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OverDrive eBooks October 2016
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"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist." -- Salman Rushdie
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Banned Books Week : September 25th - October 2nd Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and highlighting the value of free and open access to information. This month's book list highlights titles that have frequently, or recently, been challenged at or banned from schools, libraries or bookstores.
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The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie
Gibreel Farishta, a legendary Indian movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices, fall earthward from a bombed jet toward the sea, singing rival verses in an eternal wrestling match between good and evil.
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
First published 70 years ago, the classic, prophetic novel capturing the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia remarkably explores the now-timely themes of cloning, individual creativity and freedom, and the role of science, technology, and drugs in humankind's future.
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
The book about a migrant family seeking a better life in California during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s was not only banned, it was burned by people citing vulgar words and sexual references, nevertheless the Nobel Prize committee later indicated that the work was one of the prime reasons that its author won the top award in literature.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon
After stumbling upon his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork and being blamed for the killing, fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone, an autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, decides to track down the real killer and turns to his detective hero to help him with the investigation, which brings him face to face with a family crisis. A first novel.
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunted persistently by the ghost of the dead baby girl whom she sacrificed, in a new edition of the Nobel Laureate's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
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Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash
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Silent spring
by Rachel Carson
A handsome anniversary edition of the classic environmental study discusses the reckless annihilation of fish and birds by the use of pesticides and warns of the possible genetic effects on humans, in a volume that incorporates new essays by activist Terry Tempest Williams and Carson biographer Linda Lear.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
The black leader discusses his political philosophy and reveals details of his life, shedding light on the ideas that enabled him to gain the allegiance of a still growing percentage of the black population.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
The author and poet recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.
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Always Running : La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.a
by Luis J. Rodriguez
Luis J. Rodríguez's stunning memoir—a brave, unflinching account of life in a Los Angeles street gang. Always Running spares no detail in its vivid, brutally honest portrayal of street life and violence, and it stands as a powerful and unforgettable testimonial of gang life, by one of the most acclaimed Chicano writers of his generation.
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Beyond Magenta : Transgender Teens Speak Out
by Susan Kuklin
Shares insights into the teen transgender experience, tracing six individual's emotional and physical journey as it was shaped by family dynamics, living situations, and the transition each teen made during the personal journey.
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