To Kill A Mockingbird
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brillan perforamnce as the southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1095
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
subjects: fathers and daughters, trials (rape), lawyers, alabama, southern states, girls, father-daughter relationship, large print books, african americans, race relations, bildungsromans, film adaptations, racism [X], race discrimination, audiobooks, family life, lee, harper, legal stories [X], bildungsromans, legal stories, domestic fiction, bildungsromane, lawyers, father-child relationship, large type books, father and child
Scottsboro
Uses historical figures and fictional characters to trace the progression of the 1931 Scottsboro trial, during which nine black youths were accused of raping two white girls, and a series of figures from both sides of the case vied to either save the boys or condemn them to death.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: scottsboro trial, scottsboro, ala., 1931, african american men, trials (rape), racism [X], scottsboro (ala.), legal stories [X], legal stories
The Quiet Game
Widowed attorney Penn Cage, having returned with his young daughter to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, finds himself battling the FBI, a powerful judge, a former love, and the citizens of the city when he joins ranks with local publisher Caitlin Masters to solve the mystery of the thirty-year-old murder of an African-American Korean War veteran.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: legal stories [X], mystery and detective stories, racism [X], murder, extortion, natchez, mississippi, publishers and publishing, african american veterans, man-woman relationships, african american soldiers, natchez (miss.)
All Her Little Secrets
Black lawyer Ellice Littlejohn's perfect life--with an Ivy League degree under her belt and a high-paying job as a midtown Atlanta corporate attorney--comes crashing down when her charming white boss and "just for fun" boyfriend is found dead in his executive suite with a bullet in his head.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: corporate lawyers, women lawyers, african american women, siblings, executives, victims of crimes, homicide, criminal investigation, secrecy, law, racism [X], mystery fiction, legal stories [X], atlanta (ga.), thrillers (fiction), legal fiction (literature)