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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), together with Lyrasis, launched their own Banned Book Club in direct response to the banned book crisis facing readers across the country. Its mission is simple: to ensure all readers have access to the books they want to read.
Readers can now freely access over 1,300 titles that have been forcibly removed from schools and libraries through the Palace Marketplace e-reader app. And it’s really easy to do:
this month's book
parable of the sower
by: octavia e. butler
When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores.
(Fiction, Afrofuturistic/Feminist)
next month's book
the handmaid's tale
by: margaret atwood
In Margaret Atwood's dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women.
(Fiction, Dystopian/Feminist)
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