<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[bl results for collection:"Adult Book Club Kit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[bl results for collection:"Adult Book Club Kit"]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/cmlibrary/rss/search?query=collection%3A%22Adult%20Book%20Club%20Kit%22&amp;searchType=bl&amp;origin=header-navigation&amp;custom_edit=false&amp;suppress=true&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:22:05 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[THE SILENT PATIENT]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk or give any kind of explanation turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the spotlight of the tabloids at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His search for the truth leads him down a terrifying path and threatens to consume him.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C359524</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C359524</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michaelides, Alex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/359524235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[MALIBU RISING]]></title><description><![CDATA["Set against the backdrop of the Malibu surf culture of the 1980s this novel follows the daughter of a famous singer who, once she finds fame, must grapple with the fact that her father abandoned her and her siblings when they were young"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C359850</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C359850</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Reid, Taylor Jenkins]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/359850235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE BOOK THIEF]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C183028</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C183028</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Zusak, Markus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/183028235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle>[BOOK CLUB KIT]</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD]]></title><description><![CDATA[A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice--but the weight of history will only tolerate so much.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C53113</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C53113</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee, Harper]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/53113235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS]]></title><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C102872</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C102872</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Skloot, Rebecca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/102872235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THEO OF GOLDEN]]></title><description><![CDATA["Questions linger about Theo, a pleasant ' mysterious stranger, after his arrival in the southern city of Golden. Who is he, and why is he here? He arrives early one spring and by chance -- or is it? -- he visits a coffee shop where 92 framed pencil portraits are on display. Inspired, Theo sets out on a mission of purchasing all the portraits one at a time and quietly bestowing them on their 'rightful owners.' Stories are told; friendships are born; and lives are changed. Theo of Golden is a beautifully crafted story about the power of creative generosity, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life, and the far-reaching possibilities of anonymous kindness." - Amazon.com.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C566714</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C566714</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Levi, Allen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/566714235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle>A NOVEL</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Janie Starks returns home, she seeks identity and independence as the small southern black community buzzes with gossip about the outcome of her affair with a younger man.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C76132</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C76132</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hurston, Zora Neale]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/76132235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE POISONWOOD BIBLE]]></title><description><![CDATA[The family of a Baptist missionary begins to unravel after they embark on a 1959 mission to the Belgian Congo, where they find their lives transformed over the course of three decades.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C69540</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C69540</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kingsolver, Barbara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/69540235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[MIDDLESEX]]></title><description><![CDATA[Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C352167</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C352167</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugenides, Jeffrey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/352167235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ]]></title><description><![CDATA["In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive. One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her"--Dust jacket flap.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C240342</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C240342</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Morris, Heather |c (Screenwriter)]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/240342235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS]]></title><description><![CDATA[After the horror of World War I, Tom Sherbourne welcomes his new job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, an isolated island with no residents aside from him and his wife Isabel. But times on the island are tough for Isabel as she suffers multiple miscarriages and a stillbirth in just four years time. When a boat with a dead man and a young baby washes ashore, Isabel convinces Tom to let her keep the baby as their own, but the consequences to her actions may be dire.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C117717</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C117717</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stedman, M. L.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/117717235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[PROJECT HAIL MARY]]></title><description><![CDATA[The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C566721</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C566721</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Weir, Andy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/566721235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle>A NOVEL</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY]]></title><description><![CDATA[As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C93957</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C93957</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shaffer, Mary Ann]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/93957235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[OLIVE KITTERIDGE]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C157361</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C157361</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Strout, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/157361235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE NICKEL BOYS]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual and moral training" so the delinquent boys in their charge can become "honorable and honest men." In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold onto Dr. King's ringing assertion "Throw us in jail and we will still love you." His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys' fates will be determined by what they endured at the Nickel Academy.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C544719</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C544719</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Whitehead, Colson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/544719235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle>A NOVEL</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE MAID : A NOVEL]]></title><description><![CDATA["A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery--in this utterly original debut. Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has had to navigate life's complexities all by herself. No matter--she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection. But Molly's orderly life is turned on its head the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself very dead in his bed. Before she knows what's happening, Molly's odd demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect and she finds herself in a web of subtext and nuance she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, a medley of friends she didn't realize she had refuses to let her be charged with murder--but will they be able to discover the real killer before it's too late? A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different--and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C351081</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C351081</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Prose, Nita]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/351081235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[ME BEFORE YOU]]></title><description><![CDATA["They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose. Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life--steady boyfriend, close family--who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident. Will has always lived a huge life--big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel--and now he's pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy--but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living. A Love Story for this generation, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn't have less in common--a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart? "-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C156360</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C156360</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Moyes, Jojo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/156360235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE HEAVEN AND EARTH GROCERY STORE [LARGE PRINT]]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community--heaven and earth--that sustain us"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C384947</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C384947</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[und]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/384947235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle>[BOOK CLUB KIT]</subtitle><language>und</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Homa, a girl from her childhood, reappears in her privileged world, Ellie, amidst Iran's political turmoil, joins her in pursuing their goals for meaningful futures until one earth-shattering betrayal has far-reaching consequences, altering the course of both their lives.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C566722</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C566722</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kamali, Marjan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/566722235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[HAMNET]]></title><description><![CDATA["A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague. A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent departure from one of our most gifted novelists"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C282935</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C282935</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[O'Farrell, Maggie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/282935235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[ROOM]]></title><description><![CDATA[Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C102871</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C102871</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Donoghue, Emma]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/102871235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Sedaris's new collection, Me Talk Pretty One Day, tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes ("There was the lisp, of course, but more troubling than that was my voice itself, with its excitable tone and high, girlish pitch") and unwanted guitar lessons taught by a midget. From budding performance artist ("The only crimp in my plan was that I seemed to have no talent whatsoever") to "clearly unqualified" writing teacher in Chicago, Sedaris's career leads him to New York (the sky's-the-limit field of furniture moving) and eventually, of all places, France. Sedaris's move to Paris poses a number of challenges, chief among them his inability to speak the language. Arriving a "spooky man-child" capable of communicating only through nouns, he undertakes language instruction that leads him ever deeper into cultural confusion. Whether describing the Easter bunny to puzzled classmates, savoring movies in translation (It is Necessary to save the Soldier Ryan), or watching a group of men play soccer with a cow, Sedaris brings a view and a voice like no other--"Original, acid, and wild," said the Los Angeles Times--to every unforgettable encounter."-]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C173600</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C173600</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sedaris, David]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/173600235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION]]></title><description><![CDATA["When Poppy met Alex, there was no spark, no chemistry, and no reason to think they'd ever talk again. Alex is quiet, studious, and destined for a future in academia. Poppy is a wild child who only came to U of Chicago to escape small-town life. But after sharing a ride home for the summer, the two form a surprising friendship. After all, who better to confide in than someone you could never, ever date? Over the years, Alex and Poppy's lives take them in different directions, but every summer the two find their way back to each other for a magical week long vacation. Until one trip goes awry, and in the fallout, they lose touch. Now, two years later, Poppy's in a rut. Her dream job, her relationships, her life - none of it is making her happy. In fact, the last time she remembers feeling truly happy was on that final, ill-fated Summer Trip. The answer to all her problems is obvious: She needs one last vacation to win back her best friend. As a hilariously disastrous week unfolds and tensions rise, Poppy and Alex are forced to confront what drove them apart - and decide what they're willing to risk for the chance to be together."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C385277</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C385277</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[und]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Henry, Emily]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/385277235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle>[BOOK CLUB KIT]</subtitle><language>und</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE LAST CAROLINA GIRL : A NOVEL]]></title><description><![CDATA["A searing book club novel for fans of Where the Crawdad's Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own. Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl... For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her lumberjack father and running through the wilds where the forest meets the shore, Leah's country life is as natural as the Loblolly pines that rise to greet the Southern sky. When an accident takes her father's life, Leah is wrenched from her small community and cast into a family of strangers with a terrible secret. Separated from her only home, Leah is kept apart from the family and forced to act as a helpmate for the well-to-do household. When a moment of violence and prejudice thrusts Leah into the center of the state's shameful darkness, she must fight for her own future against a world that doesn't always value the wild spirit of a Carolina girl. Set in 1935 against the very real backdrop of a recently formed state eugenics board, The Last Carolina Girl is a powerful and heart-wrenching story of fierce strength, forgotten history, autonomy, and the places and people we ultimately call home."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C385217</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C385217</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[und]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Church, Meagan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/385217235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle>[BOOK CLUB KIT]</subtitle><language>und</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS]]></title><description><![CDATA["This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change...and then change the world. When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect. But Claude is not like his brothers. One day he puts on a dress and refuses to take it off. He wants to bring a purse to kindergarten. He wants hair long enough to sit on. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Rosie and Penn aren't panicked at first. Kids go through phases, after all, and make-believe is fun. But soon the entire family is keeping Claude's secret. Until one day it explodes. This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it's about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again; parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts; children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don't get to keep them forever"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C320096</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C320096</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Frankel, Laurie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/320096235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item></channel></rss>