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Michelle Obama played a large and influential role in her husband's campaign, and is certain to do the same thing during his presidency. Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope examines, for the first time, her astonishing career, from her undergraduate years at Princeton, where she majored in African Studies, to her continuing education at Harvard Law School, where she obtained a Juris Doctor degree.
242) The thunder keeper
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Lawyer Vicky Holden leaves the reservation for important cases for the Indian Nations. But Wind River pulls her back when Balder Industries executive Vince Lewis is killed while trying to hire Vicky for reservation work.
243) Entombed
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c2005
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With a rapist wandering about and the skeleton of a recently dispatched young woman found upright behind the wall of the brownstone where Edgar Allan Poe once lived, sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper must seek help from the Raven Society (Poe fanatics, of course). Library Journal.
244) Wife of moon
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Photographer Edward Curtis's plans to document the Arapaho culture in 1907, complete with a staged battle, turned to tragedy when the tribal chief's daughter was found murdered along with two others and Curtis discovers that they may be connected to a century-old unsolved murder.
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Thora Gudmundsdottir novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
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First U.S. edition.
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"A luxury yacht crashes into a Reykjavik pier. But the boat is empty; no one is on board. What has happened to the crew? And what has happened to the family who were very much present when the yacht left Lisbon? What should Thora Gudmundsdottir, the series sleuth, make of the rumors that the vessel was cursed? She is spooked even more when she boards the yacht and thinks she sees one of the missing children. Where is Karitas, the glamorous young wife...
246) Killing raven
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When the body of a white man is found in a shallow grave in one of the most troubled corners of the Wind River Reservation, Father John O'Malley and his friend, Arapho attorney Vicky Holden, are drawn into a deadly struggle over vice and virtue.
247) Eye of the wolf
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Thrilling new addition to Margaret Coel's New York Times best-selling Father John O'Malley and Vicky Holden Wind River Mysteries.
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"Alex Vogel has always been a high achiever who lived her life by the book--star student and athlete in high school, prelaw whiz in college, Harvard Law School degree. Accepting a dream offer at the prestigious Manhattan law firm of Klasko & Fitch, she promises her sweet and supportive longtime boyfriend that the job won't change her. Yet Alex is seduced by the firm's money and energy ... and by her cocksure male colleagues, who quickly take notice...
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On April 27, 2015, a packed Senate gallery watched as Loretta Lynch became the first African American woman to be named US attorney general. Long before Lynch became attorney general, she found herself immersed in politics. When she was fourteen, her father ran for mayor of Durham, North Carolina. This inspired a passion for politics in Lynch. Upon graduation from law school, Lynch quickly rose through the ranks at a high-powered law firm, and eventually...
250) The dream stalker
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John O'Malley and Vicky Holden mysteries volume 3
Wind River Reservation
O'Malley mystery volume 3
Wind River mystery volume 3
Wind River Reservation
O'Malley mystery volume 3
Wind River mystery volume 3
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When a woman lawyer teams up with a Catholic priest to stop the building of a nuclear storage facility on an Indian reservation she must cope with death threats, an attempt on her life, and an intense attraction to the priest.
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"Lynda Cohen Loigman's The Matchmaker's Gift is a heartwarming story of two extraordinary women from two different eras who defy expectations to realize their unique talent of seeing soulmates in the most unexpected places. Is finding true love a calling or a curse? Even as a child in 1910, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates. But among the pushcart-crowded streets of New York's Lower East Side, Sara's...
252) Adam's rib
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[2000]
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A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.
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2024
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A suicide prevention hotline volunteer answers a call that turns her world upside down in this edge-of-your-seat audio original thriller by the bestselling author of The Perfect Child and The Best of Friends, performed by A.J. Cook (Criminal Minds) and Tessa Albertson (Younger).
Felicia, a single mother and lawyer by day, volunteers at a local crisis center to give back to her tightknit community in a small Wisconsin...
Felicia, a single mother and lawyer by day, volunteers at a local crisis center to give back to her tightknit community in a small Wisconsin...
254) Sisters
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Four sisters temporarily move into a Manhattan brownstone together after a car accidents kills their mother and blinds one of the sisters.
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[2018]
Edition
First edition.
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Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know. It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant upheaval of foster care. But now that she's survived into adulthood--with a loving husband, a steady job, and a beautiful baby boy named Alex--she thought that turmoil was behind her. Until one Tuesday evening when she goes to pick up Alex from childcare only to discover he's been removed by Social Services....
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"In Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times. From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nation's capital; from the male stronghold of the army where she broke gender and color barriers to the pulpits of churches where women had waited for years for the right to...
257) The Silent Spirit
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Father John O'Malley, attorney Vicky Holden, and Adam Lone Eagle agree to help a man uncover facts about the death of his grandson who left their reservation and traveled to California in search of information about his great-grandfather who went to Hollywood to appear in the first motion picture to feature Native Americans and never returned.
258) A calamity of souls
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2024.
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"Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1080L
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This volume for young people is an honest and fascinating account of Michelle Obama's life led by example. She shares her views on how all young people can help themselves as well as help others, no matter their status in life. She asks readers to realize that no one is perfect, and that the process of becoming is what matters, as finding yourself is ever evolving. In telling her story with boldness, she asks young readers: Who are you, and what do...
260) Chicano Frankenstein
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[2024]
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Unabridged.
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An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a world that both needs and resents him in this modern retelling of the Mary Shelley classic.
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