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41) Angels
Author
Pub. Date
[1983]
Description
Angels puts Jamie Mays--a runaway wife toting along two kids--and Bill Houston--ex-Navy man, ex-husband, ex-con--on a Greyhound bus for a dark, wild ride cross country. Driven by restless souls, bad booze, and desperate needs, Jamie and Bill bounce from bus stations to cheap hotels as they ply the strange, fascinating, and dangerous fringe of American life. Their tickets may say Phoenix, but their inescapable destination is a last stop marked by stunning...
42) Cámara de gas
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 30
Description
Ku Klux Klan member Sam Cayhall, sentenced to death for his role in the 1967 bombing of the Mississippi law offices of civil rights activist Marvin Kramer in which Kramer's two sons died, is forced to consider his life and actions when Adam Hall, a young attorney with the Chicago law firm that has been handling the case, volunteers in 1990 to file Cayhall's final appeals.
43) Death row
Author
Series
Ben Kincaid novels volume 12
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid put his reputation on the line when he represented Ray Goldman. The seemingly mild-mannered industrial chemist was charged with a staggeringly brutal crime: the torture and massacre of an entire suburban Tulsa family. Ben's deft defense against a lack of hard evidence and improper police procedure made an acquittal all but certain, until the prosecution's star witness, the lone survior of the slaughter, took the stand...
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
The inspiration of the blockbuster film, starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, is available in this Spanish language edition. Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death-row facility, ward superintendent Paul Edgecomb is compelled to help every prisoner walk "the green mile" to execution with his humanity in tact. As narrator, Edgecomb tells the tragic tale of John Coffey, a gentle giant with preternatural ways.
Author
Series
Buck Schatz mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
""Daniel Friedman has done it again-only better."- Michael Sears, bestselling author of Black Fridays Once, Detective Buck Schatz patrolled the city of Memphis, chasing down robbers and killers with a blackjack truncheon and a .357. But he's been retired for decades. Now he's frail and demented, and Rose, his wife of 72 years, is ill and facing a choice about her health care that Buck is terrified to even consider. The future looks short and bleak,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2000], ©2000
Description
"Ismael Diaz is on death row. As he sits in his cell waiting to die, he writes a diary that reconstructs his life and the circumstances that led him to commit murder. The reader meets a man who is a successful real estate lawyer in Boston until he trespasses on a neighbor's property to put out a "spring cleaning" fire. This incident sets off a chain reaction that results in the loss of everything that has made his life worthwhile.
At loose ends,...
47) La altima milla
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America's most promising football stars until, aged twenty-years-old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFL. When Amos Decker, newly appointed special agent with the FBI, hears the news that Melvin was saved in the final seconds before his execution because someone has confessed to the killings, he persuades...
48) Bad memory
Author
Series
Jessica Shaw novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Quiet towns keep big secrets. Private investigator Jessica Shaw is leading a quiet life in a Californian desert community, where she spends her days working low-level cases. But when a former resident asks Jessica to help her sister, Rue Hunter—a convicted murderer whose execution is days away—Jessica can’t resist the offer. Rue doesn't remember what happened the night two high school students were killed thirty years ago, but everybody in town...
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
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CSL - Black Authors
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Longer Book Club Reads
Description
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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