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1) Hounded
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"Andy Carpenter isn't sure what to think when he gets a mysterious phone call from a good friend, policeman Pete Stanton, asking him to drop everything, drive to an unfamiliar address, and bring his girlfriend, Laurie Collins. He certainly isn't expecting to show up at a crime scene. But that's exactly where he arrives-at the house where Pete has just discovered the body of ex-convict Danny Diaz. Upstairs are Danny's now orphaned eight-year-old son...
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Attorney John O'Rourke, his household in turmoil since the death of his wife, and his family the target of resentment over his defense of the so-called Breakwater Killer, finds his life further complicated by the arrival of Kate Harris, a woman trying to discover whether her missing sister is one of the killer's victims.
3) The pardon
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After getting a confessed killer off on a technicality, brilliant young defense attorney Jack Swyteck, estranged son of Governor Harry Swyteck, a proponent of the death penalty, finds himself framed for murder.
4) Lily White
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Part mystery, part family story of Jews trying to integrate into Wasp society on Long Island. The heroine is Lily, a Jewish lawyer defending a con man accused of murder. The man specialized in seducing women for their money and one was killed. Lily suspects the real killer was the con man's jealous girlfriend.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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GN 690L
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English
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"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel-a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
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1180L
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English
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...
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