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Murder victims

A Wreath for Emmett Till

Marilyn Nelson

This illustrated poetry collection eulogizes Emmett Till, an African American man who was killed in a brutal, racially motivated lynching in 1955.

811
NEL

For Laci

Sharon Rocha

Sharon Rocha recounts the events surrounding her daughter, Laci Peterson's, murder, the trial of Laci's husband Scott, and her own personal struggle to overcome her daughter's death.

364.152
ROC

A Wreath for Emmett Till

Marilyn Nelson

This illustrated poetry collection eulogizes Emmett Till, an African American man who was killed in a brutal, racially motivated lynching in 1955.

811
NEL

The Other Side of the River

Alex Kotlowitz

Sensitively portrays the lives and hopes of a town's citizens as they wrestle with a mysterious death, revealing the attitudes and misperceptions that undermine race relations throughout America.

977.4
Kot
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