<?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[title results for Boyhood]]></title><description><![CDATA[title results for Boyhood]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/skokielibrary/rss/search?query=Boyhood&amp;searchType=title&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:34:13 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Boyhood]]></title><description><![CDATA[A groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1980527</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1980527</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1980527133</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=032429208668</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boyhood]]></title><description><![CDATA[A groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1980528</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1980528</guid><category><![CDATA[BLURAY]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1980528133</comments><format>BLURAY</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=032429208644</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boyhood]]></title><description><![CDATA[Set against the vibrant yet turbulent backdrop of the mid-to-late 1980s, Byeong-tae, a small and unassuming country boy, struggles at the bottom of his school's social hierarchy. He transfers to an agricultural high school, hoping for a fresh start. However, his new life takes a dramatic turn when an unexpected event occurs.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3452125</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3452125</guid><category><![CDATA[VIDEO_ONLINE]]></category><category><![CDATA[kor]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3452125133</comments><format>VIDEO_ONLINE</format><subtitle/><language>kor</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boyhood]]></title><description><![CDATA[Filmed over twelve years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's acclaimed smash hit is a groundbreaking celebration of life. Stars Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3192937</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3192937</guid><category><![CDATA[VIDEO_ONLINE]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3192937133</comments><format>VIDEO_ONLINE</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boyhood]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2859824</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2859824</guid><category><![CDATA[MUSIC_DOWNLOAD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2859824133</comments><format>MUSIC_DOWNLOAD</format><subtitle>Music From the Motion Picture</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=075597954258</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Struggle]]></title><description><![CDATA["Book Three finds us in the sensuous realm of Karl Ove's childhood. A family of four -- mother, father, and two boys -- move to the South Coast of Norway to a new house on a newly developed site. It's the early 1970s and the family's trajectory: upwardly mobile. The future seems limitless. We follow Karl Ove through bicycle expeditions, tense swim meets and locker rooms, girls, football pyromaniac pranks, and rock music in what seem like a traditional, if brutal, coming-of-age novel. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and singularity of childhood experience, one in which children and adults lead parallel lives that never meet."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1951495</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1951495</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1951495133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Book Three, Boyhood</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781935744863/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boyhood With Gurdjieff]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Peters' mother suffered a nervous breakdown in the early 1920s, young Fritz was adopted by his aunt, Margaret Anderson, and her partner, Jane Heap. They were editors of The Little Review, the literary magazine that launched the writings of James Joyce, e. e. cummings, Hemingway, and other avant-garde greats. They moved to France where they raised Fritz among Gertrude Stein's salon.    Anderson and Heap introduced Peters to many influential figures, but most significant to him was G. I. Gurdjieff, founder of the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in Fontainebleau. When Fritz first arrived there, Gurdjieff asked him what he wanted to learn. The boy replied, "I want to know everything. Everything about man. I think it is called psychology or maybe philosophy." Gurdjieff answered with a sigh, "Your answer makes life difficult for me. I am the only one who teaches what you ask. You make more work for me."    Thus, Fritz became perhaps the most intimate student of this mercurial mystic, but Gurdjieff was more than just a teacher to Fritz. He was a father figure whose influence Peters never shook, and always struggled to integrate. This stunning memoir covering Peters' first years at the Institute retains a child's naive perspective while offering photorealistic recall of Gurdjieff, the workings of his intentional community, and the eccentric characters who lived there.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3384932</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3384932</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peters, Fritz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3384932133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781957241029/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood, Boyhood and Youth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blending fact and fiction, this trilogy by a very young Tolstoy centres on the inner life of Nikolai as he navigates the universal challenge of growing up. In relating his thoughts and feelings, his self-awareness and embarrassing mistakes, the work is timeless: regardless of era, location and environment, we are given an unvarnished portrait of one boy - both self-important and self-deprecating - as he tries to find his place in the world. The sense of nostalgia, with its strange blend of sadness and solace, is tangible as the years pass and the child becomes a young man. In his old age Tolstoy dismissed this first substantial work of fiction from his early twenties, yet it continues to absorb and touch its readers, who find that his deep understanding of the human condition was already in evidence here.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3206747</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3206747</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tolstoy, Leo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3206747133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781781984147/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Ben of All Trades: the Most Inventive Boyhood of Benjamin Franklin]]></title><description><![CDATA[Young Benjamin Franklin wants to be a sailor, but his father won't hear of it. The other trades he tries-candle maker, joiner, boot closer, turner-bore him through and through. Curious and inventive, Ben prefers to read, swim, fly his kite, and fly his kite while swimming. But each time he fails to find a profession, he takes some important bit of knowledge with him. That tendency is exactly what leads him to become the astonishingly versatile genius we remember today. Inspired by The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Michael J. Rosen's wry tale captures Ben's spirit in evocative yet playful language. A love story to the value of variety, A Ben of All Trades sheds light on an unconventional path to greatness and humanizes a towering figure in American history.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2967379</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2967379</guid><category><![CDATA[VIDEO_DOWNLOAD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2967379133</comments><format>VIDEO_DOWNLOAD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indian Boyhood]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2531080</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2531080</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eastman, Charles A.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2531080133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The True Story of A Sioux Upbringing</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781937786564/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Story of My Boyhood and Youth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Although Sierra Club founder and important early environmentalist John Muir was born in Scotland, he spent much of his life traipsing through the wonders of the American wilderness—and fighting to protect what he regarded as the country's greatest resource. This engaging autobiography tells the tale of how Muir made his way to the United States to find his true calling.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1899883</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1899883</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Muir, John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1899883133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781620128299/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Story of My Boyhood and Youth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Although Sierra Club founder and important early environmentalist John Muir was born in Scotland, he spent much of his life traipsing through the wonders of the American wilderness—and fighting to protect what he regarded as the country's greatest resource. This engaging autobiography tells the tale of how Muir made his way to the United States to find his true calling.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2871591</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2871591</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Muir, John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2871591133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781620128299/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood, Boyhood, Youth]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1715001</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1715001</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tolstoy, Leo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1715001133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780140449921/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indian Boyhood]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2163140</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2163140</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eastman, Charles Alexander]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2163140133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boymom]]></title><description><![CDATA["An illuminating deep dive into the complexities of raising boys within the confines of harmful cultural norms-and how mothers can challenge those social pressures to support their sons and guide them to become connected, emotionally nuanced humans."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3374854</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3374854</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Whippman, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3374854133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593577639/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[City on Fire]]></title><description><![CDATA['An intimate new memoir about growing up amid everyday communalism' - The Hindu   Zeyad Masroor Khan was four years old when he realized that an innocent act of clicking a switch near a window overlooking the street could trigger a riot. As the distant thud of a crowd grew closer and calls for murder rent the air, he got his first taste of growing up in Upar Kot, a Muslim ghetto in Aligarh. Khan's world was far-removed from the Aligarh of popular imagination-of poets, tehzeeb and the intellectual corridors of the Aligarh Muslim University. His was a city where serpentine lanes simmered with violence, homes fervently prayed to dispel the omnipresent fear of a family member turning up dead, and the soft breeze that blew over crowded terraces carried rumours of a bloodthirsty mob on the prowl.  In his coming-of-age memoir, Khan writes, with searing honesty and raw power, about the undercurrents of religious violence and the ensuing 'othering' that followed him everywhere he went: from his schooldays in Aligarh, when hopping over to the lending library to the 'Hindu' part of town to find his favourite comic book or lighting candles with neighbours on Diwali was fraught with tension; through his years as a college student in Delhi, where being denied apartments because of his name was the norm; to ultimately becoming a journalist documenting history of his country as it happened.  City on Fire is a rare, visceral portrait of how everyday violence and hate become a part of our lives and consciousness; a society where name and clothes mark out a person as the 'other'. It is as much an incisive examination of religion and violence, imagined histories and fractured realities, grief and love in today's India, as it is a paean to the hope of continued unity, to an idea of India]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3409339</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3409339</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Khan, Zeyad Masroor]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3409339133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Boyhood in Aligarh</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9789356998261/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cactus Country]]></title><description><![CDATA["A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that captures the author's experience coming of age in a Tucson, Arizona, trailer park."--Amazon.com]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3374046</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3374046</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bossiere, Zoë]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3374046133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Boyhood Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781419773181/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did Everyone Have An Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?]]></title><description><![CDATA["What to do when you're the perpetual new kid, only child, military brat hustling school-to-school each year and everyone's looking to you for answers? Make some shit up, of course! And a young Jay Ellis does just that, with help from every child's favorite co-conspirator--their imaginary best friend. Born in the perfect storm of especially ferocious rain and a sugar-fueled imagination, Mikey, his imaginary best friend, steps in to figuratively hold Jay's hand through various youthful shenanigans. A testament to the importance of imagination, trusting oneself, and making space for your creativity, Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend or Just Me? is a memoir of a 90s kid who confided in his imaginary sidekick to navigate everything from parallel pop culture universes, like watching Fresh Prince alongside John Hughes movies or listening to Ja Rule and Dave Matthews, to a lifetime of birthday disappointment (being a Christmas season Capricorn will do that to you) and hoop dreams gone bad. Mikey also guides him through greater tragedies, like losing his teenage cousin in a mistaken-target driveby and the shame and fear of being pulled over by cops almost a dozen times the year he got his driver's license. As imaginary friend morphs into adult consciousness, Ellis charts an unforgettable story of looking within yourself for guidance to some of life's biggest (and smallest) challenges, told in the roast-you-with-love voice of your closest homie."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3382693</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3382693</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellis, Jay]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3382693133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Adventures in Boyhood</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593243190/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage and Compassion]]></title><description><![CDATA["In this extraordinary personal account of childhood and survival during the Holocaust, Professor Tony (Antony) Molho recounts his adventures in 1940s Greece from ages four to six, as his parents risked everything to hide him from the German occupiers. In doing so he pays homage to the many ordinary people who selflessly protected his family, demonstrating that even in the darkest times the self-sacrifice and kindness of modest people can still prevail. Delving into the power of memory, and exploring questions of personal identity, and the weight of the Shoah, Courage and Compassion goes beyond the bounds of conventional memoir, as Tony Molho also reflects on the nature of Jewish identity in the aftermath of the Holocaust and on how his personal awareness of this trauma has helped him to understand the course of his own life."--Publisher's website.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3434107</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3434107</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Molho, Anthony]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3434107133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Jewish Boyhood in German-occupied Greece</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781805394839/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bill McKibben-award-winning author, activist, educator-is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing-knowing-that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang "Kumbaya" at church. And with the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth. But fifty years later, he finds himself in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak racial and economic inequality, on a planet whose future is in peril. And he is curious: What the hell happened? In this revelatory cri de coeur, McKibben digs deep into our history (and his own well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, on the rise of the religious right, and on our environmental crisis to explain how we got to this point. He finds that he is not without hope. And he wonders if any of that trinity of his youth-The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon-could, or should, be reclaimed in the fight for a fairer future. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Co.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3277238</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3277238</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McKibben, Bill]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3277238133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood An Wonders What the Hell Happened</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250860941/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang "Kumbaya" at church. And with the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth. But fifty years later, he finds himself in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak racial and economic inequality, on a planet whose future is in peril. And he is curious: What the hell happened? In this revelatory cri de coeur, McKibben digs deep into our history (and his own well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, on the rise of the religious right, and on our environmental crisis to explain how we got to this point. He finds that he is not without hope. And he wonders if any of that trinity of his youth--the flag, the cross, and the station wagon-- could, or should, be reclaimed in the fight for a fairer future.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3157988</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3157988</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McKibben, Bill]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3157988133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250823601/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chosen]]></title><description><![CDATA[The epilogue is read by the author. "An unparalleled achievement, a work of shattering, almost unbearable radiance. I did not stop crying throughout. For Mills. For my young self. For all of us who have lived and continue to live in that pitiless abyss of childhood abuse. To read this courageous book is to be transformed utterly by Mills's empathy, resilience, and grace. Mark my words: Chosen is destined to be a classic because this is a book that will save lives." -Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker intent on becoming his friend. Stephen, whose father died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who first grooms and then molests him for two years. Stephen tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his adult life, as intense as his denial: self-loathing, drug abuse, petty crime, and horrific nightmares, all made worse by the discovery that his abuser is moving from camp to camp, state to state, molesting other boys. Only physical and mental collapse bring Stephen to confront the truth of his boyhood and begin the painful process of recovery-as well as a decades-long crusade to stop a serial predator, find justice, and hold to account those who failed the children in their care. The trauma of sexual abuse is shared by one out of every six men, yet very few have broken their silence. Unflinching and compulsively readable, Chosen eloquently speaks for those countless others and their families. It is a rare act of consummate courage and generosity-the indelible story of a man who faces his torment and his tormentor and, in the process, is made whole.  A Macmillan Audio production from Metropolitan Books.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3265235</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3265235</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mills, Stephen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3265235133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250856500/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chosen]]></title><description><![CDATA["At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker. Stephen, whose father had died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who then grooms and molests him for two years. The boy tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his life: self-loathing, drugs, petty crime, and horrific nightmares, all made worse by the discovery that his abuser is moving from camp to camp, state to state, molesting countless other boys. Only physical and mental collapse bring Stephen to confront the truth of his boyhood and begin the painful path to recovery-as well as a decades-long crusade to stop a serial predator and find justice./"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3144821</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3144821</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mills, Stephen Tukel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3144821133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250823212/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Boy Joy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Celebrate the joys of Black boyhood with stories from seventeen bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors—including Jason Reynolds, Jerry Craft, and Kwame Mbalia!   "Black Boy Joy  has something for every type of reader." — The New York Times Book Review    "Pick up  Black Boy Joy  for a heavy dose of happiness." — Booklist , starred review  Black boy joy is…   Picking out a fresh first-day-of-school outfit. Saving the universe in an epic intergalactic race. Finding your voice—and your rhymes—during tough times. Flying on your skateboard like nobody’s watching.   And more! From seventeen acclaimed Black male and non-binary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.  Contributors include : B. B. Alston, Dean Atta, P. Djèlí Clark, Jay Coles, Jerry Craft, Lamar Giles, Don P. Hooper, George M. Johnson, Varian Johnson, Kwame Mbalia, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Tochi Onyebuchi, Julian Randall, Jason Reynolds, Justin Reynolds, DaVaun Sanders, and Julian Winters]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3081138</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3081138</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mbalia, Kwame]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3081138133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593379950/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me and the Cottonwood Tree]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chock-full of unbelievable stories, Me and the Cottonwood Tree will enchant readers with the hilarious misadventures of young Herb growing up during some of the most pivotal times in America. From getting stuck in the family outhouse, to buying a donkey as a pet, to creating a giant fireball out of burning Christmas trees, you'll be taken along for a wild ride full of hysterical stories of Herb growing up through some of America's most influential moments in history. Set in Arizona and California from 1933 to 1950, this is the story of one boy's untethered childhood. Herb Bryce grew up as part of a large Mormon family, moving frequently from town to town and house to house. In each new home, Herb learns valuable lessons...and often gets into heaps of mischief along the way. Jump back to a time when kids were given freedom not often allowed to children today-roaming fields and forests, having adventures, and learning about how to create adventure right outside your door.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3038452</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3038452</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryce, Herb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3038452133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>An Untethered Boyhood</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781662201042/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>