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1) Becoming
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
"In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her-from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
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 of hard time.
3) Aftermath
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Three best friends attend a concert. Only one makes it out alive... When police stop Dustin Webb with a warrant to search his trunk, he knows there's been a mistake. He's former military and owns a security firm. But he's horrified when the officers find explosives, and he can't fathom how they got there. Criminal attorney Jamie Powell was Dustin's best friend growing up. They haven't spoken since he left for basic training, but she's the first person...
5) Sweet talk
Author
Series
Buchanan novels (Julie Garwood) volume 10
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Description
When his carefully planned FBI sting is foiled by IRS attorney Olivia MacKenzie's efforts to untangle an elaborate Ponzi scheme, agent Grayson Kincaid becomes the woman's protector against dangerous and corrupt adversaries.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
373, 10 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Suffering humiliating setbacks for her overuse of social media, Manhattan lawyer Evie resolves to live life without her smartphone and makes a haphazard transition to relationships not dominated by tweets, texts, and posts.
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The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track -- until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan...
Author
Series
Jackie Swaitkowski mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Crazy weather, crazy artists, organized crime, and digital wizardry all play a role in a murder mystery that could only happen in the Hamptons.
It's the worst winter on record. Jackie Swaitkowski has made the transition from lackadaisical, pot-smoking real-estate lawyer to obsessive, pot-smoking criminal defense attorney. And now, not only are there blizzards to contend with, her ne're-do-well client is headed for a first-degree murder rap.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Desperate to clear the name of her loving and charismatic husband in the wake of scandalous accusations, Sophie clashes with a determined prosecution lawyer, Kate, who resolves to uncover the truth and bring Sophie's husband to justice.
11) Difret
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From executive producer Angelina Jolie Pitt comes the award-winning drama based on the inspirational true story of a young Ethiopian girl and a tenacious lawyer embroiled in a life-or-death clash between cultural traditions and their country's advancement of equal rights. When 14-year-old Hirut is abducted in her rural village's tradition of kidnapping women for marriage, she fights back, accidentally killing her captor and intended husband.
12) Stockholm delete
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
503 pages
Description
"Emelie Jansson: a newly minted lawyer at a polished law firm. Teddy: an ex-con trying to stay on the right side of the law as he goes about his job as the firm's fixer and special investigator. In Stockholm Delete the two are entangled in a snarly web with deep connections to Stockholm's many worlds, where history is never a thing of the past, and always ready to threaten those who lived it. When an alarm is triggered, a security guard is called...
13) Wilde Lake
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Description
"Luisa “Lu” Brant is the newly elected?and first female?state?s attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It?s not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard county doesn?t see many homicides."--Amazon.com.
15) The dead hour
Author
Series
Paddy Meehan novels volume 2
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hrs.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
16) Escape
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Formats
Description
Emily Aulenbach is thirty, a lawyer married to a lawyer, working in Manhattan. An idealist, she had once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse, but now she spends her days in a cubicle talking with victims of tainted bottled water--and she's on the bottler's side.
17) The husbands
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Description
"Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are, and designs and orders the holiday cards. Her husband works hard, too... but why does it seem like she is always working so much harder? When the Spanglers go house hunting in Dynasty Ranch, an exclusive suburban neighborhood, Nora meets a group of high-powered women-a tech...
Author
Series
Blossom street novels volume 10
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (11 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"For years Libby Morgan dreamed only of making partner in her competitive, high-pressure law firm. She sacrificed everything for her career-- her friends, her marriage, her chance at creating a family. When her boss calls Libby into his office, she assumes it will finally be good news, but nothing can prepare her for the shocking reality: She's been let go and must rebuild her entire life-- starting now." -- from publisher's web site.
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"El marido de Sophie, James, es un padre amoroso, un hombre apuesto, una figura publica carismatica y exitosa. Y sin embargo, se le acusa de un terrible crimen. Sophie esta convencida de su inocencia y esta desesperada por proteger a su preciosa familia de las mentiras que amenazan con separarla. Kate es la abogada contratada para llevar el caso: una profesional experimentada que sabe que solo se puede ganar el caso a traves de una buena argumentacion....
20) Adam's rib
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.
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