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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nYear of Publication:\u00a0<\/strong>2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n A summary from Goodreads: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything. Goshen Public Library call number: <\/strong> F MILLER (BOOK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Kirsten Miller Year of Publication:\u00a02024 A summary from Goodreads: The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Beverly Underwood and her arch enemy, Lula Dean, live in the tiny town of Troy, Georgia, where they were born and raised. Now Beverly is on the school board, and Lula has become a local celebrity by embarking on mission to rid the public libraries of all inappropriate books\u2014none of which she\u2019s actually read. To replace the \u201cpornographic\u201d books she\u2019s challenged at the local public library, Lula starts her own lending library in front of her home: a cute wooden hutch with glass doors and neat rows of the worthy literature that she\u2019s sure the town\u2019s readers need.
But Beverly\u2019s daughter Lindsay sneaks in by night and secretly fills Lula Dean\u2019s little free library with banned books wrapped in \u201cwholesome\u201d dust jackets. The Girl\u2019s Guide to the Revolution is wrapped in the cover of The Southern Belle\u2019s Guide to Etiquette. A jacket that belongs to Our Confederate Heroes ends up on Beloved. One by one, neighbors who borrow books from Lula Dean\u2019s library find their lives changed in unexpected ways. Finally, one of Lula Dean\u2019s enemies discovers the library and decides to turn the tables on her, just as Lula and Beverly are running against each other to replace the town\u2019s disgraced mayor.
That\u2019s when all the townspeople who\u2019ve been borrowing from Lula\u2019s library begin to reveal themselves. It\u2019s a diverse and surprising bunch\u2014including the local postman, the prom queen, housewives, a farmer, and the former DA\u2014all of whom have been changed by what they\u2019ve read. When Lindsay is forced to own up to what she\u2019s done, the showdown that\u2019s been brewing between Beverly and Lula will roil the whole town…and change it forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n