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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Here the author, a physician and reporter, provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. She reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1994, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
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 death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.
"An instant classic." —Chicago Tribune
A “majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our...
"An instant classic." —Chicago Tribune
A “majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Hollywood art dealer Ron Hall and former Louisiana indentured servant Denver Moore reflect on their lives and the friendship that was established between them thanks to Ron's late wife Deborah's volunteer work at Union Gospel Mission in Fort Worth, Texas.
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