Our Favorite Book Club Kits

1) Oak Park Public Library: Harlem shuffle

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Now is the perfect time to read and discuss this book as the second book in the Harlem Trilogy, Crook Manifesto, was just released.

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Book club discussion kit featuring Harlem Shuffle: ""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked ..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks,...

2) Oak Park Public Library: The sentence : novel

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Oak Park Public Library (Ill.)

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Louise Erdrich is perfect for discussion because she hits on so many big themes - systemic racism, justice, and in this case, the effects of a global pandemic.

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Book club discussion kit featuring The Sentence: After serving part of an outrageously long sentence, Tookie, who 'learned to read with murderous attention' while in prison, naturally gravitates toward working at a bookstore. There she joins a dedicated community of artists and book lovers and begins to build a new life for herself. When Flora, the store's most persistent customer, suddenly dies, her ghost refuses to leave. Flora returns on All Soul's...

3) Oak Park Public Library: Three girls from Bronzeville :a uniquely American memoir of race, fate, and sisterhood

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Oak Park Public Library (Ill.)

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An excellent read ripe for discussion, especially as it takes place in Chicago.

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Book club discussion kit featuring Three girls from Bronzeville: "The three girls formed an indelible bond: roaming their community in search of hidden treasures for their "Thing Finder box," and hiding under the dining room table, eavesdropping as three generations of relatives gossiped and played the numbers. The girls spent countless afternoons together, ice skating in the nearby Lake Meadows apartment complex, swimming in the pool at the Ida B....

4) oak park public library the yield

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5) Oak Park Public Library: If I had your face :a novel

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Oak Park Public Library (Ill.)

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If your group especially loves discussing characters, this is for you.

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Book club discussion kit featuring If I had your face: "Kyuri is a heartbreakingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a 'room salon', an exclusive bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake with a client may come to threaten her livelihood. Her roomate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in...

6) oak park public library book club kit what racism

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