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DESCRIPTION:If you miss the insightful discussions of the classroom or just
 \nlove to read\, this is your chance to discover thought-provoking\nbooks 
 and meet new people while learning from some of 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ’s\nfavourite profes
 sors without tests\, papers\, or evaluations!\nThere is a registration fee
  of $15 per person for the semester\,\nwhich covers refreshments\, room re
 ntals\, and other book club\nexpenses. Book club members benefit from a 10
 % discount on all book\nclub books at the University Bookstore.\nHeather O
 ’Neill dazzles with a first novel of extraordinary\nprescience and power\,
  a subtly understated yet searingly effective\nstory of a young life on th
 e streets - and the strength\, wits and\nluck necessary for survival. At t
 hirteen\, Baby vacillates between\nchildhood comforts and adult temptation
 : still young enough to drag\nher dolls around in a vinyl suitcase\, yet o
 ld enough to know more\nthan she should about urban cruelties. Motherless\
 , she lives with\nher father Jules\, who takes better care of his heroin h
 abit than he\ndoes of his daughter. Baby’s gift is a genius for spinning s
 tories\nand for cherishing the small crumbs of happiness that fall into he
 r\nlap. But her blossoming beauty has captured the attention of a\ncharism
 atic and dangerous local pimp who runs an army of sad\,\nslavishly devoted
  girls - a volatile situation even the normally\noblivious Jules cannot ig
 nore.\nHeather O’Neill\, BA’94\, is a Canadian novelist\, poet\, short\nst
 ory writer\, screenwriter and journalist. She is a contributor to\n'This A
 merican Life' on U.S. public radio and her work has appeared\nin the New Y
 ork Times Magazine. Her debut novel\, Lullabies for\nLittle Criminals\, wo
 n the 2007 CBC Canada Reads national book\ncompetition. She describes writ
 ing a novel as 'kind of like putting\ntogether a robot without an instruct
 ion manual. Every word is a nut\nor screw and there are hundreds of thousa
 nds of them.'\nFuture Reads:\nOctober 29\, 2008 - Discussion with Leonard 
 Moore on The\nWorst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the 
 Great\nAmerican Dustbowl by Timothy Egan\nNovember 26 - Perceval: The Stor
 y of the Grail by\nChrétien de Troyes\n
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LOCATION:Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 rue Sherbroo
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SUMMARY:91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Reads 'Lullabies for Little Criminals' by Heather O’Neill
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