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The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy--now a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime Foxx, and Brie Larson and the subject of an HBO documentary feature! In this very personal work--adapted from the original #1 bestseller, which the...

“My story has been told many times and by highly regarded experts in their fields—judges, prosecutors, juvenile probation officers, sociologists, journalists. But I would like to try to tell it to you myself. I have reason to believe the experts may be wrong about me. You see, today, thirty...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time...

In the tradition of Just Mercy, an inspirational memoir by WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husband, Jonathan Irons, who she helped free from a wrongful conviction.

New York Times Bestseller Nr.1. Ausgezeichnet als Buch des Jahres von New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Esquire und Time. "Bryan Stevenson ist Amerikas junger Nelson Mandela" - Desmond Tutu "Ohne Gnade" ist eine kraftvolle, wahre Geschichte, die Rassismus und Diskriminierung einer Gesellschaft anprangert - ein aktuelles Problem nicht nur in den USA, sondern auch in Europa. Tausende Menschen in den USA sowie in der gesamten EU sind weiterhin mit Ungleichbehandlung, Polizeigewalt und Diskriminierung aufgrund der Rasse, Hautfarbe oder ethnischen Herkunft konfrontiert.

Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn Ifill's On the Courthouse Lawn examines the numerous ways that this racial trauma still resounds across the United States. While the lynchings and their immediate aftermath were devastating, the...

Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. “An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”...