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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/2021-07/before_we_were_yours_book_cover_1.png)
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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/2021-07/365%20days%20book%20cover.jpg)
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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/2021-07/Being%20Mortal%20book%20cover.png)
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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/2021-07/better%20book%20cover.jpg)
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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/2021-07/broken%20bodies%2C%20shattered%20mnds%20book%20cover.jpg)
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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/2021-07/Collaborative%20caring%20book%20cover.jpg)
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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/2021-07/Dreamland%20book%20cover.png)
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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/2021-07/The%20emperor%20of%20all%20maladies%20book%20cover.jpg)
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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/2021-07/Evicted%20book%20cover.png)
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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_fifth/public/2021-07/The%20last%20lecture%20book%20cover_0.jpg?itok=cCUHkhrg)
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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/2021-07/make-your-bed-book-cover.jpg)
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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/2021-07/The%20Nazi%20and%20the%20psychiatrist%20book%20cover_0.jpg)
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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/2021-07/Sand%20castle%20girls%20book%20cover_0.jpg)
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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/2021-07/We%20know%20how%20this%20ends%20book%20cover_0.jpg)
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](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/2021-07/What%20the%20eyes%20don%27t%20see%20book%20cover_1.jpg)
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