Elizabeth Cox
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On an early spring night in 1991, two high school sweethearts slip away from a party and sneak off into the woods to make love for the first time. But what is meant to be an idyllic, intimate evening turns into a nightmare that leaves Sophie unconscious and Crow, despite evidence, proclaiming his innocence.
3) Night talk
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The friendship of a black girl and a white girl in the racist South of the 1950s. They share the same room, which is so much against the mores of the day that they have to keep it a secret. After the lights are out, they exchange confidences. A friendship tested by rape and murder.
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"Adam Finney, a young man who is mentally disabled, faces sterilization and lobotomy in a state-supported asylum. When he is found dead in the French Broad River of rural North Carolina, his teenaged stepsister, Jess, is sought for questioning by their family and the police. Jess's odyssey of escape across four states leads into dark territories of life-and-death moral choices where compassion and grace offer faint illumination but few answers. A...