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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
FIC M
1 available
FIC M
1 available
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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
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"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.
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"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...
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"A reluctant medium is about to discover the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power. . . . When Jessamyn Teoh starts hearing a voice in her head, she chalks it up to stress. Closeted, broke and jobless, she's moving back to Malaysia with her parents- a country she last saw when she was a toddler. She soon learns the new voice isn't even hers, it's the ghost of her estranged grandmother. In life, Ah Ma was a spirit medium, avatar of a mysterious...
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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...
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"Our nameless narrator stubbornly tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive and safe over the course of one savage winter in Minnesota. Woefully unprepared for the task, she battles the relentless predators, severe weather and unforeseen bad luck--all the while grieving a recent miscarriage, and coming to terms with her infertility and the accompanying uncertainty that her future holds. Intimate and startlingly original, this slender novel...
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Los Osos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Oceano Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Santa Margarita Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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After Nessa James's husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she's left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties, the former nurse begins to hear voices. It doesn't take long for Nessa to realize that the voices calling out to her belong to the dead--a gift she's inherited from her grandmother, which comes with special responsibilities. On the cusp of 50, suave advertising director Harriett...
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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.
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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.
8) Crosstalk
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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
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"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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Arriving at an ancient stone prison, the Lady, an investigator who searches for information from prisoners's pasts that can save those awaiting execution, digs into the past of a killer named York, who can sense what others cannot, and unearths shocking secrets of her own.
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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
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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.
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Perdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but...
12) H is for Hawk
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
598.944
1 available
598.944
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Nonfiction
598.944
1 available
598.944
1 available
Nipomo Library - Adult Nonfiction
598.944
1 available
598.944
1 available
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Atascadero Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
598.944
1 available
598.944
1 available
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"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel ... on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge....
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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.
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2 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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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...
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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.
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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
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"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...
15) Less: a novel
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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
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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.
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Series
Life of elves volume 1
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
1 available
FIC PBK
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
1 available
FIC PBK
1 available
Description
"Maria lives in a remote village in Burgundy, where she learns that she has a gift for communicating with nature. Hundreds of miles away in Italy, Clara discovers that she possesses a stunning musical genius and is sent from the countryside to Rome to develop her preternatural abilities. Barbery's The life of the elves tells the story of two children whose extraordinary talents will bring them into contact with magical worlds and malevolent forces....
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Cayucos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Los Osos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile...
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It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean?...
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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.
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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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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.
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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...