Fayetteville Free Library Reading Room

Banned Books Week

Below is a list of titles that have been banned:
Title Author
Handmaid’s Tale Atwood, Margaret
Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean
Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray
Clockwork Orange Burgess, Anthony
As I Lay Dying Faulkner, William
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark
One Hundred Years of Solitude García Márquez, Gabriel
Lord of the Flies Golding, William
Ordinary People Guest, Judith
Catch 22 Heller, Joseph
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kesey, Ken
Separate Peace Knowles, John
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper
Beloved Morrison, Toni
Bluest Eye Morrison, Toni
Lolita Nabokov, Vladimir
Close Range Proulx, Annie
Portnoy’s Complaint Roth, Philip
Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D.
Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck, John
Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John
Color Purple Walker, Alice
Native Son Wright, Richard

Silks
By: Dick Francis

Mystery Fiction

When defense lawyer Geoffrey Mason hears the judge’s ruling at London’s Old Bailey, he quietly hopes that a substantial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason realize that he’ll be looking Trent in the eyes again much sooner than that.

Setting aside his barrister’s gown and wig, Mason heads to Sandown racetrack to don his colorful racing silks. As an amateur jockey, he fulfills his true passion by pounding the turf in the heat of a steeplechase. Yet when a fellow rider is brutally murdered—a pitchfork driven through his chest—Mason’s racing hobby soon becomes too close to his work. The prime suspect is one of their brethren, champion jockey Steve Mitchell, and the evidence against him seems overwhelming.

Mason is reluctant to heed Mitchell’s plea for legal help—but he soon finds himself at the center of a sinister web of violence, threats and intimidation. Mason is left fighting a battle of right and wrong, and more immediately, a battle of life and death…his own.

Released on August 26, 2008

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Fade Aaway
By: Harlan Coben

Suspense Fiction

The home was top-notch New Jersey suburban. The living room was Martha Stewart. The basement was Legos—and blood. For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he’d once competed against was bringing back memories—of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved. Now, among the stars, the wanna-bes, the gamblers and groupies, Myron is unraveling the strange, violent life of a sports hero gone wrong, and coming face-to-face with a past he can’t relive, and a present he may not survive.

Released on August 26, 2008

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What Happens in Vegas
Starring: Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz
Rated PG-13

Romantic Comedy

Two strangers (Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher) find themselves hitched after a wild night in Las Vegas. Jack Fuller (Kutcher) is a single Manhattanite who can never quite commit to a permanent, long-term relationship. Joy McNally (Diaz) is a young, polished urbanite, she juggles a demanding job as a NYSE trader with a marital engagement to the impressive Mason (Jason Sudeikis), but has modified her entire life and all of her interests to please her intended. jack and Joy accidentally bump into one another when a computer mix-up at the hotel puts them in adjoining rooms; though they begin their acquaintanceship by bickering endlessly, they end up spending a long, drunken night on the town together, and when the sun rises and Joy comes to, she discovers that she unwittingly married Jack in the middle of the night. Alas, just when the two are about to call it quits by filing for divorce after the shortest marriage in history, Jack tosses a coin into a Vegas slot machine and hits a three-million-dollar jackpot — which naturally pits the newlyweds against one another in an attempt to claim the full share of the money. A conservative local judge, R.D. Whopper (Dennis Miller), then adds the final twist by refusing to grant a divorce until Joy and Jack have given married life a fair shake. In time, the marrieds may just discover that this union isn’t as far off the mark as they initially thought

Released on August 26, 2008

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Baby Mama
Starring: Amy Poehler and Tina Fey
Rated PG-13

Comedy

This comedy is about a single, career-oriented woman who previously put parenthood on hold, and is forced to hire a surrogate mother when she discovers there is only a one-in-a-million chance that she will be able to get pregnant. Kate Holbrook (Fey) is a 37-year-old business executive who has always put her professional life before her personal life, but these days her biological clock is ticking louder than ever before. As with everything else she has accomplished in life, Kate is determined to have a child on her own terms. Unfortunately for Kate, the chance of her ever becoming pregnant is slim to none. Undaunted, a willful Kate drafts South Philly working-class girl Angie Ostrowiski (Poehler) — a woman who may just be her polar opposite — to be a surrogate mother. But life hasn’t quit throwing Kate curveballs just yet, because when a pregnant Angie shows up on her doorstep with no place to live, the woman who once thrived on order finds her life descending into chaos. Now, as Kate attempts to transform Angie into the ideal expectant mother, this odd couple will discover that families aren’t always biological, but occasionally formed through friendship as well.

Released on September 9, 2008

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