The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett MPS once a “slow horse” of

once a “slow horse” of Slough House

And now that someone unexpected has returned to Bayview

What should have been a glorious weekend of kayaking and camping

City of Champions

A stone appears in a woman's pocket like a charm

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett MPS once a “slow horse” ofOxford, Mississippi, 1933. Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven year old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable "big girls" at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, she fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed. Birdie Calhoun, unmarried and outspoken, has come to Oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family she's left behind. But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie