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2019.
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English
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All of London is abuzz with the case of Frannie Langton, accused of murdering her employers. Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened, even if remembering could save her life. But she does have a tale to tell: a story of her childhood on a Jamaican plantation and the events that led her into a passionate and forbidden relationship.
42) The quiet boy
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Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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In 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk persuades the grieving Keener family to sue a private LA hospital. Their son Wesley has been transformed by a routine surgery into a kind of golem, absent all normal functioning or personality, walking in endless empty circles around his hospital room. In 2019, Shenk—still in practice but a shell of his former self—is hired to defend Wesley Keener’s father when he is charged with murder...
44) The jury
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Paul Madriani novels volume 6
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English
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The Attorney, which marked the return of Steve Martini's lawyer-sleuth Paul Madriani, was hailed for its "well-observed courtroom maneuverings" (The Christian Science Monitor) and "crisp dialogue and tart observations" (Publishers Weekly). Now Martini delivers the most daunting capital case of Madriani's career.
Paul Madriani has ample reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical researcher...
Paul Madriani has ample reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical researcher...
46) John Adams under fire: the Founding Father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial
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English
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“An expert, extremely detailed account of John Adams finest hour.”Kirkus Reviews. Honoring the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre. The New York Times bestselling author of Lincolns Last Trial and host of LivePD Dan Abrams and David Fisher tell the story of a trial that would change history. History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our countrys second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still...
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English
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Despite her famous pseudonym, no one knows the truth about “Jane Roe,” Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1970 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent years with Norma, discovered her personal papers, a previously unseen trove, and witnessed her final moments. With an explosive revelation at the core of the case, he tells her full story for the first time.
48) Take it back
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"From author Kia Abdullah, Take It Back is a harrowing and twisting courtroom thriller that keeps you guessing until the last page is turned. One victim. Four accused. Who is telling the truth? Zara Kaleel, one of London's brightest legal minds, shattered the expectations placed on her by her family and forged a brilliant legal career. But her decisions came at a high cost, and now, battling her own demons, she has exchanged her high profile career...
49) Denial
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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When Deborah Lipstadt speaks out against Holocaust denier David Irving over his falsification of history, she discovers that the stakes are higher than ever in the battle for historical truth. Now faced with a libel lawsuit in British court, Lipstadt and her attorney have the heavy burden of proving that the Holocaust actually happened, in a riveting legal fight with stunning consequences.
51) Riot days
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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A Pussy Rioters riveting, hallucinatory account of her years in Russias criminal system and of finding power in the most powerless of situationsIn February 2012, after smuggling an electric guitar into Moscows iconic central cathedral, Maria Alyokhina and other members of the radical collective Pussy Riot performed a provocative “Punk Prayer,” taking on the Orthodox church and its support for Vladimir Putins authoritarian regime.For this, they...
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Delving into the dark heart of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, follows the Chief Prison Officer of S21, the regime's prison, as he stood trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity and asked for forgiveness from his victims.
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English
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“You can have everything, and still not have enough. Cassie Quinn may only be twenty-three, but she knows a few things. One: money can’t buy happiness, but it’s certainly better to have it. Two: family matters most. Three: her younger brother Billy is not a rapist. When Billy, a junior at Princeton, is arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Cassie races home to Manhattan to join forces with her big brother Nate and their parents, Lawrence...
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Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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Millionaire Jewish entrepreneur Arthur Goldman (Schell) rules a financial empire from his Manhattan penthouse. He is given to passionate and capricious ravings on a variety of subjects. His growing paranoia, dismissed by those close to him, is confirmed when he is kidnapped by Israeli agents and brought to trial in Israel for crimes against humanity. Is he Arthur Goldman or is he Adolph Dorf, former SS colonel who headed a Nazi concentration camp?...
57) Howl
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Allen Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless, electrifying, and controversial work of his career. Pushing the limits and challenging the mainstream, the passionate and provocative Howl and its publisher find themselves on trial for obscenity, with prosecutor Ralph McIntosh setting out to have the book banned, while defense attorney Jake Ehrlich fervently argues for freedom of...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of...
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Publisher
SelectBooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"One of America's most successful trial attorneys built his career by going to war for consumers against the world's most powerful and corrupt corporations. But his winning streak has ended. Money, power, and politics have lined up against Nicholas Deketomis, and he must fight for his freedom, his family, and the future of his prestigious law firm"--
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English
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Defense attorney Mickey Haller investigates after a former client, a prostitute who had left the life for the straight and narrow, turns up dead, in the fifth novel of the crime series following The Fifth Witness.
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...
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