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Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5973 M374
1 available
741.5973 M374
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Nipomo Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5973 M374
1 available
741.5973 M374
1 available
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A cultural history of Wonder Woman traces the character's creation and enduring popularity, drawing on interviews and archival research to reveal the pivotal role of feminism in shaping her seven-decade story
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Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction
944.02609 J622
1 available
944.02609 J622
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A fully documented portrait of the fifteenth-century peasant-turned-saint draws on historical facts, folklore, and centuries of critical interpretation to evaluate the questions attributed to her character.
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction - Read and Rise
305.42
1 available
305.42
1 available
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.42 PBK
1 available
305.42 PBK
1 available
San Luis Obispo Library - Teen Nonfiction
305.42 PBK
1 available
305.42 PBK
1 available
Description
"In this personal, eloquently-argued essay--adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the same name--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author?s exploration of what...
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
641.5092
1 available
641.5092
1 available
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"Here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling." From the moment she and her husband Paul, who worked for the USIS, arrived in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who didn't speak a word of French and knew nothing about the country, was steeped in the language, chatting with purveyors...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.3092
1 available
973.3092
1 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
973.3092 M487
1 available
973.3092 M487
1 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.3092
1 available
973.3092
1 available
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Morro Bay Library - Large Print Nonfiction
974.46102
1 available
974.46102
1 available
Description
A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States.
6) Persepolis
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Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
955.054 S253
1 available
955.054 S253
1 available
Morro Bay Library - Adult Nonfiction
955.054 S253 PBK
1 available
955.054 S253 PBK
1 available
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
3 available
FIC
3 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
2 available
FIC
2 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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San Luis Obispo Library - Book Club Kits
Book Club Set
1 available
Book Club Set
1 available
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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 PBK
1 available
FIC LT PBK
1 available
Description
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction
510.9252
2 available
510.9252
2 available
Cambria Library - Adult Nonfiction
510.9252
1 available
510.9252
1 available
Cayucos Library - Adult Nonfiction
510.9252
1 available
510.9252
1 available
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Cambria Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
510.9252
1 available
510.9252
1 available
Morro Bay Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
510.9252
1 available
510.9252
1 available
Nipomo Library - Children's Book on CD - Children's Audiovisual
510.9252
1 available
510.9252
1 available
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Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
9) My own words
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
347.73263 G493
1 available
347.73263 G493
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Nonfiction
347.73263 G493
1 available
347.73263 G493
1 available
Morro Bay Library - Adult Nonfiction
347.73263 G493
1 available
347.73263 G493
1 available
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
347.73263
1 available
347.73263
1 available
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"The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, on being Jewish, on...
10) Circe: a novel
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
Cayucos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 5 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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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
814.6 I653 PBK
1 available
814.6 I653 PBK
1 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction
814.6 I653 PBK
1 available
814.6 I653 PBK
1 available
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"With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., “bitches gotta eat” blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making “adult” budgets, explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette--she's "35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something"--detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged...
12) Becoming
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
973.93209 OBAMA
4 available
973.93209 OBAMA
4 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
973.93209 OBAMA
1 available
973.93209 OBAMA
1 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
973.93209 OBAMA
1 available
973.93209 OBAMA
1 available
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
973.93209
1 available
973.93209
1 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
973.93209
1 available
973.93209
1 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
973.93209
1 available
973.93209
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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San Luis Obispo Library - Large Print Nonfiction - Biography
973.93209 OBAMA PBK
3 available
973.93209 OBAMA PBK
3 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Large Print Nonfiction - Biography
973.93209 OBAMA PBK
1 available
973.93209 OBAMA PBK
1 available
Atascadero Library - Large Print Nonfiction - Biography
973.93209 OBAMA PBK
1 available
973.93209 OBAMA PBK
1 available
Description
"In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her-from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
979.46105 KINGSTON PBK
1 available
979.46105 KINGSTON PBK
1 available
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
READ ON 979.46105
1 available
READ ON 979.46105
1 available
Nipomo Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
READ ON 979.46105
1 available
READ ON 979.46105
1 available
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A memoir of the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants who lived within the traditions and fears of the Chinese past as well as the realities of the alien modern American culture. She tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.
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Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
813.54 DIDION PBK
1 available
813.54 DIDION PBK
1 available
Nipomo Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
813.54 DIDION PBK
1 available
813.54 DIDION PBK
1 available
Nipomo Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.54
1 available
813.54
1 available
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child."--Amazon.com.
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This unforgettable portrait of resistance, from Laos to California, follows one woman, with wounds inflicted by war and family alike, as she builds a new existence for her and her children by growing Hmong rice, just as her ancestors did, and selling it to those who hunger for the Laos of their memories.
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Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
When white silver screen icon Kitty Karr Tate dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the three Black St. John sisters, it prompts questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty's affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty's journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could--and between a cheating fiancé and fallout from a controversial...
17) Diva
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"New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world. In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she was the toast of the grandest opera houses in the world....
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1 copy, 12 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 12 people are on the wait list.
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In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves.
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4 copies, 43 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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"A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--leading to the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6th, 2021--by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to...
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0 copies available. 1 copy on order.
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"What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you're a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of personality development that predicts who she and her cohort...