That Librarian
By Amanda Jones
Bloomsbury Publishing
Amanda Jones is a librarian in a small Southern town, doing a job she loved and made her happy. Until one day, when she spoke up at a town council meeting about a book ban issue at her public library. After that, her life changed almost immediately—and not for the better. In this book, Jones tells her story of what she suffered as anti-everything fundamentalists with no ties to her community turned her into a pariah. And then, what she did to fight back. As we see book bans occur across communities like hers, both in the U.S. and in my own province of Alberta, Jones gives a prescription of what we citizens can do to take back our libraries and give everyone, kids and adults alike, the ability to read what we want to read.