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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:
The struggles of Miles Roby with his teenage daughter, soon-to-be-ex-wife and the wealthy owner of the restaurant where he has worked for 20 years mirror the condition of this small fictional mill town in Maine. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2002.
The 15-year-old autistic narrator uses his superbly logical and literal mind to investigate the murder of his neighbor's dog, using the skills he learned from his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, in this funny and poignant novel that won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year award.