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Summary: This biography of the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court examines how she played a critical role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws throughout the South.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOTLEY, CONSTANCE BAKER BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MOTLEY BROLeigh, Melinda
Summary: 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEIKrause, Peter.
Summary: Upon the death of his estranged father, attorney Nick George reluctantly takes on his father's only clients, the über-rich and highly dysfunctional Darling family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DIRTannen, Deborah
Summary: "A New York Times bestselling author traces her father's life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to bustling New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking bookabout women and men, and praised by Oliver Sacks as having "a novelist's ear for the way people speak," Deborah Tannen was a little girl who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TANNEN, ELI SAMUEL TANBegley, Louis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred Knopf 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEGKirtzman, Andrew
Summary: In this revealing biography, Andrew Kirtzman pieces together Giuliani's rise and fall from hundreds of interviews with friends, family members, White House officials, business partners, and close confidants, some of whom have never gone on the record before. He reveals new information about Giuliani's role in the 2020 election debacle, his relationship with Trump, his troubled personal life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GIULIANI, RUDY KIRRicca, Brad
Summary: Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the detective and lawyer who turned her back on New York society life to become one of the nation’s greatest crimefighters during an era when women weren’t involved with murder investigations. After agreeing to take the sensational Cruger case, Grace and her partner, the hard-boiled detective Julius J. Kron, navigated a dangerous web...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 HUMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 HUMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUMISTON, GRACE RICPatterson, James
Summary: Eighteen years ago, a terrible event forced Nina to leave her life in Florida behind and assume a new identity. Now a successful attorney in New York, Nina takes on a case that has unmistakable ties to her old life. To destroy old demons, she must return to Florida and confront her past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATHuang, Eddie
Summary: A Taiwanese-American rebel restaurateur chronicles his rise to success from his difficult childhood in the American South to his decision to embrace all he had learned about food in his father's restaurants and his mother's kitchen to create his own culinary identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 921 HUANG, EDDIE HUA1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUANG, EDDIE HUA
Burke, Alafair
Summary: Marrying an economics professor she met while catering an East Hampton dinner party, Angela finds her tragic past coming under scrutiny at the same time she is asked to defend her husband against wrongful accusations.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURFairstein, Linda A.
Summary: A woman who owned a ritzy art gallery in New York is murdered, her body found in the river. Investigating assistant district attorney Alexandra Cooper is drawn into the world of stolen art, including art looted by the Nazis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAIComey, James B.
Summary: When a years-long case against a powerful mobster finally cracks and an unimpeachable witness takes the stand, federal prosecutor Nora Carleton is looking forward to putting the defendant away for good. The mobster has other plans, and a note is passed to the prosecution offering information into the assassination of a disgraced former New York governor, murdered in his penthouse apartment. Now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COMMcGovern, Robert
Summary: An NFL linebacker-turned-military prosecutor presents an insider's look at the Iraq War, sharing his decision to join the military, his relationships with soldiers and citizens he has befriended, and his arguments in support of the conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 McGOVERN, ROBERT MCGSummary: Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Michael 2008Sprague, Gretchen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPRSummary: Will and Grace are best friends. Will is a gay lawyer and Grace is a straight interior designer. They both live in New York and have become quite comfortable living together. Jack is Will's flamboyant gay friend and Karen is Graces' secretary/assistant who come over all the time to spice up the friendships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WILPatterson, James
Summary: A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes. Nina's secret life began 18 years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Pattersom 2011Tanenbaum, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANBlauner, Peter.
Summary: In New York, a deranged homeless man stalks a psychiatrist social worker, convinced she is his ex-wife. The doctor's husband, a lawyer, cannot get the police to intervene. An acquaintance offers help in settling the matter themselves and a man is killed. The next the lawyer knows, he is arrested for murder. It was a set up. Now his only hope is the stalker. By the author of Casino Moon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLAPatterson, James
Summary: "A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes. Nina's secret life began nineteen years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2011Patterson, James
Summary: Takes readers inside the courtroom to witness defense lawyer and Bronx-native Barry Slotnick, known for his brilliant legal mind, sharp suits and bold courtroom strategies, as he never loses a case for his notorious and dangerous clients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SLOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SLOTNIK, BARRY PATConklin, Tara.
Summary: Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, searches for the perfect plaintiff to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow Paperbacks 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONIsaacs, Susan
Summary: Part mystery, part family story of Jews trying to integrate into Wasp society on Long Island. The heroine is Lily, a Jewish lawyer defending a con man accused of murder. The man specialized in seducing women for their money and one was killed. Lily suspects the real killer was the con man's jealous girlfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1996