Worthy brown's daughter / Phillip Margolin

By:

Margolin, Phillip [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Harper, [2014]Edition: First editionDescription: 345 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780062195340

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction

DDC classification:

Summary: One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew to the hangman.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Main Library Fiction Area	Fiction	Fic M329w 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	122924d

One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew to the hangman.

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