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• My 30 Year Search For One of the world’s rarest books continues – PLEASE notify me if you know where I can find a copy of this extrodinaily rare book!!!!!

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 132
  My 30 Year Search For One of the world’s rarest books continues – PLEASE notify me if you know where I can find a copy of this extrodinaily rare book!!!!!Anyone remember The Tailypo A Ghost Story by the Galdens? (sp.?)Well, there was another book, very similar, both in story and in illustrations, it was maybe [...]
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• My 30 Year Search For One of the worlds rarest books continues - PLEASE notify me if you know where I can find a copy of this extrodinaily rare book!!!!!

  
  EK's Writing Blog — Authority: 131
  My 30 Year Search For One of the worlds rarest books continues - PLEASE notify me if you know where I can find a copy of this extrodinaily rare book!!!!! Anyone remember The Tailypo A Ghost Story by the Galdens? (sp.?) Well, there was another book, very similar, both in story and in illustrations, it was maybe 30 ...
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• Banned books debate goes local

  
  A Progressive on the Prairie — Authority: 128
  Start the debate. The Sioux Falls School District has removed a graphic novel from student access at two middle school libraries. The book, Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age , now is available only for school staff to check out and use in class. Although I blog frequently about banned ...
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• Adding fuel to the fire

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  I’m only just crawling out from under my great big deadline, campers (ah, the romance of a working writer’s life!), so I should probably get some serious sleep before I start professing to give advice again. At least on anything important like querying, submission, craft… Or pretty much anything else we ...
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• Intimate Journals (by Charles Baudelaire) - second half

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 146
  1821-1867 Intimate Journals [second half] by Charles Baudelaire translated by Christopher Isherwood, introduction by W. H. Auden translation originally published in a limited edition by Blackamore Press in 1930 preface originally published in 1947 in an edition by Marcel Rodd, Hollywood [This is the ...
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• The Allah Controversy and the Confiscated Bibles

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 518
  Malaysia once more hits the world news for all the wrong reasons : Malaysian authorities have confiscated more than 15,000 Bibles in recent months because they referred to "God" as "Allah," a translation that has been banned in this Muslim-majority country, Christian church officials said Thursday. This issue ...
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• Bunches of Updates

  
  Mombian — Authority: 474
  This seems a good point to take a look at some of the further coverage of the Scholastic saga and their request that author Lauren Myracle change the lesbian moms of one character into a mom and a dad. The company will now carry the book (with moms) in its middle school book fairs, though not its elementary school ...
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• Scholastic Changes Its Mind, but Not Completely

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 140
  Many of you have been following the story of Scholastic and their request that author Lauren Myracle change the lesbian moms of one character into a mom and a dad. According to the original article on this by School Library Journal , Scholastic would not consider the book for its book fairs unless the change was ...
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• Yet Another Scholastic Update – with Conan O’Brien

  
  Mombian — Authority: 474
  There’s always more to do. Reader Jersey Mom astutely pointed out in a comment (as did a reader over at Change.org ) that Scholastic has only agreed to carry Lauren Myracle’s Luv Ya Bunches in their middle school Book Fairs, not their elementary school ones, even though the book is listed as appropriate for ...
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• Tilting at the Customs Administration over Confiscated Books

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 619
  Danwei introduces and translates an article from Southern Weekly about a professor suing the Guangzhou Customs Office over the seizure of books he was bringing back from Hong Kong: Most of the books that Feng Chongyi had confiscated by the Tianhe Terminal Customs Office were written by mainland authors and did not ...
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• Scholastic Reverses Decision: Will Include LGBT-Inclusive Book in Book Fairs

  
  Mombian — Authority: 474
  Many of you have been following the story of Scholastic and their request that author Lauren Myracle change the lesbian moms of one character into a mom and a dad. According to the original article on this by School Library Journal , Scholastic would not consider the book for its book fairs unless the change was ...
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• Book Banners and Unspoken Messages

  
  Confessions of a Bibliovore — Authority: 457
  See, I told you this kind of stuff was year-round. In April, The Boy Book was challenged in Texas , and when she found out last month, E. Lockhart posted a response on her blog. She discusses the elements that were objected to, acknowledging that the book isnt for all ages, but my favorite part is this: Also, I ...
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• Pentagon Bans Book By Noted Linguist, Anti-War Activist Noam Chomsky

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 501
  The Pentagon has paid anti-war activist Noam Chomsky the highest honor any totalitarian entity can bestow upon an author: they’ve banned his book Interventions at Guantanamo Bay prison. They won’t say precisely why they “honored” Chomsky, but Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Brook DeWalt told the Miami Herald ...
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• Update on Scholastic and Luv Ya Bunches

  
  Mombian — Authority: 474
  Wow. As I write this, over 1900 people have signed the online petition asking Scholastic to include Lauren Myracle’s new book Luv Ya Bunches in their school Book Fairs. Scholastic has asserted that they are not censoring the book, but are carrying it in their Book Clubs. That is true, as the original School ...
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• More on the Book Scholastic Banned

  
  Mombian — Authority: 474
  I posted Friday about Scholastic’s refusal to include Lauren Myracle’s new book Luv Ya Bunches in their school Book Fairs after she refused to change one character’s lesbian moms into a mom and a dad. Here’s a video of Myracle talking about the book. As you can see, the book is hardly “about” lesbian ...
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• Banning Bad for Book Business

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 518
  The banned books issue is (hurray) the cover story in Starmag today , and there is a writeup about the Right to Read event, jointly organised by Sisters in islam and Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ). The article highlights the confusion that surrounds the banning of books which all to frequently causes ...
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• Old Fashioned Book Burning and Chicken BBQ Nite at the Church:

  
  The Radula — Authority: 118
  Theyre burning all those heretic bibles... you know, everything except the KJV in English and a handful of translations based on the KJV. Theyre burning all of Satans music... vile stuff like country western, easy listening, contemporary christian, and southern gospel. Theyre burning books by heretics like Mother ...
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• Another Beat Generation Poet Passes On…

  
  Another Lost Shark — Authority: 128
  Lenore Kandel , shining light of the San Francisco poetry scene, author of the notorious, The Love Book has died aged 77. The Love Book, a small pamphlett made up of four poems, was seized by police in 1966 as hard-core pornography and book sellers were arrested for its sale. It was often said, Kandel saw the world ...
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• Scholastic Bans Book with Lesbian Moms from Book Fairs

  
  Mombian — Authority: 474
  Most of us with young children in public school know about Scholastic Book Fairs. Many of us remember them from our own childhoods. Now comes news that Scholastic has banned a book from the fairs because one of the characters has lesbian moms. (Thanks, Roger !) School Library Journal reports that Scholastic has ...
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• Libraries Are Banning Books Regarding Homosexuality

  
  2.0: blogmocracy.com — Authority: 554
  The mandate of most schools is to provide the most information available on a topic to their students, so as to provide a wide range of ideas on any given subject, to ensure the student receives a well rounded and full education (or at least it should be).  In practice however this usually never the [...]
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