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And maybe in Texas they will offer to loan books to Park Slope children the Park Slope progressives find objectionable.

I just checked the NYPL catalog and found The Turner Diaries, Camp of the Saints and Mein Kampf to be available. Just three examples, but I find it hard to imagine what else they’d refuse to carry if those are fine.

Is there a particular book you have in mind that “Park Slope progressives” would find too objectionable for libraries to loan out?

NYPL isn't BPL for what it's worth. :) NYPL only covers Manhattan, Staten Island and The Bronx. Brooklyn has Brooklyn Public Library and Queens has Queens Public Library. All separate systems that existed before NYC was united in 1898 and stayed separate afterwards.

Can you check if they have The Transgender-Industrial Complex[1]? It's one of the few books Amazon refuses to sell. You can only get it from the publisher or Barnes and Nobles.

[1]https://antelopehillpublishing.com/product/the-transgender-i...

I checked three libraries. The New York Public Library, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Seattle Public Library. None have it.

You can of course search for that yourself at Worldcat. DuckDuckGo !bang search !worldcat.

Or https://worldcat.org/

There appear to be three listed copies worldwide.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/transgender-industrial-comple...

Eagerly awaiting a list of books Brooklyn teens are unable to access.

> books the Park Slope progressives find objectionable

Like?

I can think of plenty, but not anything that would be outright banned from the New York library system.

What banned books in the BPL do you recommend?

I can't find "Practical Lock Picking" by Deviant Ollam [1] on their catalogue [2].

To be fair, it's not explicitly banned AFAIK, and it's a bit of a niche book (but it's famous among the respective hobbyists).

Also, to their credit, I looked up a bunch of other must-not-be-named titles you usually don't find in public libraries, and they did have most of them.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Physical-Penet...

[1]: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/search?search=practical+lock+pi...

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