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Series
Ellen Foster duology volume 1
Language
English
Description
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
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Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010,c1960
Language
English
Description
A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.
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Language
English
Description
"On a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the Packard along with Jubie are her three siblings, her mother, and the family's black maid, Mary Luther. For as long as Jubie can remember, Mary has been there-cooking, cleaning, compensating for her father's rages and her mother's benign neglect, and loving Jubie unconditionally. Bright and curious,...
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Español
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El consejo de un abogado a sus hijos mientras él defiende el verdadero ruiseñor de la novela clásica de Harper Lee --un hombre negro acusado de violar a una niña blanca. "A trav́es de los ojos de Jem y Scout Finch, Harper Lee explora con humor y honestidad inquebrantable la irracionalidad de la actitud de los adultos hacia la raza y la clase en las profundidades del sur en la d́ecada de 1930. La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios,...
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English
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One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views...
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Publisher
José Olympio editora
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Um livro emblematico sobre racismo e injustica: a historia de um advogado que defende um homem negro acusado de estuprar uma mulher branca nos Estados Unidos dos anos 1930 e enfrenta represalias da comunidade racista. O livro e narrado pela sensivel Scout, filha do advogado. Uma historia atemporal sobre tolerancia, perda da inocencia e conceito de justica." --
Author
Series
Livre de poche volume 30617
Publisher
Éditions de Fallois
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
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