Books like Nineteen Minutes
In nineteen minutes, seventeen-year-old Peter Houghton, bullied since kindergarten, brings guns to his New Hampshire high school, and the town tries to understand how it happened, while the judge assigned to the case has a daughter who was there and says she cannot remember.
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Mad Honey
Olivia McAfee left an abusive marriage to take over her father's beekeeping business in a small New Hampshire town, and her teenage son Asher falls for Lily Campanello, who is new in town. Months later Lily is dead and Asher is charged with her murder.
Midwives
During an ice storm in rural Vermont in 1981, midwife Sibyl Danforth performs an emergency caesarean on a mother she believes has died in labour and is charged with manslaughter; her daughter Connie, fourteen at the time and now an obstetrician, tells the story of the trial.
My Sister's Keeper
Thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald was conceived as a genetic match for her sister Kate, who has leukemia, and has given blood and marrow all her life; when her parents expect her to give a kidney, she hires a lawyer and sues them for the right to decide.
Small Great Things
Ruth Jefferson, a labour and delivery nurse with twenty years' experience, is barred from caring for a newborn because his parents are white supremacists, and when the baby goes into distress while she is alone with him, she is charged with his death.
Thirteen Reasons Why
Clay Jensen comes home to find a box of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a classmate who took her own life two weeks earlier, explaining the thirteen reasons why, and he is one of them.
The House Gun
Harald and Claudia Lindgard, a comfortable white couple in post-apartheid Johannesburg, learn that their son has been arrested for murder.
A Map of the World
Alice Goodwin, a school nurse who lives with her husband and daughters on a dairy farm in rural Wisconsin, is minding her best friend's two little girls when one of them wanders down to the pond.
To Kill a Mockingbird
A lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a Black man falsely accused of rape, as seen through the eyes of his young daughter.
A Time to Kill
A small-town Mississippi lawyer takes the case of a black father who killed the two white men who raped his daughter, and the Klan starts showing up in the parking lot.
Monster
Steve Harmon, a sixteen-year-old from Harlem on trial for his part in a deadly drugstore robbery, tells his story as a screenplay he writes in his head, broken up by entries from his prison journal.
While I Was Gone
Jo Becker, a veterinarian in a small Massachusetts town married to a minister, is unsettled when Eli Mayhew, who shared a Cambridge house with her in the 1960s, turns up at her practice, bringing back the housemate who was murdered there.
Dear Martin
Justyce McAllister, a Black honour student at a mostly white Atlanta prep school, is handcuffed by a police officer while trying to help his drunk ex-girlfriend, and starts writing letters to Martin Luther King Jr. to work out how to live by his teachings.