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Express Book Group in a Bag titles were created for situations when a book group may need a book title immediately, without first making a reservation. Express Book Group in a Bag titles can be checked out from the Reference Desk at the library on a walk-in basis. Reservations are not required for these titles, and an available Express Book Group in a Bag title can be checked out promptly on a valid library card. Like our traditional Book Group in a Bag service, these titles check out for 6 weeks and must be returned to the Reference Desk.

Titles

19th Wife

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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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Alchemist

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In this fable, Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, has a dream about finding a treasure in the pyramids of Egypt. A gypsy woman and an old man claiming to be a mysterious king advise him to pursue it. "To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation," the old man tells him. "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." Translated from Portuguese. Published in 1993, 197 pages.

All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw

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Nate Shaw’s father was born under slavery. This triumphant autobiography, assembled from the eighty-four year old Shaw’s oral reminiscences, is the plain-spoken story of an ‘”over-average” man who witnessed wrenching changes in the lives of Southern black people – and whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about. All God's Dangers won the National Book Award in 1975.

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.
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