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The Pioneer Library System makes holding a book discussion as easy as checking out a kit! All you have to do is gather the friends . . .and open the book. We do the all the rest for you!
PLS maintains Book Discussion Kits that have everything you need to have a successful group reading experience. Each kit contains 10-12 copies of the listed book, bookmarks, a manual containing discussion questions, reviews, articles about the book, and information about the author. Each kit can be checked out for 6 weeks.
So whether your interests are fiction or nonfiction or romance or mystery - Pioneer Library System has a kit that you and your friends will enjoy.
To reserve a kit for pick-up at your hometown library please call 405.701.1839 or 405.701.1849 - Please allow 3 working days for delivery.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
A fable about undauntingly following one's dream, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being.
Away by Amy Bloom
Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Siberia to find the missing girl.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
At the height of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, two boys are among the thousands exiled to the country for “reeducation.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down mountain paths. But the boys have a violin to distract them—as well as the beautiful daughter of the local tailor, possessor of a beguiling pair of feet. When the two discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translations, their education takes a surprising turn.
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra's married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain's most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.
Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
In football, as in life, the value placed on people changes with the rules of the game they play. The young man at the center of this story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the NFL. When listeners are first introduced to him, he's one of 13 children of a crack-addicted mother; doesn't know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. Nor had he ever touched a football. This is his remarkable, moving story.
Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
Inciting a culture war when she suggests that baby boomers should be given government incentives to commit suicide, twenty-nine-year-old blogger and political malcontent Cassandra Devine catches the attention of an ambitious senator seeking the presidency.
The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
Tom, a tired, cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a security search causes him to lose his cool. Now he must take the train if he wants to arrive in Los Angeles for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season. Along the way, he encounters a ridiculous cast of characters, unexpected romance, and an avalanche that changes everyone's plans.
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble--foundations shift, marble ornaments fall--even as efforts to preserve them are underway. This book opens in 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house, a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective--inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city--while gradually revealing the truth about the fire. He introduces us to a rich cast of characters, Venetian and expatriate, in a tale full of atmosphere and surprise which reveals a world as finely drawn as a still-life painting. The fire and its aftermath serve as a leitmotif, adding elements of chaos, corruption, and crime and contributing to the ever-mounting suspense.
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
A compelling historical narrative about the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the two men who shaped its place in history -- an architect of almost magical ability and a prolific serial killer known as the Devil.
Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray
Ruth loves to bake cake, and when in a crisis, she bakes cake. As Eat Cake begins, Ruth's husband, a successful hospital administrator, has just lost his job in a merger; her elderly mother has just come to live with them after a frightening break-in, her smart-alec daughter is failing to keep the misery of adolescence to herself, and her father, long-estranged from her mother, turns up at the door with shattered wrists and no place to go. Now, she has reason to bake cakes!
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life.
Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn
Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop, off the coast of South Carolina. Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the intruding totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet. Publisher’s Weekly says this novel is “bursting with creativity, neological mischief, and clever manipulation of the English language”.
Freakonomnics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives--how people get what they want or need especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of--well, everything.
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father-- an ardent pacifist--and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state. And he tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, who are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his namesake.
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
'I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster.' So begins journalist Jeannette Walls' memoir, a heartbreaking and astonishing story of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
In January 1946, London is beginning to recover from World War II, and Juliet Ashton is looking for a subject for her next book. She spent the war years writing a column for the Times until her own dear flat became a victim of a German bomb. While sifting through the rubble and reconstructing her life, she receives a letter from a man on Guernsey, the British island occupied by the Germans. He'd found her name on the flyleaf of a book by Charles Lamb and was writing to ask if she knew of any other books by the author. So begins a correspondence that draws Juliet into the community of Guernsey and the members of the Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Named to protect its members from arrest by the Germans, the society shares their unique love of literature and life with a newfound friend. Seeing this as the subject of her next book, Juliet sails to Guernsey, a voyage that will change her life.
Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Offred is a handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where she works for the Commander and his wife. She is hoping to become pregnant by the Commander, since she is valued only for her fertility. Failure to produce a child could mean exile to the polluted Colonies. She cherishes the bittersweet memories of 'before' when she lived with her husband and daughter, had a job, access to knowledge, and had her own name.
Harpsong by Rilla Askew
A love story about Dust Bowl heroes who didn't leave for California.
Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg
Recently widowed Helen Ames is shocked to discover that her husband, whom she'd thought was as faithful as they came, had been leading a double life. The money they had been saving for retirement had disappeared in several big withdrawals, spent by him before he died. What was he doing, and what would she do now? Helen's investigation into her husband's dealings leads to a new adventure and change for herself and her daughter.
The House on Tradd Street by Karen White
Inheriting an historic home from an elderly man she had recently met, Melanie Middleton, a Charleston real-estate agent who possesses the ability to see ghosts, finds herself dealing with an entire family of haunts and joins forces with Jack Trenholm, a handsome writer, to unravel the house's dark history and find some long-missing diamonds.
Indignation by Philip Roth
In 1951, a studious, law-abiding youngster from Newark, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year at Ohio's Winesburg College. He's there instead of the local college because his father sees the world as a dangerous place and fears for his son's safety. Marcus can't handle his father's obsessions and flees to Winesburg College to free himself.
In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel by Sarah Dunant
While Rome burns in 1527, Fiammetta Bianchini and Bucino Teodoldi, a courtesan and her dwarf companion, are already planning their future. Their stomachs churn on the jewels they have swallowed before fleeing the city as the enemy broke down the doors. They head for Venice, a city with its own temptations, where they rebuild their business. When a young blind woman insinuates her way into their lives, it brings devastating consequences for them all.
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
Grisham's first nonfiction book has all the points of a bestselling thriller. How did Ron Williamson go from a major league draft in 1971 to death row for the murder of a 21-year-old cocktail waitress? If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, it will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, it will infuriate you.
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
In California's Central Valley, five women and one man join together in a reading group devoted to Jane Austen's six novels. Over the six months of their meetings, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens.
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
The middle of Kabul in war-torn Afghanistan seems like the last place one would open a Beauty School, but that's exactly what Deborah Rodriguez did. Now she shares the stories of her students who enrolled there in spite of threats to their own personal well being and learned the art of perms, friendship, and freedom.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The first Afghan novel to be written in English, this book is the story of the unlikely bond between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant. Taking the reader from the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy to its present-day atrocities, Hosseini weaves an epic tale of fathers and sons, friendship and betrayal, and the rise and fall of a nation.
Letter from Home by Carolyn Hart
Summer 1944: Gretchen is working as a reporter at the local newspaper. Everyone's talking about Faye Tatum, who's been found dead in her own living room. Gretchen had known Faye and knew that the circumstances of her life were much different than people imagined. Gretchen's determined to uncover the truth once and for all -- even if it means writing a story that will haunt her for the rest of her life.
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house and neighborhood wearing a jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck, vanquishing evildoers--in his head--as "The Thunderbolt Kid." Using his fantasy-life persona as a springboard, Bryson re-creates the life of his family in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality--a life at once familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy.--From publisher description.
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
In this darkly comic collection of 22 interlocked tales, Alexia brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation.
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore
It’s the early 1970s. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. The daughter of Ringgold’s third-generation Baptist preacher, Catherine Grace is quick-witted, more than a little stubborn, and dying to escape her small-town life. Every Saturday afternoon, she sits at the Dairy Queen, eating Dilly Bars and plotting her getaway to Atlanta. And when, with the help of a family friend, the dream becomes a reality, she immediately packs her bags, leaving her family and the boy she loves to claim the life she’s always imagined. But before things have even begun to get off the ground in Atlanta, tragedy brings Catherine Grace back home. As a series of extraordinary events alter her perspective–and sweeping changes come to Ringgold itself–Catherine Grace begins to wonder if her place in the world may actually be, against all odds, right where she began.
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Spade's partner is murdered on a stakeout; the cops blame him for the killing; a beautiful redhead with a heartbreaking story appears and disappears; grotesque villains demand a payoff he can't provide; and everyone wants a fabulously valuable gold statuette of a falcon, created as tribute for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Who has it? And what will it take to get it back? Spade's solution is as complicated as the motives of the seekers assembled in his hotel room, but the truth can be a cold comfort indeed.
Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Dr. David Henry, forced by a winter blizzard to deliver his own twins, a boy and a girl, makes a decision that will alter his family's life forever when he recognizes that the girl twin has Down syndrome. He instructs a nurse to take the girl away to an institution and never reveal the secret. But, the nurse keeps the child, leaves the area, and raises it as her own. As the story unfolds over 25 years, two families are haunted by the secret.
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age 13, she's undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate, something she's never questioned until now. Unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister, so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and could have fatal consequences for her sister.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
To discover how others exist on minimum wage, the author leaves her home, takes the cheapest lodgings she can find, and accepts whatever jobs she is offered. Moving to Florida from Maine to Minnesota, she works variously as a waitress, nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She learned many things, including the fact that one job is not enough: you need at least two jobs if you intend to live indoors.
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
New superiour court judge Alex Cormier is assigned to preside over the case of the alleged Sterling High School shooter. Lawyer Jordan McAffee represents Peter--the boy who, on the day of the shooting, was found in the corner of the gymnasium holding a gun to his head with a shaky hand. Detective Patrick DuCharme has one star witness, but her story keeps changing. And then there's the biggest problem of all--the star witness happens to be Judge Cormier's daughter.
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
After a meeting with his only neighbor, sixty-seven-year-old Trond is forced to reflect upon a long-ago incident that marks the beginning of a series of losses for Trond and his childhood friend, Jon.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell examines some of the most successful people today, and tries to determine what exactly contributes to their success. He finds that, as a culture, we often analyze a person's success based on what that person is like. Rather, we should look at contributing factors such as culture, family, and the idiosyncratic differences in their upbringing to determine what makes a person successful.
The Paper Bag Christmas by Kevin Alan Milne
"A heart-tugging tale of a boy who discovers the true meaning of Christmas through his friendship with a troubled little girl"--Provided by publisher.
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is marked from birth: he does not release any odor. At the same time he also possesses an exceptional gift: a marvelous sense of smell that allows him to perceive all of the odors of the world. From the misery that he is born in too, abandoned to the care of monks, Jean-Baptiste fights against his conditions and ascends the social statuses until becoming a famous perfumer.
Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
Christmas has come to a town in Alabama. A town much like the one Flagg grew up in. In this remote town where the mail is still received by boat, something happens to change Christmas morning festivities.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
A young Muslim American, Changez is living the American dream, with a Princeton education and high-paying job, until the events of September 11th force him to confront his personal allegiances.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
De Rosnay's U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand Tézac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the Vél' d'Hiv' roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand's family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers—especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive—the more she uncovers about Bertrand's family, about France and, finally, herself.
Say You’re One of Them by Uwen Akpan
Poverty and violence are things children in Africa face daily. Akpan shares stories of such children, two of which include: 'An Ex-Mas Feast,' about an eight-year-old in Kenya who needs money to buy books and pay fees to attend school, but the money his young sister takes on the streets must be used for food. Another is: 'My Parents' Bedroom,' about a young girl and her small brother in Rwanda who witness their parents' terrible choice in order to protect their children.
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Lily lost her mom when she was four and the only mother she's known is Rosaleen, the black cook. When Rosaleen offends three racists in one afternoon in 1964, Lily springs her from jail and they leave for Tiburon, S.C., where they're taken in by May, June, and August, black, bee-keeping sisters. Maternal loss, betrayal, guilt and forgiveness are all intertwined, ultimately leading Lily to find the thing her heart longs for most.
The Shack by William P. Young
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives as the shack on a wintry afternoon and walk back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever.
Singing with the Top Down by Debrah Williamson
At a time in the 1950s when America is a little more innocent and everyone believes in a brighter tomorrow, two children and their flamboyant aunt head toward California in a Buick Skylark convertible and share adventures both funny and poignant that teach them the true meaning of family.
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
In this charming fable, Grisham tells the story of one couple's hilarious attempt to escape Christmas, only to be forced by friends and family to rediscover the true meaning of the season
So Brave,Young and Handsome by Leif Enger
Life changes for Glendon Hale, an aging train robber on a quest to reclaim love and obtain forgiveness, when he meets Monte Becket, a writer who has lost his sense of purpose. Inspired by Glendon's tale of having abandoned his wife two decades ago and now trying to find her to ask her forgiveness, Monte decides to follow the man and write his story. On their trail is Charles Siringo, an ex-Pinkerton detective who's been hunting Glendon for years.
Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas
When a student bearing a striking resemblance to artists' renderings of Jesus Christ is found murdered--by crucifixion--in London's Jewish ghetto, 19th- century private detective Cyrus Barker must hire an assistant to help him solve the sinister case. That individual turns out to be a downtrodden young man, Thomas Llewelyn, whose murky past includes stints at college and prison. Together they pass through chop houses, stables, and clandestine tea rooms, inching ever closer to the shocking truth.
Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
A gripping exploration into the world of Lou Arrendale, an autistic man who is offered a chance to try a brand-new experimental 'cure' for his condition. Now Lou must decide if he should submit to a surgery that might completely change the way he views the world and the very essence of who he is.
Stones Into Schools by Greg Mortenson
Picking up where 'Three Cups of Tea' left off, Mortenson recounts his ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his continued work in Kashmir and Pakistan after a 2005 earthquake; and the ways in which he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders. He also talks about his desire to promote peace through education and literacy.
They did it with Love by Kate Morgenroth
An amoral tale of a mystery book club that falls apart when one of its wealthy members turns up dead.
Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Margaret Lea, who works in her father's bookshop, has a fascination for the biographies of the long-dead. When she gets a letter from the mysterious and reclusive famous author Vida Winter asking Margaret to write about her extraordinary life, Margaret is thrilled. Traveling to Yorkshire to meet Vida, she's captivated by Vida's storytelling, but doesn't entirely believe some of it. What Margaret discovers on her journey to confirm the truth is for her a chilling and transforming experience.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The story covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny through the lives of two women.
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Three Cups of Tea traces Mortenson's decade-long odyssey to build school (especially for girls), throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda. While he wages war with the root causes of terrorism - poverty and ignorance - Mortenson must survive kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats from Americans who consider him a traitor, and wrenching separations from his family.
Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
When Henry meets Clare, he is 28 and she is 20. He is a hip librarian, she is a beautiful art student. Henry has never met Clare before, she has known Henry since she was six. The Time Traveler's Wife is an original literary novel about love refracted through the prism of time. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston will star in the New Line Cinema film.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
In one of the best-loved classics of all time, young Scout and Jem Finch explore the adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s as their attorney father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman. The book, which won a Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than 40 languages, and went on to be made into a major motion picture starring Gregory Peck.
Triangle by Katharine Weber
As the last living survivor of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire, Esther Gottesfeld has told her story countless times. Even so, her death at the age of 106 leaves many unanswered questions about what happened that fateful day -- the day she lost her sister and her fiance. How did she manage to survive the fire? Are the discrepancies in her various accounts just human fallacy, or is there a hidden story in Esther's recollections?
Trudy’s Promise by Marcia Preston
It's been three months since East Berliner Trudy Hulst saw her husband, Rolf, a political activist who fled to the West just ahead of the Stasi in the early 1960s. So when the Stasi summons her for interrogation, she knows what's in store. With the help of Rolf's friend Wolfgang, now a state policeman, Trudy escapes to West Berlin, only to find out that her husband was shot and killed while he was going over the wall. Trudy finds a room in a dingy boarding house, works as a waitress and bides her time until her young son and his grandmother can join her. But when President Kennedy comes to town, Trudy's story so captivates a member of the presidential entourage that he takes her to America as a symbol of the Cold War's devastation. Meanwhile, Wolfgang's ties to the Hulsts put his career and his life in jeopardy.
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Jacob Jankowski, an orphan, is drifting through life when he jumps onto a passing train, and enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression. As they make one-night stands in town after town, Jacob, a veterinary student who almost earned his degree, is put in charge of caring for the circus animals. It's there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful married star of the equestrian act and Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable.
Where Angels Go by Debbie Macomber
Archangel Gabriel and his three mischievous Prayer Ambassadors--Shirley, Goodness and Mercy--lend their celestial aid to three needy Christmas cases. Harry Alderwood, 86, prays that his increasingly forgetful wife, Rosalie, will agree to move into assisted living before he dies. Meanwhile, nine-year-old Carter Jackson begs God for a dog, even though his mother and father tell him that they can't afford to keep a pet, while Beth Fischer's mother prays that her divorced paralegal daughter, nightly engrossed in a World of Warcraft online game, will start a new life.
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Didion's husband died in 2003 while her daughter lied in a hospital suffering from pneumonia. This personal narrative documents Didion's attempt to make sense of the world when it appears to be dissolving into chaos.
