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Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 367 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with a highly regarded state university, bucolic surroundings, a lively social scene, and an excellent football team, the Grizzlies, with a rabid fan base. The Department of Justice investigated 350 sexual assaults reported to the Missoula police between January 2008 and May 2012. Few of these assaults were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also typical....
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
Author
Series
Carl Burns novels volume 1
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"After ten years' absence and a spell in prison, Carl Burns has returned to his hometown of Rose City to offer support to his estranged daughter Kate, currently one of four witnesses testifying against former Mayor Joseph Sanderson III, who stands accused of multiple counts of underage rape. Carl is determined to get justice for Kate, whatever it takes. But with his former sister-in-law Frances his only ally, he finds himself incurring the wrath of...
6) Missoula
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
©2015
Physical Desc
10 CDs (12 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana ? stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In March 1931, two white women stepped from a boxcar in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trials of the nine young men would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the civil rights movement."--Container....
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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
9) The accused
Publisher
Paramount
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After a brutal gang-rape in the back of a neighborhood bar, Sarah Tobias finds herself battling the legal system with her attorney. As they go after both her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assault, the limits of justice and social responsibility are examined and tested.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Distribution Childrens
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
192 pages
Description
"This chilling and harrowing account tells the story of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American teenagers who, when riding the rails during the Great Depression, found their lives destroyed after two white women falsely accused them of rape. Award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner explains how it took more than eighty years for their wrongful convictions to be overturned."--Amazon.com.
12) False witness
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Formats
Description
"Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She's an up-and-coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, would do anything for her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, and is managing to successfully co-parent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter. But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood no one should have to endure ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal,...
13) Fury
Author
Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 17
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
486 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
New York District Attorney Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene, find themselves embroiled in corruption when they set out to bring a group of Brooklyn rapists to justice.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
272 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
A haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird remains as important today as it was upon its initial publication in 1960, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement. Now, this novel is reborn for a new age as a graphic novel. Scout, Gem, Boo Radley, Atticus Finch, and the small town of Maycomb, Alabama,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
365 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"A riveting historical drama that tells the story of the first rape trial on record in American history and the fault lines of class privilege and gender bias that it exposed, showing how much has changed over two centuries and how much has not"--
17) Lucky
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
254 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In this candid memoir, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was transformed when, as an 18-year-old college freshman, she was raped and beaten. Sebold tells of her road to recovery and how she secured her attacker's arrest and conviction.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In the vein of Alice Sebold's Lucky, comes a compelling, real-life crime mystery and gripping memoir of the cold case prosecution of a serial rapist, told by one of his victims.On the morning of September 12, 2013, a fugitive task force broke down the door of Arthur Fryar's apartment in Brooklyn. His DNA, entered in the FBI's criminal database after a drug conviction, had been matched to evidence from a rape in Pennsylvania years earlier. Over the...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xvii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
In May 1985, Darryl Hunt, a Black teenager in Winston-Salem, N.C. was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a young white copyeditor at the local paper. In 2003, an award-winning series of articles led to the DNA evidence that exonerated Hunt. Part true crime drama, part chronicle of a remarkable life cut short by systemic prejudice, this book powerfully illuminates the sustained catastrophe faced by an innocent...
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