Boulder Public Library offers more “Books in a Bag” for book groups

If you belong to a book discussion group, this is great news for you!  Boulder Public Library has added 10 new titles to the Books in a Bag program, which are kits developed especially for book groups.   Books in a Bag now offers 20 different paperback book titles for your book discussion group, for free.  Each bag contains 10 paperback copies of the title, a binder with discussion questions, reviews, an author profile and other related information.

 

The titles available in BPL’s Books in a Bag program are listed below.  The 10 new titles have an asterisk on the title.

Title

Author

*The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Diaz

Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert

*Glass Castle, The

Jeannette Walls

Great Gatsby, The

F. Scott Fitzgerald

History of Love

Nicole Krauss

Inheritance of Loss, The

Kiran Desai

*Invisible Wall: a Love Story that Broke Barriers, The

Harry Bernstein

*Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

*Loving Frank

Nancy Horan

Memory Keeper’s Daughter, The

Kim Edwards

Memory of Running, The

Ron McLarty

My Antonia

Willa Cather

*Out Stealing Horses

Per Petterson

Rocket Boys

Homer Hickam Jr.

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

*Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

*Three Cups of Tea

Greg Mortenson

*Work of Wolves

Kent Meyers

*Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks

 

Each bag is checked out for six weeks, allowing ample time for all members to read the books.

For more information, stop by the Fiction and Media desk on the first floor of the Main Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., or call 303-441-4108. Bags can also be picked up and returned to the Fiction and Media desk.  Library Web site:  www.boulderlibrary.org.

One Response

  1. What a terrific program! I’m wondering if a similar program will ever exist for business groups and/or associations? (Or if there already is such a program.) Thanks, and keep up all the great work you do for the Boulder community.

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