Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas. “I’m surprised that they wouldn’t want teenagers to read about healthy relationships that are monogamous, consensual, healthy, and end up in marriage,” she said.

Roberts told the Post that her novels banned in the district did contain sex, but that she didn’t believe the scenes were objectionable.

Last year, she donated $50,000 to a Michigan library that was defunded by voters after it refused to remove LGBTQ+ books from its shelves. Roberts has previously spoken out against censorship. The district previously banned 20 novels by Jodi Picoult and two by Toni Morrison. The Martin County ban didn’t just target Roberts’ novels, but also Judy Blume’s Forever…and Bernard Malamud’s The Fixer. But you don’t have the right to say nobody’s kid can read this book.” Roberts called the ban of her novels “shocking,” telling the Post, “If you don’t want your teenager reading this book, that’s your right as a mom-and good luck with that. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Nora Roberts Shelter in Place Paperback 23 April 2019 by Nora Roberts (Author) 20,383 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 41.74 3 Used from 16.84 6 New from 21.73 Paperback from 19.45 4 Used from 19.45 11 New from 19.

The books were removed after objections by an activist from Moms for Liberty, a right-wing group behind several other book challenges, including a recent ban of a graphic adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary. NORA ROBERTS is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including Come Sundown, The Obsession, The Liar, The Collector, Whiskey Beach, and many more. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman report that the Martin County School District pulled the novels, including the four installments of Roberts’ Bride Quartet and the three books in her Dream trilogy. A Florida school district has banned eight books by romance novelist Nora Roberts, and the author is speaking out against it.

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