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Banned Adult Titles Banned Books Week 2022
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Lawn boy : a novel by Jonathan EvisonFaced with a life of menial prospects in the years after high school, Mike Muñoz, a young Mexican-American, attempts to change his life for the better and achieve the American dream, only to be stymied by social-class distinctions and cultural discrimination.
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The bluest eye by Toni MorrisonRelates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted
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To kill a mockingbird by Harper LeeThe explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
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The handmaid's tale by Margaret AtwoodA chilling look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
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The kite runner by Khaled HosseiniTraces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
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Fun home : a family tragicomic by Alison BechdelAn unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
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Of mice and men by John SteinbeckThe American novelist's classic work of two itinerant farmhands' perpetual search for a home.
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Persepolis : The Story of a Childhood by Marjane SatrapiThe great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.
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The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark HaddonAfter 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. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.
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The glass castle : a memoir by Jeannette WallsThe child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
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