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Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected--and first female, state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It's not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard county doesn't see many homicides. As Lu prepares for the trial,...
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Victor Carl novels volume 1
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When a young lawyer whose practice is on the verge of collapse grasps the opportunity to work with a major legal firm, he finds himself asked to send a potentially innocent man to his death.
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"Paul Madriani, now a brilliant criminal defense attorney, was once a promising associate with Potter, Skarpellos, a prestigious law firm. One of its co-founders, his faultless reputation has earned him a probable nomination to the U. S. Supreme Court -- until the aftermath of an affair with Ben Potter's wife. Paul has left the firm and taken up a self-imposed exile in a small solo practice. On the eve of the nomination, Potter is found dead, an apparent...
5) Beach road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
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A struggling Long Island lawyer, Tom Dunleavy, recruits a Manhattan superlawyer, Kate Costello, to help him defend a local man accused of murdering three people near a movie star's mansion in East Hampton. The nation is watching what is expected to be a "trial of the century."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 20
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John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits--...
7) After dark
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ttorney Abbie Griffin is in the middle of a messy divorce when her husband is killed by a car bomb. She believes it to be the work of Charlie Deems, a man she put on death row. Is he also behind her subsequent arrest for her ex-husband's murder?
9) 3:10 to Yuma
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[2007]
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Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail,...
10) Blue diary
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
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The lives of the people of the small town of Monroe, Massachusetts are shattered when beloved friend and neighbor Ethan Ford--a Little League coach, trusted contractor, doting husband and father, and heroic volunteer fireman--is arrested for a fifteen-year-old murder which he readily admits to committing.
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Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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860L
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"This book is the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948. Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, " We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved...
16) Alias Grace
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 28
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Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, the wealthy Thomas Kinnear, and of Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Now serving a life sentence, she claims to have no memory of the murders. As Dr. Jordan tries to help her remember, he hears of the turbulent relationships in the Kinnear household and the alarming behavior of a fellow servant.
17) The red balcony
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"A gripping historical novel of sex, love, and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandate Palestine, by the acclaimed author of A Palestine Affair In 1933, Ivor Castle, an Oxford-educated Jew, arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel for the two men accused of murdering Haim Arlosoroff, a figure whose tactics to get Jews out of Hitler's Germany and into Palestine were controversial enough to get him killed. Ivor,...
18) The last juror
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
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"In 1970, Willie Traynor comes to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old finds himself the owner of Ford County's only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While the rest of America is in the grips of turmoil, Clanton lives on the edge of another age--until the brutal murder of a young mother rocks the town and thrusts Willie into the center of a storm. Daring...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
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760L
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For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything fro Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty. Parents and children alike are best friends-so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born. When the midnight calls come in from the hospital, no one is prepared for the appalling truth; Emily is dead at seventeen...
20) A trial by jury
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The author recounts his experience with the American criminal justice system as the foreman of a sequestered jury debating the guilt or innocence of an individual accused of a brutal murder.
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