Book Club

Nurses Who Read Book Club is a joint event of Zeta Chapter with Chi-at-Large Chapter

The book club meets approximately 4 to 5 times per year. Nurses and nursing students are welcome to attend even if they have not completed reading the book selections.

Meets 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. 

Contact: Renee Kumpula, EdD, RN, PHN at: renkumpula@gmail.com

Current Book Selection

Announcement:

Event is Cancelled - Thursday, March 26, The Marsh Fireside Conference Room, 15000 Minnetonka Blvd., Minnetonka. You may arrive as early as 5 p.m. with your purchase of a snack, dinner, soup or salad, coffee or tea, etc. in the deli adjacent to the meeting room.

Before we were yours book cover

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

  • Paperback: 384 pages 
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (May 21, 2019)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0425284700
  • ISBN-13: 978-0425284704

Past Book Selections

365 days book cover

365 Days by Ron Glasser

  • Paperback: 292 pages 
  • Publisher: George Braziller (December 8, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0807615277
  • ISBN-13: 978-0807615270

 

Being mortal book cover

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Dr. Atul Gawande

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Picador; Reprint edition (September 5, 2017)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1250076226
  • ISBN-13: 978-1250076229
Bettter book cover

Better by Dr. Atul Gawande

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Picador; 1st edition (January 22, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312427654
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312427658
Broken bodies, shattered minds book cover

Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds by Ron Glasser

  • Paperback: 280 pages
  • Publisher: History Publishing Company, LLC; 1 edition (June 15, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1933909471
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933909479
Collaborative caring book cover

Collaborative Caring: Stories and Reflections on Teamwork in Health Care by Suzanne Gordon, David Feldman, and Michael Leonard

  • Hardcover: 296 pages
  • Publisher: ILR Press; 1st edition (November 20, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0801453399
  • ISBN-13: 978-0801453397
Dreamland book cover

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Press; 1st edition (2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1620402505
  • ISBN-13: 978-1620402504
The emperor of all maladies book cover

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

  • Paperback: 608 pages
  • Publisher: Scribner; Reprint edition (August 9, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1439170916
  • ISBN-13: 978-1439170915
Evicted book cover

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Crown; Reprint edition (February 28, 2017)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0553447459
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553447453
The last lecture book cover

 The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Hachette Books (April 8, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 14011323251
  • ISBN-13: 978-1401323257
Make Your Bed book cover

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by William McRaven

  • Hardcover: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (April 4, 2017)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1455570249
  • ISBN-13: 978-1455570249
The nazi and the psychiatrist book cover

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-hai

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Public Affairs (9/2/2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1610394631
  • ISBN-13: 978-1610394635
The Sandcastle Girls book cover

The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bojalion

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; Reprint Edition (April 16, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0307743918
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307743916
We know how this ends book cover

We Know How This Ends: Living while Dying by Cathy Wurzer and Dr. Bruce Kramer

  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (October 4, 2017)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1517904188
  • ISBN-13: 978-1517904180
What the eyes don't see book cover

What the eyes don't see: A story of crisis, resistance, and hope in an American city by Mona Hanna-Attisha

  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: One World; Reprint edition (February 5, 2019)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0399590854
  • ISBN-13: 978-0399590856