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261) Legal tender
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When her boyfriend announces he is dissolving their legal practice for a partnership with another woman, lawyer Bennie Rosato is shocked. Nothing like the shock she gets when police arrive to say the boyfriend is dead and they think she killed him.
262) Above the law
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292 pages ; 24 cm
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"Tim Green returns with a new legal thriller featuring his female protagonist from one of his most successful books, The letter of the law, Casey Jordan"--Provided by the publisher.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 504 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After her unprecedented victory over billionaire Arthur Frobisher, Patty Hewes has the legal world at her feet. Just as she is pondering her next move, Daniel Purcell, a man from Patty's past, throws her into a new legal challenge. What starts as a domestic murder case escalates into the highest reaches of government as Patty unearths a vast conspiracy. Ellen, at the same time, is on a mission to take Patty down. She's agreed to act as an informant...
264) No huyas
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462 pages ; 24 cm.
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Español
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Al regresar del instituto, Amala Cavalcante percibe que un hombre la está siguiendo y antes de abrir la puerta de su casa se desvanece. Al despertar, un agudo dolor en el hombro destapa el horror: tiene atornillado en su propia carne un cable que la une a la pared y le permite desplazarse por una habitación. A traves de un hoyo consigue pasar un mensaje al exterior, pero al poco tiempo recibe una respuesta: No Huyas. La tía de Amala, la celebre...
265) Eyes of justice
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Triple threat novel volume 4
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307 pages ; 22 cm.
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Cassidy, Allison, and Nicole fight for justice every day -- Cassidy as a crime reporter, Nicole as an FBI agent, and Allison as a federal prosecutor. Together they're a Triple Threat to be reckoned with. But when a ruthless murderer kills one of their number -- and the authorities seem intent on keeping them out of the investigation of the crime -- their desire for justice goes into overdrive. They find an unexpected ally in a quirky private investigator...
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328 pages ; 25 cm
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"A young man with Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his assisted living facility and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent. If he didn't do it, who did? And how is the multiple murder connected to the death of a young woman, killed in what was supposed to be a hit-and-run?" --
268) Escape
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308 pages ; 25 cm
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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.
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210 pages ; 24 cm
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"Martin H. Ehrengraf, dapper and diabolical, may be Lawrence Block's darkest creation. He's the defense attorney who never sees the inside of a courtroom, because all his clients are innocent--no matter how guilty they may seem. Some even believe themselves to be guilty: they remember pulling the trigger, or wiring the dynamite to their spouse's car, or holding the bloody blade. But things have a way of working out when Martin Ehrengraf is on the...
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429 pages : map ; 19 cm
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In 1917 Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, was executed by revolutionaries. Now, in response to the collapse of the country's economy, the people have voted to instate a new Tsar, one who will be chosen from the descendents of Nicholas II. But a powerful group of Western businessmen want to make sure he is a candidate they can control, and hire African-American lawyer Miles Lord, with his knowledge of Russian language and history, to check the background...
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1 videodisc (61 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Cheroot-smoking Horace Rumpole, is a career trial lawyer at London's central court. Rumpole faces an open-and-shut case, which he plans to wrap up by noon. But once he discerns the telling secret of his teenage client, he smells victory and mounts a full-on defense.
272) La herencia
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570 pages ; 21 cm
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Español
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In this novel the author takes you back to where it all began in A Time to Kill. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial; a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves...
274) The Ashford affair
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639 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Feeling unfulfilled in the face of an imminent legal partnership and a broken engagement, Manhattan lawyer Clementine Evans learns of a long-buried family secret that leads her to the inner circles of World War I British society and the red hills of Kenya.
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354 pages ; 25 cm
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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,...
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The definitive biography of one of history's greatest Supreme Court justices.
How did a conservative Republican end up creating the most liberal Supreme Court in modern history? This new biography of Earl Warren Sr., based on primary sources and previously unpublished material, brings together for the first-time family recollections, anecdotes, mementos, photos, documents, and excerpts from diaries, along with the facts of the great jurist's life....
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As she lay on the bed, bruised and bleeding, she felt her strength come back, and her steely determination tightened inside. It was time to make a decision.
Cecilia Chattergee (1896-1947) was a woman who defied convention.
She was a lawyer in India, at a time when women didn't have careers. She was a Parsee who married outside of her religion. She lived as a widow when Indian society ostracized widows.
She also endured unimaginable trauma and tragedy,...
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Diese Ausgabe von "Franz Lieber - Ein Bürger zweier Welten" wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert.
Francis Lieber (1800-1872), ursprünglich Franz Lieber, war ein deutsch-amerikanischer Jurist, Publizist und Rechts- und Staatsphilosoph. Er wurde bekannt durch die Erstellung des Lieber Codes, einer Vorschrift zur Kriegsführung, die durch einen Erlass des damaligen US-Präsidenten Abraham Lincoln für die Truppen...
279) Krambambuli
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Krambambuli is a memoir of the author's childhood experiences during and subsequent to World War II. She documents three stages of displacement due to war: escaping destruction in Estonia, living as a refugee in Germany and Austria, and beginning a new life as an immigrant first in the United States, and later in Canada. Krambambuli is not meant to be a historical account. Rather, it offers a child's perspective of the situations and people making...
280) You were there for me: Discover the flipside of the coin from her time in a Long-Term Care Hospital
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This book tells the story of a benevolent mother who, once placed in a LTCH, died as a result of the neglect to which she was subjected. It's also the story of a loving son who, in addition to having supported her to the end, decided, by all means, to piece together the pieces of the puzzle in order to understand the situation and do justice to his mother, who died in unusual circumstances.
This novel, sometimes denunciatory, sometimes inspiring,...
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