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Open today from 9am to 9pm  •  March 10, 2010

What is Book Group in a Bag?

Is your book group tired of having to track down multiple copies of a book for your next meeting? With Book Group in a Bag, receive 10 copies of one title, plus discussion resources.

Reservations are for 6 weeks. Reserve any title up to a year in advance. Plan to overlap your reservations; you can distribute the next book and collect the last book at the same meeting. Pick up and return Bags to the Reference Desk at the library.

To reserve a kit or view the titles available now, use the Online Reservation System.


Each Bag contains:

  • 10 copies of one title
  • Discussion Resources
  • Tips for a successful book group

Recently Added Titles

Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris
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Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.
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19th Wife

by David Ebershoff
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It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of a family's polygamous history is revealed, including how a young woman became a plural "wife."
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Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Book description
"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the...

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Dreamers of the Day

by Mary Doria Russell
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The long, rich history of the Middle East is illuminated in this story that brilliantly elucidates today’s headlines. Agnes Shanklin, a forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference convenes, she is drawn into the company of Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell, who will, in the space of a few days, redraw the world map to create the modern Middle East.
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Things I Want My Daughters To Know

by Elizabeth Noble
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How do you cope in a world without your mother? When Barbara realizes time is running out, she writes letters to her four daughters, aware that they'll be facing the trials and triumphs of life without her at their side
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