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Theater Book Club
"The Bucktown Wicker Park Branch hosts a Theater Book Club on Zoom! Check chipublib.org/events for more information. These are the books that we've read (so far)."
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Weird Book Club Wishlist
"WBC patrons request their favorite or to-be-read weird books."
"Meet Kenneth, a thirty-eight-year-old bookstore worker who spends his evenings sipping mai tais at the local tiki bar. When he's suddenly laid off, Kenneth finally begins to face a world he's long avoided - with transformative and even comical...
Northern Uganda on the eve of the millennium: The daughter of American missionaries and a local teenage girl steal into a darkened church to seal their love in a secret, makeshift wedding ceremony. But when the surrounding war zone encroaches on...
"This strange, subtle story of father-son disaffection and disjointed love is told with [Jones's] signature narrative inventiveness and dark humor." --Kris Saknussemm, author of Private Midnight If drinking mercury from a thermometer didn't...
