One Book, One Reading Community 2013

Read the book. Join the conversation. One Book, One Reading Community encourages pariticpants to read the same book with the goal of promoting reading, sparking discussion and building community. Pick up a copy of this year's title and turn the pages with your neighbors.

 

 

Divergent by Veronica Roth

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue -- Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all 16 year olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is -- she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are -- and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned, it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict threatening to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves ... or it might destroy her.

 

 

Divergent Available on eReaders or Download It

Divergent is available to read on the adult and teen Nook eReaders. Visit the Readers' Services Desk to borrow one.

Download Divergent to your eReader here!

 

 

Useful Websites

Veronica Roth's Blog

Veronica Roth's Tumbler

Veronica Roth's Twitter

Harper Collins' -- Veronica Roth

 

Book Discussions

Discussion Guide

 

Past One Book Selections

2012 -- Life on the Line by Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas

2011 -- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

2010 -- My Antonia by Willa Cather

2009 -- Manhunt by James L. Swanson

2008 -- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

2007 -- Devil in the White City by Eric Larson