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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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A corporate lawyer in Washington goes to war against his own company to defend the homeless. It happens after Michael Brock is abducted by a homeless man and held hostage. The homeless man is killed by a police sharpshooter and the lawyer is rescued, but the experience changes his life. Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better;...
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Nominated for the National Book Award: The story of a middle-aged American man searching for himself in the ruins of Mexico At the start of this vibrant and invigorating novel, Robert Brill has a farm, a law practice, a daughter in high school, a son fighting in Vietnam, and a wife who deep dives into the sherry bottle every night. What more can a typical midwesterner ask for in the late 1960s? A lot, thinks Brill. Tired of distracting himself with...
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Perfect for fans of John Grisham, Greg Iles, and Linda Fairstein this action-packed legal thriller debut races from the gleaming canyons of New York City to the hurricane-lashed waters of the Caribbean. Michael Rudolph s Noble Chase combines a smart, determined heroine and a storm of stunning surprises in a pulse-pounding morality tale of international intrigue that delivers suspense right up to the shocking end. Sic transit gloria. Beth Swahn, a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer, that is a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company, and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at...
6) Daddy's girl
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Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class. When a colleague talks Nat into teaching a class at a local prison, her comfortable world turns upside. A violent prison riot breaks out, and in the chaos, Nat rushes to help an injured guard. Before he dies, he asks her to deliver a cryptic message. The dying declaration plunges Nat into a nightmare. Suddenly, the girl who has always...
7) The brethren
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Three imprisoned ex-judges concoct an elaborate blackmail scheme that preys on wealthy, closeted gay men while Aaron Lake, a presidential candidate with CIA connections, rises to power.
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Rumpole of the Bailey volume 1
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English
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Six stories featuring the beloved barrister at his best.
10) Perfect match
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and she has seen too many go free. But all her experience cannot prepare her for the horror when her own son becomes a victim - and is rendered mute by the trauma. Author of "Salem Falls" and "Plain truth."
11) Tempting fate
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts proves that the MacGregor charm should be illegal in the second novel in her beloved series.
Attorney Caine MacGregor has a reputation for winning—cases and women. But trying to coax the cool and calm Diana Blade into a partnership and into his bed may be his greatest challenge yet.
A NORA ROBERTS CLASSIC AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME
Attorney Caine MacGregor has a reputation for winning—cases and women. But trying to coax the cool and calm Diana Blade into a partnership and into his bed may be his greatest challenge yet.
A NORA ROBERTS CLASSIC AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME
12) The trial
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Attorney Kent "Mac" McClain, his life still empty after the accidental deaths of his wife and sons, takes the case of a man accussed of murdering an heiress.
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"Gifted young New York lawyer Alec Brno gets the career boost of a lifetime: the opportunity to try a huge fraud case making international headlines. But he risks it all when he falls for an alluring young woman whose estranged husband is a sadistic Mafia don--and the criminal mastermind behind Alec's case."--
15) The partner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Patrick Lanigan was once a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then he stole ninety million dollars from his own firm and ran for his life. For four years, he's evaded powerful men. Then, inevitably, they tracked him down at the edge of a Brazilian jungle. Patrick is coming home to the Mississippi city where it all began. As the trial begins, Patrick's former partners wait for their revenge. But another story is...
16) Killer smile
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 9
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English
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When she receives personal threats and an associate is murdered, young lawyer Mary DiNunzio realizes that her latest case, involving a World War II internment camp suicide, may have deadly modern-day ties.
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Jay Porter novels volume 1
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When African-American lawyer Jay Porter jumps into the bayou to save a drowning white woman in Houston, Texas, in 1981, he finds his practice and life in danger when he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation involving Houston's elite.
18) El juicio
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Grupo Nelson
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Español
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Años después de perder a su familia en un accidente terrible, el abogado Kent McClain se siente que el suicidio es su único escape de la depresión mental. Pero entonces se le ofrece la oportunidad de defender a un asesino acusado, Peter Thomason.
Years after losing his wife and children in an awful accident, attorney Kent McClain sinks deeper and deeper into a suicidal depression, until taking the case of accused killer Peter Thomason, which...
19) The hidden man
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Jason Kolarich novels volume 1
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English
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Jason Kolarich is a young, intelligent, successful lawyer struggling with overwhelming motion burdens that threaten to unravel his life. However, when a long-estranged resurfaces needing help, Jason tries to salve old wounds realizing that unsettling events from the past need to be exposed in order to crack onto only this case but a connected, decades-old cold case.
20) Daisy in chains
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"He's a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks. But despite Hamish Wolfe's conviction, he's always stuck to his story--he's innocent and he's been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate and, more importantly, to write his story. Maggie Rose is a notorious defense attorney and writer whose specialty is getting convictions overturned. At first, Maggie is reluctant to even acknowledge Hamish's requests...