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Banned Books Week, September 22-28, 2024
Banned Books Week is the annual celebration of the freedom to read. The event is sponsored by a coalition of organizations dedicated to free expression, including American Booksellers for Free Expression, American Library Association, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Association of University Presses, Authors Guild, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), Freedom to Read Foundation, Index on Censorship, National Book Foundation, National Coalition Against Censorship, National Council of Teachers of English, PEN America, People For the American Way Foundation, PFLAG, and Project Censored. It is endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
Book Giveaway: Animal Farm by George Orwell
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The Book Giveaway Kickoff is Wednesday, September 4 at the Main Library, 201 North Mulberry Street, Mount Vernon
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. The book giveaway continues while supplies last. Stop by the Main Library during Library hours. Since its publication fifty years ago, Animal Farm has become one of the most controversial books ever written. It has been translated into seventy languages and sold millions of copies throughout the world. As vital and relevant as it was fifty years ago, Animal Farm is a devastating satire of the former Soviet Union. A fable about an uprising of farm animals against their human masters, it illustrates how new tyranny replaces old in the wake of revolutions and power corrupts even the noblest of causes. This anniversary edition includes Orwell's proposed but unpublished preface to the original edition and his preface to the 1947 Ukrainian edition, providing readers with the historical context in which Orwell conceived and wrote his classic novel. |
Banned Books Week Community Read Book Discussion: Animal Farm
The 2024 Banned Books Week theme is “Freed Between the Lines.”
Ohio Heroine: Mindy McGinnis Talks Book Bans
Ohio Heroine: Mindy McGinnis Talks Book Bans
Monday, September 30th
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. in the West Wing
201 North Mulberry Street, Mount Vernon
Ohio Author Mindy McGinnis’ novels chronicle contemporary life in all its complexity and with unflinching honesty. She has a devoted all-ages audience, is a bestselling author and has received multiple awards and accolades for her talents. An Ohio author and heroine of intellectual and artistic freedom, Mindy will visit the Main Library as part of our Banned Books Week activities to talk about her writing and her experience as an author contesting censorship.
For more information please visit www.knox.net, email [email protected] or call (740) 392-BOOK ext. 259. All welcome!
Monday, September 30th
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. in the West Wing
201 North Mulberry Street, Mount Vernon
Ohio Author Mindy McGinnis’ novels chronicle contemporary life in all its complexity and with unflinching honesty. She has a devoted all-ages audience, is a bestselling author and has received multiple awards and accolades for her talents. An Ohio author and heroine of intellectual and artistic freedom, Mindy will visit the Main Library as part of our Banned Books Week activities to talk about her writing and her experience as an author contesting censorship.
For more information please visit www.knox.net, email [email protected] or call (740) 392-BOOK ext. 259. All welcome!
