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Anthony Cappeletti works hard and does everything right. He's an alter boy, a star on his college baseball team; he graduates near the top of his college and medical school classes, and he overcomes major financial obstacles to achieve his boyhood dream of becoming a successful physician in his hometown in central Pennsylvania. He marries his college sweetheart, has three wonderful children and earns the respect of everyone in his community. Then,...
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Just how does someone, who works for a bank handling money day in and day out, steal $100,000.00 in $100s and $50s without being caught on surveillance cameras or by your own coworkers? Daniel has to find out, or else his client, Melanie Thompson, a young vivacious woman, divorced and the mother of three young boys, will go to prison for the rest of her life. Melanie tells Daniel she didn't steal the money. As Daniel tries to put the pieces of the...
63) El Juicio
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Un abogado listo para morir acepta su último caso… el juicio de su vida.El abogado Kent Mac McClain ya no tiene motivos para vivir. Nueve años después del terrible accidente que se cobró la vida de su esposa y sus dos hijos, finalmente se da por vencido. Su casa vacía es un espejo de su alma vacía. Parecería que el suicidio es la única salida. Pero suena el teléfono.Angela Hightower, una hermosa heredera, hija del hombre más poderoso de...
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Dave Woolf's enemies are much closer to home than he realises in this shocking thriller from Bernard Bannerman. The uncontainable lawyer-detective's domestic life is under threat, haunted by ghosts from his sidekick Carson's troubled youth in Australia and complicated by an assignment to search for a contract hitman's wayward son. Dave and Carson are soon led to France and Switzerland, where they encounter a potentially dangerous cult, The Accord....
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This work of fiction, was inspired by an actual case where the Kentucky Bar Association investigated a prominent lawyer for merely writing a letter to the Kentucky Legislature which was critical of a ruling of the Legislative Ethics Commission. The Ministry is a secret government agency and their actions are not subject to disclosure. The legal rules cited actually exist and provide a warning to those who create such rules of the need for reform,...
66) City Haul
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Attorney Matt Archer's new client is an outlaw biker busted for smuggling drugs across the Canadian border. Defending his client caught dead-to-rights will be tough enough. Complicating matters are a sexy state legislator, a pot-smoking local judge, and a sheriff with a chip on his shoulder.
Welcome to small-town politics in Salish County ... and a guy trying to repair a marriage and be the kind of dad he wants to be for his savvy ten-year-old daughter....
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For James Salisbury the only thing worse than being found guilty...is being found not guilty. When James Salisbury, the owner of a British car manufacturer, ploughs his 'self-drive' car into a young family, the consequences are deadly. Will the car's 'black box' reveal what really happened or will the industry, poised to launch these products to an eager public, close ranks to cover things up?
James himself faces a personal dilemma. If it is proved...
68) Wyoming
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Patrick Flaherty is a young man dealing with chrometophobia, an irrational aversion to money. He has chosen to live as a subsistence farmer and hunter near Coolidge, Wyoming, a small town nestled between the high plains and the Bighorn Mountains. But, Patrick isn't a hermit, he's a part of his community, and his friends and neighbors love having him around.
In Washington, the current administration is fed up with Congressional gridlock on tax reform....
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After completing an eight-week speaking engagement run for his success in Grand Junction, Colorado, Daniel returns to his quiet law practice in Ironton, Colorado. With almost no cases going on and the bills piling up, Daniel is starting to get worried. Barry wants Daniel to take the case of his poor security officer, Bill Berman, whom after being shot by the bandit, is charged with their alleged murder. Daniel takes on the case and is once again up...
71) Vendetta
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When the partially clothed body of a young woman is found bludgeoned to death on a swanky Houston golf course, the overwhelming evidence points to her husband, Houston attorney Boone Fitzgerald. One of the few who believe Boone to be innocent is neophyte lawyer Joanna Martinez, step-sister of Leroy Hunt, the assailant. But Leroy is not satisfied with only murdering Boone's wife. He wants more. He wants Boone decapitated. But when Joanna Martinez who...
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Fraser keeps the reader hooked' Sunday TimesTo all the world, Leo Davies is both a successful and charismatic QC, whose flourishing career is the envy of the legal profession. But this outward facade conceals a troubled private life, one that he is struggling to keep hidden from his clients and co-workers. When feelings for a close colleague in chambers are rekindled, Leo is torn between following his heart and breaking apart the fragile relationship...
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Two headstrong conservative Mormon housewives, bent on preserving open space near Utahs Jordan River for their children and coming generations, speak out publicly against a multimillion-dollar commercial project that would encroach on the river and destroy wildlife habitat. They are promptly sued by the wealthy, influential, and powerful developers for $1.7 million. When these women choose to stand their ground and fight, the developers do everything...
74) Unprotected
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A young social worker with a lonely past… A small Minnesota town's favorite son…An allegation...Unprotected is the story of Amanda Danscher, a young child protection social worker with a past she is trying to forget. She quickly becomes embroiled in a case against former state champion hockey player and favorite son, Chuck Thomas, who will do anything to buck the system rather than work with it-including whatever it takes to get Amanda out of...
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In 1925, the State of Tennessee enacted a law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools, specifically, that man came from apes. The law was immediately challenged by the ACLU and pitted two famous lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, a religious Fundamentalist and one-time presidential candidate, in a bruising contest. The case became famous, known as the Monkey Trial.
In this fictional trial, a high school teacher...
76) The Chairman
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Baxter Boxer Tate is preparing to graduate with poor grades from an unaccredited law school when he first encounters Miller Johnson, a partner at Malloy, a third-rate insurance defense firm. Boxer is being sued in a personal-injury case, but after meeting with Miller, he knows he will get Millers firm to give him a jobhis first step on the road to judicial superstardom. After passing the bar exam, Boxer joins the Malloy law firm and finds himself...
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Seeking a high profile case to jet fuel her career and striving to strike a blow for justice, attorney Laura Tobias sets out to clear a man she believes was wrongfully imprisoned for murder ten years before. The young lawyer, a rising star with the Council Against Wrongful Convictions, is the last hope for inmate Eddie Nash, serving life without parole at the infamous Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York. Attica, one of the last of the...
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Wesley Camden drinks too much, has a bad case of writer's block. The afterglow from his top-ten novel on the Rockports of Garden Bay is rapidly fading. His malaise changes when he meets eleven-year old Jennie Jenkins. Jennie and her dad, Lenny, are recent arrivals to Garden Bay. Wes wants them to experience the wonders and vistas of Puget Sound but instead he is plunged into intrigue and murder. James Rockport, a hopeless alcoholic, has died. His...
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Career criminal Lionel Wayne Sturgis is traveling from Florida to California to visit his dying mother. The only problem is that he has to steal a string of vehicles to get there. His plan goes horribly wrong when he takes a truck in Louisiana and is later pulled over outside of Alpine, Texas. Sturgis starts shooting, killing a police officer in the process. Faced with a jury trial, Sturgis works with Garrison Trask, a criminal defense attorney with...
80) Unattached
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Keeping children safe isn't just a job for Terrance County Social Worker Leah Danco. After she's taken care of the children of the county, she heads home to help keep her drug-dealing brother out of jail, her paranoid mother out of the psychiatric ward, and herself away from the constant draw of the whiskey bottle. There is simply no energy left to think about letting a man in her life. Leah's resistance doesn't stop Detective Pete Kemper from trying....
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