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Reader's Link - Book Kit Donations
We are currently collecting donated paperback copies of the following titles so that we can create new book discussion kits and also add more copies to existing kits. If you would like to donate one of these titles, bring it in to any branch library and mention that it is for a Book Discussion Kit. Thanks for your help!
- Age of wonder, by Richard Holmes
- Animal, vegetable, miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver
- Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald
- Born to run, by Christopher McDougall
- Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin
- Cane River, by Lalita Tademy
- The Clothes They Stood Up In, by Alan Bennett
- In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
- Comfort Me With Apples, by Ruth Reichl
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
- Farm city, by Novella Carpenter
- Finn, by Jon Clinch
- Gate at the stairs, by Lorrie Moore
- Girl in translation, by Jean Kwok
- Good thief, by Hannah Tinti
- A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libby Bray
- Heart of a Woman, by Maya Angelou
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
- Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
- Imperfect birds, by Anne Lamott
- Invisible bridge, by Julie Orringer
- Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
- Let the great world spin, by Colum McCann
- Lonely polygamist, by Bradley Udall
- Major Pettigrew's last stand, by Helen Simonson
- Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
- Mistress of the art of death, by Ariana Franklin
- Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
- Musicophilia, by Oliver Sacks
- Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill
- Night Inspector, by Frederick Busch
- Northern Light, by Jennifer Donelly
- Odyssey (Fagles translation), by Homer Homer
- Omnivore's dilemma, by Michael Pollan
- One Thousand White Women, by Jim Fergus
- Paradise, by Toni Morrison
- Piano teacher, by Janice Y.K. Lee
- Portrait in Sepia, by Isabel Allende
- Push, by Sapphire
- sing them home, by Stephanie Kallos
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl
- Sweetwater, by Roxana Robinson
- Tenderness of wolves, by Stef Penney
- Thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell
- Thunderstruck, by Erik Larson
- Tiger, by John Vaillant
- Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer
- What We Keep, by Elizabeth Berg
- Wild Life, by Molly Gloss
- The Women of Brewster Place, by Gloria Naylor