We have added popular new titles to our Colección de Kits del Club del Libro!
Whether you need some reading ideas for your existing book club, or want to start a book club but don’t know what to read, we’ve got you covered! NCW Libraries offers more than 300 book club kits available for checkout to reading groups.
Each kit has 10-12 copies of the same book that are checked out to one person and shared with members of their group. The kits can be check out for up to six weeks and also include discussion questions.
Obtenga más información sobre los kits del club de lectura aquí.
Aquí están las últimas incorporaciones a nuestra colección:
Adultos
Lecciones de química por Bonnie Garmus
Set in 1960s California, this debut novel is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman’s place is in the home — only to find herself starring as the host of America’s most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth isn’t just teaching women how to cook, she’s teaching them how to change the status quo.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
In 1972, workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, digging the foundations for a new development find a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community –heaven and earth– that sustain us.”
Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung
In 1948, as civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, the wealthy, landowning Ang family — with four daughters — is more concerned with their lack of an heir. As the Communist army closes in on their town, the household flees, leaving behind the girls and their mother. Without a male to punish, the eldest daughter must stand trial for her family’s crimes. Realizing the worst is yet to come, the women escape and embark on a thousand-mile journey to confront the family that abandoned them.
Framed by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey
In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place, and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and the corrupt court system that can make them so hard to reverse.
Adulto joven
El diario absolutamente verdadero de un indio a tiempo parcial por Sherman Alexie
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Artifice by Sharon Cameron
Isa de Smit was raised in the vibrant, glittering world of her parents’ small art gallery in Amsterdam, a hub of beauty, creativity, and expression, until the Nazi occupation wiped the color from her city’s palette. The “degenerate” art of the Gallery de Smit is confiscated, the artists sent in hiding or deported.
Another First Chance by Robbie Couch
Eighteen-year-old River Lang struggles after the death of his best friend and reluctantly joins a research study for struggling teens where he confronts his complex relationship with Dylan’s ex, develops feelings for a charismatic jock, and uncovers unsettling truths about the study.
Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow
Gather, Ian’s adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as she tries to overcome her opioid addiction. Despite the obstacles thrown their way, Ian is determined to keep his family afloat no matter what it takes. But an unforeseen tragedy results in Ian and his dog taking off on the run, trying to evade a future that would mean leaving their house and their land. A 2023 National Book Award Finalist.
Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell
Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider, taunted by her tight-knit classmates for growing up far away. So when a local girl includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet giveaway to honor her missing sister, Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends. Instead, a girl from the giveaway is found murdered. In her powerful debut novel, Cobell weaves loss, betrayal, and complex characters into a mystery that will illuminate, surprise, and engage readers until the final word.
The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be by Shannon Gibney
Shannon Gibney draws on her true story of growing up as the adopted Black daughter of white parents in this fictional story of Erin Powers, the name Shannon was given at birth by the white woman who gave her up for adoption. At its core, the novel is a tale of two girls on two different timelines occasionally bridged by a mysterious portal and their shared search for a complete picture of their origins. Gibney surrounds the story with reproductions of her own adoption documents, letters, family photographs, interviews, medical records, and brief essays on the surreal absurdities of the adoptee experience.
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