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008 220707s2014 nyu 000 1 eng d
020 _a9780062195340
040 _cQCPL
_erda
082 _aFic
100 1 _aMargolin, Phillip
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aWorthy brown's daughter
_c/ Phillip Margolin
250 _aFirst edition
264 1 _aNew York :
_bHarper,
_c[2014]
300 _a345 pages
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
520 _aOne 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.
650 _aFreed persons
_vFiction
655 7 _2lcgft
_910520
_aHistorical fiction
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK
690 _aHistorical fiction