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
January 2024
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
Summary: Would you choose to know how long you’ll live? It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? Is there truth to what they promise? As society comes together and pulls apart, everyone faces the same shocking choice: Do they wish to know how long they’ll live? And, if so, what will they do with that knowledge?
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
Date & Time: Friday, January 26, 2024 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm.
Location & Registration: Via Zoom – Check your CCC email for the registration link.
February 2024
Girls Made of Snow & Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Mina is motherless, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone―has never beat at all, in fact, but she’d always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first time, Mina forms a plan: win the king’s heart with her beauty, become queen, and finally know love. The only catch is that she’ll have to become a stepmother. Fifteen-year-old Lynet looks just like her late mother, and one day she discovers why: a magician created her out of snow in the dead queen’s image, at her father’s order. But despite being the dead queen made flesh, Lynet would rather be like her fierce and regal stepmother, Mina. She gets her wish when her father makes Lynet queen of the southern territories, displacing Mina. Now Mina is starting to look at Lynet with something like hatred, and Lynet must decide what to do―and who to be―to win back the only mother she’s ever known…or else defeat her once and for all. Entwining the stories of both Lynet and Mina in the past and present, Girls Made of Snow and Glass traces the relationship of two young women doomed to be rivals from the start. Only one can win all, while the other must lose everything―unless both can find a way to reshape themselves and their story.
Girls Made of Snow & Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
Date & Time: Friday, February 23, 2024 – 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
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@ngskmc-eis.net.
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
June 2022
In Five Years
Rebecca Serle
July 2022
The World Played Chess
Robert Dugoni
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
For more information please contact, Rose DeNardo at rdenardo@ngskmc-eis.net.
