The name "Donald Marshall Jr." is synonymous with "wrongful conviction" and the fight for Indigenous rights in Canada. In Truth and Conviction, Jane McMillan - Marshall's former partner, an acclaimed...
False imprisonment
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Author:McMillan, L. JaneSummary: - Author:Joyner, ChrisSummary:
The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn't commit, and of Thurgood Marshall's battle against racism and the Communist Party to save him.
- Author:Burdick, SerenaSummary:
Not far from Luella and Effie Tildon's large family mansion looms the House of Mercy, a workhouse for wayward girls. When the sisters accidentally learn a secret about their father, the brazen older sister, Luella, becomes...
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Author:Dumas, AlexandreSummary:Edmund Dantès is your typical nice guy, until he loses everything to a ruthless rival. Six years of truly creative torment turn him into the dazzling and dangerous Count of Monte Cristo, who descends on fashionable Paris to enact what...
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Author:Zola, ÉmileSummary:Immerse yourself in the world of Florent Quenu, a man wrongly accused of plotting to overthrow the French government and exiled from his beloved Paris. As he makes his way back home, Quenu envelopes us a richly detailed commentary on...
- Author:Salaam, Yusef, Zoboi, Ibi AanuSummary:
Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into...
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Author:McEwen, JoanSummary:In early-1980s Vancouver, Ivan Henry was an ex-convict still adjusting to civilian life when he was detained on a break-and-enter charge. A short time later he found himself on trial for ten charges of sexual assault—crimes he...
- Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her...
- Author:Faruqi, ReemSummary:
Seventh grader Aafiyah loves playing tennis, reading Weird but True facts, and hanging out with her best friend, Zaina. However, Aafiyah has a bad habit that troubles her--she's drawn to pretty things and can't help but...
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Author:Smith, CharlieSummary:Haunted by his mother's disappearance, Delvin Walker rides the rails, falls in love, and sees an America sliding into the Great Depression. But as he is pushed deeper into the darkness of imprisonment after being falsely charged with...
- Author:Mosley, WalterSummary:
Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins finds his life in transition. He's ready--finally--to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, and start a life together. And he...
- Author:Salaam, YusefSummary:
Yusef Salaam shares his story of growing up Black in central Harlem in the 1980s--being raised by a strong, fierce mother and grandmother--his years of incarceration, his reentry, and exoneration. Yusef connects these stories to lessons...
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Author:Jones, TayariSummary:Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together,...
- Author:Soper, S. I.Summary:
When Federal Marshal Buck Fyffe was charged with taking the outlaw Luther Gibbs to Yuma Territorial Prison, he wasn't expecting any problems. But it doesn't take long for Gibbs's gang to find them and Fyffe is overtaken...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
An 1850s British nobleman sends his daughter to Philadelphia to conceal her past and start a new life as a seamstress. But she soon fears a young lawyer may remember who she really is and jeopardize her father's only chance for freedom...
- Author:Hunter, TravisSummary:
Raised by a bootlegger in a bad section of town, Karim Spencer becomes a successful businessman. His sister is a stripper with a gangsta-wannabe son, and his brother is serving a life sentence for a murder he didn't commit. But how can...
