The Garden City Library is introducing a new service, Book Club in A Bag. The canvas tote bag which contains everything a book club needs is pictured along with a sample of seven of the seventeen titles available for patrons. A group of friends, a provocative book, and free flowing discussion... doesn't that sound like the ingredients for a wonderful experience? Book Club in a Bag, a new service of the Garden City Public Library, will help you get started. Whether you've always wanted to start a book club but just didn't know how, or your existing book discussion group is looking for an easier way to select books, then the Garden City Public Library's Book Club in a Bag may be just what you need.

At the present time, the Library is offering a selection of 17 book titles. The list will continue to grow over time. The titles offered are:

The Camel Bookmobile

By Masha Hamilton

The Double Bind

By Chris Bohjalian

Dream When You Are

Feeling Blue

By Elizabeth Berg

The Grace That Keeps

This World By Tom Bailey

The Guernsey Literary

& Potato Peel Society

By Mary Ann Shaffer

The Heretic's Daughter

By Kathleen Kent

In Sunlight in a

Beautiful Garden

By Kathleen Cambor

Loving Frank

By Nancy Horan

Pomegranate Soup

By Marsha Mehran

Prayers for Sale

By Sandra Dallas

PropertyBy Valerie Martin

The Shack

By William Paul Young

Shelter Me By Juliette Fay

The Thirteenth Tale

By Diane Setterfield

Three Cups of Tea

By Greg Mortenson

Without a Backward

Glance By Kate Veitch

Year of Wonders

By Geraldine Brooks

Each canvas tote bag contains 10 copies of the title, usually a large type edition, audio material, and an information package with a summary, book reviews, biographical information, discussion questions, an author interview, and suggestions for further reading. The bags also contain a sign-up sheet for the leader to keep track of who has which book. Everything you need to help you run your own book discussion group is included. Please contact Laura Flanagan at the Garden City Public Library for further information at 742-8405, ext 239.