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    FICTION

    Bauer, Joan.  BACKWATER.
      While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen -year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.
    Benton, John. Vicki.  OLD TAPPAN.
      The infamous Bourbon Street district in New Orleans gave Vicki Hensley plenty of chances to vent her anger on the world.  With a gun in her hand, she could outsmart just about everyone, except the law.  Faced with a future behind bars, her thoughts turned to suicide.  Then, an unusual message of hope penetrated Vicki's darkened world:  "You may be in prison, but the prison doesn't have to be in you."
    Brand, Max.   TROUBLE KID.
      Chip rushed into manhood on the wrong side of the law.
    Cornwell, Patricia.  UNNATURAL EXPOSURE.
      While chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the remains of a dismembered woman in a Virginia landfill, she receives an e-mail message from the killer inviting her to download photos of the victim. By the author of Hornet's Nest.
    _________.  POSTMORTEM.
      Four women with nothing in common, united only in death. Four brutalized victims of a brilliant monster - a "Mr. Nobody," moving undetected through a paralyzed city, leaving behind a gruesome trail of carnage ... but few clues. Kay Scarpetta is determined to unmask a maniac.  But someone is trying to sabotage Kay's investigation from the inside.
    ___________.  BODY OF EVIDENCE.
      Chief Medical Examiner, Kay Scarpetta, investigates the murder of Beryl Madison, a writer, whose latest manuscript is now missing.
    _________.  HORNET'S NEST.
      In Charlotte, North Carolina, a woman killer is murdering visiting businessmen and painting their genitals orange. The hunt for the killer is led by two women, one the city's chief of police, the other her deputy, and they are accompanied by a young newspaper reporter, eager to earn his spurs.
    _____________.  CAUSE OF DEATH
      In Norfolk, Virginia, a reporter is killed while scuba diving in the naval yard. As she investigates, chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta uncovers a plot by a fascist militia to take over an atomic power plant.
    _______.  ALL THAT REMAINS.
      Pathologist Kay Scarpetta seeks to identify the killer of five young couples, all murdered within a 50-mile radius of Williamsburg.
    _______.  CRUEL & UNUSUAL.
      When convicted killer Ronnie Joe Waddell is executed in Virginia's electric chair, he becomes what should be a routine postmortem case for Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. But after Waddell's execution, the murders continue, as everyone connected to him begins to die--including a member of Scarpetta's staff. Then, when crucial records disappear from her files, Scarpetta comes under fire for incompetence. Sacarpetta must fight to free herself from murderous insinuations--and threats to her own life. To save her career, Scarpetta soon finds herself retracing Waddell's bloody footprints, following a trail that might lead to long-hidden secrets deep within the state government.
      ___________.  POINT OF ORIGIN.
      Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta's investigation of a killer who uses fire to cover his crimes turns personal when she learns her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, is somehow involved.
    __________.  FROM POTTERS FIELD.
      Christmas Eve in Central Park, Temple Brooks Gault stands over his latest victim.  Pleased with his new kill, he lifts the heavy steel door of an emergency exit and disappears into the fetid tunnels of the New York subway system.
    Coughlin, William J.  DEATH PENALTY.
      Criminal attorney Charley Sloan had it all, the Rolls, the Rolex and the expensive wives, until alcoholism took him to the brink of disbarment.  Now he's fighting his way back, defending the infamous Dr. Death, who's accused of helping his wealthy patients die.
    Danziger, Paula.  CAN YOU SUE YOUR PARENTS FOR MALPRACTICE?
      Lauren takes a course in law for children and learns about her legal rights.
    DeFilippi, Jim.  DUCK ALLEY
      The childhood friendship holds strong between Jay and Albert into adulthood, despite their taking different paths in life, with Jay becoming a school teacher and Albert turning to a life of crime.  But the bond between them begins to unravel when the decomposed body of a teenage girl is discovered in upstate New York.
    Donaldson, Stephen R.  ONE TREE.
      Thomas Covenant and Dr. Linden Avery begin their search for the One Tree from which Covenant will fashion a new Staff of Law.  Dr. Avery must help Covenant break the hold that Lord Foul has on him or mission will fail.
    Erdman, Loula Grace.  MANY VOYAGE.
      Here is the compelling and very human story of Fanny Ross, the wife of Senator Edmund G. Ross of Kansas who a hundred years ago cast the deciding vote that saved President Andrew Johnson from conviction during the infamous impeachment trial.
    Fitzwater, Marlin.  ESTHER'S PILLOW.
      Margaret Chambers returns to her hometown to teach in the small, one-room  school building, but the God-fearing citizens are threatened by Margaret, and their plans to run her out of town take a dangerous turn.
    Forster, E. M.  PASSAGE TO INDIA.
      Politics and mysticism are potent forces in India just after World War I.  A young Moslem doctor offers to add to the knowledge of a visitor to his country. The trial that results divides the groups in the city so acutely that a reconciliation appears impossible.
    Gedge, Pauline.  CHILD OF THE MORNING
      She was born a female, forbidden by law and custom to hold the rank that her ancestry and talents clearly qualified her for.  A powerful, passionate novel of Egypt's woman Pharaoh.
    Grisham, John.  THE CLIENT.
      Just before committing suicide, an attorney tells 11-year-old Mark a deadly secret.
    ________.  THE FIRM.
      "Between a rock and a hard place" aptly describes the dilemma of a young attorney pressed by the FBI to reveal crime-related secrets of his law firm.
    __________.  THE PELICAN BRIEF.
      In suburban Georgetown, a killer silently stalks the hallways of a posh home...and in a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly strangled to death.
    ________.  TIME TO KILL.
      Clanton, Mississippi.  The life of a ten-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men.  The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime.  Until her father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own outraged hands.
    _________.  THE RUNAWAY JURY.
      Grisham's suspenseful novel, about jury tampering and manipulation, pits the tobacco industry against the widow of a longtime smoker in high-stake product liability case.
    __________.  THE STREET LAWYER.
      One day, as Michael was a rising star in his law firm, a violent encounter with a homeless man leads him to discover that his firm harbored a nasty little secret.
    _________.  THE KING OF TORTS.
      Clay Carter, a public defender, reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life--that would make him almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts.
    _________.  THE CHAMBER.
      Adam Hall, on the brink of a brilliant legal career, risks it all to  defend his grandfather who is facing the death penalty at the Mississippi State Prison.
    __________.  THE TESTAMENT.
      A lawyer searches the Brazilian jungle for a missionary doctor working with Indians, the illegitimate daughter of an American tycoon who left her his fortune. But the tycoon's real children are determined to prevent the inheritance.
    ___________.  THE SUMMONS.
      Law professor Ray Atlee and his troublesome younger brother Forrest are called home to Clanton, Mississippi by their dying father, Judge Atlee, but when the judge dies before the meeting can take place, Ray is left to untangle an old family secret.
    __________.  THE PARTNER.
      Six weeks after Patrick watched his own burial, he stole a fortune from his former law firm.  How did he do it?
    ___________.  RAINMAKER.
      A disputed insurance claim becomes an all-out battle when Rudy Baylor, barely out of law school, uncovers a multibillion dollar scam being run by a ruthless insurance company.
    Haddix, Margaret Peterson.  AMONG THE HIDDEN.
      In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
    __________. AMONG THE IMPOSTORS.
      In a future where the law limits a family to only two children, third-born Luke has been in hiding for the entire twelve years of his life, until he enters boarding school under an assumed name and is forced to face his fears.
    Kafka, Franz.  THE TRIAL.
      Narrates the experiences and reactions of a respectable bank functionary after his abrupt arrest on an undisclosed charge.
    Lee, Harper.  TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
      A novel set in the 1930's dealing with racism and the human potential for wisdom and courage.
    Miklowitz, Gloria D. Emerson.   HIGH VIGILANTES.
      When Paul agrees to help a classmate campaign for president of the student body on a law and order platform, he is drawn into increasingly violent vigilante activities, supposedly defending the school, which worry him and cause him to question the integrity of the presidential candidate.
    Mary Beth.  AIMEE.
      Zoe, a high school senior, struggles to survive the aftermath of the suicide of her best friend Aimee, and her own murder trial for her role in the incident, by writing about her feelings in a journal.
    Morrissey, Donna. KIT'S LAW.
      Fourteen-year-old Kit Pitman has always lead a sheltered life in a small town on the outer banks of Newfoundland, where her mentally-challenged mother and strict grandmother hide the truth about Kit's illegitimate birth, but when Kit's grandmother dies unexpectedly, she and her mother are thrust into the harsh realities of life.
    Myers, Walter Dean and Myers, Christopher A.   MONSTER.
      While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
    Nordhoff, Charles.  MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY.
      Concerned with the voyage of the vessel "Bounty" from England, the long Tahiti sojourn while the cargo of young breadfruit trees was being assembled, the departure of the homeward-bound ship, the mutiny and the fate of those of her company who later returned to Tahiti, where they were eventually seized by H.M.S. "Pandora" and taken back to England for trial.
    Patterson, James and Emerson, Michael. Four blind mice.
      With his resignation from the Washington Police interrupted by a case involving a friend who has been framed for murder, Alex Cross and partner John Sampson journey deep across military lines to confront the most brutal killer of their careers.
    Patterson, Richard North.  FINAL JUDGMENT.
      Long estranged from her blue-blooded New England family, attorney Caroline Masters is summoned home to defend her niece against charges of murder.  Police found twenty-two-year-old Brett Allen blood-splattered and incoherent near the scene of the crime, the weapon covered with her fingerprints.
    Peterson, Tracie and Bell, James Scott.  CITY OF ANGELS.
      Kit Shannon arrives in Los Angeles determined to practice law, but as she struggles against a male-dominated society, she begins to wonder if she is truly following God's will.
    Saul, John.  BLACK LIGHTENING.
      For five years Seattle journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued the horrifying story of a sadistic serial killer's bloody reign, capture, trial, and appeal, crusading to keep the wheels of justice churning toward the electric chair.  Now the day of execution has come.  A convicted killer will meet his end.  Anne believes her long nightmare is over.  But she's dead wrong.
    Scottoline, Lisa.  EVERYWHERE THAT MARY WENT
      Mary DiNunzio has been slaving away for the past eight years trying to make partner in her cutthroat Philadelphia law firm.  She's too busy to worry about the crank phone calls she's been getting, until they fall into a sinister pattern.
    Speare, Elizabeth George.  WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND
      In Connecticut, in 1687, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
    Sutherland, Grant.  DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY
      When a Japanese envoy is found murdered in the basement of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, a legal affairs deputy has only one week to solve the crime before the Secretary General hands the case over to the NYPD.
    Van Rjndt, Philippe.  THE TRIAL OF ADOLF HITLER: A NOVEL.
      What if he had waited in hiding among the West Germans and, 25 years after his "death", mankind was witnessing the malevolent vindication of a Fuhrer resurrected?
    West, Morris L.  DAUGHTER OF SILENCE
      The story of the trial of a young woman on a charge of murder and her defense by a fledgling lawyer.
Wilhelm, Kate.  Defense for the devil.
Oregon lawyer Barbara Holloway uses all her wits to obtain child support for the widow of a murdered man whose business partners refuse to share his money.
_________.  DESPERATE MEASURES.
Attorney Barbara Holloway agrees to defend a man who has been accused of killing his neighbor, and in the course of her defense she learns that there are many suspects the police are ignoring.

NONFICTION

 323.44 BRI
Brinkley, J. W and Crump, K. C. Students' legal rights on a public school campus.
Explains in depth why and how each action mentioned may be carried out by students on any public school campus.

342.73 FOX
Fox, Ken. Everything you need to know about your legal rights.
Briefly discusses the legal rights of individuals, emphasizing real-life situations in which teenagers may find themselves.

344.73 HUD
Hudson, David L. Rights of students

344.73 STU
Carroll, Jamuna. Students' rights.
Presents a collection of twenty-five essays that address the controversial issues of student's rights, and discusses school policies in regard to free expression of speech and when that expression becomes inappropriate.

344.73 STU
Egendorf, Laura K. Students’ rights

345.73 BIL
Billitteri, Thomas J. The Gault case : legal rights for young people.
Examines the 1967 Supreme Court Case in which the court ruled that juvenile courts cannot deprive children of certain rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

345.73 CHA
Chadwick, Bruce and Sarat, Austin. Infamous trials.
Examines legal cases drawn from three centuries of American courtroom history, beginning with the Salem witch trials, to explore the gap between law and justice; noting instances in which errors were made and questioning the fairness of legal verdicts.

346.73 HEM
Hempelman, Kathleen A. Teen legal rights

346.73 JAC
Jacobs, Thomas A. Teens on trial : young people who challenged the law -- and changed your life.
Examines legal cases about privacy, visitation and divorce, search and seizure, dress code, drug testing, free speech in school newspapers and yearbooks, sexual harassment at work, transfer to adult court, and the death penalty.

346.7301 JAC
Jacobs, Thomas A. What are my rights? : 95 questions and anwsers about teens and the law.
Provides information to help the reader understand laws, recognize resposibilities, and appreciate rights especially in relation to parents, school, job, and personal matters.

346.7304 GOR
Gordon, Sherri Mabry. Downloading copyrighted stuff from the Internet : stealing or fair use?
Explains how peer-to-peer file sharing works, discusses the legal ramifications, and explores new methods of using this technology to benefit everyone.

347.73 LEG
The legal system.

361.1 GRO v.21
Vasudevan, Aruna. Pro/Con : U.S. judiciary

361.1 GRO v.22
Vasudevan, Aruna. Pro/Con : International law

796.082 BLU
Blumenthal, Karen. Let me play : the story of Title IX : the law that changed the future of girls in America.
Explores the history and circumstances surrounding the passing of the "Title IX" legislation in 1972 that allows girls to participate in sports. Focuses on the people who influenced the passing of this law and features sidebars offering profiles of major figures such as Billie Jean King, Donna de Varona, and Sally Ride. Includes a timeline, source notes, and references for further information.

B HEN
Hawthorne, Hildegarde. Give me liberty
Biography of Patrick Henry for young readers.  Into the story of his life the author has incorporated much of the history of the American colonies at thtime.

B OCO
Woods, Harold and Woods, Geraldine. Equal justice:  a biography of Sandra Day O'Connor.
A biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman Supreme Court justice, which includes her childhood, her early legal career, and her life since her appointment.

CRC 331.7 COL Book 7
College careers : government and law

CRC 340 ECH
Echaore-McDavid, Susan. Career opportunities in law and legal industry.
Profiles over eighty law careers, including such positions as attorney, judge, paralegal, and juvenile counselor, describing job duties, salary, education and training, licensure and certification, unions and associations, advancement, and outlook, and providing tips for entering the field.

CRC 340 SOU
Southard, Jo Lynn and Starkey, Lauren B. Paralegal career starter.
A guide to working as a paralegal that provides information on picking the best training program, finding the money to pay for training, writing a resume, interviewing, and succeeding on the job.

CRC 363.2 ECH
Echaore-McDavid, Susan. Career opportunities in law enforcement, security, and protective services.

CRC 363.2 HES
Hesalroad, Mary and Starkey, Lauren B. Law enforcement career starter. 
A guide to law enforcement careers, including police officer, corrections officer, federal agent, border patrol agent, and others; discussing job requirements, pay scales, training programs, and financial aid resources; and featuring a police officer suitability test.

REF 340.03 BLA
Connolly, Michael J. Black's law dictionary. 
Definitions of the terms and phrases of American and English jurisprudence, ancient and modern.

REF 344.73 HIN
Hinchey, Patricia H. Student rights : a reference handbook.
Examines the issue of student rights in the public school setting, providing an overview of student rights history, featuring a chronology of selected major legislation and Supreme Court cases, and discussing freedom of speech, school searches, property rights, equal education, religion, and other topics. 

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