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21) Sisters
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Four sisters, a Manhattan brownstone, and a tumultuous year of loss and courage are at the heart of Danielle Steelś new novel about a remarkable family, a stunning tragedy--and what happens when four very different young women come together under one very lively roof.
22) Private sector
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Sean Drummond novels volume 4
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When a telecom giant turns spy ring for a foreign power, only Sean Drummond can stop the leaks.
23) Bleak house
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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.
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
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The CIA tries to set up a former Washington power broker to be assassinated by a foreign spy because they want his knowledge of a sophisticated satellite surveillance system to be eliminated. However, they underestimate him.
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2013
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Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP -- 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he is on the hook for this one. He soon finds out that...
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Alex Cross novels volume 15
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington D.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin. When President Roosevelt, under whom Ben served in the Spanish-American war, asks Ben to investigate rumors of...
28) The brethren
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
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A group of former judges who are serving time at a minimum security prison put together a mail scam that is earning them a large amount of money, but when they attempt to scam a powerful political official, they find their operation, and their lives, in danger.
29) Mortal allies
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Sean Drummond novels volume 2
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Sean Drummand and his nemesis are assigned to work together on a case in South Korea and find themselves involved in a case that could have serious national consequences.
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Stone Barrington novels volume 6
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Trouble finds Stone smack in the middle of a romantic Mediterranean holiday. His trip to Venice--with the fiery Mafia princess Dolce--is cut short by a frantic phone call from half a world away. A celebrity murder has Los Angeles in an uproar and mysteriously threatens a former flame, Arrington Calder. And once he arrives there, amid Hollywood's sun and sin, he must plumb the depths of film society to find the killer--before a court trial rips away...
31) Got the look
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 5
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English
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FBI agent Andie Henning is tracking a ruthless kidnapper plaguing south Florida, one who's out to prove that all human life can be valued in dollars and cents. But at every turn, he has slipped through her net. This time he's taken the wife of one of the state's richest horse breeders and is asking a ransom of $1 million. The stakes go up when Andie finds the woman -- dead. Enter Jack Swyteck. He has a new girlfriend, Mia, and life is good -- until...
32) Innocent
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Kindle County novels volume 8
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2010
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"More than twenty years after Rusty Sabich and Tommy Moto went head-to head in the murder trial of "Presumed Innocent", the men are pitted against each other once again. When Sabich, now over sixty years old and the chief judge of an appellate court, finds his wife, Barbara, dead under smysterious circumstances, Molto accuses him of murder for the second time..."--Jacket of book.
33) Beach road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
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East Hampton attorney Tom Dunleavy must defend an old friend who has been arrested for a triple murder on a beach near a movie star's mansion.
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John Sutter volume 2
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When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 9
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English
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Then: Sergeant Vince Paulo held his best friend's daughter, McKenna, bleeding in his arms as she uttered the name of her murderer and ex-boyfriend, Jamal. That was minutes before a blast made everything go black for Vince -- forever. Now: Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck has been called in to save Jamal from the death penalty for terrorist activity. Despite urgent warnings from his fiance, undercover FBI agent Andie Henning, to stay away...
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2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
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When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Mickey Haller (of "The Lincoln Lawyer" fame) inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent's killer, he is not opposed to using Haller...
37) The Guardians
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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"In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence ... In desperation,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
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Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller regularly represents lowlifes. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence--it's about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it's even about justice.
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Twenty-nine-year-old Sophie Diehl is happy toiling away as a criminal law associate at an old line New England firm where she very much appreciates that most of her clients are behind bars. Everyone at Traynor, Hand knows she abhors face-to-face contact, but one weekend, with all the big partners away, Sophie must handle the intake interview for the daughter of the firm's most important client. After eighteen years of marriage, Mayflower descendant...
40) Born to run
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 8
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Jack Swyteck gets caught in a dangerous web of intrigue and murder at the top levels of the United States government in his most high-profile and disturbing case yet. Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck guards his own family secrets closely, after his father's two terms as Florida's governor made some personal rifts public. Things between the two men are finally better, and whenever Harry Swyteck asks for Jack's help he gets it. Suddenly, Harry...
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