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Common Read -- Picking Cotton: Important Themes

This is a gripping, well-written story, depicting profound injustice and the redemptive power of forgiveness.

Injustice

Life after Death by Damien Echols
Call Number: HV8700.E33 A3 2012
ISBN: 9780399160202
Controversies in Innocence Cases in America by Sarah Cooper
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781409463559
Publication Date: 2014

False Memory

Diagnosis for Disaster by Claudette Wassil-Grimm
ISBN: 0879516380
Publication Date: RC455.2.F35 W37 1996
Smoke and Mirrors by Terence W. Campbell
Call Number: RC 455.2 .F35 C35 1998
ISBN: 0306459841

Racism

Racism in American Popular Media by Brian D. Behnken; Gregory D. Smithers
Call Number: P94.5.M552 U625 2015
ISBN: 9781440829765
Racial Battle Fatigue by Jennifer L. Martin (Editor)
Call Number: LC212.2 .R325 2015
ISBN: 9781440832093

Prison System

Tales of a Jailhouse Librarian by Marybeth Zeman
Call Number: Z675 .P8 Z46 2014
ISBN: 1495201899
Color Behind Bars by Scott Wm. Bowman (Editor)
Call Number: HV9471 .C645 2014
ISBN: 9780313399039

Forgiveness

Forgiveness and Reconciliation by Ani Kalayjian; Raymond F. Paloutzian
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1441901817
The True American by Anand Giridharadas
Call Number: HV6533 .T4 G57 2014
ISBN: 9780393239508

Horrors of Rape

Sexual Assault and the Military by Noah Berlatsky
Call Number: UB418 .W65 S42 2015
ISBN: 0737771879
Asking for It by Kate Harding
ISBN: 0738217026