Local Libraries Can't Keep Steamy Novel On Shelves
More than 1,300 are waiting to borrow a copy of "Fifty Shades of Grey."
If you are looking for a copy of the steamy trilogy, “Fifty Shades of Grey,” don’t bother going to your local library. “Nobody in the county has it on their shelf,” said Sandra Collins, Executive Director of Northland Public Library in McCandless. Public libraries in several states have banned to books, saying they are either too sexually explicit, or too poorly written. In Fond du Lac, Wis., the library did not order any copies, saying the books did not meet the standards of the community. In Georgia the Gwinnett County Public Library, near Atlanta, declined to make the books available in its 15 branches, saying that the trilogy’s graphic writing violated its no-erotica policy reported the New York Times. But that’s the not case here…
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