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1) The Trial
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A lawyer ready to die takes one final case...the trial of his life. Attorney Kent "Mac" MacClain has nothing left to live for. Nine years after the horrific accident that claimed the life of his wife and two sons, he's finally given up. His empty house is a mirror for his empty soul, it seems suicide is his only escape. And then the phone rings. Angela Hightower, the beautiful heiress and daughter of the most powerful man in Dennison Springs, has...
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On July 3, 1974, Patricia Allanson's "husband, Tom Allanson, was arrested after a cellar shoot-out in . . . {Atlanta} that left his parents dead. . . . {The author argues that} his wife had set up the entire incident. . . . Ms. Allanson is now in a Georgia jail, convicted of aggravated assault, impersonating a registered nurse, illegal possession of Halcion and robbing her elderly patients. It is her second prison sentence; in 1976 she was convicted...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely...
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Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Recounts how Chester Burge, a dubious businessman with connections to one of the wealthiest families in Macon, Georgia, was accused of the 1960 murder of his wife, Mary--even though he was hospitalized at the time--and convicted of sodomy.
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CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2008][1986-1987]
Language
English
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Ben Matlock is an Atlanta defense attorney who investigates crimes and fights for his clients, usually clinching a last-minute "Not guilty" verdict. Matlock is aided by loyal partner and daughter Charlene and smooth private investigator Tyler Hudson.
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Verso
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Powerful and haunting, this depiction, detailed with full-color artwork, names those who were lynched and tortured in late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, including one black woman, Mary Turner, who was eight months pregnant at the time.
Presents a lyrical and illustrated depiction of American racial violence and lynching. In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were...
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