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Book Club Kits

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We know how difficult it is to choose a book for your next book group meeting, and to find enough copies for all the members of your group. 

We've made it easier for you by collecting donated and withdrawn copies of discussible books and putting all the copies in a canvas bag. We've included discussion questions and information about each author in a folder for each collection.

There are at least 8 copies of the book in each kit. At this time we have over 400 kits for you to choose from.

How can we get a kit?

Call us at 608-266-6300 and we will help you check out a kit. The kit will be checked out on the library card of the person picking them up. The person checking out the kit may choose a due date for the kit, up to 3 months from the day they pick it up. 

Due to high demand, please take only one or two kits at a time. Kits can be shipped to any library in Madison as well as any public library in the South Central Library System.

What if a book is lost?

If your group happens to lose a book, we ask that you replace it with another copy of the book, new or second hand, that is clean and readable.

 

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The Ministry of Time

Cover of The Ministry of Time

A recently established government ministry studying time travel is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. A civil servant is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore, who according to history, died on Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic. Over the course of an unprecedented year, Gore and the bridge fall haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences they never could have imagined.

I Who Have Never Known Men

Cover of I Who Have Never Known Men

Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?

Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.

1,000 Words: Stories from the VA's My Life, My Story Project

Cover of 1,000 Words: Stories from the VA's My Life, My Story Project

1,000 Words: Stories from the VA's My Life, My Story Project

Thor
Ringler
Seth
Jovaag
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
2024
2024

Since 2013 writers for the My Life, My Story project at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have interviewed over 9,000 veterans and written short stories about their lives. Each story is reviewed and edited by the veteran, and with their approval, added to their VA medical record. Any VA provider who is caring for that veteran can easily find their story and read, in their own words, what matters to them, who matters to them, and why. This book contains 15 of their remarkable stories.

Help Us Build Our Kit Collection

You can help us build our Book Club Kits collection by donating copies of books your group has read. This will be a great way for area groups to share not just the titles of what they've read and enjoyed, but the books themselves.

Drop off copies of your book club books at any Madison Public Library location. Be sure to mention that they are for the Book Club Kits.

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What Are Your Book Club Favorites?

If you're in a book club, we want to hear what your favorite books of the year have been! Each year in the spring we produce a print piece called Book Club Favorites that includes a list of reading recommendations from local Dane County book clubs. 

Share your top titles and your recommendations could be featured at the Book Club Café event!