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Every year the American Library Association tracks which books busybodies don't want you to read. In 2018, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) recorded 347 challenges to library, school and university materials, and services.
These challenges affected 483 books (as well as many other materials) in 2018, with the following comprising the top 11 most frequently challenged:
- George by Alex Gino
Reason: for including a transgender character
- A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss, illustrated by E. G. Keller
Reasons: for LGBTQIA+ content, political and religious viewpoints
- Captain Underpants series, written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey
Reasons: for including a same-sex couple, perceived as encouraging disruptive behavior
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Reasons: for profanity, drug use, sexual references, deemed “anti-cop”
- Drama written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier
Reason: for LGBTQIA+ characters and themes
- Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Reason: for addressing teen suicide
- This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki
Reasons: for profanity, sexual references, certain illustrations
- Skippyjon Jones series, written and illustrated by Judy Schachner
Reason: for depicting cultural stereotypes
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: for profanity, sexual references, religious viewpoint
- This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman, illustrated by Kristyna Litten
Reason: for LGBTQIA+ content
- Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
Reason: for LGBTQIA+ content
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If You Give A Dog A Donut
by Laura Numeroff
Wednesday, September 4th
@ 10:30 a.m.
The exuberant dog who first appeared in If You Give a Pig a Party now stars in his very own book in the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling If You Give... series! Join us for laughter and fun as we read aloud some silly stories!
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Should I Share My Ice Cream?
by Mo Willems
Wednesday, September 18th @ 10:30 a.m.
Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. Gerald has a big decision to make — but will he make it in time? Join us for stories this week featuring the famous Elephant and Piggie!
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Not Your Average Book Club
On September 2nd at 6 pm, we will discuss The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
Current Fiction Book Club
On September 4th at 6 pm, we will discuss Trinity by Louisa Hall.
Self-Actualization Book Club
On September 5th at 1 pm, we will discuss Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis.
Out of This World Book Club
On September 11th at 6 pm, we will discuss Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.
Nonfiction Book Club
On September 13th at 1 pm, we will discuss The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough.
Mystery Book Club
On September 18th at 6 pm, we will discuss The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan.
Rediscovered Reads Book Club
On September 25th at 6 pm, we will discuss News of the World by Paulette Jiles.
Coming up:
Humor Book Club
On October 3rd at 6 pm, we will discuss Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh.
Classics Book Club
On October 9th at 6 pm, we will discuss One of Ours by Willa Cather.
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The Second Chance Supper Club by Nicole Meier
Tuesday, September 10th at 5 p.m.
EVENT LOCATION:
The Lemon Tree
718 Franklin Avenue
Bend, OR
Two estranged sisters reunite in an emotional novel of family, forgiveness, lost hope, and new beginnings. Broadcast journalist Julia Frank has it all: a career, an ambitious fiancé, and the hard-won respect of her peers. Until a runious decision destroys her reputation, puts her job at risk, and sends her reeling toward the only soul left to turn to: her estranged sister, Ginny, the owner of a clandestine supper club hidden in the Arizona desert, As a tenuous reunion reopens old wounds, Julia and Ginny have no choice but to confront the pain and betrayals of the past.
Nicole Meier is a native Southern Californian who pulled up roots and moved to Bend where she lives with her husband, three children, and one very nosey Aussiedoodle. Nicole's works have been published in The Oregonian, Cascade Journal, Southern Oregon Magazine, Women Writers Women’s Books, Brazen Woman, and more. Her debut novel, The House of Bradbury, was chosen as a Best Book of 2016 by Refinery29. Her latest novel, The Girl Made of Clay, was recently named a Top Book according to Bookbub readers, and was the Number One selling title at Roundabout Books in 2018!
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The Street Journalist by Lisa Loving
Friday, September 13th at 6 p.m.
A corrupt politician. A local business in trouble. A neighbor with a heroic story. An opportunity to work together for positive change.Whatever the stories are in your community that most need to be told, the best person to tell them is you. Whether you're writing for your local newspaper, producing a podcast or video series, or simply sharing what you see and learn every day on social media, the power of journalism is in your hands, as is the responsibility to use it ethically and wisely. Longtime journalist Lisa Loving opens up the world of journalism, sharing her hard-won skills and knowledge to help expand your media literacy so that you can report on what matters most, hold powerful people accountable, and strengthen your community.
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Unforeseen Stories by Molly Gloss
Saturday, September 21st at 2 p.m.
From bestselling and award-winning author Molly Gloss comes her first complete collection of short stories—including three never-before-published original tales!
Molly Gloss is a fourth-generation Oregonian who now lives in Portland on the west side of the Tualatin Hills. She is the author of five novels: The Jump-Off Creek, The Dazzle of Day, Wild Life, The Hearts of Horses, and Falling from Horses, and one collection of stories, Unforseen. Her work often concerns the landscape, literature, mythology, and life of the American West.
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Tracing the Desire Line by Melissa Matthewson
Thursday, September 26th at 6 p.m.
The book, as memoir-in-essays, follows the narrator’s journey as a pirate radio DJ, writer, mother, and organic farmer exploring identity, sexuality, and feminine desire through opening her marriage with her husband. The book looks closely at what happens when the narrator runs the edges of desire by questioning the nature of monogamy and freedom within a conventional marriage. Along the way, the book detours into memory and meditations on various subjects that frame the narrator’s story including music, radio, place, home, rule-breaking, freedom, religion, belonging, forgiveness, divorce, love, and wildness.
Melissa lives on a small mountain homestead in the Applegate Valley of southwestern Oregon. She is the author of a collaborative chapbook, (un)learning, with Andrea Beltran from Artifact Press (2016).
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A Road Called Down on Both Sides by Caroline Kurtz
Saturday, September 28th at 2 p.m.
From the age of five, Caroline Kurtz grew up in Ethiopia, the child of Presbyterian church missionaries. The family lived in the church's most remote mission station in the mountainous regions of southwestern Ethiopia near the town of Maji. Beginning at the age of ten, Caroline attended boarding school in Addis Ababa and then Alexandria, Egypt. Caroline left for college in the United States at eighteen, unprepared for U.S. culture. She eventually married a childhood sweetheart, also the child of American missionaries to Ethiopia, and the couple eventually returned with their family to live and work in Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Sudan. She and her sister, the American children's author Jane Kurtz, recently launched Ready Set go Books for early Ethiopian readers. Over 12,000 copies have been distributed in Ethiopia. Now retired, widowed, and living in Oregon, Caroline returns regularly to Ethiopia where she continues development and consulting work, particularly in the area of solar energy. This is her debut book in the United States.
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1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath, is forced to flee with his brother Albert, and two other children. Over the course of one unforgettable summer, and a journey along the mighty Mississippi, the four orphans will journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.
Releases 09.03.19
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A legendary love story, three secretaries turned spies and a book powerful enough to change the world.This is a big sweeping historical novel set at the height of the Cold War and centered on the story of Dr. Zhivago, the author and his muse. It is about the struggle in America to bring the great novel into print and the CIA plot to smuggle Dr. Zhivago into the USSR where it was banned for being anti-Soviet. All these narrative lines are brought together by the story of three women in the CIA typing pool that become spies.
Releases 09.03.19
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Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own. Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. Booker Longlist. Releases 09.03.19
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Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly’s debut fantasy novel is a gorgeous, literary adventure about bravery, friendship, self-reliance, and the choice between accepting fate or forging your own path. When Lalani Sarita’s mother falls ill with an incurable disease, Lalani embarks on a dangerous journey across the sea in the hope of safeguarding her own future. Inspired by Filipino folklore, this engrossing fantasy is for readers who loved Grace Lin’s Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and Disney’s Moana.
Releases 09.03.19
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A never-before-published Dr. Seuss book about creating and looking at art!
Based on a manuscript and sketches discovered in 2013, this book is like a visit to a museum-with a horse as your guide!
Releases 09.03.19
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In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her - freedom, prison or death.Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.
Releases 09.10.19
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Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going on? A true story from Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts!
Releases 09.17.19
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Danny and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from. Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past, a story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who we really are. Filled with suspense, you may read it quickly to find out what happens, but what happens to Danny and Maeve will stay with you for a very long time.
Releases 09.24.19
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In his boldly imagined first novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, brings home the most intimate evil of enslavement: the cleaving and separation of families. This is a bracingly original vision of the world of slavery, written with the narrative force of a great adventure. Driven by the author’s bold imagination and striking ability to bring readers deep into the interior lives of his brilliantly rendered characters, The Water Dancer is the story of America’s oldest struggle—the struggle to tell the truth—from one of our most exciting thinkers and beautiful writers.
Releases 09.24.19
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