Just Mercy. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the 2014 book, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson, 2014
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Destin Daniel Cretton, 2019

In 1989, idealistic young Harvard law graduate Bryan Stevenson travels to Alabama hoping to help fight for poor people who cannot afford proper legal representation. Stevenson looks over the evidence in the case and discovers it hinges entirely on the testimony of convicted felon Ralph Myers, who provided highly self-contradictory testimony in exchange for a lighter sentence in his own pending trial.


The Lost Valentine. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 1996 book, The Last Valentine
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The Last Valentine
James Michael Pratt, 1996
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Darnell Martin, 2011

The story of Caroline Thomas, a woman who has waited 60 years for her pilot husband, who was reported lost in action during World War II, to return to her, is given to jaded reporter Susan Allison on Valentine’s Day.


Boy Erased. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 2016 book
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Boy Erased
Garrard Conley, 2016
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Joel Edgerton, 2018

Jared Eamons is the son of Marshall Eamons, a successful car dealer and Baptist preacher in Arkansas, and Nancy Eamons, a self-styled hairdresser. He begins his first day at the Love In Action gay conversion therapy assessment program in Memphis, Tennessee. Chief therapist Victor Sykes tells the group that their sexuality is a choice influenced by poor parenting.