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Publisher
Amazon
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Device comes preloaded with the following stories: Into the water / Paula Atkins -- Dragon teeth / Michael Crichton -- Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine / Gail Honeyman -- Same beach, next year / Dorothea Benton -- The fix / David Baldacci -- Camino Island / John Grisham -- Thirteen reasons why / Jay Asher -- Kindle Paperwhite user's guide 4th edition -- I'll Be Your Blue Sky / Marisa de los Santos -- The Shape of Water / Guillermo del Toro -- The...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Everyone has something to hide...Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta, great friends, and a "for fun" relationship with a rich, charming executive, who just happens to be her white boss. But everything changes one cold January morning when Ellice arrives in the executive suite and finds him dead with a gunshot to his head. And then she walks away like nothing...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"A marvelous debut...has everything a big, thick novel should have, and I hated to put it down." — John Grisham
"A page-turner." — New York Times Book Review
For readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human cruelty and compassion.
After seeing the...
"A page-turner." — New York Times Book Review
For readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human cruelty and compassion.
After seeing the...
105) The pelican brief
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everyone else wants her dead.
Publisher
Amazon
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Device comes preloaded with the following stories: Jeter Unfiltered / Derek Jeter -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot -- Wild: From Lost to Found On the Pacific Crest Trail / Cheryl Strayed -- All the Light We Cannot See / Anthony Doerr -- The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic / Hazel Gaynor -- The Boys in the Boat / Daniel James Brown -- 41: A Portrait of My Father / George W. Bush -- Killing Patton / Bill O'Reilly –-...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Special Agent Sam Jameson is having a bad week. People are trying to kill her. That would be business as usual in the counterespionage world, except that it's the good guys who have her in the crosshairs. Why are the DC Metro police trying to kidnap her? Do her bosses at Homeland want her in a body bag, too? And why does everyone she talks to seem to end up in the morgue? Will a ruthless mercenary, a hapless American traitor, and a dead man's cryptic...
108) Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition): A True Story of the Fight for Justice (Adapted for Young Adults)
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy—now a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime Foxx, and Brie Larson and the subject of an HBO documentary feature!
In this very personal work—adapted from the original #1 bestseller, which the New York Times calls "as compelling as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so"—acclaimed lawyer and social...
In this very personal work—adapted from the original #1 bestseller, which the New York Times calls "as compelling as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so"—acclaimed lawyer and social...
109) Burn
Author
Series
A Sam Jameson serial thriller volume 8
Publisher
Polymath Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious note. A shadowy figure from Sam Jameson's past. They invade Sam's self-imposed exile to deliver shocking news: Alexander Wells, the man who murdered a five-year-old girl and framed Sam to take the fall, didn't die in the fiery blast at the Directorate of National Intelligence. Wells is alive. And he's recruited a team of hardened criminal operatives with just one target in their sights: Sam Jameson. Sam soon finds herself at the mercy...
Author
Series
A Sam Jameson serial thriller volume 7
Publisher
Polymath Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A little girl has been slain. Is it Special Agent Sam Jameson's fault? Homeland, Justice, and a powerful US Senator think so. And Sam is afraid they might be right. She's been suspended, and she even faces an indictment. With her beau stuck on an overseas deployment, she's left alone with her guilt and heartache -- until a cryptic and terrifying message propels her out of her darkness and into a morass of international intrigue. Along the way, the...
111) The client
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1994, 1997
Language
English
Description
Mark Sway is an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but unseasoned attorney who risks her career for him...but never imagines...
112) The chamber
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1996, 1998
Language
English
Description
Adam Hall is an idealistic young attorney who takes on the death row clemency case of his one-time Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall. With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam was convicted. As the impending death sentence looms closer, Adam works quickly to uncover the family's history for any hidden clues. In a white-knuckle series of twists and turns, Adam discovers deceptions...
Publisher
Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When only child, Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora decide to book an cruise and skip Christmas altogether. Their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancée, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever.
Author
Series
Publisher
AugustBooks
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller!
"Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee Child
The last time Jack Reacher passed through South Dakota, almost everyone close to him was savagely murdered.
Some say Reacher killed them. Maybe he did.
But one survived.
A ruthless gangster. Imprisoned at the Bolton Federal Correctional Facility.
A daring prison
115) Runaway jury
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun. Her lawyer argues that the firm in question knew the shop which sold the weapon was not following federal regulations. As the case goes to trial, the firearm manufacturer takes no chances on the outcome, and they hire Rankin Fitch, a "jury consultant" who makes it his business to see that he knows enough about the jurors to be able to guarantee...
116) Hot coffee
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Analyzes and discuses so called "frivolous law suits" and the impact of tort reform on the United States judicial system. Discusses several cases and relates each to tort reform in the U.S.: Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants (public relations campaign to instigate tort reform); Colin Gourley's malpractice lawsuit and caps on damages; the prosecution of Mississippi Justice Oliver Diaz and judicial elections; Jamie Leigh Jones v. Halliburton Co. and...
117) The firm
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.