{"id":14576,"date":"2024-08-15T15:37:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T19:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=14576"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:35:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:35:39","slug":"empire-of-storms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/empire-of-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2025 &#8211; Empire of Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2025\/author\/\">2025 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2025\/title\/\">2025 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3433\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2024\/08\/empire-of-storms.jpg\" alt=\"empire of storms cover\" width=\"304\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabellcounty.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/cabell\/search\/results?qu=empire+of+storms&amp;qf=AUTHOR%09Author%09Maas%2C+Sarah+J.%2C+author.%09Maas%2C+Sarah+J.%2C+author.+%7C%7C+Maas%2C+Sarah+J.%09Maas%2C+Sarah+J.&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle\">Held at Cabell County Public Library.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2025<\/h2>\n<p>On July 1, Utah HB 29 changed the state code regarding \u201csensitive materials\u201d in schools. HB 29 requires all school districts in the state to remove a book if three districts determine it is \u201cpornographic or indecent.\u201d  The growing list of books banned from all school libraries in Utah includes sixt itles by Sarah J. Maas, as well as books by Margaret Atwood and Judy Blume.<\/p>\n<h2>2024<\/h2>\n<p>In 2023, ALA documented 324 challenges to 17 of Maas\u2019s titles across five bestselling series, the most attempts to censor the works of one author during a single year.<\/p>\n<p>In January, pressure group We the People of Jackson County submitted more than 200 written requests targeting 57 titles in libraries of Lee\u2019s Summit R-7 Schools (MO). The titles included <strong>A Court of Mist and Fury<\/strong>, <strong>A Court of Thorns and Roses<\/strong>, and <strong>Empire of Storms. The school board stated that while they must abide by their reconsideration policies, they were obligated to reject coordinated book banning efforts. The district formed 28 review committees, on which volunteers spent nearly 2,000 hours and district staff worked more than 400 hours. The process cost the district nearly $19,000. All challenged titles were retained without restriction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>July 31, 2025<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14576","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14576"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15311,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14576\/revisions\/15311"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}