To start the year off we have added popular new titles to our Book Club Kits collection!
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.
Learn more about book club kits here.
If you aren’t quite ready to start your own club, several NCW Libraries branches offer public book clubs:
- Cashmere Library: Sugar and Spice Book Club and Chat & Laugh Book Club
- Chelan Library: Chelan Library Book Club
- Entiat Library: Walk in the Park Book Club
- Manson Library: Manson Book Club
- Moses Lake: Adult Book Club and Teen BYOB (Bring Your Own Book) Club
- Okanogan: Second Saturday Book Club
- Omak: Omak Library Book Club
- Tonasket: Bookworms Book Club
- Waterville: Waterville Book Club
- Wenatchee: Banned Book Club
Here are the latest additions to our collection:
Adult
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Over the course of the winter, Martha doggedly pursues the truth.
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms by Ed Yong
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension–the world as it is truly perceived by other animals and people.Yong tells the stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, and also looks ahead at the many mysteries which lie unsolved.
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
The Roaring Twenties — the Jazz Age — has been characterized as a time of frivolity. But it was also the height of the Ku Klux Klan. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a charismatic charlatan named D.C. Stephenson. He became the architect of the strategy that brought the group out of the shadows. But at the peak of his influence, it was a seemingly powerless woman – Madge Oberholtzer – who would reveal his secret cruelties, and whose deathbed testimony finally brought the Klan to their knees.
Young Adult
America Redux: Visual Stories from our Dynamic History by Ariel Aberg-Riger
These twenty-one visual stories illuminate the astonishing, unexpected, sometimes darker sides of history that reverberate in our society to this very day–from the role of celebrity in immigration policy to the influence of one small group of white women on education to the effects of “progress” on housing and the environment, to the inspiring force of collective action and mutual aid across decades and among diverse groups.
Anders and Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa
Nonbinary teen Ander is ready to leave their family’s taquería and focus on their art, but when Santi, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, begins to work at the restaurant, the two teens spark a romance made complicated by immigration police.
Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia Park
Alejandra Kim doesn’t feel like she belongs anywhere. At her wealthy Manhattan high school, her super Spanish name and super Korean face do not compute to her mostly white classmates and teachers. In her Jackson Heights neighborhood, she’s not Latinx enough. Even at home, Ale feels unwelcome. When a microaggression at school thrusts Ale into the spotlight, Ale must discover what is means to carve out a space for yourself to belong.
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