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Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
College dropout Willie Traynor turns a small-town Mississippi newspaper into a success covering a local rape and murder case in the 1970s and finds his life coming full circle when, nine years after receiving a life sentence for the crime, Danny Padgitt is paroled and jury members from the trial begin turning up dead.
Series
Beartown volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and the surrounding wilderness. A victory like this would draw national attention to the ailing town: it could attract government funding and an influx of talented athletes who would choose Beartown over the big nearby cities. A victory like this would certainly...