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![Political Justice by Dennis Carstens]()
Political Justice by Dennis Carstens
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA politically ambitious couple will stop at nothing to obtain the presidency. He is a popular governor of a western state. A philanderer, but charming, good-looking, charismatic, a dream candidate. Thomas Jefferson Carver is a capable administrator and attracts sycophants like moths to a flame. People willing to sacrifice themselves and anyone who opposes him... -
![The Last Chance Lawyer by William Bernhardt]()
The Last Chance Lawyer by William Bernhardt
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsGetting his client off death row could save his career… or make him the next victim. Daniel Pike would rather fight for justice than follow the rules. His unique ability to "connect the dots," to observe what others do not, has made him the most notorious criminal lawyer in St. Petersburg. But when his courtroom career goes up in smoke, he fears his lifelong purpose is a lost cause... -
![The Firm / The Pelican Brief by John Grisham]()
The Firm / The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTHE FIRMThe law student He was young and had dreams. He'd qualified third in his class at Harvard, now offers poured in from every law firm in America The Firm They were small , but well -respected. They we prepared to match, and then exceed Mitch's wildest dreams - eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low interest mortgage. Soon the house, the car and the job are his... -
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![Reversal by Paul Levine]()
Reversal by Paul Levine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsJustice Sam Truitt comes to the Supreme Court with high ideals. Lisa Fremont, his stunning law clerk, is under orders to win his vote in a plane crash case by seduction and extortion. If she fails, she'll be killed. Truitt, who's always followed the rules, and Lisa, who never has, must battle those who live by no law at all. "A relentlessly entertaining summer read... -
![The Good Lawyer by Thomas Benigno]()
The Good Lawyer by Thomas Benigno
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA young, ambitious lawyer is eager to prove he is better than the father who abandoned him and worthy of the devoted mother who raised him beyond the siren call of the mobster dominated family he grew up in. Working as a Bronx Legal Aid Attorney he learns how to twist the system, how to become an unbeatable defense lawyer, and he his peacock proud of his perfect record-not a single conviction... -
![Another City, Not My Own by Dominick Dunne]()
Another City, Not My Own by Dominick Dunne
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the story of the Trial of the Century as only Dominick Dunne can write it. Told from the point of view of one of Dunne's most familiar fictional characters-Gus Bailey-Another City, Not My Own tells how Gus, the movers and shakers of Los Angeles, and the city itself are drawn into the vortex of the O.J. Simpson trial.We have met Gus Bailey in previous novels by Dominick Dunne...Categorized as:
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![Slip & Fall by Nick Santora]()
Slip & Fall by Nick Santora
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFaced with a struggling practice, a pregnant wife, and a sister in trouble, Robert Principe realizes the white-collar world isn't as easy as he thought. He needs money. Fast... -
![Identity Crisis by Debbi Mack]()
Identity Crisis by Debbi Mack
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIdentity Crisis introduces Sam McRae. A simple domestic abuse case turns deadly, when the alleged abuser is killed and Sam McRae's client disappears... -
![Fetching Raymond: A Ford County Story by John Grisham]()
Fetching Raymond: A Ford County Story by John Grisham
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA riveting story of suspense from John Grisham’s #1 New York Times bestseller, Ford County—now available as a standalone eBook short Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who’s been locked away on death row for eleven years . . -
![Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou]()
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsThe full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers... -
![Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee]()
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratings'Scorching, self-scouring: a young woman finds her steel and learns to wield it' - Helen GarnerEGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness cannot mitigate the seriousness of the crime... -
![Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King]()
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDevil in the Grove is the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S...Categorized as:
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![She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey]()
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFor many years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women. Rumors of wrongdoing had long circulated. But in 2017, when Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey began their investigation into the prominent Hollywood producer for the New York Times, his name was still synonymous with power... -
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![My James: The Heartrending Story of James Bulger by His Father by Ralph Bulger, Rosie Dunn]()
My James: The Heartrending Story of James Bulger by His Father by Ralph Bulger, Rosie Dunn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA powerful, heartfelt and moving account of his son's murder and his fight for justice by Ralph BulgerJames Bulger was just a few weeks shy of his third birthday when, on 12 February 1993, he wandered away from his mum Denise in a shopping mall in Bootle. Grainy images from a security camera showed him trustingly holding the hand of ten-year-old Jon Venables as they walked away... -
![Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior]()
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior comes the bitingly honest examination of the erosion of American liberty and the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump. The rise of Donald Trump may have shocked Americans, but it should not have surprised them. His anti-democratic movement is the culmination of a decades-long breakdown of U.S. institutions. The same blindness to U.S... -
![Lockdown by Drauzio Varella]()
Lockdown by Drauzio Varella
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne doctor's account of 10 years spent treating inmates in the Casa de Detenção, Brazil's largest and harshest prison.The Carandiru House of Detention, in the teeming city of São Paulo, was the largest and most crowded prison in Latin America. Known as the "Old House," it was also highly unusual in the way it was governed... -
![The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon, Edward Burns]()
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon, Edward Burns
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood... -
![Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides]()
Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLEREdgar Award NomineeOne of the Best Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco Chronicle With a New Afterword On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened... -
![Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell]()
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings would become known as the “Mississippi Burning” case and even though the killers’ identities, including the sheriff’s deputy, were an open secret, no one was charged with murder in the months and years that followed... -
![Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones]()
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin—the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin—to the veins of people across the United States... -
![An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz]()
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods.The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire... -
![Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House by Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz]()
Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House by Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House: the wild crimes, audacious cover-up, and spectacular downfall of Vice President Spiro Agnew - with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast... -
![We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City by Justin Fenton]()
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City by Justin Fenton
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBaltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old black man who died in police custody. At the same time, drug and violent crime were once again surging.For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - were the city's lauded and decorated heroes...Categorized as:
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![Casos de Família by Ilana Casoy]()
Casos de Família by Ilana Casoy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsO assassinato do casal Richthofen e de Isabella Nardoni foram reunidos em um só livro e trazem novos detalhes observados por quem estava nos bastidores... -
![Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley, Christopher Benson]()
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley, Christopher Benson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere are many heroes of the civil rights movement—men and women we can look to for inspiration. Each has a unique story, a path that led to a role as leader or activist... -
![Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka by Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama]()
Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka by Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings*A New York Times Book Review Notable Book"*An NPR Best Book of the Year*For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy , this is a breathtaking real-life story of four street children in contemporary Zambia whose lives are drawn together and forever altered by the mysterious murder of a fellow street child... -
![All God's Children by Fox Butterfield]()
All God's Children by Fox Butterfield
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of China: Alive in the Bitter Sea comes the poignant story of how the tradition of white Southern violence and racism has long affected and still haunts one black family. Butterfield follows the Bosket family of Edgefield County, South Carolina, from the days of slavery to the present. Photos... -
![Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace by Michael Morton]()
Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace by Michael Morton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe spent twenty-five years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He lost his wife, his son, and his freedom. This is the story of how Michael Morton finally got justice—and a second chance at life.On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went to work at his usual time... -
![The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Dennis Boutsikaris]()
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Dennis Boutsikaris
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe definitive volume on Enron's amazing rise and scandalous fall, from an award-winning team of Fortune investigative reporters...
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