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A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.
Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence i...
A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.
Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence i...
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout Finch returns home to Maycomb to visit her father Atticus and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beg...
When Alex Cross' niece is found brutally murdered, he vows to track her killer to the ends of the earth. But shortly after he begins the investigation, Alex discovers his niece had gotten mixed up with some very dangerou...
Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence i...
A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a lawyer, defends a black man accused of raping a white girl.
"An electrifying first novel from "a riveting new voice in American fiction" (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father's life and death Bil...
"Jean Louise Finch, die wir als burschikose 'Scout' aus Harper Lees Weltklassiker Wer die Nachtigall stört kennen, ist erwachsen geworden: 26-jährig kehrt sie in ihre Heimatstadt in Alabama zurück, um den Sommer bei i...
In 'The Gone Dead', a young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father's life and death. An astonishing debut, this novel is about race, justice, and memory that lays ...
Detective Dave Robicheaux travels to the mountains of Montana to help his best friend and unearths a larger plot that threatens them both. Oil speculator Weldon Sonnier is the patriarch of a troubled family intimately bo...
Wilma and 'lois, two black girls living in North Carolina during the 1950s, are proud of their family's new Cadillac until they travel to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Grades 3-6. 1987.
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to tran...
Cassie and her brothers usually avoid the country store because the owner, John Wallace, is unkind to blacks. One day, they witness a tense confrontation between Old Mr. Tom Bee and Wallace. Grades 3-6. 1987.
Betty Jewel Hughes was once the hottest black jazz singer in Memphis. But when she finds herself pregnant and alone, she gives up her dream of being a star to raise her beautiful daughter, Billie, in Shakerag, Mississipp...
"On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Simmonsville, Georgia, home. Armed with skills honed while caring for an alcoholic mother, ...