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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Two children in a small southern town in the 1930s are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father, Atticus, chooses to defend a black man charged with raping a white girl.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After ten years' absence, Carl Burns returns to his hometown seeking justice for his estranged daughter, who is testifying against the towns former mayor in a rape case, but as Carl searches for the truth, he incurs the wrath of powerful enemies.
Author
Series
Jaywalker thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the late 1970s, rebellious lawyer Harrison J. Walker, aka Jaywalker, agrees to defend Darren Kingston, who has been arrested for raping five white women, because he is the only one who does not see this as an open-and-shut case.
7) Disobedient
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
8) Fury
Author
Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Butch Karp is asked to defend the city of New York in a lawsuit filed by four men sent to prison years ago for the rape of a young girl. Complicating matters, a deadly terrorist cell kidnaps a member of the Karp's family, and the future looks bleak.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22cm
Language
English
Description
Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was one of Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew her name. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men took what they wanted from women, and in the aftermath of rape Artemisia faced...
10) Phaedra: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Phaedra has been cast to the side all her life: daughter of an adulteress, sister of a monster, and now unwilling bride to the much-older, power-hungry Theseus. Young, naïve, and idealistic, she has accepted her lot in life, resigned to existing under the sinister weight of Theseus's control and the constant watchful eye of her handsome stepson Hippolytus. When supposedly pious Hippolytus assaults her, Phaedra's world is darkened in the face of...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
12) Do tell: a novel
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A glittering debut novel set in the golden age of Hollywood, following a former actress whose new career in gossip journalism grants her more power on the page than she ever commanded in front of the camera"--
As character actress Edie O'Dare finishes the final year of her contract with FWM Studios, the clock is ticking for her to find a new gig after an undistinguished stint in the pictures. She's long supplemented her income moonlighting for Hollywood's...
13) False witness
Author
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 torn...
14) The night swim
Author
Series
Rachel Krall investigations volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In The Night Swim, a new thriller from Megan Goldin, author of the "gripping and unforgettable" (Harlen Coben) The Escape Room, a true crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town's dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before. 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...
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