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Frequently Asked Questions about Book Groups

Your questions about how to start, lead, attend and enjoy a book discussion group are answered here!

Printable List of Titles without summaries

A one page PDF printable list of Book Group in a Bag titles.

Accessing the Library Catalog and Article Databases

Search the library catalog from home, or research a book or author using magazine and journal articles in databases.

Books about Book Groups

Check out recommended book group selections, book club success stories and a book-themed cookbook.

How to Use Book Group in a Bag

Learn how to use the Online Reservation System to reserve a Book Group in a Bag title.

Tips for Planning and Scheduling

With reservations accepted up to one year in advance, and a 6 week checkout period for the Book Group in a Bag kit, scheduling your Book Group in a Bag titles can get complicated. Here are some tips to help you plan ahead and choose reservation dates and titles.

Then We Came to the End

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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.

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."

In Search of Mockingbird

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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.

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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

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"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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