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"Jane Morgan is a valued member of her law firm--or was, until a prudish neighbor, binoculars poised, observes her having sex on the roof of her NYC apartment building. Police are summoned, and a punishing judge sentences her to six months of home confinement. With Jane now jobless and rootless, trapped at home, life looks bleak. Yes, her twin sister provides support and advice, but mostly of the unwelcome kind. When a doorman lets slip that Jane...
42) Water's edge
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Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2011
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591 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Sometimes the smallest towns hold the biggest secrets. Ambitious young attorney Tom Crane is about to become a partner in a big-city law firm. One final matter has to be cleared from his docket -- the closing of his deceased father's law practice in the small town of Bethel. Killed in a tragic boating accident, John Crane didn't leave his son anything except the hassle of a bankrupt estate. Then, within twenty-four hours, Tom loses his job, his girlfriend,...
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Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan -- the...
44) Rojo
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Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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Shortly before the 1976 Argentine coup d'etat that established a military dictatorship in the country, a successful lawyer finds himself entangled in various shady affairs as a result of an altercation with a stranger that did not end well.
45) Beautiful you
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English
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A novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more . . . Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka "Climax-Well," a software mega-billionaire and lover of the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too--and he's certain...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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3 videodiscs (approximately 499 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Jimmy McGill takes a decisive step in his transformation into Breaking Bad's infamous criminal lawyer, Saul Goodman. Meanwhile, Mike searches for a mysterious adversary, leading him deep into the enigmatic world of Gus Fring.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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3 videodiscs (460 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer, Jimmy McGill, leading up to establishing his strip-mall law office in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Sean Drummond novels volume 6
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English
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Army attorney Sean Drummond, who has been recently promoted to Army lieutenant colonel, and Army Military Police officer Bian Tran investigate the death of a defense official who was an early supporter of the Iraq War.
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English
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Claire Chapman has it all. A celebrity professor at Harvard Law School and high-powered criminal defense attorney, she has recently successfully defended a movie star in a rape trial. And she has a loving husband, Tom, and a cute six year old daughter. But this is all about to change. A random burglary sets off a terrifying chain of events. Tom is arrested and put on trial for a thirteen year old mass murder, and Claire puts her reputation on the...
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Lucy Baker walks away from her high-flying legal career when she successfully defends yet another heinous criminal. Almost a year after her life-changing decision, Lucy has never been happier. Leaving New York City for the suburbs, tending her garden and her dog, Luch is making future plans with her fiancé, Jonathan St. Clair--and getting acquainted with her neighbors, including the handsome, exasperating one next door, Wylie Wilson. But when FBI...
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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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Robin Lockwood novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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" Joe Lattimore, homeless and trying desperately to provide for his young family, agrees to fight in a no-holds-barred illegal boxing match, only to have his opponent die. Lattimore now finds himself at the mercy of the fight's organizers who blackmail him into burglarizing a house. However, when he breaks in, he finds a murdered woman on the floor and the police have received an anonymous tip naming him the murderer. Robin Lockwood, an increasingly...
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Series
Wedding dates volume 5
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking. Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe's mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell. Olivia has zero interest in dating a politician, but when a cake arrives at her...
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Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes. Nina's secret life began 18 years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, and a carefree life in Key West. When she learned she was pregnant...
56) Blood money
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 10
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English
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It is the most sensational murder trial since O. J. Simpson's. The nation is obsessed with Sydney Bennett, a sexy nightclub waitress and good-time girl accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter for cramping her party life. When he had agreed to defend Sydney, Jack Swyteck knew he'd be taking on the toughest and most controversial case of his career. Millions of "TV jurors" have convicted Sydney in the court of public opinion. When the shocking...
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Paddy Meehan novels volume 2
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English
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The domestic dispute in a wealthy suburb seems like nothing unusual. The elegant blonde bleeding in the shadows doesn't want help; and the well-dressed, ingratiating man at the front door tells investigative journalist Paddy Meehan everything's fine. Then he asks her to make sure nothing appears in the paper, slipping cash into her hand. The next morning Paddy sees on TV: the blond woman had been tortured, beaten, and left to die. The untraceable...
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Amanda Jaffe novels volume 5
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English
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Dale Masterson, senior partner in a large Portland, Oregon, law firm, has become wealthy and successful representing the interests of oil and coal companies. When his colleague, Christine Larson, is found dead, Masterson’s business practices are put under surveillance and a lower-level employee stands accused. The controversy surrounding the firm is magnified tenfold when Dale is found beaten to death in his mansion. But this time Dale’s son,...
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Voodoo volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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Q: Where to go when you've lost your mojo? A: Baby, drive south. When attorney Gloria Dalton arrives in the small town of Mojo, Louisiana, she's desperate for change. Her past haunts her -- at sixteen she was forced into the witness protection program and ripped away from Zane Riley, the boy she loved. After years of heartbreak and hiding, she's hoping that this move will be her last, that she can make a life for herself among the quirky residents...
60) Proof positive
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Amanda Jaffe novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Doug Weaver is a defense attorney who always believes the best of his clients, and Jacob Cohen, on trial for murder, is no exception. Jacob may be homeless and mentally ill, but Doug can't imagine that this meek and intensely religious man could have killed and dismembered a woman. Yet Bernard Cashman, a forensic expert at the Oregon State Crime Lab, finds evidence that indisputably connects Cohen with the crime. Frustrated and confused, Doug consults...
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