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Censorship Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich 1890-1960 Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich 1890-1960 Fiction Politics and literature Soviet Union History Prohibited books Prohibited books Fiction Soviet Union Foreign relations United States Soviet Union Politics and government 1953-1985 United States Foreign relations Soviet Union United States. Central Intelligence Agency History 20th centuryKim, Hyun Sook
Summary: "The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2020
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Summary: This is a book about dinosaurs. No it's not. Dinosaurs are not allowed. Oh. This is now a book about avocados! Sorry. We deleted those too. FINE. This book is about--nope! Forbidden! Maybe you shouldn't even try reading this book...But what could possibly be inside? Discover just what can happen when ideas are erased instead of expressed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks eXplore 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE HALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HALLevithan, David
Summary: "When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it--much less have a problem with it. It's just an adventure novel about two characters trying to stop an evil genius...right? But soon the entire town is freaking out about whether the book's main characters are gay, Donovan's mom is trying to get the book removed from the school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVFinn, Peter
Summary: The dramatic, until-now-untold story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 891.73 FINKarolides, Nicholas J.
Summary: The one volume abridgement of the Banned book series highlights books banned for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkmark Books 1999
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Summary: "There are always two sides to every argument. Advocating for issues that matter to you is important, but what's equally as important is understanding those issues from the other perspective. Pros and Cons: Banned Books dives deeper into this highly debated topic and provides readers with the tools and strategies to think critically and analyze the topic through an unbiased lens. Readers will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Press 2023
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Social LyonPrescott, Lara
Summary: At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2020
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Summary: Drawing on newly declassified files, this is the story of how a book forbidden in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout paid a visit to Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: "This is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.73 FINDai, Sijie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAISummary: Set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China's Cultural Revolution, two city-bred teenage best friends are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BALCastle, Jacqui
Summary: It's been two months since Patch Collins escaped the Board and gone into hiding. When a familiar enemy resurfaces and she learns the fate of a loved one, Patch must make a choice: live a life of relative safety or risk everything to expose the Board's actions to the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2022