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Bloomsbury

9781639733538

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That Librarian

Librarian Amanda Jones recounts her battle to overcome book-banning extremists in her empowering memoir, That Librarian.

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Review of ‘That Librarian’

There Amanda Jones was, living in her hometown of Watson, Louisiana, working as a middle school librarian in the school she once attended—an unremarkable and happy life. Then, everything changed. On a mid-July evening in 2022, Jones gave a short, powerful speech against censorship at her local public library’s board meeting. Four days later, she…

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