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Summary: As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent--with each revelation more explosive than the next. The country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIPatterson, Richard North
Summary: A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a nationally respected Court of Appeals judge, a woman whose nomination faces two serious obstacles: a long-held personal secret; and the prospect that a volatile abortion case- a trial pitting a 15-year-old girl against her pro-life parents- will come before the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATBuffa, Dudley W.
Summary: When renowned lawyer Joseph Antonelli--the defense attorney who has never lost a case--takes on the most shocking and controversial case of his storied career, he has no idea of the depths of trouble he's about to get into. A man has murdered the President of the United States, but has invoked the "Law of Necessity," which states that a crime is justified if it serves the greater good and thus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polis Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUFPatterson, Richard North.
Summary: When tragedy strikes at his own wedding, a young president takes on America's gun lobby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATPatterson, Richard North.
Summary: President Kerry Kilcannon and his fiancee, television journalist Lara Costello, have at last decided to marry. But their wedding is followed by a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire, challenging their marriage and his presidency in ways so shattering and indelibly personal that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence and crush the most powerful lobby in Washington - the Sons of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATBrandon, Jay.
Summary: When San Antonio attorney David Owens won an important divorce case, he hoped the victory would bring him some new business, but he never imagined that the First Lady, a Texas native, would walk through his office door. Shy and fearful, the First Lady explains that she needs to divorce the President, to get herself and her young son out of the White House. The President is engaged in dangerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABuckley, Christopher
Summary: The attorney general has charged the First Lady of the United States with killing her philandering husband in the midst of a bedoom spat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUCBuckley, Christopher
Summary: When First Lady Beth MacMann is charged with killing her philandering husband, the President of the United States, during a bedroom argument, she turns for help to notorious defense attorney Boyce "Shameless" Baylor, her former flame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCPatterson, James
Summary: Successfully arresting Dominic "the Electrician" Cavello, an influential mafia boss, in an operation that leaves two fellow agents dead, senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante struggles with internal corruption that could prevent the man's conviction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PATWoods, Stuart.
Summary: "Stone embarks on his most dangerous adventure yet when a chance encounter with the wrong man sends him straight into the heart of New York's Mafia underworld"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOGrisham, John
Summary: Jake Brigance returns, a death-row inmate makes an unusual final request, and a dysfunctional legal family gets their day in court. These are just a few of the stories you'll encounter in these three novellas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIQuindlen, Anna.
Summary: A New York psychiatrist recounts her mother's death for which she was arrested. At the time, Dr. Ellen Gulden was accused of killing her mother with an overdose of morphine, a charge in part based on a high school essay in which she advocated euthanasia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIMoore, Graham
Summary: When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals, and deception.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Moore 2016Abrams, Stacey
Summary: Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States in While Justice Sleeps. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ABRQuindlen, Anna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC QUIKim, Angie
Summary: "A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIMKlavan, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLAGreen, Tim
Summary: "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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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREGrippando, James
Summary: When a black fraternity president is murdered and the white president of another fraternity is accused, defense attorney Jack Swyteck must dig into the area's racist history to find the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIGrippando, James
Summary: Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to protect her daughter and save herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GRIMartini, Steve
Summary: A hate crime involving the murder of a legal scholar who had made his career by penning controversial works places defense attorney Paul Madriani in a media spotlight that compromises his investigation into an elusive witness within the cloistered confines of the Supreme Court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARBaldacci, David.
Summary: Twenty-five years ago, Rufus Harms was convicted of a murder he knows he committed. But when his memory is jogged by a letter from the army, he has a shocking realization: he's not guilty. From prison, Rufus secretly files an appeal with the Supreme Court, unaware that they real killers are on to him. But the long-time convict knows he's running out of time when the Supreme Court clerk, who is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1998
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Summary: When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CORO'Shaughnessy, Perri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1996