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1) All my rage
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Atascadero Library - Teen Fiction - Teen
TEEN
1 available
TEEN
1 available
Cambria Library - Teen Fiction - Teen
TEEN
1 available
TEEN
1 available
Cayucos Library - Teen Fiction - Teen
TEEN
1 available
TEEN
1 available
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San Luis Obispo Library - Book Club Kits
KIT
1 available
KIT
1 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Book Club Kits
KIT
1 available
KIT
1 available
Atascadero Library - Book Club Kits
KIT
1 available
KIT
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else...
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Arroyo Grande Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN
1 available
TEEN
1 available
Atascadero Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN
1 available
TEEN
1 available
Atascadero Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN PBK
1 available
TEEN PBK
1 available
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Arroyo Grande Library - TEENBOCD - Teen Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
Description
"Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love"--
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San Luis Obispo Library - Children's Fiction - Middle Grade Fiction
J FIC
2 available
J FIC
2 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Children's Fiction - Middle Grade Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Los Osos Library - Children's Fiction - Middle Grade Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Description
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
4 available
FIC
4 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
3 available
FIC
3 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
Cayucos Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Description
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers?Owen?s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah?s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen?s boss, as a US marshal...
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Santa Margarita Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Oceano Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Description
"In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally, as they face the ultimate test of the human spirit"--
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
1 available
FIC PBK
1 available
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Morro Bay Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT PBK
1 available
FIC LT PBK
1 available
Atascadero 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 the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, the intertwined stories of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mother and daughter who upend their lives "I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting. With brilliance and beauty, Celeste Ng dissects a microcosm of American society just when we need to see it beneath the microscope ..."--Jodi Picoult, New York Times -bestselling author of Small Great Things and...
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
3 available
FIC
3 available
On Shelf
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Arroyo Grande Library - Large Print Fiction - Large Print
FIC LT PBK
1 available
FIC LT PBK
1 available
Description
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve"American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are...
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
3 available
FIC
3 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
On Shelf
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
Checked Out
1 copy, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"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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Series
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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
On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
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
Forced to leave Shanghai when their father sells them to California suitors, sisters May and Pearl struggle to adapt to life in 1930s Los Angeles while still bound to old customs, as they face discrimination and confront a life-altering secret.
10) The leavers
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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
Morro Bay Library - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
1 available
FIC PBK
1 available
Description
"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Children's Fiction - Middle Grade Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
On Shelf
Arroyo Grande Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Description
"The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity and belonging A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding - a match of love rather than tradition. It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the youngest of the siblings, reunites...
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On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
1 available
FIC PBK
1 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Description
"In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding,...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
Cayucos 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
Description
Gifty is a sixth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even...
15) Amina's voice
Author
Series
Amina's voice volume 1
Formats:
On Shelf
Arroyo Grande Library - Children's Fiction - Middle Grade Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Atascadero Library - Children's Fiction - Middle Grade Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Creston Library - Children's Fiction - Middle Grade Fiction
J FIC
1 available
J FIC
1 available
Description
"A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school after tragedy strikes her community"--
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Atascadero Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN
1 available
TEEN
1 available
Nipomo Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN
1 available
TEEN
1 available
Description
When some quirky art donated to a school fundraising effort to help a Pakistani American family, victims of a possible hate crime, is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous outsider artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, adults and teenagersalike debate who should get the money and begin to question each other's motivations.
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Description
"Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 90s through to San Francisco in 2016, a comic novel about being Muslim immigrants in modern America"--
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Morro Bay Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction
305.8914
1 available
305.8914
1 available
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Cambria Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
305.8914
1 available
305.8914
1 available
Morro Bay Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
305.8914
1 available
305.8914
1 available
Description
"My entire life I have been less fat and more fat, but never not fat." According to family lore, when Rabia Chaudry's family returned to Pakistan for their first visit since moving to the United States, two-year-old Rabia was more than just a pudgy toddler. Dada Abu, her fit and sprightly grandfather, attempted to pick her up but had to put her straight back down, demanding of Chaudry's mother: "What have you done to her?" The answer was two full...
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On Shelf
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Los Osos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Nipomo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Description
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.
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"Seventeen-year-old Pakistani immigrant, Zara Hossain, has been leading a fairly typical life in Corpus Christi, Texas, since her family moved there for her father to work as a pediatrician. While dealing with the Islamophobia that she faces at school, Zara has to lay low, trying not to stir up any trouble and jeopardize their family's dependent visa status while they await their green card approval, which has been in process for almost nine years....