Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

Pull up a chair near the window, because this one is a delight.

“Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too.” So says James Patterson—and we couldn’t agree more.

From the author of The Change comes a bracing, wildly entertaining satire set in the tiny town of Troy, Georgia. It’s the perfect salty-air summer read: provocative, hilarious, and impossible to put down.

Here’s the setup. Lula Dean has made herself a local celebrity by crusading to rid the public library of “inappropriate” books—none of which she’s actually read. To replace them, she opens her own cute little lending library out front, stocked with the wholesome literature she’s certain the town needs.

What Lula doesn’t know? A local troublemaker has swapped out her dust jackets and quietly restocked the hutch with banned books: literary classics, gay romances, Black history, witchy spell books, Judy Blume, and more.

One by one, the neighbors who borrow them find their lives changed in unexpected ways. And as Lula and her arch enemy Beverly Underwood race to replace the town’s disgraced mayor, a showdown begins to brew that will roil the whole town—and change it forever.

A celebration of community, the books we share, and the quiet power of a story to shift a person’s heart. We have a feeling you’ll be pressing this one into a friend’s hands.

Come browse, linger, and discover it on our shelves. The footbridge is just steps away.

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