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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
To make her dreams of becoming a great lawyer come true, Yoshi, brilliant, calculating and reckless, infiltrates the privileged circle of the school's wealthiest students until she gets too close to a secret she isn't willing to keep, which could cost her more than her life.
Author
Language
English
Description
Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own...
Author
Publisher
Libros Del Asteroide
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich es una joven estudiante de derecho que trabaja en un despacho especializado en representar a condenados a muerte cuando oye hablar de uno de sus clientes, Ricky Langley, un ped̤filo convicto y confeso. Hasta entonces hab̕a estado en contra de la pena de muerte, pero en ese momento sus convicciones empiezan a tambalearse. Asombrada por su reacci̤n, se ver̀ obligada a afrontar los duros recuerdos de su nįez. A medida...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises, ULC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
They ended their marriage but they never fell out of love... Law student Anita Virani hasn't seen her ex-husband since the ink dried on their divorce papers. Now she's agreed to pretend she's still married to Nikhil until his sister's wedding celebrations are over--because her former mother-in-law neglected to tell her family of their split! The closeness they share during the marriage act gives Anita new insight into the man she once loved so deeply....
6) Power trip
Author
Series
Power trip volume 1
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As the daughter of a former NBA player and a criminal attorney, Skye Lewis is faced with immense pressures to become successful. Starting her first year of law school, she meets third-year student Cameron Carter. Their immediate attraction is threatened, as Cameron has a host of secrets and a complex occupation that he must keep from Skye. Cameron's secret life eventually forces Skye to choose between love and her own well-being. -- adapted from back...
7) Summit Lake
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A law student's murder becomes the full-time work of an investigative reporter in a picturesque town in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Language
English
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"Adelaide Smith is too busy for fairy tales. She's been working hard to put herself through law school, and she's determined to stay focused on her goals. Then she receives a letter notifying her that she is a direct descendant of King Maximillian Konig V, the ruler of a small European principality called Montovia. What? No. That's the stuff of cheesy made-for-TV movies, not real life. Still, curiosity gets the best of her, leading to a Christmas...
10) Simple
Author
Series
Richard Christie mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When beautiful and talented Pittsburgh law student Cassie Price is found murdered, the authorities initially investigate a local handyman before suspicion falls on the victim's ambitious boss, a golden boy gubernatorial candidate.
12) Detour
Publisher
Magnet Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Law student and all around good guy Harper suspects his stepdad Vincent of causing the car crash that landed his mother in a coma. Drowning his sorrows in a seedy LA whisky bar Harper ends up drinking with Johnny Ray, a tough redneck who offers to 'take care' of Vincent for a cool twenty grand. In the cold light of day, Johnny Ray is more threatening and he won't take no for an answer when Harper protests that it was the whiskey talking.
13) The murder list
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Law student Rachel North will tell you, without hesitation, what she knows to be true. She's smart, she's a hard worker, she does the right thing, she's successfully married to a faithful and devoted husband, a lion of Boston's defense bar, and her internship with the Boston DA's office is her ticket to a successful future. Problem is--she's wrong. And in this cat and mouse game--the battle for justice becomes a battle for survival. The Murder List...
Author
Series
Publisher
Waterhouse Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hotel clerk Abby Medford has always enjoyed the quiet solitude of the night shift. The long, boring hours allow her time to study her law books. But when bad-boy-rocker Lucas Ford checks into the penthouse suite one night and demands Abby personally deliver his room service request, her formerly quiet nights are quickly filled with Lucas's erotic games. But as Abby soon learns, if she thinks she can indulge her innermost desires with Lucas without...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When law student Cass Walker wakes up after surviving a car accident, she is flooded with memories of her boyfriend, Devin. The only problem? Devin doesn't exist. But everything she remembers about him feels so real, like the precise shade of his coffee-brown eyes; the texture of his favorite hand-me-down scarf; even the slightly crooked angle of his pinkie, broken after falling off a trampoline in third grade. She knows he's a figment of her imagination...
16) Stinger
Author
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes, you don't even realize anything is wrong until someone comes along and changes you, and makes you want more. Grace Hamilton is the girl with a plan. She knows exactly where her life is going, and prides herself on always achieving her goals. She's never stepped outside the lines she draws for herself, and never considered what her heart truly wants. That is, until him. Carson Stinger doesn't play by any rules except his own. Working in...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nobody ever makes it to the start of a story, not even the people in it. The most one can do is make some sort of start and then work toward some kind of ending. One might as well start with Seraphin: playlist-maker, nerd-jock hybrid, self-appointed merchant of cool, Rwandan, stifled and living in Windhoek, Namibia. Soon he will leave the confines of his family life for the cosmopolitan city of Cape Town, in South Africa, where loyal friends, hormone-saturated...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
As the body count rises, Annalise Keating, Frank, Bonnie and the "Keating Five" dive into a docket of daunting new cases. Meanwhile, the shocking discovery of who killed Rebecca leads into the mystery of who shot Annalise. But instead of answers, this stunning development will set the stage for a series of shocking secrets, bitter betrayals and gasp-worthy revelations that will prove beyond all reasonable doubt, that under the right circumstances,...
19) L'empreinte
Author
Publisher
Sonatine éditions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Français
Description
"Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti-death penalty. But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley's face flashes on the screen as she reviews old tapes--the moment she hears him speak of his crimes--she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Shocked by her reaction,...
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