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English
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Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected-- and first female-- state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It's not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard County doesn't see many homicides. As Lu prepares for the trial,...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A gripping historical novel of sex, love, and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandate Palestine, by the acclaimed author of A Palestine Affair In 1933, Ivor Castle, an Oxford-educated Jew, arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel for the two men accused of murdering Haim Arlosoroff, a figure whose tactics to get Jews out of Hitler's Germany and into Palestine were controversial enough to get him killed. Ivor,...
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Publisher
Pelican Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In August 2005, the world looked on in horror as thirty-five residents of St. Rita's Nursing Home perished beneath the rising waters of Hurricane Katrina. Louisiana's attorney general immediately targeted the owners of St. Rita's, Sal and Mabel Mangano, for prosecution. A national media frenzy erupted, labeling the couple as selfish, cold-hearted killers, willing to let beloved parents and grandparents drown - but the reality was much different....
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In 1992, Lawrence Horn hired a contract killer with plans to murder his family using instructions from a book named Hit Man by Paladin Press. After the murders were carried out and the killers sent to trial, Rod Smolla, First Amendment expert and advocate of free speech decided to become the lawyer for the families of the victimes in a civil suit against Paladin Press, holding the publisher accountable.