Priscilla's Shelf -- Book Bag Kits

 

Priscilla’s Shelf offers 27 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:

 

  • Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
  • As We Are Now, by May Sarton
  • Away, by Amy Bloom
  • The Cold Dish, by Craig Johnson
  • The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
  • A Death in the Family, by James Agee
  • Empire Falls, by Richard Russo
  • Girl in Hyacinth Blue, by Susan Vreeland
  • The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
  • The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,

           by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

  • Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
  • Lying Awake, by Mark Salzman
  • Murder at the Brown Palace, by Dick Kreck (no audio version available)
  • My Antonia, by Willa Cather
  • The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Night, by Elie Wiesel
  • The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink
  • Rules for Old Men Waiting, by Peter Pouncey
  • 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
  • The Work of Wolves, by Kent Meyers
  • 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: August 23, 2010