Banned Books Week
Tune in as Katie and Kendra discuss books for Banned Books Week!
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NEWS
Anthony Award Winners Announced (Bouchercon 2022)
Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools (Pen America)
“Lechelt: On banning books. Specifically, ‘Monday’s Not Coming’” (London Times-Mirror)
“‘It’s surreal’: Collierville Schools removes LGBTQ+ books from library shelves” (ABC)
“Indian River County School Board refuses to ban most of the 156 books on group’s hit list” (TCPalm.)
“‘This is wrong’: Central York students protest ban on books about racism” (ABC)
“Klein Independent School District Book Removals” (IDRA)
BOOKS DISCUSSED
Revelator – Daryl Gregory
The Jigsaw Man – Nadine Matheson
Monday’s Not Coming – Tiffany D. Jackson
White Rabbit – Caleb Roehrig
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
The New Jim Crow by Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Getaway – Lamar Giles
Next of Kin – Kia Abdullah
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