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A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet...
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A lawyer working for a Supreme Court judge makes the mistake of revealing to another lawyer a ruling about to be announced. The other is in fact an impostor and threatens to reveal the indiscretion unless he is paid money. The lawyer and his friends mount an operation to fix the blackmailer. A first novel.
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The man Isabel can't forgive is the one thing standing between her and a deadly stalker.
When Paul Fiore disappeared from Isabel Grayling's life, he told himself it was for all the right reasons. Now Isabel is an assistant district attorney committed to serving the law, no matter how risky it gets, and Paul is the FBI agent assigned to Isabel's case. He never realized what life in her Texas mansion was really like back then, and how much damage he...