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1) Daddy's girl
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Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Natalie Greco loves being a teacher, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class. She loves her family, too, but her boyfriend fits in better with the football-crazy Grecos than she does. Then a colleague, handsome Angus Holt, talks Nat into teaching a class at a local prison, and her world turns upside down.
A violent prison riot breaks out, and Nat rushes to save the life of a mortally wounded guard whose last words...
2) Saving Emma
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Language
English
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"When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah's file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After a string of personal losses, Harry Sterling has hit rock bottom. He takes a teaching job at a small Florida college, but can't abandon his journalistic roots. So when he learns that a world-famous physicist may have stolen a revolutionary idea from a student, Harry launches an investigation--and soon finds himself in terrible danger.
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Capital crimes series volume 16
Language
English
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Journalist Annabel Reed-Smith is at the Library of Congress researching a diary of Christopher Columbus’ voyage. When a scholar studying the same subject is killed in the stacks nearby, Annabel begins to suspect that the library may contain information someone would do anything to keep secret. Best-selling author Margaret Truman uses the great landmarks of the Capitol City as vivid settings for her taut mysteries.
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Series
Capital crimes series volume 15
Language
English
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The Houston Post raves that best-seller Margaret Truman "evokes brilliantly the Washington she knows so well." Mackensie and Annabel Smith have moved to an apartment at the infamous Watergate. Mac is working on a commission to study US-Mexico relations at the request of his friend Joseph Aprile, the vice president of the US. But when someone is killed in the garage at the Watergate, the Smiths realize that Aprile's life is in danger and they must...
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Series
Capital crimes series volume 13
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author and president's daughter Margaret Truman escorts readers through the corridors of power and privilege that riddle the nation's capital. With this artful mystery, she paints a stunning portrait of obsession and deception, blackmail and murder in the pretentious world of fine art. The National Gallery is making lavish plans to display some of Italy's most treasured masterpieces by Caravaggio. When the White House asks local gallery...
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Series
Capital crimes series volume 12
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
With this national best-seller, Margaret Truman escorts you through the nation's capital she knows so well and reveals the power struggles behind the scenes. When an old friend is suspected of foul play, law professor Mackensie Smith finds himself pulled into a murder investigation fraught with intrigue, deception, and danger. Ever since Mac closed his criminal law practice for a teaching position at George Washington University, he has enjoyed spending...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this latest tale in the A Provencal Mystery series, Antoine Verlaque and his wife and partner, Marine Bonnet, investigate the murder of an expat tour company operator.
Antoine Verlaque doesn't like Christmas. The decorations appear in the shops far too early and festive tourists swarm the streets. But his wife and partner Marine Bonnet is determined to make this a Christmas they can both enjoy, beginning with the carol sing at the Cathedral Saint...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Something strange has happened at the unassuming Musée de Quentin-Savary in Aix-en-Provence. When the director, Monsieur Achille Formentin, walks in one beautiful April morning, he is shocked to find the whole museum emptied of its contents -- only a bench, the reception desk, and a lowly fern remain. Distressed, he calls the local police, and Aix's examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque sets out to discover the thief's identity. But it's the most...
10) Con law
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Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
John Bookman--Book to his friends--is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He's thirty-five, handsome and unmarried. He teaches Constitutional Law, reduces senators to blithering fools on talk shows, and is often mentioned as a future Supreme Court nominee. But Book is also famous for something more unusual. He likes to take on lost causes and win. Consequently, when he arrives at the law school each Monday morning, hundreds...
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Dangerous. Shocking. Mesmerizing. That's the final verdict on ABC's How to get Away with Murder, the sexy ensemble drama where brilliant and seductive Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) dominates her classroom as powerfully as she dominates the courtroom. Each year, Annalise chooses a handful of top law students to assist her with her high-profile, albeit morally ambiguous, court cases. But the lines between defending and committing murder soon begin...
15) Trial by fire
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Series
Joseph Antonelli novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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BrillianceAudio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
THRILLER / SUSPENSE. In 1966 in Pulaski, Tennessee, Bocephus Haynes watched in horror as his father was brutally murdered by ten local members of the Ku Klux Klan. As an African American lawyer practicing in the birthplace of the Klan years later, Bo has spent his life pursuing justice in his father s name. But when Andy Walton, the man believed to have led the lynch mob forty-five years earlier, ends up murdered in the same spot as Bo s father, Bo...
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Series
Capital crimes series volume 19
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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English
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"From the moment she discovered her sister's secret relationship with charismatic professor Jay Crane, Jessie Mooney has been convinced that he's to blame for the events leading to her death. Haunted by their last email exchange--You know what you did--she enrolls in graduate school and competes her way into Crane's famous "Law and Literature" class, setting into motion a plan to get close to him so she can expose who he really is. Jessie will cross...
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