“What Got You Here Won't Get You There.”

That was one of the provocative titles on the list of books published by San Diego authors last year, a list disclosed the other night by the Public Library at the opening of its 42nd annual Local Authors exhibit.

Authors and guests – 250 of them – gathered at the Central Library downtown for the exhibit and the presentation of the annual LOLA Award. (LOLA stands for “Local Author Lifetime Achievement.”)

This year it went to Susan Vreeland, who is known for her historical fiction on art-related themes.

Her books include “Girl in Hyacinth Blue,” which became a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie called “Brush With Fate,” starring Glenn Close, Ellen Burstyn and Thomas Gibson. That novel – based on an alleged painting by Vermeer – has been translated into 25 languages.

CBS turned her first book, “What Love Sees,” into a television movie that starred Richard Thomas.

Her most recent novel, “Luncheon of the Boating Party,” deals with Pierre-Auguste Renoir and has appeared on many national best-seller lists.

The LOLA Award committee is made up of chairman Arthur Salm and members Charles Harington Elster, Catherine Greene, Kate Kallen, Pamela Sanderson, Bart Thurber and Jan Tonnesen.

The award was presented by library director Anna Tatár.

Among the more than 200 titles on the list of books by local authors are such intriguing choices as these:

“Love, Rain, Dog.”

“Popcorn Poppin' on the Apricot Tree.”

“No Perfect People, Please.”

“When My Feet Hurt, I Hurt All Over.”

“The Boss From Outer Space and Other Aliens at Work.”

Plus two treatments of the year's major scandal:

“Feasting on the Spoils: The Life and Times of Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, History's Most Corrupt Congressman,” and “The Wrong Stuff: The Extraordinary Saga of Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, the Most Corrupt Congressman Ever Caught.”