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John Grisham's A Time To Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just earlier.

Ferron Reads

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazie Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter. It's a long title, a longer book and now a movie. What if I told you there was a major story about World War II that hasn't been told, involving an unlikely group of heroes you've never heard of, a group that didn't carry machine guns or drive tanks? These unknown heroes were known as the "Monuments Men". Their initial responsibility was to combat damage to structures and artifiacts. Then their focus shifted to locating and saving missing art. Most had been stolen by the Nazis. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians and others risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture.