Book Group Tote Bags
        Merrill Memorial Library, Yarmouth, ME Heidi Grimm 846-4763
 

Are you currently in a book group, or maybe you’ve thought about starting one? We have multiple copies of certain titles available to check out as a group. An individual copy of each title will be available in our regular collection as well. Our Book Group Tote Bags have up to ten copies of each of the following:

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

This is a novel that, in a fit of envy, Holden Caulfield, Huck Finn, Harriet the Spy, and Krazy Kat–all of the above–might long to enter, and would feel at home in     –Author Cynthia Ozick

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

“It is the kind of book one hopes to find but rarely does: a work that captivates, challenges, and consoles, all at once. Nicole Krauss is proof positive that great literature is being written today”    –Author Elizabeth Berg 

Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment  

“The Tattoo Artist was a fever dream from which I did not wish to wake.”  –Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones.

“An eerily beautiful novel of artistic ambition and a woman’s struggles to be at home in her skin.”   –O, The Oprah Magazine

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known.

Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson

“Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers, about the divers exploring a sunken shipwreck off the New Jersey coast, is a gripping account of real-life adventurers and a real-life mystery. In addition to being compellingly readable on every page, the book offers a unique window on the deep, almost reckless nature of the human quest to know.”    –SCOTT TUROW, author of Reversible Errors

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

Booklist Review: Lively was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction, England's most prestigious literary award, for Moon Tiger--a fine, resounding novel that rekindles, even in the most jaded reader, awe for the power of words beautifully used and the wisdom earned by passionate observation.

Night by Elie Wiesel 

Amazon.com: In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur?

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

A glorious novel about love and opera which takes place during a terrorist takeover at a party at a South American embassy. “Patchett proves equal to her themes; the characters' relationships mirror the passion and pain of grand opera, and readers are swept up in a crescendo of emotional fervor,” says Publishers Weekly RevieW.

The Color of Water by James McBride

This national bestseller tells the story of James McBride and his mother--a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man, founded a church, and put 12 children through college.

The All of It by Jeannette Haien

A sleeper hit when first published in 1986, Jeannette Haien's exquisite, beloved first novel is a deceptively simple story that has the power and resonance of myth. The story begins on a rainy morning as Father Declan de Loughry stands fishing in an Irish salmon stream, pondering the recent deathbed confession of one of his parishioners. 

My Antonia by Willa Cather

This is Willa Cather's masterful portrait of prairie culture, based on her own life. Against Nebraska's panoramic landscape, Cather recreates the life of an immigrant girl who becomes, in the memories of narrator Jim Burden, the epitome of strong and dignifed womanhood.