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1) 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.
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Blue Sky Hills volume 1
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For Rebecca Macklin, an ordinary summer brings about an extraordinary change of heart when she discovers that her aging father has been wandering the Dallas streets alone, and his wife, Hanna Beth, has landed in a nursing home. Now Rebecca must put aside old resentments and return to her childhood home. In this moving story of separation and forgiveness, two women will unravel the betrayals of the past and discover the true meaning of family.
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"This first entry in a taut courtroom thriller introduces the best character James Patterson or Mike Lupica has ever created"--Provided by publisher.
Once an NYPD cop, then a private investigator, Jane Smith is now an undefeated defense attorney who's steering a client possibly responsible for multiple murders through a headlines-making trial. She's confident and newly in love, but there are problems: she's facing a terminal diagnosis with just 14...
5) Reckoning
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"Agents Savich and Sherlock are back, ... and this time both are enlisted to help [a woman and a twelve-year-old prodigy] with traumatic pasts who are in mortal danger"--
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2023.
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"In the wake of her parents' death, Aretha, a habitually single Black lawyer, has had only one obsession in life-success-until she falls for Aaron, a coffee entrepreneur. Moving into his Brooklyn brownstone to live along with his Hurricane Sandy-traumatized, illegal-gun-stockpiling, optimized-soy-protein-eating, bunker-building roommates, Aretha finds that her dreams of making partner are slipping away, replaced by an underground world, one of selling...
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2017.
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Sarah's grandfather was a horseman of rare talent -- only the exceptional are allowed into France's elite riding academy, Le Cadre Noir. But life took an unexpected turn, and now from a council estate in east London, the Captain hopes to train his granddaughter towards a better life. Natasha is a lawyer whose job is to represent the best interests of children. Her confidence in her judgement has been shaken and her marriage has died -- but an encounter...
10) Juror #3
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Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar -- and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony. The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction. Ruby's client is a college football star who has returned...
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Meghann Dontess is a woman haunted by heartbreak. Twenty-five years ago she was forced to make a terrible choice, one that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire. Now, Meghann is a hotshot divorce attorney who doesn't believe in intimacy -- until she meets the one man who can change her mind. Claire Cavenaugh has fallen in love for the first time in her life. As her wedding day approaches, she prepares to face her harsh, judgmental...
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Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind... Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father -- Pikeville's notorious defense attorney -- devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Twenty-eight years...
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Amanda Jaffe novels volume 1
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English
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Junior attorney Amanda Jaffe investigates allegations against a surgeon with a long history of violence and drug abuse for a series of brutal murders.
14) Ties that bind
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Amanda Jaffe novels volume 2
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English
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When young defense attorney Amanda Jaffe takes the case of a high-class pimp accused of murder, she finds herself faced with the task of unmasking a covert club of prominent officials who secretly manipulate unsuspecting men and women into implementing the club's criminal master plan to elect one of their own to the U.S. presidency.
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Rebecka Martinsson mysteries volume 5
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Maclehose Press Quercus
Pub. Date
2015
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371 pages ; 21 cm
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English
16) Starting now
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Blossom Street volume 9
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2013
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English
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For years Libby Morgan dreamed only of making partner in her competitive, high-pressure law firm. She sacrificed everything for her career -- her friends, her marriage, her chance at creating a family. When her boss calls Libby into his office, she assumes it will finally be good news, but nothing can prepare her for the shocking reality: She's been let go and must rebuild her entire life . . . starting now. With no job prospects in sight, Libby reaches...
17) Final appeal
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To Philadelphia lawyer Grace Rossi, who's starting over after a divorce, apart-time job with a federal appeals court sounds perfect. But Grace doesn't count on being assigned to an explosive death penalty appeal. Nor does she expect ardor in the court, in the form of an affair with her boss, Chief Judge Armen Gregorian. Then the truly unimaginable happens and Grace finds herself investigating a murder. Unearthing a six-figure bank account kept by...
19) Critical mass
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Jove Books
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1999, c1998
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367 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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Lawyer Joselyn Cole, having moved to the San Juan Islands of Washington State in search of a quieter life, helps businessman Dean Belden set up a business in the islands only to discover that her client is involved in a very dangerous enterprise.
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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...
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