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