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The Lemonade War volume 2
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English
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When money disappears from fourth-grader Evan's pocket and everyone thinks that his annoying classmate Scott stole it, Evan's younger sister stages a trial involving the entire class, trying to prove what happened.
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Defense attorney Mickey Haller is forced to bend the law until it breaks when he is hired to defend a man accused of killing a prostitute in this novel of courtroom suspense, the "best one yet" (The Washington Post).
Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean
23) The reckoning
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham's most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet • “A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga.” —USA Today
October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi
Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi’s favorite son—a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and...
October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi
Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi’s favorite son—a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and...
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2009.
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English
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Assistant District Attorney Alexa Hamilton reluctantly sends her seventeen-year-old daughter Savannah, to live with her ex-husband and his family in Charleston after she received death threats against Savannah's life for prosecuting serial killer Luke Quentin.
25) Native son
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English
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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what...
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English
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Ten-year-old Sarah Chapman, recovering from smallpox in 1752, becomes caught up in another life and death battle when her mother, Martha, is accused of witchcraft by her uncle who wants the plot of land on which the Chapman family is living, and the rest of the community, looking for a scapegoat for their own troubles, joins the campaign to have Martha hanged.
27) Turning angel
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Retired attorney Penn Cage, best friends with respected doctor Drew Elliott since their days at St. Stephen's Prep in Natchez, Mississippi, where they both now sit on the school board, learns more about human nature and modern youth than he ever wanted to know when he begins to investigate the murder of popular student Kate Townsend at the request of Drew, who has become a prime suspect after revealing he had been having an affair with the girl.
28) Lucky
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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The author describes the circumstances of her rape as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, the arrest and trial of her attacker, and her struggle to reclaim her shattered life.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo travels to Johannesburg on an errand for a friend and to visit his son, Absalom, only to learn Absalom has been accused of murdering white city engineer and social activist Arthur Jarvis and stands very little chance of receiving mercy.
31) Natchez burning
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William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology--the trial of Lizzie Borden--based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence. The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history. When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892, the arrest of the couple's younger daughter Lizzie turned the case...
34) The appeal
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English
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Billionaire Carl Trudeau, upset over a shocking verdict against his chemical company by a Mississippi jury and convinced that the Supreme Court will not be friendly to his appeal, decides to take the less expensive route of purchasing a seat on the Court by recruiting, financing, manipulating, marketing, and molding an unsuspecting young candidate.
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"From the New York Times #1 bestselling author comes a riveting true-crime mystery set on a sleepy island in the Pacific Northwest: a man is murdered and the long list of suspects includes an aging beauty queen and her boyfriend. One wintery night on quiet Whidbey Island off the coast of Washington, Russ Douglas spent Christmas with his estranged wife, Brenna. She agreed to let him visit his children even though they were headed for divorce. He left...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman's husband, Herbert Weinstein, soon confessed to having hit and strangled his wife ... then dropping her body out of their apartment ... The 65-year-old Weinstein ... had no criminal record, no history of violent behavior ... How, then, to explain this horrific act? Journalist Kevin Davis uses the perplexing story of...
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
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"Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began having hysterical fits. Soon after, other local girls claimed they were being pricked with pins. With no scientific explanation available, the residents of Salem came to one conclusion: it was witchcraft! Over the next year and a half, nineteen people were convicted of witchcraft and hanged while more...
39) Judge & jury
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Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante and Andie DeGrasse, an aspiring actress and juror for the trial of a notorious crime boss are the only ones left to seek justice after Mafia Don Dominic Cavello and his henchmen systematically eliminate everyone who stand in their way.
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University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Recounts the events surrounding the Supreme Court case "Sweatt v. Painter," in which Herman Marion Sweatt challenged the University of Texas School of Law's 1946 decision to deny him admission because he was African-American.
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