Indigo Bridge has, over these past few years, lead and hosted a variety of book clubs. We offer a 15% discount on books being read for discussion clubs. If you're ever interested in reserving space for your own book club to meet at Indigo, or want to arrange ordering books for your group that already meets elsewhere, just call or e-mail us.
We currently host space for the Women's Diabetes Support Group and Book Club, Writing Club, Nora Robert's Book Club, LGBTQ Literature Book Club and Mystery Monday book club. Graphic Novel Book Club, while ostensibly lead by one of our staff, has grown into its own entity and has earned the title of Longest Running Book Club for Indigo. They celebrate their 2 year anniversary on August 31st and will be discussing all of the books they have covered this past year.
The great thing about hosting a book club here, whether it is lead by an Indigo staff person like GNBC (as they call it) or by a group on their own, is that it fills our space with people who are passionate about reading. Passionate about books. Passionate about discussing how they relate to words, imagery and story. There are solid blocks of time, every week, where the books on our shelves become real and tangible to people who love them. I can't think of anything better.
We currently host space for the Women's Diabetes Support Group and Book Club, Writing Club, Nora Robert's Book Club, LGBTQ Literature Book Club and Mystery Monday book club. Graphic Novel Book Club, while ostensibly lead by one of our staff, has grown into its own entity and has earned the title of Longest Running Book Club for Indigo. They celebrate their 2 year anniversary on August 31st and will be discussing all of the books they have covered this past year.
The great thing about hosting a book club here, whether it is lead by an Indigo staff person like GNBC (as they call it) or by a group on their own, is that it fills our space with people who are passionate about reading. Passionate about books. Passionate about discussing how they relate to words, imagery and story. There are solid blocks of time, every week, where the books on our shelves become real and tangible to people who love them. I can't think of anything better.
Moby Duck is the heroic tale spun together by writer turned investigative reporter Donovan Hohn. In 1992 a number of shipping containers filled with rubber ducks and beavers fell over board on their journey across the ocean to the United States. Since then plenty of people including, as the title suggests, beachcombers, oceanographers and environmentalist have been tracking the currents that flow throughout the world's oceans in an attempt to relocate all 28,800 little animals.
Enjoy and hopefully this will help in any future discussion any Ender fans find themselves in.
The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America's Public Schools by Stuart Biegel
Despite significant advances for gay and transgender persons in the United States, the public school environment remains daunting, even frightening as evidenced by numerous high-profile incidents of discrimination, bullying, violence, and suicide. Yet efforts to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students and educators, or to enhance curricula to better reflect the experience of differing sexual orientation and gender identities, are bitterly opposed in the courtroom, at the ballot box, and especially in the schools. Underlying all of these issues is an implicit tension about the right to be out, a right that is seen as fundamental within LGBT communities today and, legally, draws on both the first Amendment right to express an identity and the Fourteenth addresses the implications of asserting and protecting this right with the hotly contested terrain of America's public schools. A safe and supportive educational environment for all students is possible, Biegel concludes, if built on shared values and a belief in the strength of our pluralistic society. Recognizing the right of LGBT students and educators to be out at school!
In simple terms, this book lays out incredible ideas about how the American Public school system can change to create a safe environment for the LGBT community. One of the first books of its kind, The Right to Be Out is a must read book for teachers, students, LGBT members and everyone who is involved in the American Public School system. NOW AVAILABLE at Indigo Bridge Books in the Gender Studies Section!!! A safe, non-discriminating and amazing place for everyone!!