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:

• The Accidental Tourist  by Anne Tyler (Call No. KIT FIC TYLER)
• 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)
• An American Childhood by Annie Dillard (Call No. KIT B DILLARD)
• 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)
• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (Call No. KIT FIC MITCHELL)
• The book of bright ideas by Sandra Kring (Call No. KIT FIC KRING)
• 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)
• Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters (Call No. KIT M PETERS)
• 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)
• The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd (Call No. KIT FIC WYND)
• The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (Call No. KIT FIC LARSSON)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Call No. KIT FIC LARSSON)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Call No. KIT  FIC  CHE)
• The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow (Call No. KIT 305.4092 ZAS)
• 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)
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (Call No. KIT FIC FORD)
• The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb (Call No. KIT FIC LAMB)
• 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)
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave (Call No. KIT FIC CLEAVE)
• 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) 
• Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Call No. KIT M WINSPEAR)
• 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)
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Call No. KIT FIC STROUT)
• One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters (Call No. KIT M PETERS)
• The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (Call No. KIT 812.54 WIL)
• The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty (Call No. KIT  FIC  WELTY)
• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake (Call No. KIT FIC BLAKE)
• 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)
• Rabbit, Run by John Updike (Call No. KIT FIC UPDIKE)
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (Call No. KIT FIC SCHLINK)
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Call No. KIT  FIC  NAF)
• The Road from Coorain by Jill K. Conway (Call No. KIT B CONWAY)
• The Shack by William Young (Call No. KIT  FIC  YOUNG)
• Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (Call No. KIT FIC SEE)
• 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)
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (Call No. KIT M BRADLEY)
• Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (Call No. KIT  B  MCCOURT)
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Call No. KIT  FIC  SETTERFIELD)
• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Call No.  KIT  FIC  SMILEY)
• 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 Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Call No. KIT FIC NIFFENEGGER)
• Tinkers by Paul Harding (Call No. KIT FIC HARDING)
• The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle (Call No. KIT FIC BOYLE)
• The Tree Bride by Bharati Mukherjee (Call No. KIT FIC MUKHERJEE)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (Call No. KIT  FIC  SMI)
• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (Call No. KIT FIC BENNETT)
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Call No. KIT FIC GRU)
• The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss (Call No. KIT FIC LISS)
• Whiteout by Brian Duren (Call No. KIT FIC DUREN)
• The Women by T.C. Boyle (Call No. KIT FIC BOYLE)

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.