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61) Angel's advocate
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English
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Lawyer Brianna Winston-Beaufort is finally getting a case that should pay the bills--because her client is the living daughter of a recently dead millionaire. But when the ghost of the dead millionaire shows up needing Bree's help too, she knows the lucrative case just became more costly.
62) Under the radar
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Sisterhood volume 13
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English
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Thrown into a tailspin when two members of their circle disappear into the night, the ladies of Pinewood are facing their most important assignment yet.
63) Overkill
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English
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"Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger hasn't seen his ex-wife, Rebecca Pratt, for years--not since their volatile marriage imploded--so he's shocked to receive a life-altering call about her. Rebecca has been placed on life support after a violent assault, and he--despite their divorce--has medical power-of-attorney. Zach is asked to make an impossible choice: keep her on life support or take her off of it. Buckling under the weight of the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1050L
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English
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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....
65) Defending angels
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English
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Bree Winston-Beaufort defends the ghost of billionaire Benjamin Skinner in the Celestial Court, where he stands accused of greed.
66) Breach of trust
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Atlanta justice volume 3
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English
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"When corporate litigator Mia Shaw's colleague is brutally murdered, she vows to make the killer pay. The accused is a friend of Noah Ramirez, who knows something doesn't add up. Can he convince her that the killer is still on the loose--and protect her from growing threats?" --
67) The crossing
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Harry Bosch volume 18
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English
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Six months ago, Harry Bosch left the LAPD before they could fire him, and then hired maverick Defense Attorney Mickey Haller to sue the department for forcing him out. Although it wasn't the way he wanted to go, Harry has to admit that being out of the game has its benefits. Until Mickey asks him to help on one of his cases, and suddenly Harry is back where he belongs, right in the centre of a particularly puzzling murder mystery. The difference is,...
68) Deadly proof
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Atlanta justice volume 1
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English
Description
In the biggest case of her career, attorney Kate Sullivan has been appointed lead counsel to take on Mason Pharmaceutical in a claim involving an allegedly dangerous new drug. She hires former Army Ranger turned private investigator Landon James to do some digging. When a whistleblower is found dead, it's clear the stakes are higher than ever. Will this case prove deadly for Kate?
69) Courting trouble
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This fast-paced thriller sends a young woman lawyer racing to find out who's trying to kill her - after she's wrongly been reported murdered. Now she has to trust people she barely knows - colleagues who hate her guts, a hostile homicide squad, and a new love who inconveniently happens to be opposing counsel!
Anne Murphy is smart, gorgeous, and young, the redheaded rookie at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates. She leaves town for the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 40
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English
Description
Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and our modern world, and is still known worldwide as the quintessential Russian novel. Readers of all backgrounds have debated its historical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions, probing the moral and ethical dilemmas that Dostoevsky so brilliantly stages throughout his narrative. Yet, at its heart, this...
71) The chamber
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English
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In Mississippi, a young lawyer races against time to save his grandfather from the gas chamber. The grandfather was tried three times for a Ku Klux Klan bombing which killed two civil rights workers in 1967. He was found innocent twice, but guilty the third time. By the author of A Time To Kill.
72) The children act
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English
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"Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing...
73) The testament
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
770L
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English
Description
HEART OF DARKNESS. In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions, a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives. Because Troy Phelan's new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a mysterious woman named Rachel Lane, a missionary...
74) Chasing Rayna
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Nite Owl Books
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English
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Prosecutor Rayna Manchester takes on the most important case of her career when she is assigned to a high-profile hit and run case involving the sister and toddler niece of Tucson's popular mayor. But her well-ordered life is thrown into turmoil when she discovers the father of the 18-year-old defendent is an old friend.
75) The rule of nine
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Paul Madriani novel volume 11
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English
Description
The Old Weatherman dreams of a plan that could be his swan song, an attack to drive a stake through the heart of the right-wing establishment and bury it for good. Now he's found the money, the ideal weapon, and the professional who knows how to use it. And he has set his sights on the perfect target at the very seat of the United States government, in the heart of downtown Washington. It will be a strike heard round the world. San Diego defense...
76) Deadly deals
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English
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After years of trying to become pregnant without success, Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. But soon the birth mother reappears, first demanding more money, then the twins themselves. After spending Thanksgiving with their loved ones on Big Pine Mountain, the ladies of the Sisterhood prepare to assist attorney Lizzie Fox in breaking up an illegal...
77) Twenty
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Jack Swyteck novel volume 17
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English
Description
A nightmarish shooting at their daughter's school finds Jack Swyteck and his law-enforcement officer wife, Andie, investigating a chief suspect's alleged ties to Al Qaeda amid growing anti-Muslim fervor.
After a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties at Riverside Day School, the tragedy prompts mass hysteria-- and dangerous speculation. The police haven't identified the shooter, but a handgun found on the school grounds is registered to...
79) Suspect
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Series
Kindle County legal thriller volume 12
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
"For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. She has maintained a spotless reputation--until now. Three male police officers have accused her of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks. With few people left who she can trust, Chief Gomez turns to...