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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Who is the racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge's untimely demise? His name is Malcolm Bannister, a former attorney now incarcerated at the Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland. When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Description
In a small Florida town, a young lawyer is shot to death. A young black man, a former client, named Quincy Miller is charged and convicted. For 22 years, Miller maintains his innocence from inside prison. Finally, Guardian Ministries takes on Miller's case, but the Episcopal minister in charge gets more than he bargained for as powerful people do not want Miller exonerated.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller is a Lincoln lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of his Lincoln Town Car. He regularly represents lowlifes of every kind. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence--it's about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it's even about justice.
4) Beach road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"A struggling Montauk lawyer agrees to defend a local man accused of murdering several flashy Hamptons types and finds himself in the midst of another trial of the century"--Library journal.
6) The broker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
John Grisham, delivers another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not...
7) The summons
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Judge Atlee has been a powerhouse in local politics and law in his hometown of Clanton, Mississippi for over forty years. But he is dying, and has turned into a recluse. He has summoned his two boys, Ray and Forrest, home to discuss his estate before he dies. Ray is a good son, recently divorced, a professor of law at the University of Virginia. Forrest is a black sheep to end all black sheep. Forrest doesn't show up at the appointed time, and Ray...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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A corporate lawyer in Washington goes to war against his own company to defend the homeless. It happens after Michael Brock is abducted by a homeless man and held hostage. The homeless man is killed by a police sharpshooter and the lawyer is rescued, but the experience changes his life.
9) The brethren
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Description
In a federal prison, three former judges who call themselves "the brethren" meet in the law library to run a rougher form of justice inside their community and make a slum of money, but when one of their scams derails, they are forced to confront the world of their own creation.
10) The associate
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle McAvoy becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed.
11) The appeal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.
12) The litigators
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Description
The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book."
Law firm partners Oscar Finley and Wally Figg scratch out a half-decent living from their seedy bungalow offices in southwest Chicago. They see a chance for huge...
13) The testament
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Description
A lawyer searches the Brazilian jungle for a missionary doctor working with Indians, the illegitimate daughter of an American tycoon who left her his fortune. But the tycoon's real children are determined to prevent the inheritance.
14) Sycamore row
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
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Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and attorney Jake Brigance into a conflict that raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what...
15) The last juror
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Description
In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details and the paper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt was tried before...
16) The client
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Mark Sway, 11, witnesses a Mafia lawyer's suicide, which puts him in danger from Barry the Blade & a politically ambitious U.S. attorney. In the two years since The Firm first captured the imagination of America's readers, John Grisham, with three consecutive number-one bestsellers, has become one of the most popular authors of our time. Now, in The Client, he has written a novel so irresistible, so thoroughly entertaining and satisfying, that it...
17) The firm
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Mitch McDeere, a Harvard Law graduate, becomes suspicious of his Memphis tax firm when mysterious deaths, obsessive office security, and the Chicago mob figure into its operations.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Clay Carter, a public defender, reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, assuming it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous...
19) The partner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
A thriller on the international movement of dirty money, its protagonist is an American lawyer who skips the country with $90 million belonging to crooks. They catch up with him in Brazil, torture him, but he does not know where the money is, his lawyer girlfriend is curculating it around the globe. Extradited to the U.S. to face various charges he is going to use the money to get off.
20) A time to kill
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
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A Southern town is shocked when a 10-year-old black girl is raped by two white men--until the girl's father takes the law into his own hands.
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