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• BOOK CLUB KIT : All Boys Aren't Blue : a Memoir-manifesto

  Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985-

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  A first book by the prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist shares personal essays that chronicle his childhood, adolescence and college years as a Black queer youth, exploring subjects ranging from gender identity and toxic masculinity to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : All Over but the Shoutin'

  Bragg, Rick

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  A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times recounts growing up in the Alabama hills, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from poverty and ignorance. || Pace - Leisurely | Tone - Reflective,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

  a Year of Food Life

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  Follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally- and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet. || Tone - Thought-provoking | Writing style…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

  Chua, Amy

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  Traces the rewards and pitfalls of a Chinese mother's exercise in extreme parenting, describing the exacting standards applied to grades, music lessons, and avoidance of Western cultural practices. || Writing Style - Candid, engaging, witty

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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  Told through the author's own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of his life comes a bold and personal investigation into America's racial history and its contemporary echoes. || Tone - Impassioned, moving, bittersweet | Writing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Bookmaker's Daughter : a Memory Unbound

  Abbott, Shirley

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  The author offers a memoir of her Arkansas childhood in the 1940s and 1950s, examining her difficult relationship with her father--a gentleman bandit who passed on to his daughter his love of language and books.

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Born a Crime : Stories From a South African Childhood

  Noah, Trevor, 1984-

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  Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa, with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child like him to exist. In a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Bossypants

  Fey, Tina, 1970-

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  From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Brain on Fire : My Month of Madness

  Cahalan, Susannah

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  An account of the author's struggle with a rare brain-attacking autoimmune disease traces how she woke up in a hospital room with no memory of baffling psychotic symptoms, describing the last-minute intervention by a doctor who identified the source…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Call the Midwife : a Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

  Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011

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  Reflects on the experiences of Jennifer Worth as a midwife in London's postwar East End, including the nuns from whom she learned her craft and the interesting and challenging births she aided during her career. || Tone - Heartwarming, reflective |…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Carry On, Warrior : Thoughts on Life Unarmed

  Doyle, Glennon, 1976-

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  Glennon Doyle believes that by shedding our weapons and armor, we can stop hiding, competing, striving for the mirage of perfection, and ultimately build a better life in our hearts, homes, and communities. Readers will find a wise and witty friend…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Climbing the Mango Trees

  Jaffrey, Madhur

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  The best-selling author of An Invitation to Indian Cooking offers a charming memoir of growing up in Delhi, India, detailing life in a large family marked by dinners in which forty or more members of her extended family would enjoy the savory dishes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Color of Water

  a Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

  McBride, James, 1957-

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  A young African American man describes growing up as one of twelve children of a white mother and Black father, and discusses his mother's contributions to his life and his confusion over his own identity. || Tone - Inspiring, heartwarming | Writing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Crazy Brave : a Memoir

  Harjo, Joy

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  This memoir from the Native American poet and author of She Had Some Horses describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice. || Tone - Reflective |…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Dad Is Fat

  Gaffigan, Jim

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  The popular comedian shares his misadventures as an unlikely father of five, from his formative years in a large Irish-Catholic family, to his middle-of-the-night diaper-changing foibles, to his struggles to lull tyrannical tots to sleep. || Tone -…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Dirty Life : on Farming, Food, and Love

  Kimball, Kristin

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  After interviewing Mark, a dynamic young farmer, 30-something Harvard-graduate, Kristin Kimball goes from being an unmarried journalist in Manhattan to a farming partner in the Adirondacks. The two fall in love and embark on a huge adventure:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Dispatches From Pluto : Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

  Grant, Richard, 1963-

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  Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. Dispatches from Pluto is their journey of discovery into this strange and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Eat, Pray, Love

  One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

  Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-

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  Traces the author's decision to quit her job and travel the world for a year after suffering a midlife crisis and divorce, a journey that took her to three places in her quest to explore her own nature and learn the art of spiritual balance. || Tone…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Educated : a Memoir

  Westover, Tara

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  Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a…Read moreRead more of this annotation