"This is my favorite series ever," exclaimed one young woman browsing the titles.Ībout 150 books were lent out that first night. It was opening night for the shop's "Banned Book Nook," and customers with ice cream cones in one hand helped themselves to novels, memoirs and biographies with the other. But it wasn't the Cherry Garcia and Chunky Monkey drawing the extra customers.Ī crowd gathered in the back corner of the store, browsing through newly installed, rainbow-colored shelves displaying multiple copies of some 65 books currently banned from various Florida schools. It was much busier than usual on a recent Friday at a Ben & Jerry's in Melbourne, Fla.
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