{"id":2437,"date":"2025-10-14T13:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2437\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:39:33","slug":"banned-books-week-returns-to-st-petersburg-the-crows-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2437\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week returns to St. Petersburg\u00a0 \u2013 The Crow&#8217;s Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banned Books Week is an annual event used to highlight the importance of freedom of expression and access to information.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Julia Ferrara<\/p>\n<p>By Julia Ferrara<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bannedbooksweek.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Banned Books Week<\/a> has returned to the city of St. Petersburg. Here are some of the events happening from Oct. 5-11, as well as year-round offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Tombolo Books, Oct. 5 -11\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tombolo Books has teamed up with their neighbors at Black Crow Coffee Grand Central for a Banned Books Week Giveaway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the purchase of a specialty Banned Books Week drink and a Banned Book of your choice to donate to the American Stage Library, participants can pick a free ARC (advanced reader copy) and enter their name to win a stack of books.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keep St. Pete Lit\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keepstpetelit.org\/pages\/banned-books-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Keep St. Pete Lit<\/a> has its Banned Books Library available as a free resource in the American Stage lobby located at 163 3rd Street North, St. Petersburg, FL, 33701\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9193-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33029\"  \/>The event is supported by a coalition of organizations, which include, but are not limited to, the American Library Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, PEN America, and Penguin Random House. \u00a0<br \/>Photo by Julia Ferrara<\/p>\n<p>The American Library Association also provides a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">list of Banned Book Week events<\/a> at the national level. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t Post Views: 411&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crowsneststpete.com\/author\/juliaferrara\/\" title=\"More about Julia Ferrara \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"More about Julia Ferrara\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8ed77c058dc4a90aed2190bc330b3386\" class=\"avatar avatar-32 photo\" height=\"32\" width=\"32\" align=\"left\"\/><\/a><br \/>Written by:  <a href=\"https:\/\/crowsneststpete.com\/author\/juliaferrara\/\" title=\"More about Julia Ferrara \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Ferrara<\/a> on October 8, 2025.            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week is an annual event used to highlight the importance of freedom of expression and access&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-2437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}