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What does it mean to be a good mother? How far would you go in the name of love -- and justice? Perfect Match In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a... (more)

Mean Justice

by Edward Humes

Besieged by murder, rape, and the most vile conspiracies, the all-American town of Bakersfield, California, found its saviors in a band of bold and savvy prosecutors who stepped in to create one of the toughest anti-crime communities in the nation. There was only one problem: many of those who were arrested, tried, and imprisoned were innocent citizens. In a work as taut and exciting as a suspense novel,... (more)

Secret Lives of the Supreme Court: What Your Teachers Never Told You About America's Legendary Justices

Secret Lives of the Supreme Court: What Your Teachers Never Told You About America's Legendary Justices

by Robert Schnakenberg

The year 2009 should bring extraordinary changes to the United States Supreme Court. Justice John Paul Stevens is expected to retire and Ruth Bader Ginsberg may well follow suit. With a new president choosing their replacements it's the perfect time for Secret Lives of the Supreme Court —an irreverent look at the lives personalities and history of this exclusive club with profiles of everyone from John Jay and... (more)

The Judge: An Untrue Tale (Sunburst Book)

The Judge: An Untrue Tale (Sunburst Book)

by Harve Zemach, Margot Zemach

A judge discovers that five people he had imprisoned are innocent after all.

Serving Justice (Peace In The Storm Publishing Presents)

Serving Justice (Peace In The Storm Publishing Presents)

by Jacqueline D. Moore

Sometimes love resides above the law. What happens when a prominent and successful Chicago Judge falls in love with her driver? Angela Jenkins decided as a child that she would become a lawyer. Fighting injustices perpetrated against those who could not or would not fight for themselves ran like passion through her veins. Growing up, Angela was taught that putting God first in her life, respecting the rights and... (more)

The Abuse Excuse and Other Cop-Outs, Sob Stories, and Evasions of ResponsibilitAlan M. Dershowitz

The Abuse Excuse and Other Cop-Outs, Sob Stories, and Evasions of Responsibilit

by Alan M. Dershowitz

True Colors

by Kristin Hannah

True Colors is New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah’s most provocative, compelling, and heart-wrenching story yet. With the luminous writing and unforgettable characters that are her trademarks, she tells the story of three sisters whose once-solid world is broken apart by jealousy, betrayal, and the kind of passion that rarely comes along. The Grey sisters have always been close. After their... (more)

Plain Truth

by Jodi Picoult

A shocking murder shatters the picturesque calm of Pennsylvania's Amish country -- and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer who steps in to defend the young woman at the center of the storm.... Plain Truth The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that... (more)

Vanishing Acts: A Novel

by Jodi Picoult

How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose? Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall...until a policeman knocks on her... (more)

Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law (Studies in Crime and Justice)

Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law (Studies in Crime and Justice)

by Leo Katz

With wit and intelligence, Leo Katz seeks to understand the basic rules and concepts underlying the moral, linguistic, and psychological puzzles that plague the criminal law. " Bad Acts and Guilty Minds . . . revives the mind, it challenges superficial analyses, it reminds us that underlying the vast body of statutory and case law, there is a rationale founded in basic notions of fairness and reason. . . .... (more)

The Glass Cafe: Or the Stripper and the State; How My Mother Started a War with the System That Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous

The Glass Cafe: Or the Stripper and the State; How My Mother Started a War with the System That Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous

by Gary Paulsen

Twelve-year-old Tony and his mother, Al, get along great. Al works nights as an exotic dancer at the Kitty Kat Club, and together they are a family. When Tony discovers the beauty and power of art, his drawings of dancers at the Kitty Kat Club spark attention from social services. Are they pornographic drawings or artistic sketches? Is Al a responsible mother making money for her family, a skilled storyteller, or... (more)

Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power

Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power

by Joseph Margulies

The detention system established by the Bush Administration at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba is like no other in our nation's history. Joseph Margulies traces the development of this detention policy from its ill-conceived creation in 2002 as "the ideal interrogation chamber" to its present form, where most prisoners are held without charges in a super-maximum security prison, even though the U.S.... (more)

Death Watch: A Death Penalty Anthology

by Lane Nelson

Death Watch is a topical, up-to-date collection of death penalty journalism and personal essays. Drawing on the experiences and perspectives of Lane Nelson, a former death row inmate and current staff writer for "The Angolite," Louisiana's award winning prison news magazine, and Burk Foster, a University of Louisiana-Lafayette criminal justice professor and jail and prison expert witness, Death Watch looks at the... (more)

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.

The Chamber

by John Grisham

In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case. Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young,... (more)

A Time to Kill

by John Grisham

When a ten-year-old girl is killed by two drunken men in the small southern town of Clanton, Mississippi, black-white riots erupt, threatening to destroy the town. By the author of The Pelican Brief and The Firm. Reprint.

The Firm

by John Grisham

When Mitchell McDeere qualified third in his class at Harvard, offers poured in from every law firm in America. The firm he chose was small, but-well respected. They were prepared to match, and then exceed Mitch's wildest dreams: eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low-interest mortgage. Now the house, the car and the job are his. Then the nightmares begin: the secret files, the bugs in the new bedroom, the... (more)

Law in America: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)

Law in America: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)

by Lawrence Meir Friedman

Throughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s greatest living historian, the story of the evolution of our laws serves to lay bare the deciding struggles over power and justice that have shaped this country from its birth pangs to the present. Law in America is a... (more)

Redemption: The Truth Behind the Michael Jackson Child Molestation Allegations

Redemption: The Truth Behind the Michael Jackson Child Molestation Allegations

by Geraldine Hughes

Geraldine Hughes comes forth to set the record straight about what really happened behind the scenes in the 1993 child molestation case against Michael Jackson. In Redemption: The Truth Behind the Michael Jackson Child Molestation Allegations, Hughes reveals facts that have never been made public, court documented information, public statements and records that she insists prove Jackson’s innocence. The chapters... (more)

Race, Crime, and the Law

by Randall Kennedy

Winner of the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Grand Prize "An original, wise and courageous work that moves beyond sterile arguments and lifts the discussion of race and justice to a new and more hopeful level."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. In this groundbreaking, powerfully reasoned, lucid work that is certain to provoke controversy, Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy takes on a highly complex issue in a way... (more)

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by Jodi Picoult

by Edward Humes

by Robert Schnakenberg

by Harve Zemach, Margot Zemach

by Jacqueline D. Moore

by Alan M. Dershowitz

by Kristin Hannah

by Jodi Picoult

by Jodi Picoult

by Leo Katz

by Gary Paulsen

by Joseph Margulies

by Lane Nelson

by Harper Lee

by John Grisham

by John Grisham

by John Grisham

by Lawrence Meir Friedman

by Geraldine Hughes

by Randall Kennedy