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Sherman Alexie the Alaskan Laundry Book Club Bag kits are available for one 6-week checkout (NO renewals). No more than 2 kits may be checked out at a time per library card. When returning kits, please take the complete kit to the Patron Services Desk. * Recently added titles. A Do Alaska Native People get Free Medical Care and Other Frequently Asked Questions about The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Alaska Native Issues and Culture - Sherman Alexie Libby Roderick, ed. The Alaskan Laundry – Brendan Jones The Alchemist: A Novel - Paulo Coelho E American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood - Paul Greenberg E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous American Gods - Neil Gaiman Equation - David Bodanis An American Marriage – Tayari Jones *Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein Honeyman Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters - Mark Dunn B Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card Escape from Camp 14 – Blaine Harden *Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm The Eternal Wonder: A Novel - Pearl S. Buck Worker to Brain Surgeon – Alfredo Quinones- Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng Hinojosa Before the Fall – Noah Hawley F Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo Blonde Indian: an Alaska Native Memoir - Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Ernestine Hayes The Fifth Woman: a Kurt Wallander Mystery - Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Henning Mankell Education of a Reluctant Chef - Finding Bethany – Glen Klinkhart Gabrielle Hamilton *Fluke – Christopher Moore The Book that Matters Most – Ann Hood Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus - The Book Thief - Markus Zusak Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Born to Run: a Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and The Friend – Sigrid Nunez the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen - Christopher McDougall G The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their The Geography of Bliss - Eric Weiner Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - Daniel Brown The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Breakfast with Buddha - Roland Merullo Who You Are - Brene Brown Burial Rites - Hannah Kent Girl in Translation - Jean Kwok The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins C Glaciers: A Novel - Alexis Smith Cascadia – Harold Beranrd The Glass Castle: A Memoir - Jeannette Walls The Complete Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother – *Crucial Conversations – Kerry Patterson Amy Seek The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck D The Good Thief - Hannah Tinti *Grit: the Power of Passion and Perseverance – *Dare to Lead – Brené Brown Angela Duckworth Dark Places - Gillian Flynn Growing Up Native in Alaska - A. J. McClanahan Did You Ever Have a Family: A Novel - Bill Clegg The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Dietland - Sarai Walker - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows The Dinner - Herman Koch The Gunslinger - Stephen King BOOK CLUB BAGS (CONT’D) H Long Ride Home – Filipe Masetti Leite Look Again: A Novel - Lisa Scottoline H is for Hawk - Helen MacDonald Lost in Shangri-la - Mitchell Zuckoff Half Broke Horses - Jeannette Walls The Lost Wife - Alyson Richman The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lucky Us: a Novel - Amy Bloom Homegoing: A Novel -Yaa Gyasi Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - M Jamie Ford Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson A Man Called Ove: A Novel - Fredrik Backman The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins *The Map of Salt and Stars – Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar I Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town - Jon Krakauer I Am Malala : the Girl Who Stood up for Education Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - and was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Ransom Riggs Yousafzai Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou That Ever Lived - Ralph Helfer I Married the Klondike - Laura Beatrice Berton Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca World – Tracy Kidder Skloot My Name is Lucy Barton: a Novel - In the Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson Elizabeth Strout The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media – Brooke Gladstone N J The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency - Just Mercy : A Story of Justice and Redemption - Alexander McCall Smith Bryan Stevenson O K Ordinary Grace: A Novel - William Kent Krueger Keeping Faith: A Novel - Jodi Picoult *Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World – Adam Grant L The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel - Lab Girl – Hope Jarhren Adam Johnson The Lace Reader: A Novel - Brunonia Barry Orphan Train: A Novel - Christina Kline The Language of Flowers: A Novel - The Outlander: A Novel - Gil Adamson Vanessa Diffenbaugh Outliers: the Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell Last Letters From Attu: The True Story of Etta The Outsiders – S.E. 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Coraghessan Boyle Trail of Crumbs – Kim Sunee Q The Trap - John Smelcer Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that *Travel as a Political Act – Rick Steves Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley – Hannah Tinty R Two Old Women – Velma Wallis Radio Girls – Sarah Jane Stratford U The Radium Girls: the Dark Story of America’s Shining Women – Kate Moore The Ultimate Gift: A Novel - Jim Stovall The Raven's Gift - Don Rearden The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books - Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan - Azar Nafisi Jenny Nordberg The Red Tent: A Novel - Anita Diamant The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving – Uninvited: A Novel - Lysa TerKeurst Jonathan Evison Rise of the Rocket Girls - Nathalia Holt V The Rosie Project: A Novel - Graeme Simsion A Visit from the Goon Squad: A Novel - Rowing to Latitude: Journeys along the Arctic’s Jennifer Egan Edge - Jill A. Fredston Rules of Civility: A Novel - Amor Towles W S Water for Elephants: A Novel - Sara Gruen We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Karen Joy Fowler Elizabeth Kolbert The Whale and the Supercomputer on the The Snow Child: A Novel - Eowyn Ivey Northern Front of Climate Change - Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel - David Guterson Charles P. Wohlforth The Special Prisoner: A Novel - James Lehrer Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel - Steam Laundry – Nicole Stellon O’Donnell Maria Semple Stones from the River: A Novel - Ursula Hegi Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin - Cheryl Strayed Storms of Denali: A Novel - Nicholas O'Connell Winter Garden: A Novel - Kristin Hannah Swamplandia!: A Novel – Karen Russell *Women Talking – Miriam Toews The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Novel A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle – C. 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