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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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English
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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 lawyer, defends a black man accused of raping a white girl.
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English
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"An electrifying first novel from "a riveting new voice in American fiction" (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father's life and death Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when...
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
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English
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A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
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Alex Cross novels volume 15
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 6
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
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During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.
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To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Language
English
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"Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout" -- returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and...
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 4
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
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Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
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In Mississippi in the early 1900s, ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
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Pub. Date
2006.
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中文(繁體)
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Chinese edition of "To Kill a Mockingbird", Harper Lee's classic - a tender story told through the eyes of the 8-year old Scout Finch. In the depression era south, a white lawyer faced enormous challenges defending a black man accused of raping a white woman.
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GREAT volume 35
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Traditional Chinese edition of Go Set a Watchman by the author of Pulitzer Prize winner "To Kill A Mockingbird" Harper Lee. This novel was set in the town of Maycomb, twenty years after the famous court case where white lawyer Atticus Finch tried to save a black man from hanging... His daughter now grown-up and returned to her hometown to find what she had idolized in her father and other town folks came crashing down..
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