<?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[keyword results for sldl book club]]></title><description><![CDATA[keyword results for sldl book club]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/springlake/rss/search?query=sldl%20book%20club&amp;searchType=smart&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:09:19 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she's pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is the subject of this novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C3875126</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C3875126</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Reid, Taylor Jenkins]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3875126147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>Daisy Jones &amp; the Six : A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524798628/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything: beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses, but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park's few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. 1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter, the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger, and their true enemy, closer...]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4854649</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4854649</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Quinn, Kate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4854649147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>The Rose Code : A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2417939</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2417939</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrews, Mary Kay]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2417939147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>Deep Dish</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC, or American-born Chinese; where he navigated the divided city’s spiraling misfortunes; and where—between helpings of almond boneless chicken, sweet-and-sour pork, and some of his own, less-savory culinary concoctions—he realized just how much he had to offer to the world, to his beloved family, and to himself.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C5498076</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C5498076</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chin, Curtis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5498076147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>Everything I Learned, I Learned in A Chinese Restaurant : A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316507653/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></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, 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 tabloids and spotlight 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 determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4639280</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4639280</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michaelides, Alex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4639280147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>The Silent Patient</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[On her birthday each year, Lollys mother gave her a charm, along with the advice that there is nothing more important than keeping family memories alive. Lollys charm bracelet would be a constant reminder of that love. Now seventy and starting to forget things, Lolly knows time is running out to reconnect with a daughter and granddaughter whose lives have become too busy for Lolly or her family stories. But when Arden, Lollys daughter, receives an unexpected phone call about her mother, she and granddaughter Lauren rush home. Over the course of their visit, Lolly reveals the story behind each charm on her bracelet, and one by one the family stories help Lolly, Arden, and Lauren reconnect in a way that brings each woman closer to finding joy, love, and faith.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2881314</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2881314</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shipman, Viola]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2881314147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>The Charm Bracelet</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250071330/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lucy Wakefield is a seemingly ordinary woman who does something extraordinary in a desperate moment: she takes a baby girl from a shopping cart and raises her as her own. It's a secret she manages to keep for over two decades--from her daughter, the babysitter who helped raise her, family, coworkers, and friends. When Lucy's now-grown daughter Mia discovers the devastating truth of her origins, she is overwhelmed by confusion and anger and determines not to speak again to the mother who raised her. She reaches out to her birth mother for a tearful reunion, and Lucy is forced to flee to China to avoid prosecution. What follows is a ripple effect that alters the lives of many and challenges our understanding of the very meaning of motherhood. Author Helen Klein Ross, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, weaves a powerful story of upheaval and resilience told from the alternating perspectives of Lucy, Mia, Mia's birth mother, and others intimately involved in the kidnapping. What Was Mine is a compelling tale of motherhood and loss, of grief and hope, and the life-shattering effects of a single, irrevocable moment"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2844650</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2844650</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ross, Helen Klein]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2844650147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>What Was Mine : A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781476732350/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA["A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.  Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger.  Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook's differences are impossible to ignore. The Island of Sea Women is an epoch set over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War and its aftermath, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator, and she will forever be marked by this association. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother's position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that after surviving hundreds of dives and developing the closest of bonds, forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point.  This beautiful, thoughtful novel illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge, engaging in dangerous physical work, and the men take care of the children. A classic Lisa See story--one of women's friendships and the larger forces that shape them--The Island of Sea Women introduces readers to the fierce and unforgettable female divers of Jeju Island and the dramatic history that shaped their lives"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4140560</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4140560</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[und]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[See, Lisa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4140560147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>The Island Of Sea Women</subtitle><language>und</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501154867/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2561421</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2561421</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patchett, Ann]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2561421147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>State of Wonder : A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they had a very different story to tell. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes--they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang. The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C5404126</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C5404126</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Grann, David]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5404126147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>The Wager</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[Patti Eddington always knew she was adopted, and her beloved parents seemed amenable enough to questions—but she never wanted to hurt them by expressing curiosity, so she didn’t. The story of her mother cutting off and dying her hair when she was a toddler? She thought it was eccentric and funny, nothing more. When she discovered at fifteen that her birthday wasn’t actually her birthday? She believed it when her mother said she’d changed it to protect her from the nosy old biddies who might try to discover her identity. It wasn’t until decades later, when a genealogy test led Patti to her biological family (including an aunt with a shocking story) and the discovery of yet another birthday, that she really began to integrate what she thought she knew about her origins. Determined to know the truth, she finally petitioned a court to unseal records that had been locked up for almost sixty years—and began to put the pieces of her past together, bit by painstaking bit.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C5333049</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C5333049</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eddington, Patti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5333049147</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Girl With Three Birthdays : An Adopted Daughter&apos;s Memoir of Tiaras, Tough Truths, and Tall Tales</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781647426507/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inspired by true events, this part adventure, part historical saga and part coming-of-age love story follows Woodrow Wilson Nickel as he recalls his journey in 1938 to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4438805</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4438805</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rutledge, Lynda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4438805147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>West With Giraffes</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira goes public and unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course which will upend everything they think they know about themselves and each other.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4206504</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4206504</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Reid, Kiley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4206504147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>Such A Fun Age : A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525541905/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA["Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. As a way out, Tara began to educate herself, learning enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University. Her quest for knowledge would transform her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Tara Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4438807</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4438807</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Westover, Tara]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4438807147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>Educated : A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780399590504/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. When she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated. Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side apartment, Monique listens as Evelyn unfurls her story: from making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the late 80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way. As Evelyn's life unfolds, revealing a ruthless ambition, an unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love, Monique begins to feel a very a real connection to the actress. As Evelyn's story catches up with the present, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique's own in tragic and irreversible ways.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4639281</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4639281</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Reid, Taylor Jenkins]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4639281147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo : A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetary, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly worth living. Proving that life's most precious moments are sweeter when shared, they go from strangers, to friends, to an untraditional but loving family. This is a story about life being affirmed at all ages, old and young, and about finding happiness when hope seems lost.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C3844310</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C3844310</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Berg, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3844310147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>The Story of Arthur Truluv : A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524798710/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[Set in the near future, The handmaid's tale describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population. The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment's calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2947957</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2947957</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atwood, Margaret]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2947957147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>The Handmaid&apos;s Tale</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525435006/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up--she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily's life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.  Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He's also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. But Ryle's complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his "no dating" rule, she can't help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.  As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan--her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4639282</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4639282</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hoover, Colleen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4639282147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>It Ends With Us</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA["Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. ... Brown has created an unforgettable portrait of an era, a celebration of a remarkable achievement, and a chronicle of one extraordinary young man's personal quest"--Back cover.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2763864</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2763864</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brown, Daniel James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2763864147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>The Boys in the Boat : Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143125471/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA["From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.  Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall.  In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure.  Doerr's gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C3674918</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C3674918</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Doerr, Anthony]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3674918147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>All the Light We Cannot See : A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501173219/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA["From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens, each must face their darkest fear and fight for the future of their family. An intimate look at the inner landscape of a disintegrating marriage and a dramatic exploration of the price of war on a single American family, HOME FRONT is a provocative and timely portrait of hope, honor, loss, forgiveness, and the elusive nature of love"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2566461</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C2566461</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah, Kristin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2566461147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>Home Front</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780312577209/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA["A nationally best-selling volume of wise, powerful poetry from the first Native American poet laureate of the United States."--Back cover.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4294830</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4294830</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harjo, Joy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4294830147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>An American Sunrise : Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA["In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the coal-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren't coming home. When Annie decides to stand up for herself, and the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4295147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C4295147</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Russell, Mary Doria]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4295147147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>The Women of the Copper Country</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA["Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor has become a creature of habit (to say the least) and a bit of a loner. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kind of friends who rescue each other from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C3800962</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C3800962</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Honeyman, Gail]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3800962147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525506348/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLDL Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery.  Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.]]></description><link>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C3766961</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S147C3766961</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CLUB_KIT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Towles, Amor]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://springlake.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3766961147</comments><format>BOOK_CLUB_KIT</format><subtitle>A Gentleman in Moscow</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143110439/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>