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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

Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini
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Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
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In Search of Mockingbird

by Loretta Ellsworth
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A book is all that connects Erin to her mother, who died when she was a baby. But how much can Erin really learn about her mother from a tattered copy of To Kill a Mockingbird? On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin decides it’s finally time to find out.
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Handmaid’s Tale

by Margaret Atwood
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Offered is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. Offered must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant because, in an age of declining births, Offered and other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable. First published in 1985, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.
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Night Journal

by Elizabeth Crook
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The Night Journal is an enthralling tale in which Indian ruins, majestic desert hotels, and the hardship and boldness of frontier life fit seamlessly with a modern-day story of coming to terms with loss, family secrets, and shattering truths that lie shrouded in memory.
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Interpretation of Murder

by Jed Rubenfeld
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Sigmund Freud steps off a steamboat in 1909 New York and into the murder investigation of a young woman found strangled in an opulent penthouse.  When another young heiress barely escapes becoming the second victim, Freud and his associate Dr. Younger, race to solve the crime. 
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