Gracie's Revolution — Marj Charlier

Gracie has managed the Johnson Station Library for twenty-five years. The sixty-year-old loves her job and her rural Iowa town -- despite its recent economic decline.

But there's one man trying to change the library and the town-for the worse: Gregory Thungaard, the new library board chairman, wants to remove all books containing content he deems lewd, controversial, or liberal. And the newly religious and politically ambitious “good old boy” is pressuring the conservative members of the community to back him.

Just as she is losing hope, Gracie discovers a secret that could end Gregory's political career, but revealing it could hurt the Hispanic teenager she's taken under her wings. Can she save her beloved library and protect young Ísabel, while turning around the dying town in the process?

With humor and compassion, Gracie stands up for her beliefs and inspires other women “of a certain age” to join her revolution.

Gracie's Revolution is the first book in the Johnson Station series by Iowa native Marj Charlier.