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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"For several years the Iranian government tried everything to silence Shirin Ebadi: They arrested her, bugged her phones, attacked her home, shadowed her everywhere she went, seized her office, and nailed a death threat to her front door. But nothing could stop Ebadi from her work as a human rights lawyer defending women, children, and the persecuted in Iran. After several years of harrassment and intimidation, the Iranian spy services turned their...
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Mara, Brehon of the Burren, is summoned to the sandy beach of Fanore, on the western fringe of the kingdom of the Burren, she sees a sight that she has never witnessed before during her thirty years as law-enforcer and investigating magistrate: a dead man lying in a boat with no oars. Immediately her scholars jump to the conclusion that the man has been found guilty of kin-murder. The Brehon sentence for this worst of all crimes is that the murderer...
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a woman's body is found strangled and bound to an ancient stone god which stands above the Atlantic cliffs, the locals believe it was the god who killed her, but Mara takes up the task of uncovering the real killer.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
For 191 years, the Supreme Court of the United States was populated only by men. When President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female justice in 1981, the announcement dominated the news. Time Magazine's cover proclaimed, 'Justice at Last,' and she received unanimous Senate approval.
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While at a feast at the castle of Bunratty in Thomond, the Brehon of Thomond is mysteriously found dead and the castle comes under siege, and Mara must figure out whether the murder and attack are connected.
A festive celebration turns into a fight for survival when Mara and her clan come under attack... Christmas 1519 is the twentieth anniversary of King Turlough Donn’s reign over the three kingdoms of Thomond, Corcomroe and Burren, so Mara and...
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When fire destroys an important relic in Kilnaboy Church and then the pilgrim who confessed to the crime is murdered, Mara and her law students set out to discover how he was killed and the murderer's identity.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center. This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty years of conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and president...
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1509 and autumn has come to western Ireland. When Mara attends the funeral of a local priest, the last thing she expects to discover is a corpse on the church steps. As Mara investigates, she is determined to bring a killer to justice.
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mara, the Burren's Brehon Judge, must investigate the death of the MacNamara clan steward, who just raised the cost of tribute before his death, and a possible link to an alleged suicide that happens days later.
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