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Mickey Haller novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
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English
Description
Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller has spent his career protecting the city's low lifes, but when a Beverly Hills playboy hires Mickey to defend him in an assault trial, Mickey believes it will be the easiest and most lucrative case of his career, until the case takes a dangerous turn that threatens everything Mickey loves.
2) The whistler
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new identity. He now goes by the name Greg Myers, and he claims...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five. Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge's untimely demise? His name, for the moment, is Malcolm Bannister. Job status? Former attorney....
4) Smash cut
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Defense lawyer Derek Mitchell is hired to defend Creighton Wheeler, the nephew of recently murdered CEO Paul Wheeler, before an accusation has been made, but Julie Rutledge, Paul's mistress who was present at his death, is determined to prove Creighton's guilt and possibly ruin Derek's career in the process.
5) The summons
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Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
Law professor Ray Atlee and his troublesome younger brother Forrest are called home to Clanton, Mississippi by their dying father, Judge Atlee, but when the judge dies before the meeting can take place, Ray is left to untangle an old family secret.
6) The brethren
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
A group of former judges who are serving time at a minimum security prison put together a mail scam that is earning them a large amount of money, but when they attempt to scam a powerful political official, they find their operation, and their lives, in danger.
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Kindle County novels volume 5
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English
Description
To Robbie Feaver the law is all about making a play-to a client, a jury, or a judge. But when the flashy, womanizing, multimillion-dollar personal injury lawyer is caught offering bribes, he's forced to wear a wire. Even as the besieged attorney looks after his ailing wife, Feaver must also make tapes that will hurl his friends, his enemies, his city, and a particular FBI undercover agent into a crisis of conscience and law. Now Robbie Feaver is making...
8) Beach road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy is hired to represent a high-profile triple-murder suspect, local star athlete Dante Halleyville; but the case becomes complicated by his client's popularity and a dangerous secret being protected by members of East Hampton's elite class.
9) The alibi
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English
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Born into a fine old Charleston family, Hammond Cross is determined to be the city's next district attorney--without sacrificing his integrity. Prosecuting the sensational murder of real estate magnate Lute Pettijohn could be his ticket into the off
11) Save me
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English
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Rose McKenna volunteers in her daughter Melly's school to keep an eye on Amanda, a mean girl who's been bullying her daughter. Her fears come true when the bullying begins, sending Melly to the bathroom in tears. Just as Rose is about to follow after her daughter, there is a massive explosion. Rose believes she has ushered Amanda to safety and rescued her daughter, only to discover that Amanda ran back into the school. Amanda's mother decides...
12) The confession
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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When Travis Boyette is paroled because of inoperable brain tumor, for the first time in his life, he decides to do the right thing and tell police about a crime he committed and another man is about to be executed for.
13) The guardians
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
"The newest legal thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham. This masterfully plotted, perfectly paced novel confirms that Grisham remains America's favorite storyteller. In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on...
14) The testament
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
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English
Description
When Rachel Lane learns that she has inherited eleven billion dollars from her biological father, she wants nothing to do with the money, or her father's other children who insist that they be given the money they feel they deserve, even though the will states they are to get nothing.
15) Daddy's girl
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Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class. When a colleague talks Nat into teaching a class at a local prison, her comfortable world turns upside. A violent prison riot breaks out, and in the chaos, Nat rushes to help an injured guard. Before he dies, he asks her to deliver a cryptic message. The dying declaration plunges Nat into a nightmare. Suddenly, the girl who has always...
17) Sycamore row
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Jake Brigance novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
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English
Description
Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake Brigance into a conflict that raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it...
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"New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Lisa Scottoline revolutionized crime fiction when she introduced her all-female law firm of Rosato & Associates, thrilling readers with her twisty, fast-paced plots and capturing their hearts with her cast of strong yet totally relatable female characters. Fans have been clamoring for more stories with the characters they've come to know and love, so Bennie Rosato, Mary DiNunzio, Judy Carrier,...
19) The appeal
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Billionaire Carl Trudeau, upset over a shocking verdict against his chemical company by a Mississippi jury and convinced that the Supreme Court will not be friendly to his appeal, decides to take the less expensive route of purchasing a seat on the Court by recruiting, financing, manipulating, marketing, and molding an unsuspecting young candidate.
20) Killer smile
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Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Mary DiNunzio investigates the case of an Italian immigrant sent to an internment camp in Montana during World War Two in order to seek reparations for his son's estate, but someone does not want Mary to find out the truth about the man's mysterious death.
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