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Online Book Group


The Online Book Group is our new monthly discussion group.  While we are closed to the public due to the pandemic, we can no longer host book groups in the Library, so....we've moved online!  

Please consider joining our Online Book Group.  Each selected book will be available digitally and in print. We will meet meet monthly online.  To get an invitation to the discussion register on our calendar. Meets at 7:30pm!  REGISTER FOR MEETING DATES HERE!

2021 Selections

Jan 21 ~ Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Feb 18 ~ The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
March 18 ~ Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
April 15 ~ A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
May 20 ~ Kid Quixotes by Stephen Haff
June 17 ~ A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum



Reading for Equity

The Reading for Equity book group was formed in 2020 in response to the worldwide protests in response to race based police violence which influenced many individuals, organizations and corporations to commit to educating themselves on how to be anti-racist.  The Westwood Library is committed to providing an opportunity for this education by providing a quarterly book group focused on equity issues.  

June 2021 -- We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
Feb 2021 -- Stamped from the beginning by Ibram Kendi and Stamped: Racism, anti-racism and you by Jason Reynolds
Nov 202 -- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
July 2020 -- The New Jim Crow by Michele Alexander, led by Ramapo College professor Paul Reck 


Women's Literature for Teens

This is a teen led book group to discuss women's classic literature (and sometimes watch the movie!).  Copies of each month's book will be available at the circulation desk a month before.

​Monday, April 19th at 7pm: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Monday, May 17 at 7pm: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Monday, June 21 at 7pm: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Westwood Public Library 

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