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1) The partner
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well.But Danilo had a past with many chapters. Four years earlier he had been Patrick Lanigan,...
2) The chamber
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case. Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens...
Author
Series
Kerry Kilcannon trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
"On a cold day in January President Kerry Kilcannon takes the oath of office-- and within days makes his first, most important move: appointing a new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Kilcannon's choice is a female judge with a brilliant record. And a secret. While the Senate spars over Caroline Masters' nomination, an inflammatory abortion rights case is making its way toward the judge--and will explode into the headlines. Suddenly, the most divisive...
5) The kills
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Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper's case against Andrew Tripping, charged with the rape of investment banker Paige Vallis, is in trouble when she is handed a second case: the murder of a former Harlem Renaissance dancer, Queenie Ransome. Queenie was also a one-time mistress to King Farouk of Egypt, and reputedly fled the palace with handfuls of jewels. And as Alexandra begins untangling Queenie's dangerous, complex past, the threads...
6) Daddy's girl
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Language
English
Description
Law professor Natalie Greco finds her comfortable world turned upside down after she agrees to teach a class at a local prison and is caught in the middle of a violent prison riot that will change her life forever.
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Language
English
Description
"Assistant DA Holt Douglas makes his living exposing lies and sending criminals to jail in Ashley County, Georgia. His job is always easier when defendants, instead of remaining silent, blame someone else or try to excuse their actions. With a confession in his hand, Holt knows a guilty plea will soon follow. But lurking in Holt's past is a dark secret that could end his successful career and possibly his relationship with Angelina, his hoped-for...
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Language
English
Description
Jace Damon, a bicycle messenger in Los Angeles working to support his little brother, does not know which way to turn when he is sent by low-class attorney Lenny Lowell to deliver a package and discovers the drop is an empty lot where someone is waiting to kill him--but when he goes to confront Lenny, he finds the lawyer murdered and himself the main suspect.
10) The Rooster Bar
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Language
English
Description
Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
GN 690L
Language
English
Description
"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...
12) Fool me once
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When her mother, who supposedly died in childbirth, leaves her a vast fortune with a caveat regarding a crime committed years ago, a woman turns to a lawyer for help in understanding who her mother really was.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mortal fear: When the woman with whom he has been having an online love affair is murdered by a serial killer specializing in female clients of EROS, an exclusive, erotic online service, Harper Cole devises a deadly plan to impersonate his dead lover online, hoping to lead the killer out into the open.
Spandau phoenix: The Spandau diary, what was in it? Why did the secret intelligence agencies of every major power want it? Why was a brave and beautiful...
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