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First published in 1926. Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husband's medicine, his food and his lemonade, and her crimes are being plastered across the newspapers. Even her lawyers believe she is guilty. But Roger Sheringham, the brilliant but outspoken young novelist, is convinced that there is 'too much evidence' against Mrs Bentley and sets out to prove her innocence....
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As our society becomes more global, international law is taking on an increasingly significant role, not only in world politics but also in the affairs of a striking array of individuals, enterprises, and institutions. In this comprehensive study, David J. Bederman focuses on international law as a current, practical means of regulating and influencing international behavior. He shows it to be a system unique in its nature-nonterritorial but secular,...
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Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving Rüya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps...
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The still surface of a sea is both menacing and calmly beautiful: a perfect metaphor for this reflective novel. The narrator's unassuming, thoughtful voice dampens but cannot conceal the forces driving his story of love and war and the boundless suffering of innocents. The narrator is a young historian, preoccupied with a case on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. The prosecution argues that the Serb...
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In this ninth book in the series, we witness how Tolly Victor Trueblood has grown, and along with his sister Augusta, they become part of the system. Still, they have to fight bigotry and fear from above as politicians panic in the face of the Dragons breath threat, fear of a governmental takeover is rife in Parliament, so the new Prime Minister has a plan to arrest them all, but his plan is flawed in its execution, long term heroes and Dragon men...
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Veronica's friends try to convince her to give Dexter a chance: Layla reached out, took my hands and looked into my eyes. "You're fighting it, Veronica. Let yourself go. Put away the journalism credibility outfit and let the wave take you where it wants. Stop thinking with your head and follow your heart. Give the guy a chance.” I'm not fighting anything. ”Yes you are," said Savannah. "Everyone can see it but you." -The irresistible force meets...
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Des années 80 aux années 2000, la pratique de mariages mixtes est une évidence, entre afro-européens, en Europe et particulièrement en Suisse. Ce phénomène naturel lié à la nature humaine, fait fi des origines natales et de la couleur de peau. Des enfants métis naissent des conjoints mixtes ou binationaux ; de l'union entre un Noir et une Blanche ; entre un Blanc et une Noire. L'ère est à la fusion ; celle du métissage qui permet aux...
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Trois condisciples d'université aux parcours de vies très contrastés se retrouvent mêlés, quelques dizaines d'années plus tard, à l'assassinat d'une danseuse dans un bar à entraîneuses bruxellois, le Medusa.
Quels sont les liens entre Edgard Brandt, un célèbre et richissime avocat pénaliste, Grabowski, le patron pervers de la boîte de nuit et Antoine Maudet, un auteur en mal de succès ?
À la veille de sa mort, Brandt confie à Maudet...
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A study of the life of a Maryland slave, his escape to freedom in New Jersey, and the trials that ensued.
James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeton, New Jersey, where he built a life in a bustling community of African Americans working at what is now Princeton University. After only four years, he was recognized by a student from Maryland, arrested, and subjected, to a trial for extradition under,...
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