Rock Island Public Library

Are you in a book discussion group and have trouble with everyone in your group gaining access to the chosen book? Check with the library about reserving a book discussion kit.

The Rock Island Public Library now has kits for the following titles:

• Acqua Alta by Donna Leon (Call No. KIT M LEON)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain  (Call No. KIT  FIC  TWAIN)
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton  (Call No. KIT  FIC  WHARTON)
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner  (Call No. KIT  FIC  FAULKNER)
• At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks  (Call No. KIT  FIC  SPARKS)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan  (Call No. KIT  FIC  MCEWAN)
• Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min  (Call No.  KIT  FIC  MIN)
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett  (Call No. KIT FIC PAT)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath  (Call No. KIT  FIC  PLATH)
• Beneath a Marble Sky: A Love Story by John Shors  (Call No. KIT  FIC  SHORS)
• The Bright Forever by Lee Martin  (Call No. KIT  FIC  MARTIN)
• Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat  (Call No. KIT  B  DANTICAT)
• Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber  (Call No. KIT  FIC  ABE)
• A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Call No. KIT 839.8226 IBS)
• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller  (Call No. KIT  B  FULLER)
• Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway  (Call No. KIT  FIC  HEM)
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson  (Call No. KIT  FIC  ROB)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier  (Call No. KIT  FIC  CHE)
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls  (Call No. KIT  FIC  WALLS)
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck  (Call No. KIT  FIC  BUCK)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck  (Call No. KIT  FIC  STEINBECK)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerals  (Call No. KIT  FIC  FIT)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
  (Call No.  KIT FIC SHAFFER)
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood  (Call No.  KIT  FIC  ATW)
• The Heat of the Moon by Sandra Parshall  (Call No. KIT  M  PARSHALL)
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett   (Call No. KIT  FIC  STOCKETT)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte  (Call No. KIT  FIC  BRONTE)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee  (Call No. KIT  FIC  LEE)
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini  (Call No. KIT  FIC  HOS)
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah  (Call No. KIT B BEAH)
• Loving Frank  by Nancy Horan (Call No. KIT FIC HORAN)
• March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks  (Call No. KIT  FIC  BRO)
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kin Edwards  (Call No. KIT  FIC  EDW)
• Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles Shields  (Call No. KIT 813.54 MOC)
• Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past by Fern Schumer Chapman
      (Call No. kit  b  chapman)
• My Sister's Keeper  by Jodi Picoult (Call No. KIT FIC PICOULT)
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult  (Call No. KIT  FIC  PICOULT)
• The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty  (Call No. KIT  FIC  WELTY)
• Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America by Stephen G. Bloom  (Call No.  KIT  977.733 Blo)
• Pumpkin Soup and Shrapnel by Gunda Davis  (Call No. KIT  B  DAV)
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (Call No. KIT FIC SCHLINK)
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi  (Call No. KIT  FIC  NAF)
• The Shack by William Young  (Call No. KIT  FIC  YOUNG)
• The Soloist: A Lost Dream, An Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez
  (Call No. KIT B AYERS)
• The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb  (Call No. KIT  FIC  MCCRUMB)
• Suite Francaise: A Novel by Irene Nemirovsky  (Call No. KIT  FIC  NEM)
• Teacher Man by Frank McCourt  (Call No. KIT  B  MCCOURT)
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield  (Call No. KIT  FIC  SETTERFIELD)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini  (Call No. KIT  FIC  HOSSEINI)
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (Call No. KIT M PARSHALL)
• The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle (Call No. KIT FIC BOYLE)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith  (Call No. KIT  FIC  SMI)
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen  (Call No. KIT FIC GRU)
• The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss  (Call No. KIT FIC LISS)

For those with a special interest in William Shakespeare –

• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley  (Call No.  KIT  FIC  SMILEY)

Included in the kits are multiple copies of the books along with relevant discussion guides.  The checkout period is for 6 weeks. For more information, just ask at or telephone the library’s Reference Desk (309) 732-7341.