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1) The jury
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Paul Madriani novels volume 6
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English
Description
"Paul Madriani has ample reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical researcher, is charged with the murder of a young colleague: twenty-six-year-old Kalista Jordan, an African-American research physician, whose body washed up on a beach in San Diego Bay. Forensic evidence links her murder with material in Crone's garage. Crone had both opportunity and motive: Kalista had recently filed sexual harassment...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
900L
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English
Description
In the office of a plastic surgeon, lawyer Kerry McGrath is shocked to see two patients resembling a woman who was murdered. McGrath is familiar with the woman, having prosecuted the murderer who is now on death row. She reopens the case and gets a shock. By the author of Remember Me.
3) New tricks
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Advocating on behalf of a puppy whose owner was murdered during a custody fight, Andy Carpenter realizes that the pup possesses a dangerous secret that several people are resorting to violence to obtain.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
Description
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--...
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"A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition--and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back. Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband's lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge. A year later, Virginia stands trial for murder....
6) Glass houses
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When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet Gamache does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain's darkly comic short classic set in the antebellum South stands as a literary condemnation of slavery and racial inequality. Each enriched classic edition includes: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information. A chronology of the author's life and work. A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context. An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations....
8) Monster
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
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English
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
9) 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?
11) From a distance
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Timber Ridge reflections volume 1
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English
Description
Determined to establish herself as a photojournalist, Elizabeth Westbrook travels from Washington, D.C., to Timber Ridge, Colorado. But when one of her pictures is used as evidence in a murder trial, she finds her life in peril. Meeting Confederate sharpshooter Daniel Ranslett teaches Elizabeth something surprising about herself---but what she learns about Daniel is life changing!
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"Tabitha is accused of murder. She is in prison awaiting trial. There is a strong case against her, and she can't remember what happened on December 21st. She is alone, frightened and confused. But somehow, from the confines of her cell, she needs to prove everyone wrong. House of Correction is beautifully written, clever, shocking, twisty, so believable and utterly compelling. This is another stunningly brilliant novel to relish from Nicci French."--Provided...
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Alex Morrow novel volume 6
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English
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"William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a fool, a social climber. Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a rapist, a criminal. He claims he can get hold of the gun used to murder Watt's family. One night in 1957, Watt meets Manuel in a Glasgow bar to find out what he knows. Based on true events, The Long Drop is an extraordinarily unsettling, evocative and compelling novel from a writer at the height of her powers"--
14) A time for mercy
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Jake Brigance novels volume 3
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English
Description
Court-appointed lawyer Jake Brigance puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line to defend a sixteen-year-old suspect who is accused of killing a local deputy and facing the death penalty.
15) Beach road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
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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The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial involving a rich, white teenage girl--a twin--on trial for the horrific murder of her toddler brother, and the sequestered jury deciding her fate. . .Two of the jurors sequestered (she, Juror C-2; he, F-17), holed up at the Econo-Lodge off I-75. As the shocking and numbing details of the crime and its surrounding facts are revealed during a string of days and seemingly endless court...
17) Rain gods
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Hackberry Holland novels volume 2
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English
Description
Hackberry Holland takes the sheriff job in a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border hoping he can leave his past behind and lead a quiet life, but the discovery of nine illegal aliens who were brutally murdered ruins any chance of peace and sends Hackberry in search of Iraq veteran Pete Flores and his girlfriend, who witnessed the crime and are wanted by the ruthless criminals who will stop at nothing to keep them quiet.
18) Innocent
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Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto went head-to-head in a shattering murder trial in the genre-defining, landmark bestseller Presumed Innocent. Now, more than twenty years later, the men are pitted against each other once again in a riveting psychological match. Over sixty years old and the chief judge of an appellate court, Sabich has found his wife, Barbara, dead under mysterious circumstances. Molto accuses him of murder for the second time, setting...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
760L
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English
Description
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...
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