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Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics / by Grabenstein, Chris.;
When Mr. Lemoncello invites teams from all across the United States to compete in the first ever Library Olympics, someone tries to censor what the kids read.LSC
Subjects: Libraries; Books and reading; Contests; Censorship; Eccentrics and eccentricities;
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Answers in the pages / by Levithan, David.;
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Subjects: Mothers and sons; Schools; Gender identity; Prohibited books; Censorship;
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The librarian of burned books : a novel / by Labuskes, Brianna,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Berlin, 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels himself to participate in a cultural exchange program in Germany. To a girl from a small town in Maine, Berlin seems sparklingly cosmopolitan, blossoming in the midst of a great change with its charismatic new chancellor at the helm. When Althea meets a beautiful woman who promises to show her the real Berlin, she's drawn into a group of resisters who make her question everything ... Paris, 1936. She may have escaped Berlin for Paris, but Hannah Brecht discovers the City of Light is no refuge from the anti-Semitism and Nazi sympathizers she thought she'd left behind. Heartbroken and tormented by the role she played in the betrayal that destroyed her family, Hannah throws herself into her work at the German Library of Burned Books ... New York, 1944. Since her husband, Edward, was killed fighting the Nazis, Vivian Childs has been waging her own war: preventing a powerful senator's attempts to censor the Armed Services Editions, portable paperbacks that are shipped by the millions to soldiers overseas ... As Viv unknowingly brings her censorship fight crashing into the secrets of the recent past, the fates of these three women will converge, changing all of them forever."--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Censorship; Librarians; Widows; Women authors; World War, 1939-1945;
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Tenderness / by MacLeod, Alison,1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."From the Booker-longlisted author of Unexploded comes the story of a famed novelist living in exile and the most memorable first lady to ever enter the White House, bonded through time and space by a subversive literary masterpiece that would come to shape history ... It's 1928, in the blazing heat of the Italian Riviera, and D.H. Lawrence struggles to breathe. Stricken with tuberculosis, he lives in exile from Britain after the public outrage over his salacious novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover. His memories drift back into the glittering years of the roaring 20s and to the crisp white winter of 1915 spent in the Sussex countryside. Unhappily married, he cannot shake the memory of the enigmatic woman he met that winter, on whom he would later base his most beloved protagonist, the wild and free-loving Constance Reid--the infamous Lady Chatterely herself. Thirty years later, Jackie Onassis finds herself trapped in a fraught marriage, consumed by rumours of extramarital affairs. Looking for an escape, she gets her hands on Lawrence's contraband novel. Jackie is instantly and completely enamoured by the lust-filled pages and his story of a love affair free of politics--so much so that she turns her attention away from the 1960s election and to a new cause: liberating Lawrence's still-controversial novel from the shackles of obscenity laws and bringing his radical views to the world. An evocative account of two revolutionaries worlds apart, connected in their fight for free-love, Constance pulls back the curtain and shows us the human struggle that lies beneath their celebrity status. Lawrence's path to exile and Jackie's rise to becoming the most scrutinized First Lady are interwoven to tell a story of heartbreak and redemption that moves between the 1920s and 1960s, from America to England to Italy to and back again."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.; Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994; Censorship; Novelists, English;
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Read dangerously : the subversive power of literature in troubled times / by Nafisi, Azar,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Drawing on her experiences as a woman and voracious reader in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a multi-award-winning New York Times best-selling author explores the most probing questions of our time, arming readers with a resistance reading list that includes Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin, and Margaret Atwood.
Subjects: Essays.; Books and reading; Books and reading; Censorship.; Fiction; Politics and literature.; Literature and society.; Literature;
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Fahrenheit 451 [videorecording] / by Bahrani, Ramin,television director,screenwriter.; Davis, Aaron,actor.; Jordan, Michael B.(Michael Bakari),1987-actor.; Shannon, Michael,1974-actor.; Boutella, Sofia,1982-actor.; Katz, Cindy,actor.; Bradbury, Ray,1920-2012.Fahrenheit 451.; HBO Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Home Box Office (Firm),presenter.; Warner Home Video (Firm),distributor.;
Michael B. Jordan, Cindy Katz, Aaron Davis, Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella.In a terrifying care-free future, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young woman, and begins to rebel against society.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Made-for-TV movies.; Science fiction television programs.; Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.; Dystopias; Reading; Book burning; Censorship; Intellectual freedom; Totalitarianism;
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Don't check out this book! / by Klise, Kate.; Klise, M. Sarah.;
When Appleton Elementary's new school board president, Ivana Beprawpa, uses her position to line her own pockets, student sleuths Sara and May, supported by passionate librarian Rita B. Danjerous, seek the truth. Told through letters, memos, and text messages.LSC
Subjects: Epistolary fiction.; Humorous fiction.; School librarians; Schools; Conduct of life; Books and reading; Censorship; Investigative reporting; Dress codes;
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Attack of the black rectangles / by King, A. S.(Amy Sarig),1970-;
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.LSC
Subjects: Censorship; Books and reading; Middle schools; Youth protest movements; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Families;
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Banned books for kids : reading lists and activities for teaching kids to read censored literature / by Scales, Pat R.,author.; Blume, Judy,writer of foreword.; American Library Association,issuing body.;
Includes bibliographical references."In our polarized environment, the censorship and outright banning of children's books that some people deem to be controversial or objectionable remains a major concern for schools, libraries, and communities across the United States. Intellectual freedom champion, the American Library Association, created Teaching Banned Books to Kids, a guide that includes both contemporary books that have been banned and classic literature that continues to be under attack for political and/or religious reasons. Parents, school and public librarians, library and information sciences students, and classroom educators will find the assistance and support they need to defend these challenged books with an informed response while ensuring access to young book lovers"--
Subjects: Challenged books; Children's libraries; Children's literature; Children's stories, American; Children; Freedom of speech; Prohibited books; Teenagers; Young adult literature; Young adults' libraries;
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Burning the books : a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge / by Ovenden, Richard,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-290) and index.Libraries preserve the knowledge and ideas on which rights depend no wonder they are so often attacked. Richard Ovenden tells the history of this deliberate destruction of knowledge--from library burnings to digital attacks and contemporary underfunding--and makes a passionate plea for the importance of these threatened institutions.
Subjects: Archives; Book burning; Book burning; Book burning; Censorship; Cultural property; Information science; Libraries; Libraries; Libraries; Archives; Books; Libraries;
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