Book Club in a Bag Updates
 
May 26, 2020
 
Resuming Services
 
Book Club in a Bag reservations will resume being fulfilled starting June 1st.
 
 
What happens to my reservation during the time the library was closed?
 
Please submit new reservation requests for any titles that you were unable to read while the library was closed.
Visit our reservations calendar to see what titles are available (NOTE: the calendar only shows availability based on confirmed reservations). 
 
 
 
NEW ARRIVALS
 
The bold world : a memoir of family and transformation
by Jodie Patterson

A respected activist, entrepreneur and writer draws on inspiration from her 10-year-old transgender child in an exploration of identity, gender, authenticity and race as they have shaped generations of her African-American family.
Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America
by Beth Macy

In a book that includes deeply human and unforgettable portraits of the families and first responders affected, the author takes readers into the epicenter of its America's more than 20-year struggle with opioid addiction. By the author of the national best-seller Factory Man. 
Gods of jade and shadow
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A dark fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore is set against the backdrop of the Jazz Age in Mexico's underworld, where a young dreamer is sent by the Mayan God of Death on a life-changing journey.
The great believers
by Rebecca Makkai

A 1980s Chicago art gallery director loses his loved ones to the AIDS epidemic until his only companion is his daughter, who, decades later, grapples with the disease's wrenching impact on their family. By the author of The Hundred-Year House.
The nickel boys : a novel
by Colson Whitehead

Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
There there
by Tommy Orange

A novel that grapples with the complex history and identity of Native Americans follows twelve characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow.
Wilmington's lie : the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy
by David Zucchino

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Myth of the Welfare Queen documents the events of the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and its unrecognized role in reversing the city’s mixed-race advances, overthrowing local government and promoting white-supremacist agendas.
The woman's hour : the great fight to win the vote
by Elaine F. Weiss

An uplifting account of the 1920 ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted voting rights to women traces the culmination of seven decades of legal battles and cites the pivotal contributions of famous suffragists and political leaders.
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