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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Roxanne Reeves defines her life by the committees she heads and the social status she cultivates. But she is keeping secrets that make her an outsider in her own town, always in search of acceptance. And when she's given a job none of the other white women want - researching the town's African-American history for a tour of local sites - she feels she can't say no. And elderly Grace Clark, a retired black schoolteacher, agrees to become her guide....
4) The forsaken
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down by a self-appointed posse, and lynched. Now evidence has surfaced of his innocence, and county sheriff Quinn Colson sets out not only to identify the stranger's remains, but to charge those responsible for the lynching. As he...
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