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Banned Books Week 2010: 10 Selections From This Year's List

(Sept 27) -- To commemorate what it calls "Banned Books Week," the American Library Association is encouraging citizens to read a work of literature that has either been banned or restricted in some fashion. Over the years, authors ranging from Mark Twain to William Faulkner to J.K. Rowling have all had their works...

Banned Book Week 2010: From Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project to Quran Burning

(Sept. 27) -- Just how dangerous is a book? Since 1982, the American Library Association has designated the last week of September as "Banned Books Week" in an effort to draw attention to what the group sees as a central tenet of American freedom: the right read whatever books one chooses. To mark the occasion, the ALA...

Mothers and Fathers and Mockingbirds

(July 11) -- Everyone who has read "To Kill a Mockingbird" has a "To Kill a Mockingbird" story. Just as each of us can say exactly where we were at the moment we learned that 9/11 was not an accident, just as each of us remembers with indelible lucidity our first kiss, all of us who have read that novel have a story that...

My Summer With Scout Finch

(July 11) -- The summer I met Scout Finch, I'd just moved into the seventh place I would call "home," where I would begin the sixth grade in the fifth of six grade schools I would attend. That was the summer after Miss Wilson's fifth grade, the summer of my new braces and, even more embarrassing, a first bra on my...

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Obama Pays Homage To Classic Film

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of 'To Kill A Mockingbird, President Barack Obama is expected to conduct a special introduction to commemorate the motion picture's national broadcast.

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05/30/12 Emma by... Source: BrontÃ«Blog It's summer reading suggestions time already.
05/29/12 Of books, courts and the state Source: The Daily Star of Bangladesh The High Court has stepped into the matter of Humayun Ahmed's new work of fiction.
05/06/12 A CHILD'S IDLE TIME IS WHAT MATTERS Source: The St. Augustine Record - St. Augustine FL It is no accident that a small unpaved main street, in a small Alabama town produced two American literary icons.
05/05/12 OH8: Trial court did not abuse discretion in removing... Source: CrimLaw "A lawyer shall represent a client zealously within the bounds of the law."
05/03/12 Law.com: The Recorder: "An Exhausting Petition Meets... Source: CrimLaw "A lawyer shall represent a client zealously within the bounds of the law."

Background on harper lee

Nelle Harper E. Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author known for her 1960 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.

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