The Execution of Willie Francis

The Execution of Willie Francis
Author: Gilbert King
Publisher: Civitas Books
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2008
Genre: History
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The inspiration behind "A Lesson Before Dying" meets the best of John Grisham as a young Cajun lawyer fights to save a black teenager from the electric chair. 16-page b&w photo insert.


The Execution of Willie Francis
Language: en
Pages: 410
Authors: Gilbert King
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Civitas Books

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The inspiration behind "A Lesson Before Dying" meets the best of John Grisham as a young Cajun lawyer fights to save a black teenager from the electric chair. 1
Devil in the Grove
Language: en
Pages: 508
Authors: Gilbert King
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-06 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York Times Arguably the most important American lawyer of the
A Lesson Before Dying
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Ernest J. Gaines
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-20 - Publisher: Vintage

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on deat
Beneath a Ruthless Sun
Language: en
Pages: 434
Authors: Gilbert King
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-23 - Publisher: Penguin

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"Exposes the sinister complexity of American racism... King tells this... story with grace and sensitivity, and his narrative never flags." --Jeffrey Toobin, Ne
The Mercy Seat
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Elizabeth H. Winthrop
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-08 - Publisher: Grove Press

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The acclaimed novel by the author of The Why of Things tackles “the Deep South during the Gothic worst of Jim Crow times . . . truly a bravura performance”