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Caboodles - Book Club Kits

A Caboodle Kit is a single bag with multiple copies of the same book that you can check out. Caboodle Kits are great for book clubs, informal book groups, or just a group of friends who want to all read the same book.

Caboodle Kits Available for Check Out

The Archivist
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Martha Cooley
A battle of wills between Matt, a careful, orderly archivist for a private university, and Roberta, a determined young poet, over a collection of T. S. Eliot's letters, sealed by bequest until 2019, sparks an unusual friendship and reawakens painful memories of the past.
Caramelo
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Sandra Cisneros
During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about the family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers, whose magnificent striped (or caramelo) shawl has come into Lala's possession, in a multi-generational saga of a Mexican-American family.
Confessions of an
Ugly Stepsister
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Gregory Maguire
A retelling of the classic fairy tale of Cinderella, told from the point of view of one of the ugly stepsisters, turns the entire legend around in a thoughtful look at what it means to be beautiful.
Crow Lake
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Mary Lawson
In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of members of two families--the farming Pye family and the Morrisons, zoologist Kate Morrison and her three brothers--are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and tragedy.
Cry, the Beloved Country
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Alan Paton
A novel depicting the racial ferment in 1948 South Africa tells the story of Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu pastor, and his son, Absalom, experiencing the joys and tragedies of a South African community struggling with the injustice of apartheid.
The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night Time
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Mark Haddon
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
Desert Solitaire
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Edward Abbey
An account of the author's existence, observations and reflections, as a seasonal park ranger in southeast Utah.
The Dirty Girls Social Club
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Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
In the years after graduating from Boston University, six Latina friends from widely varied backgrounds meet every six months to dine, share the stories of their everyday lives, and offer advice to one another.
The Dollmaker
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Harriette Arnow
After moving from the backwoods to the city, Gertie Nevel, a naive newcomer from Kentucky, develops a unique defense against the ugliness and despair of urban poverty, in a new edition of the classic American novel, first published in 1954, which contains a new afterword by Joyce Carol Oates.
Handmaid's Tale
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Margaret Atwood
Offred, a handmaid, describes life in what was once the United States, now the Republic of Gilead, a repressive and intolerant monotheocracy, in a satirical novel set in the near future.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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Carson McCullers
Mick Kelly, a quiet, sensitive, and wise-beyond-her-years young girl, searches for beauty in a small Southern town in the 1930s, as she devlops a relationship with deaf-mute John Singer.
High Tide in Tucson
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Barbara Kingsolver
Twenty-six original essays explore themes of family, community, and the natural world while considering such specific topics as modern motherhood, paper dolls, and high-tide oysters.
The Known World
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Edward P. Jones
When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--tries to emulate his deceased master, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion.
Let Their Spirits Dance
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Stella Pope Duarte
A family shattered by the Vietnam War makes a healing cross-country pilgrimage from South Phoenix to Washington, D.C., to touch that city's famous memorial to the dead soldiers of that war.
Love in the Time of Cholera
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
March
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Geraldine Brooks
In a story inspired by the father character in Little Women and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father Bronson, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his marriage and beliefs profoundly challenged by his experiences.
Master Butchers Singing Club
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Louise Erdich
Trained German sniper Fidelis Waldvogel, accompanied by his new wife, starts a new life in America after World War I, and finds his life irrevocably changed by a new relationship.
The Memory Keeper's
Daughter
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Kim Edwards
In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twin daughter during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from the baby's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the child.
Middlesex
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Jeffrey Eugnides
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
Mystic River
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Dennis Lehane
Sean Devine must confront the world of violence and pain he tried to forget when his childhood friend's daughter is murdered, and the investigation brings him face-to-face with a vigilante killer and a man with a dangerous secret.
Mudbound
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Hillary Jordan
In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.
The Namesake
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Jhumpa Lahiri
A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.
Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro
A reunion with two childhood friends draws Kathy and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the English countryside, and a confrontation with the truth about their childhoods.
People of the Book
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Geraldine Brooks
In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries' old, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.
Portnoy's Complaint
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Philip Roth
A New York lawyer, dominated by a demanding Jewish mother, plays out his sexual revenge in fact and fantasy.
Purple Hibiscus
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Chimamanda Ngozi
Growing up in a wealthy Nigerian home with a tyrannical father, Kambili and her brother, find happiness during a visit to their Aunty Ifeoma, but as Kambili enjoys her freedom and falls in love, the country begins to fall under a military coup.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
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Azar Nafisi
An English teacher at the University of Tehran tells of the group of young women who came together at her home in secret every Thursday to read and discuss great books of Western literature, explaining the influence of Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and other works, on their lives and goals.
Red Water
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Judith Freeman
A member of Brigham Young's inner circle, John D. Lee holds a high position in the Mormon church until he is held accountable for the Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which 120 settlers are slaughtered by a group of Mormons and their Indian allies.
Run, River, Run
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Ann Zwinger
"The Green River runs wild, free and vigourous from southern Wyoming to northeastern Utah. Edward Abbey wrote in these pages in 1975 that Anne Zwinger's account "of the Green River and its subtle forms of life and nonlife may be taken as authoritative. 'Run, River, Run,' should serve as a standard reference work on this part of the American West for many years to come." - New York Times Book Review
The Shadow of the Wind
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.
Snow Flower and the
Secret Fan
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Lisa See
An evocative story of friendship set against the backdrop of a nineteenth-century China in which women suffered from foot binding, isolation, and illiteracy follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language.
The Sparrow
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Mary Doria Russell
The sole survivor of a crew sent to discover a new planet, Jesuit priest Emilio Sandoz discovers an alien civilization that raises questions about the very essence of humanity, an encounter that leads Sandoz to a public inquisition and the destruction of his faith.
The Spirit Catches You and
You Fall Down
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Anne Fadiman
A tragic tale of cultural differences chronicles the fight over the proper care of an epilectic Hmong child between a California medical center and her tradition-minded Laotian refugee family.
These Is My Words
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Nancy Turner
In a novel based on the author's ancestress, Sarah Prine, a child of the westward expansion, records her dreams, marriage, adventures, joys, and sorrows in her diary.
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Three Cups of Tea
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Greg Mortenson
Traces how the author, having been rescued and resuscitated by Himalayan villagers after a failed attempt to climb K2, worked to build schools that would particularly benefit the young girls who were forbidden an education by Taliban restrictions, an endeavor for which his life has been repeatedly threatened.
Time Traveler's Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.
An Unfinished Life
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Mark Spragg
Seeking to escape her brutal boyfriend and hoping to introduce her daughter, Griff, to the grandfather she has never met, widow Jean Gilkyson seeks refuge in her late husband's Wyoming hometown with her estranged father-in-law, who blames her for his son's death.
West with the Night
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Beryl Markham
West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.

About Caboodles

What you need to know about checking out Caboodles:

  • Caboodles can be reserved and sent to your local library for pickup.
  • Caboodles check out for 8 weeks at a time, no renewals.
  • When you check out a Caboodle Kit, you're responsible for the container and its contents.
  • Overdue fines are 25 cents per day, $7.50 maximum.
  • If any piece out of a Caboodle kit is lost, there is a $7.00 fee per lost item, including the container (bag or plastic bin). Maximum of $45 in lost item fees (including the loss of an entire kit).

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