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Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
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...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. 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...
3) The appeal
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio ; Books on Tape
Pub. Date
cp2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting candidate to run for Supreme Court judge when a Mississippi rules agains one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into the towns water supply causing a cancer cluster.
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later and approaching 40, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered 20 years earlier,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After Rusty Sabich's heated acquittal in the trial for his life, he's restlessly tried to accept his retirement and get his name out of the spotlight. Now, years later, he's found himself living a quiet life in the town of Mirror with a house on the idyllic lake and a new love, Bea. But the peace that's taken him so long to find comes crashing down when Bea's adoptive son, Aaron, who's under Rusty and Bea's supervision while on probation for a possession...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Kate Mason has always found solace in her family's blueberry barrens. But are they giving her a false sense of security? Kate has devoted herself to keeping her family's blueberry barrens thriving. But when blossom blight devastates her blueberry fields, she's forced to come up with alternative ways to replace that income. Fixing up the small cottage on her property as a rental seems an obvious choice, but it won't be enough. When Drake Carver drives...
7) Friction
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork and with his five-year-old daughter Georgia in the custody of her grandparents. But Crawford has cleaned up his act, met all the court imposed requirements, and now the fate of his family lies with Judge Holly Spencer. Holly, ambitious and confident, temporarily occupies the...
8) William Taft
Author
Publisher
ABDO Publishing
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Features a biography of the twenty-seventh president of the United States including his childhood, education at Yale University, his early career as a lawyer, judge, and dean of Cincinnati Law School, and key events from President Taft's administration.
9) Ricochet
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Savannah homicide detective Duncan Hatcher, still stung over Judge Cato Laird's decision to declare a mistrial in the case against a brutal crime lord, knows there is more to the story when the judge's trophy wife Elise shoots and kills an intruder in their home, and things go from bad to worse when Elise disappears shortly after telling Hatcher her husband wants her dead.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The jailhouse lawyer: A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown--and ends up in jail herself. In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets. Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch...
12) Livid
Author
Series
Scarpetta novel volume 26
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta testifies in a case, fumbled by the initial pathologist, concerning a drowned beauty queen whose fianc�e is charged with her death. Then the judge's sister is murdered.
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fianc�e,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Supreme Court candidates are being murdered. Alex Cross and John Sampson are handed the case. In Washington, DC, the president-elect is planning her inauguration. The list of Supreme Court candidates is highly confidential-until it becomes evidence in Detective Alex Cross's toughest investigation. One candidate is gunned down. A second is stabbed. A third is murdered near midnight on a city street. Cross is the FBI's top expert in criminal behavior....
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder returns with an explosive new thriller about a female judge and the one personal misstep that could lead to her--and her family's--undoing. It was nothing more than a one-night stand. Juliana Brody, a judge in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, is rumored to be in consideration for the federal circuit, maybe someday the highest court in the land. At a conference in a Chicago hotel, she meets a gentle,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"A nonfiction picture book compilation of the stories of 13 American women who persisted in overcoming obstacles and changing the world"--Provided by publisher.
"Chelsea Clinton introduces tiny feminists, mini activists and little kids who are ready to take on the world to thirteen inspirational women who never took no for an answer, and who always, inevitably and without fail, persisted. Throughout American history, there have always been women...
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