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41) Madman walking
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition
Description
The second in the highly intelligent yet commercial legal thriller series written by a death row attorney. Appellate lawyer Janet Moodie is called in to work on a post-conviction investigation on a sordid murder-for-hire case. The client is uncooperative and likely schizophrenic, convicted of arranging the shooting of a drug dealer under orders from the Aryan Brotherhood. It is up to Janet to discover just what was done and by whom, and to determine...
Author
Series
Buck Schatz mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Edition.
Description
""Daniel Friedman has done it again-only better."- Michael Sears, bestselling author of Black Fridays Once, Detective Buck Schatz patrolled the city of Memphis, chasing down robbers and killers with a blackjack truncheon and a .357. But he's been retired for decades. Now he's frail and demented, and Rose, his wife of 72 years, is ill and facing a choice about her health care that Buck is terrified to even consider. The future looks short and bleak,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Libros en Español
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
1. ed. de Simon & Schuster Libros en Español.
Description
The inspiration of the blockbuster film, starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, is available in this Spanish language edition. Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death-row facility, ward superintendent Paul Edgecomb is compelled to help every prisoner walk "the green mile" to execution with his humanity in tact. As narrator, Edgecomb tells the tragic tale of John Coffey, a gentle giant with preternatural ways.
44) Angels
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1983]
Description
Angels puts Jamie Mays--a runaway wife toting along two kids--and Bill Houston--ex-Navy man, ex-husband, ex-con--on a Greyhound bus for a dark, wild ride cross country. Driven by restless souls, bad booze, and desperate needs, Jamie and Bill bounce from bus stations to cheap hotels as they ply the strange, fascinating, and dangerous fringe of American life. Their tickets may say Phoenix, but their inescapable destination is a last stop marked by stunning...
46) Cámara de gas
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
4a. ed.
Description
Ku Klux Klan member Sam Cayhall, sentenced to death for his role in the 1967 bombing of the Mississippi law offices of civil rights activist Marvin Kramer in which Kramer's two sons died, is forced to consider his life and actions when Adam Hall, a young attorney with the Chicago law firm that has been handling the case, volunteers in 1990 to file Cayhall's final appeals.
47) La altima milla
Author
Series
Publisher
B, Grupo Zeta
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
1.a edicion.
Description
Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America's most promising football stars until, aged twenty-years-old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFL. When Amos Decker, newly appointed special agent with the FBI, hears the news that Melvin was saved in the final seconds before his execution because someone has confessed to the killings, he persuades...
48) A time to die
Author
Series
Out of time volume 1
Publisher
Enclave Pub
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
"Parvin Blackwater believes she has wasted her life. At only seventeen, she has one year left according to the Clock by her bedside. In a last-ditch effort to make a difference, she tries to rescue Radicals from the government’s crooked justice system. But when the authorities find out about her illegal activity, they cast her through the Wall — her people’s death sentence. What she finds on the other side about the world, about eternity, and...
49) The loop
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day is the same. Each day is torturous. But things are starting to change. Whispers of war are circulating. Strange things are happening to the prisoners. And the warden delivers a message: Luka, you have to get out ... Now Luka must decide whether breaking out of the Loop is his only way to survive, especially if there's any chance of saving the ones...
50) Bad memory
Author
Series
Jessica Shaw novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Quiet towns keep big secrets. Private investigator Jessica Shaw is leading a quiet life in a Californian desert community, where she spends her days working low-level cases. But when a former resident asks Jessica to help her sister, Rue Hunter—a convicted murderer whose execution is days away—Jessica can’t resist the offer. Rue doesn't remember what happened the night two high school students were killed thirty years ago, but everybody in town...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2005.
Appears on these lists
CSL - Adapted for Film or Television
CSL - Black Authors
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Longer Book Club Reads
CSL - Black Authors
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Longer Book Club Reads
Description
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what...
53) The ARC
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"All hope has seemingly been executed. Despite the fact that the truth of their oppressive leaders had been revealed to them, the crowd of Alts cheer as life drained from the boy. But one Alt, Chester 'Chilly' Beckett, did not celebrate; his eyes have been opened to the truth. The corpse is dragged away, but Chester remains determined to find out what is going on in the Laboratory on the 65th floor. There, he'll find three subjects tortured in an...
54) The green mile
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Description
Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.
55) The Paperboy
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
It takes audiences deep into the backwaters of steamy 1960s South Florida, as investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story. With the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Shuster
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Appears on these lists
CSL - Adapted for Film or Television
CSL - Books by or about Persons with Disabilities
CSL - Longer Book Club Reads
CSL - Books by or about Persons with Disabilities
CSL - Longer Book Club Reads
Description
In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is Black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.
58) High life
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Description
Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
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