Amanda Jones is a Louisiana middle-school librarian who sleeps with a shotgun under her bed and carries a pistol when she travels the back roads. “I never expected any of this,” said Jones ...

In some cases, they upended the lives of librarians like Amanda Jones. Jones — a middle school librarian from Livingston Parish in Louisiana — spoke at a public meeting in 2022. Four days ...

Amanda Jones deserves a better subtitle for her new book, “That Librarian.” The anodyne “The Fight Against Book Banning in America” fails to capture the flavor or thrust of this intensely ...

In her new book “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America,” nationally acclaimed school librarian and Louisiana resident Amanda Jones pushes ... East or the West,” she ...