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Fuze Weekly Newsletter – September 26, 2018

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Author Dami Roelse Continues to Wow Readers
Don’t Miss … Walking Gone Wild
By the Numbers: Banned Books Week

Author Dami Roelse Continues to Wow Readers

Fuze author Dami Roelse has been very busy traveling and giving presentations relating to her dynamic bestselling book Walking Gone Wild: How to Lose Your Age on the Trail. Not only is she receiving tremendously positive feedback on the book, but she’s been hearing from people who are walking—and reaping its many benefits—more than ever before!

Check out some photos of Dami’s recent presentations in Oregon.

Thanks for sharing, Dami, and keep up the great work!

 

 

Don’t Miss …Walking Gone Wild by Dami Roelse

 

This fact-filled book promotes walking, hiking, and backpacking as a way to reinvigorate life for women as they age. The book is sprinkled with stories of real women who build confidence through walking, exemplifying a new model of aging with vitality, grace, and a deep connection to life. Roelse covers the how-to of overcoming obstacles to developing a walking lifestyle. She also offers chapters on outfitting, training, and preparing for hiking and backpacking. Informative sections alternate with exciting and inspiring passages from her personal trail journal. Even though the book is directed at women 50-plus, any woman (and man) interested in developing a walking lifestyle can benefit from reading this book and learning about the road ahead.

 

 

By the Numbers: Banned Books Week

This week is Banned Books Week, and American Libraries, a publication of the American Library Association, is giving us some stats to celebrate the most frequently banned and challenged books.

416
Number of books banned or challenged in 2017, according to the American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF).

100,000
Number of copies that Angie Thomas’s young adult novel, The Hate U Give, printed in its first month. The Coretta Scott King Book Awards honoree, about a teenager who witnesses a police shooting, was challenged in July by a South Carolina Fraternal Order of Police chapter for “indoctrination of distrust of police.”

80%
Percentage of 2017’s most commonly challenged books that tell the stories of people from marginalized groups.

1966
Year of one of the earliest challenges to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The school board in Hanover County, Virginia, said it would remove the book from school libraries, citing the novel as “immoral.” The board walked back its decision after residents—and Lee herself—wrote to the local paper to defend the book.

13
Number of cassette tapes that teen protagonist Hannah Baker leaves behind to explain her suicide in the number-one banned book of 2017, 13 Reasons Why. The 2007 title has made the OIF list before but has become the subject of increased public scrutiny after the 2017 release of a Netflix series based on the novel.

56%
Percent of challenges that take place in public libraries. Twenty-five percent take place in school libraries, curricula, and classrooms.

13
Number of languages that Alex Gino’s George has been translated into since its publication in 2015. This Lambda Literary Award–winning children’s book has been challenged and banned because its protagonist is a transgender kid.

101
Number of the conference room at the BBC Radio studios where George Orwell worked to broadcast British propaganda to India between 1941 and 1943. The “re-education room” in his classic novel 1984, where dissenters were tortured with their worst fears, was based on the BBC room.

82–97%
Percentage of book challenges that OIF estimates go unreported.

Written by Jordan Sarti for American Libraries; read the original article HERE.
 

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