CCC Cares Book Club
The book club was revived by the CCC Cares Wellness Sub-committee from the original Book Club and Lunch started by Rose DeNardo. The Wellness sub-committee shares information and initiates activities that help employees live healthier lives by maintaining lower stress levels, healthy eating habits and mental health awareness.
Current Book
March 2024
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Summary: Ginsburg discusses gender equality, the workings of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution. Throughout her life Justice Ginsburg has been (and continues to be) a prolific writer and public speaker. This book’s sampling is selected by Justice Ginsburg and her authorized biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams, who introduce each chapter and provide biographical context and quotes gleaned from hundreds of interviews they have conducted.
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Date & Time: Friday, March 29, 2024 – 12 to 1:00pm.
Location & Registration: Via Zoom – Check your CCC email for the registration link.
April 2024
It’s All Relative: Adventures Up & Down the World’s Family Tree by A.J. Jacobs
Summary: A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: “You don’t know me, but I’m your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database.” That’s enough family members to fill Madison Square Garden four times over. Who are these people, A.J. wondered, and how do I find them? So began Jacobs’s three-year adventure to help build the biggest family tree in history. In It’s All Relative, he “muses on the nature of family and the interconnectedness of humanity in this entertaining introduction to the world of genealogy” (Publishers Weekly). Jacobs’s journey would take him to all seven continents. He drank beer with a US president, sung with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and unearthed genetic links to Hollywood actresses and real-life scoundrels. After all, we can choose our friends, but not our family.
It’s All Relative: Adventures Up & Down the World’s Family Tree by A.J. Jacobs
Date & Time: Friday, April 26, 2024 – 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Location & Registration: Via Zoom – Check your CCC email for the registration link.
May 2024
The Prayer Box by Lisa Wingate
Summary: When Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds herself charged with the task of cleaning out Iola’s rambling Victorian house. Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi never expects to find more than a temporary hiding place within Iola’s walls, but everything changes with the discovery of eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes, one for each year, spanning from Iola’s youth to her last days. Hidden in the boxes is the story of a lifetime, written on random bits of paper–the hopes and wishes, fears and thoughts of an unassuming but complex woman passing through the seasons of an extraordinary, unsung life filled with journeys of faith, observations on love, and one final lesson that could change everything.
The Prayer Box by Lisa Wingate
Date & Time: Friday, May 23, 2024 – 12 to 12:30pm.
Location & Registration: Via Zoom – Check your CCC email for the registration link.
All CCC Cares book selections are available through the Camden County Library System.
Or check your local library system for copies.
Common questions and answers about the book club.
The book club was revived by the CCC Cares Wellness Sub-committee from the original Book Club and Lunch started by Rose DeNardo. The Wellness sub-committee shares information and initiates activities that help employees live healthier lives by maintaining lower stress levels, healthy eating habits and mental-health awareness.
The book club meets once a month including summer. Selections are revealed 4 weeks in advance via an email from CCC Cares.
All meetings are held virtually to allow employees from all campuses to participate.
No, you are not required to use a webcam during meetings. You can participate with audio only.
Meetings are held during lunch hours. During regular business hours the book club meets for one hour on Fridays. During summer hours the book club meets for 30 minutes on Thursdays.
No, it is not necessary to participate every month. Not all books speak to everyone. You participate based on your interest the book title and as your schedule allows.
The book club facilitator chooses the selections. When possible, titles are selected based on events occurring in a particular month (i.e. banned book week, mental health awareness month, and so on).
Absolutely! Readers can send their book club selection suggestions to Rose DeNardo at rdenardo@camdencc.edu.
No, you do not need to purchase the books. Each email notification will tell you how many print copies are available via the Camden County Library System. You may also check out your local library. Copies may also be available in other formats. Feel free to read the book in any format you feel comfortable – print, e-book, or audio.
Meeting
Title
Author
August 2022
A Spark of Light
Jodi Picoult
Septemeber 2022
All Boys Aren't Blue
George M. Johnson
October 2022
The Broken Girls
Simone St. James
November 2022
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
December 2022
The Last Christmas in Paris
Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb
January 2023
The Gift of Imperfection
Brene Brown
February 2023
Random Acts of Kindness
Dete Meswerve & Rachel Greco
March 2023
The Chain
Adrian McKinty
April 2023
This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger
May 2023
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Lori Gottlieb
June 2023
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Victoria Schwab
July 2023
The Fifth Letter
Nicola Moriarty
August 2023
Darling Rose Gold
Stephanie Wrobel
September 2023
We Need to Talk about Kevin
Lionel Shriver
October 2023
The Book of Cold Cases
Simone St. James
November 2023
The Recipe Box
Viola Shipman
December 2023
Elsewhere
Dean Koontz
January 2024
The Measure
Nikki Erlick
Febuary 2024
Girls Made of Snow & Glass
Melissa Bashardoust
For more information please contact, Rose DeNardo at rdenardo@camdencc.edu.