Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Sep 2023 - Banned Books
Read-Alikes for Where the Crawdads Sing
TAB 2015 : High School
The Great American Read - 2018
Read-Alikes for Where the Crawdads Sing
TAB 2015 : High School
The Great American Read - 2018
Description
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this story - a black man charged with raping a white girl in the Deep South of the 1930s.
Author
Language
English
Description
Cassie Quinn may only be twenty-three, but she knows a few things. One: money can’t buy happiness, but it’s certainly better to have it. Two: family matters most. Three: her younger brother Billy is not a rapist. When Billy, a junior at Princeton, is arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Cassie races home to Manhattan to join forces with her big brother Nate and their parents, Lawrence and Eleanor. The Quinns scramble to hire the best legal...
Author
Language
English
Description
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 reigning gossip columnist, providing her with the salacious details of every party and premiere. When an up-and-coming starlet hands her a letter alleging an assault from an A-list actor at a party with...
4) Take it back
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zara Kaleel, one of London's brightest legal minds, shattered the expectations placed on her by her family and forged a brilliant legal career. But her decisions came at a high cost, and now, battling her own demons, she has exchanged her high profile career for a job at a sexual assault center, helping victims who need her the most. Victims like Jodie Wolfe. When Jodie, a sixteen-year-old girl with facial deformities, accuses four boys in her class...
Author
Series
Rachel Krall investigations volume 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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 last...
Author
Series
Jet de Plaza and Janés volume 204
Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
Español
Description
The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Southern town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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...
8) Disobedient
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rome 1611. A jewel-bright place of change, with sumptuous new palaces and lavish wealth on constant display. A city where women are seen but not heard. Artemisia Gentileschi dreams of becoming a great artist. Motherless, she grows up among a family of painters - men and boys. She knows she is more talented than her brothers, but she cannot choose her own future. She belongs to her father and will belong to a husband. As Artemisia patiently goes from...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request