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Book Club in a Bag
The Bastrop Public Library is now offing "Book Club in A Bag"! Reading is more fun when you can share your ideas and reactions with others. Book groups are very popular and a great way to meet others and talk about books. The library wants to make it easy and convenient for book clubs to have access to enough copies of great reads. Each bag has 12 copies of a single book along with a discussion and resource. guide. The resource guide contains recommend online resources that provide book discussion suggestions and helpful information about running a book club. Make your book group fun and easy by checking out a "Book Club in a Bag". Call the library at 332-8880 for more information.
User Guidelines:
- Bags check out for six weeks and are not renewable.
- You may reserve the bags.
- One person checks out the bag and then distributes the books to club members.
- Patrons are limited to checking out one bag at a time.
- Bags are not Interlibrary loaned.
- Overdue fines accrue at the regular rate for books.
Available titles for Book Club in a Bag:
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maris Remarque
This classic of antiwar literature tells the story of Paul Baumer, who enlists in the German Army in World War I and takes place with his comrades in the trenches.
The Book of Fathers
by Miklos Vamos
An epic tale of twelve generations of fathers that spans three hundred years of Hungarian history.
Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Chronicle of author's end of her marriage and her year abroad seeking happiness, perspective, spirituality and love across Italy, India and Indonesia.
Forgotten Garden
by Kate Morten
A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book - a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty first birthday, they tell her the truth and with her sense of self shattered and very little to go on, "Nell" sets out to trace her real identity.
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls
True life novel based on author's straightforward, ingenious, hard working grandmother who survives tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression and personal tragedy.
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
( Not available until 5/2011 when it will be released in paperback)
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women - black and white, mothers and daughters - view one another.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford
This novel tells the story of a Chinese American man's relationship with a Japanese American woman in the 1940's and his son in the 1980's.
The Last Day: A Novel
by James Landis
Story of a U.S. sniper and his return to the states from the Iraq War. On the day following his return he meets a mysterious wise man, mid-thirties, who he suspects to be Jesus.
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
When retired Major Pettigrew strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mrs. Ali, the villageshopkeeper who is of Pakistani descent, he is drawn out of his regimented world and forced to confront the realities of life in the twenty first century.
Mao's Last Dancer
by Li Cunxin
From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rual home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange, only to fall in love with America and with an American woman. Two years late, through a series of events worthy of the most exciting cloak and dagger fiction, he defected to the United States, where he quickly became know as one of the greatest ballet dancers in the world.
Outcasts United: An American Town, A Refugee Team, and One Women's Quest to Make a Difference
by Warren St. John
Story of small town in Georgia in the 1990's that became a refugee resettlement center for families fleeing the world's war zones.
Sarah's Key
by Tatiana De Rosnay
This novel offers a compelling portrait of occupied Paris and reveals that taboos and silence that surround this little known episode in French history. Sarah, a ten year old girl, was brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv" roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.
Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
A teenager starts a quest to learn about her mother whom she barely knew, while navigating life in a racially charged South of the 1960's.
Shanghai Girls
by Lisa See
Story of two sisters from Shanghai set in the 1930's who leave China for America when their father sells them as wives to repay his gambling debts.
South of Broad
by Pat Conroy
The novel follows the life of Leopold Bloom King who lives in Charleston, South Carolina. It covers the times of his troubled childhood to adult life with his close group of friends.
Zoo Keeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diana Ackerman
The WWII story of Jan Zabinski, the director of the Warsaw Zoo, and his wife, Antonina, who sheltered 300 Jews as well as Polish resisters in their villa and in animal cages and sheds.
by Erich Maris Remarque
This classic of antiwar literature tells the story of Paul Baumer, who enlists in the German Army in World War I and takes place with his comrades in the trenches.
The Book of Fathers
by Miklos Vamos
An epic tale of twelve generations of fathers that spans three hundred years of Hungarian history.
Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Chronicle of author's end of her marriage and her year abroad seeking happiness, perspective, spirituality and love across Italy, India and Indonesia.
Forgotten Garden
by Kate Morten
A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book - a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty first birthday, they tell her the truth and with her sense of self shattered and very little to go on, "Nell" sets out to trace her real identity.
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls
True life novel based on author's straightforward, ingenious, hard working grandmother who survives tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression and personal tragedy.
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
( Not available until 5/2011 when it will be released in paperback)
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women - black and white, mothers and daughters - view one another.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford
This novel tells the story of a Chinese American man's relationship with a Japanese American woman in the 1940's and his son in the 1980's.
The Last Day: A Novel
by James Landis
Story of a U.S. sniper and his return to the states from the Iraq War. On the day following his return he meets a mysterious wise man, mid-thirties, who he suspects to be Jesus.
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
When retired Major Pettigrew strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mrs. Ali, the villageshopkeeper who is of Pakistani descent, he is drawn out of his regimented world and forced to confront the realities of life in the twenty first century.
Mao's Last Dancer
by Li Cunxin
From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rual home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange, only to fall in love with America and with an American woman. Two years late, through a series of events worthy of the most exciting cloak and dagger fiction, he defected to the United States, where he quickly became know as one of the greatest ballet dancers in the world.
Outcasts United: An American Town, A Refugee Team, and One Women's Quest to Make a Difference
by Warren St. John
Story of small town in Georgia in the 1990's that became a refugee resettlement center for families fleeing the world's war zones.
Sarah's Key
by Tatiana De Rosnay
This novel offers a compelling portrait of occupied Paris and reveals that taboos and silence that surround this little known episode in French history. Sarah, a ten year old girl, was brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv" roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.
Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
A teenager starts a quest to learn about her mother whom she barely knew, while navigating life in a racially charged South of the 1960's.
Shanghai Girls
by Lisa See
Story of two sisters from Shanghai set in the 1930's who leave China for America when their father sells them as wives to repay his gambling debts.
South of Broad
by Pat Conroy
The novel follows the life of Leopold Bloom King who lives in Charleston, South Carolina. It covers the times of his troubled childhood to adult life with his close group of friends.
Zoo Keeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diana Ackerman
The WWII story of Jan Zabinski, the director of the Warsaw Zoo, and his wife, Antonina, who sheltered 300 Jews as well as Polish resisters in their villa and in animal cages and sheds.
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