Priscilla's Shelf -- Book Bag Kits

 

Priscilla’s Shelf offers 10 book bag kits, each with 10 copies of the same title and a binder of supporting material. The shelves also feature single copies of discussion suggestions, large print and audio versions of kit titles when available. Kits have a loan period of six weeks.

   
 

 

Titles available as kits:

 

  • As We Are Now, by May Sarton
  • The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
  • A Death in the Family, by James Agee
  • Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
  • The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
  • My Antonia, by Willa Cather
  • The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Night, by Elie Wiesel
  • Rules for Old Men Waiting, by Peter Pouncey
  • The Cold Dish, by Craig Johnson
  • The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink
  • The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
  • The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Too Close to the Falls, by Catherine Gildiner
  • Tortilla Curtain, by T. C. Boyle
  • Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
  • Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks
     

     

     

Priscilla's Shelf honors long-time Loveland resident and avid bookaholic Priscilla Beal Friends raised $8,000 to honor Beal on her 91st birthday by buying the books and bags for the library. Beal held book club meetings in her home starting in 1965, led Junior Great Books for 15 years, and started an Adult Great Books group.  The baby-blue book bags feature a photo of Priscilla.

 

 

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Last Updated: October 07, 2009