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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

All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

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A young woman whose abolitionist husband is murdered in 1850s Kansas cuts her hair and tracks his killers to Missouri. This 1998 novel is from a Pulitzer prize-winning author.

Angle of Repose

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Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. Winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize.

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

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Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict.

Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother

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James McBride grew up one of twelve siblings in the all-black housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn, the son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white. In her son's remarkable 1996 memoir, she tells in her own words the story of her past.

Cloister Walk

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Part memoir, part meditation, The Cloister Walk is the movingly written and thought-provoking record of a married, Protestant woman's time spent in a community of men in a traditional Benedictine monastery in Minnesota.  This 1996 memoir is written by an award-winning poet.

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