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Borrowing Policy
To request a Book Club in a Bag,
contact Margaret Douglas at
(805) 381-7357 or mdouglas@tolibrary.org
- Borrower must have a Thousand Oaks Library card.
- The bag will be checked out on the library card of the person picking up the bag. That patron is responsible for the bag and all of its contents.
- The loan period is six weeks.
- Kits may be renewed once if no other group has reserved it.
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Available Titles (A-N)
To request a particular title, please see the Borrowing Policy above. Book Club bags cannot be placed on hold using the Library catalog. For a printer-friendly list of our Book Club in a Bag titles, click here.
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Ahab's Wife, or, The Star-gazer Naslund, Sena Jeter |
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Coelho, Paul |
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Stegner, Wallace |
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Harbach, Chad |
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McEwan, Ian |
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai, Sijie |
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Dunant, Sarah |
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Otsuka, Julie |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Haddon, Mark |
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MacDonald, Ann-Marie |
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Robinson, Marilynne |
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Rachman,Tom |
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Hosseini, Khaled |
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Jones, Edward P. |
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Martel, Yann |
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Sullivan, J. Courtney |
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Simonson, Helen |
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Edwards, Kim |
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Eugenides, Jeffrey |
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Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Focus On: Russian Winter
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Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay |
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When she decides to auction her remarkable jewelry collection, Nina Revskaya, once a great star of the Bolshoi Ballet, believes she has finally drawn a curtain on her past. Instead, the former ballerina finds herself overwhelmed by memories of her homeland and of the events, both glorious and heartbreaking, that changed the course of her life half a century ago. Interweaving past and present, Moscow and New England, the backstage tumult of the dance world and the transformative power of art, Daphne Kalotay’s luminous first novel—a literary page-turner of the highest order—captures the uncertainty and terror of individuals powerless to withstand the forces of history, while affirming that even in times of great strife, the human spirit reaches for beauty and grace, forgiveness and transcendence. |
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"Kalotay's collection builds force so quietly that when all the characters appear together in the final story, you're stunned by how well it works and by how familiar these women now feel." –New York Times Book Review |
Available Titles (N-Z)
To request a particular title, please see the Borrowing Policy above. Book Club bags cannot be placed on hold using the Library catalog. For a printer-friendly list of our Book Club in a Bag titles, click here.
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Ishiguro, Kazuo |
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Strout, Elizabeth |
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Enger, Leif |
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Mason, Daniel Philippe |
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Roth, Philip |
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McCarthy, Cormac |
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Donoghue, Emma |
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Kalotay, Daphne |
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McEwan, Ian |
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Kidd, Sue Monk |
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Proulx, Annie |
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Guterson, David |
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Glass, Julia |
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Fitch, Janet |
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West |
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You Know When the Men are Gone Fallon, Siobhan |
