Join us for a very special HYBRID (virtual/in-person) Banned Books Week 2026 Kick-Off Event with best-selling author Kirsten Miller!
Miller is the author of The Change, The Women of Wild Hill, the groundbreaking YA series starring Kiki Strike, and Lula Dean’s Library of Banned Books, which she will be discussing when she joins us virtually via videoconference from her home in Brooklyn, NY. Join us as we gather to talk to this amazing author and NC native!
FREE EVENT BUT RSVP IS REQUESTED (please fill out the form below):
ABOUT KIRSTEN MILLER
Kirsten Miller is the author of The Change, a GMA Book Club pick, Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books, and the groundbreaking YA series starring Kiki Strike.
Born and raised in Sylva, North Carolina, she now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
ABOUT LULA DEAN’S LIBRARY OF BANNED BOOKS
“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.” —James Patterson
The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!
Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us this bracing, wildly entertaining piece of humorous fiction and satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.
Beverly Underwood and her arch enemy, Lula Dean, live in the tiny town of Troy, Georgia, where they were born and raised. Now Beverly is on the school board, and Lula has become a local celebrity by embarking on a mission of censorship to rid the public libraries of all inappropriate books—none of which she’s actually read. To replace the “pornographic” books she’s challenged at the local public library, Lula starts her own lending library in front of her home: a cute wooden hutch with glass doors and neat rows of the worthy literature that she’s sure the town’s readers need.