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The Library now offers sets of books for use by book clubs. Anybody running or starting a book club is welcome to borrow sets of 10 copies of selected new titles for up to 6 weeks. These sets of books can then be distributed among members of the book club.

To borrow a book set, first choose a title from the list below, then call, or visit the library to place a reserve on that book club set for any period of six weeks over the next six months. Book sets cannot be renewed, so please organise your book club to finish in time for you to return the books.

Short blurbs for some of the book club titles are available for download below to help your group select a book.

Book Club meetings
Tuesday October 13 2009 at 6:45pm - Footscray Library

Thursday October 20 2009 at 2:15pm - Footscray Library
 
For more information contact:
Michael Lay or Maureen Bourke
9688 0289
library@maribyrnong.vic.gov.au
 
Book Set Guidelines
 Book Club Sets are loaned on a patron’s library card for six weeks.
 That patron then distributes the books among members of the book club and collects all books after the book club is finished reading them.
 Book Club Sets are loaned in sets of ten books.
 Book Club Sets cannot be renewed and all ten copies must be returned on or before the due date.
 Book Club Sets can be reserved for any six week period, up to six months in advance.
 

Book Club Title List
 The Boat - Nam Le*NEW*
 The Lonely passion of Judith Hearne - Brian Moore*NEW*
 Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky*NEW*
 The Turning – Tim Winton
 The Broken Shore – Peter Temple
 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
 A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
 Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones
 The Space Between Us – Trinity Umrigar
 Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
 March – Geraldine Brooks
 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
 Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
 Love and other Impossible Pursuits – Ayelet Waldman
 Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons – Lorna Landvik
 Atonement – Ian McEwan
 The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
 Eye Contact – Cammie McGovern
 The Glass Castle: a memoir – Jeannette Walls
 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See
 The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
 The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
 Tuesday’s With Morrie: an Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson – Mitch Albom
 The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
 Black and Blue – Anna Quindlen
 The Measure of a Man – Sidney Poitier
 People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks
 Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 The Road – Cormac McCarthy
 Night – Eli Wiesel
 Midwives – Chris Bohjalian
 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
 Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
 Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
 The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
 Breath - Tim Winton
 Earthly Delights - Kerry Greenwood
 The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
 Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
 The Slap – Christos Tsiolkas
 Journey from Venice; a memoir – Ruth Cracknell
 



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 Book Club Set Blurbs (Word Format)
 Book Club Set Blurbs (PDF Format)
 
   
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