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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Language
English
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A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet...
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English
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A contract actress moonlighting as Hollywood's reigning gossip columnist publishes an accusation from a rising starlet that an A-list actor assaulted her, changing the trajectories of all involved and forcing her to make an impossible choice about her lucrative career.
3) Disobedient
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Artemisia Gentileschi, growing up in a family of all-male painters, dreams of becoming a great artist in 1611 Rome and completes lesson after lesson until a mysterious tutor threatens her honor and virtue and she is put on trial.
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Series
Rachel Krall investigations volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name-and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she's used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help. The small town of Neapolis is being torn apart by a devastating...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Phaedra is the younger and plainer princess of Crete. As a teenager, she is witness to the arrival of Theseus and his slaying of her brother, the Minotaur, in the labyrinth. After losing her sister, Ariadne, she becomes Theseus’ bride and travels with him to Athens, intent on seeing the gods take revenge on him for the murder of her brother. But Athens is a different world, harsher and filled with men who have no time for the young princess, now...
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Carl Burns novels volume 1
Language
English
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"After ten years' absence and a spell in prison, Carl Burns has returned to his hometown of Rose City to offer support to his estranged daughter Kate, currently one of four witnesses testifying against former Mayor Joseph Sanderson III, who stands accused of multiple counts of underage rape. Carl is determined to get justice for Kate, whatever it takes. But with his former sister-in-law Frances his only ally, he finds himself incurring the wrath of...
10) Truth be told
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Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Attending an elite all-boys boarding school in London, Kamran Hadid feels invincible until a night of revelry leads to a drunken encounter and he must ask himself a horrific question.
11) False witness
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Language
English
Description
"An ordinary life. . . Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be hides a devastating past. . . But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average. . . a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally...
12) Fury
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Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
486 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Karp, now acting district attorney, and his family and friends unmask legal, law-enforcement, and moral corruption as they separately and together face a terrorist threat, marshal a defense against four young black men claiming they were wrongly convicted, and review a rape charge brought by a student against her professor.
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Language
English
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Cassie Quinn may be only twenty-three, but she knows a few things. One: money can't buy happiness, but it certainly doesn't hurt. Two: family comes first. Three: her younger brother, Billy, is not a rapist. When Billy, a junior at Princeton, is arrested for assaulting his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Cassie races home to Manhattan to join forces with her parents and older brother. While certain of his innocence, the Quinns know that Billy fits...
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