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Library of Things: Book Club Kits

A guide to the non-traditional items available for checking out at the Milton Public Library

What are Book Club Kits?

Book Club Kits each contain ten copies (including two large print versions) of the same title for distributing to members in a book group. The checkout period for the kits is four weeks.

Each kit also contains a discussion guide, suggested read-a-likes, and a food & drink suggestion to accompany a get-together. Online versions of these inserts may be viewed at our Book Club Guides page.

Friends and Strangers

Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
Struggling to adjust to small-town life after having a baby, an accomplished New York City journalist immerses herself in social media before bonding with a babysitter from a very different walk of life.

1 tote + 8 standard paperbacks + 2 large print paperbacks + 2 inserts

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Replacement cost (per book): $28

Deacon King Kong

Deacon King Kong by James McBride
In the aftermath of a 1969 Brooklyn church deacon's public shooting of a local drug dealer, the community's African-American and Latinx witnesses find unexpected support from each other when they are targeted by violent mobsters.

1 tote + 8 standard paperbacks + 2 large print paperbacks + 2 inserts

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Replacement cost (per book): $28

Klara and the Sun

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Waiting to be chosen by a customer, an Artificial Friend programmed with high perception observes the activities of shoppers while exploring fundamental questions about what it means to love.

1 tote + 8 standard paperbacks + 2 large print paperbacks + 2 inserts

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Replacement cost (per book): $28

Somebody's Daughter

Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
One of the prominent voices of her generation, the author presents this coming-of-age recollection of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and a traumatic event, revealing the threads between who you are and what you are born into.

1 tote + 8 standard paperbacks + 2 large print paperbacks + 2 inserts

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Replacement cost (per book): $28

Empire of Pain

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
A narrative account of how a prominent wealthy family sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis

1 tote + 8 standard paperbacks + 2 large print paperbacks + 2 inserts

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