIC
4 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
eBook
On Shelf
Atascadero Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Description
Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
3) trust
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On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
1 available
FIC PBK
1 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
1 available
FIC PBK
1 available
Creston Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
On Shelf
San Luis Obispo 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
Shell Beach Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
eBook
Checked Out
1 copy, 11 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 11 people are on the wait list.
Description
A.J. Fikry owns a failing bookshop. His wife has just died, in tragic circumstances. His rare and valuable first edition has been stolen. His life is a wreck. Amelia is a book rep, with a big heart, and a lonely life Maya is the baby who ends up on A.J.'s bookshop floor with a note. What happens in the bookshop that changes the lives of these seemingly normal but extraordinary characters? This is the story of how unexpected love can rescue you and...
Author
On Shelf
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
Checked Out
6 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the show,...
Author
On Shelf
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
3 available
FIC
3 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Cayucos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
1 available
FIC PBK
1 available
On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Book Club Kits
Book Club Set
1 available
Book Club Set
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
eBook
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
Author
On Shelf
Atascadero Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
eBook
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
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On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
FIC SF
1 available
FIC SF
1 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
FIC SF
1 available
FIC SF
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
FIC SF
1 available
FIC SF
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
14 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
eBook
Checked Out
7 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
2 available
FIC LT
2 available
Description
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these...
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Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Working at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she's facing at home, and decides to pass the list on to a lonely widower desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter.
Author
On Shelf
Cayucos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Shell Beach Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
On Shelf
Morro Bay 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
Santa Margarita Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
eBook
Description
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her.
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
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
eBook
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Cayucos Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT PBK
1 available
FIC LT PBK
1 available
Description
"From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
1 available
FIC PBK
1 available
Nipomo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Description
Where do you see yourself in five years? When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan. But when she wakes up, she's suddenly in a different apartment, with a different...
Author
On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
FIC M
1 available
FIC M
1 available
On Shelf
Atascadero Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
eBook
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others..."--Amazon.com.
14) Crosstalk
Author
On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
FIC SF
1 available
FIC SF
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
FIC SF
1 available
FIC SF
1 available
Los Osos Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
FIC SF
1 available
FIC SF
1 available
Description
"Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot, the wit of Nora Ephron, and the comedic flair of P. G. Wodehouse in Crosstalk--a genre-bending novel that pushes social media, smartphone technology, and twenty-four-hour availability to hilarious and chilling extremes as one young woman abruptly finds herself with way more connectivity than she ever desired. In the not-too-distant future, a simple outpatient procedure to increase...
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Description
"Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with earth's visits by Halley's Comet, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores how stories are disseminated and shared, edited and censored, voiced and left untold. In 1456, Johannes Gutenberg's sister uses the tale as a surrogate for sharing a family secret only her brother believes. In 1835, The Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm revise the tale to bury a...
Author
Series
On Shelf
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
2 available
FIC PBK
2 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
1 available
FIC PBK
1 available
Description
Follows the experiences of a man stranded on the wrong side of the country who pushes his limits to traverse more than five hundred miles of devastated wasteland to return to his family.
17) Temporary
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Series
Description
In Temporary, a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it's shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, "there is nothing more personal than doing your job."
This riveting quest, at once...
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Description
"A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground....
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"In this haunting debut novel from Lambda Award finalist Genevieve Hudson, a young German transplant falls in love, questions his faith, and navigates a strange power. A queer coming-of-age told with magical realism, Boys of Alabama guides us through 16-year-old Max's first year in America. Conflicted about leaving Germany, Max is in awe of his new "home" - here, the heat is thick, the food is grossly delicious, and football and religion-seemingly...
Author
On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Morro Bay Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Description
"Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger. Sometimes a distance from the world's tumult opens our hearts and our dreams. In a village of four hundred souls, the infinite light of an Icelandic summer makes its inhabitants want to explore, and the eternal night of winter lights up the magic of the stars. The village becomes a microcosm of the age-old conflict between human desire and destiny, between the limits of reality and the wings of the...