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101) Bones don't lie
Author
Series
Morgan Dane volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private investigator Lance Kruger was just a boy when his father vanished twenty-three years ago. Since then he's lived under the weight of that disappearance--until his father's car is finally dredged up from the bottom of Grey Lake. It should be a time for closure, except for the skeleton found in the trunk. A missing person case gone cold has become one of murder, and Lance and attorney Morgan Dane must face the deadly past that's risen to the...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
418 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of President Barack Obama's wife Michelle Obama, chronicling her childhood in Chicago's South Side neighborhood, her law career and her community work with the neighborhood of her youth, her family life, and her many activities and works as First Lady.
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Soft Skull edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of her parents' death, Aretha, a habitually single Black lawyer, has had only one obsession in life--success--until she falls for Aaron, a coffee entrepreneur. Moving into his Brooklyn brownstone to live along with his Hurricane Sandy-traumatized, illegal-gun-stockpiling, optimized-soy-protein-eating, bunker-building roommates, Aretha finds that her dreams of making partner are slipping away, replaced by an underground world, one of selling...
104) Blood defense
Author
Series
Samantha Brinkman volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ambitious lawyer Samantha Brinkman takes a case defending a veteran LAPD detective in a murder case, but when she learns a secret about her client she realizes to her horror that she may be representing a dangerous sociopath.
105) Treacherous strand
Author
Series
Inishowen mystery volume 2
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A woman's body washes up on a remote beach on the Inishowen Peninsula, partially clothed, with a strange tattoo on her thigh. Suicide? Accidental drowning due to the treacherous currents? Solicitor Ben (Benedicta) O' Keeffe thinks not as she digs deep into the woman's past, uncovering a terrifying doomsday cult which will not tolerate her interference. An atmospheric, treacherous, immersive mystery.
106) Say you're sorry
Author
Series
Morgan Dane volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the devastating loss of her husband in Iraq, Morgan Dane returns to Scarlet Falls, seeking the comfort of her hometown. Now, surrounded by family, she's finally found peace and a promising career opportunity--until her babysitter is killed and her neighbor asks her to defend his son, Nick, who stands accused of the murder. Tessa was the ultimate girl next door, and the community is outraged by her death. But Morgan has known Nick for years...
Author
Series
Lowcountry Tales volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Hoping to sell some of her watercolors, Becca Sims wanders into the seaside Gallery Valentine, never expecting that her life will be transformed by the gallery owner and his best friend, in a novel set in small-town South Carolina.
109) The Calamity Janes
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015, c2001
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Returning to her hometown to deal with the pressures of single motherhood and her career, Emma finds the strength to cope from her friends Cassie, Karen, Gina, and Lauren -- known as the Calamity Janes -- who lead her to Ford Hamilton, her devastatingly handsome nemesis who just might be her destiny.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From award-winning author Mindy Starns Clark comes the fast-paced and inspirational Million Dollar Mystery series.
Attorney Callie Webber investigates nonprofit organizations for the J.O.S.H.U.A. Foundation and awards the best of them grants up to a million dollars. In each book of the series, Callie comes across a mystery she must solve using her skills as a former private investigator. A young widow, Callie finds strength in her faith in God and...
112) Save your breath
Author
Series
Morgan Dane volume 6
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
113) The perfect marriage
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He's a struggling writer who has had little success in his career and he tires of his and Sarah's relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at the couple's lake house, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers. But...
114) Juror #3
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar--and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony. The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction. Ruby's client is a college football star who has returned...
115) Torn by the code
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Authentic and gripping, Eureka debuts with a poignant novel about one woman's climb to success and those ready to pull her right back down. "Elana Dolvan lived through a treacherous childhood in Chicago, and wants to be more than another 'hood life' statistic, so she sets her sights on the top. Elana works her way up the steep ladder of white collar success, achieving one of the most impressive careers in her family's history. She becomes a powerful...
116) The Sabbathday River
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
504 p.
Language
English
117) Enamored
Author
Series
The accidental billionaires volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Like his brothers and sisters, Seth Sinclair went from blue-collar to billionaire overnight, and he's decided to invest in what he knows best: construction. There's only one thing in his way-the endangered birds nesting on a piece of prime beachfront real estate. And fighting for the birds is Riley Montgomery, a stubborn, pain-in-the-ass, drop-dead-gorgeous environmental lawyer. The worst part? Seth will do anything to keep her around-even if it...
118) Above the law
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
447 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
119) We wait for the sun
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The late Civil Rights attorney and activist shares a poignant moment from her childhood beside her wise grandmother, who taught Roundtree the values of self-worth, strength and justice that inspired the co-author's boundary-breaking career.
Author
Series
Triple threat volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson, Inc
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English