This week’s Unshelved Book Club features books about how parents can help their kids succeed, a young girl who seemed to have it all but committed suicide, video game players trying to save our planet from alien attackers, a lawyer who helps the Republican procure arms during the Spanish Civil War, a class of losers and rejects who have to kill their teacher to save the world, Chester Grenwood (the “inventor” of earmuffs), stories of notorious thieves, and one boy’s family tree.