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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet...
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"Two parts Gone Girl, two parts Notes on a Scandal. . .will play with your expectations about who's the villain and who's the victim." — Jennifer Weiner, USA Today
Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize for Fiction
The acclaimed, bestselling author of This Could Hurt returns with her biggest, boldest novel yet—an electrifying, twisty, and deeply emotional family drama,
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When she is seventeen Madeline Williams is assaulted and becomes pregnant by John David Billings, the son of a wealthy rancher. She decides to leave town, and all she loves, to raise the child on her own. Years later she returns with her child and hears that John David is on trial for assualting other women. Should she testify and put him away for good, or protect her daughter from the truth? She has trusted God throughout her entire life, but can...
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