book clubs (discussion groups)

This book includes lists of books from both well-established and emerging writers, especially well suited to Book Discussion groups. In addition to a short synopsis of each book, as well as a few notes on the author, the text includes 'Conversation starters' to facilitate lively discussions.

Norah starts a book group at a local indie bookstore hoping to find some new friends and intellectual conversation, so she is pleasantly surprised to find love with one of the men in the group.

A teacher's guide to understanding the benefits of library based after-school clubs.

Examines the current literary culture that has developed in the last two decades and the influences of Oprah's Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore bookshops, and digital readers.

When four very different small-town high school girls are forced to join a mother-daughter book club over summer vacation, they end up learning about more than just the books they read.

Features recipes and discussion ideas for one hundred popular book club selections, with contributions from many of the books' authors, as well as profiles of book clubs across the country that are integrating food into their meetings.

An American Girl book club kit that includes invitations, bookmarks, and calendars along with a handbook full of start-up suggestions and advice.

Provides guidance and tools, including lesson plans and work sheets, for using technology effectively in literature circles.

Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.

Anne Rosenbaum, the wife of Howard, a powerful Hollywood executive, and mother of their seventeen-year-old son, Sam, finds her life transformed when a request from a studio head that she make a reading list morphs into a book club that attracts all of Tinseltown, and she must somehow deal with even bigger changes when a personal crisis prompts Howard to turn back toward the Jewish Orthodoxy of his youth.