Summary: School is back in session, law school that is. Based on the 1973 film The Paper Chase, the TV series. Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. is the almighty voice of law and order on the Ivy League campus. He presides over second year student James T. Hart and a class of driven, intelligent, and morally challenged students who always seem to rise through the pressures of life and law in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2018

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Summary: Midwesterner James Hart struggles to survive an Ivy League law school and to meet the expectations of imperious Prof. Charles Kingsfield.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: Serious and hard-working Harvard Law School student Hart finds he must survive much more than the pressures, all-night cramming and insecurities he expected. He becomes the fearful adversary of Kingsfield, the school's most imperious, witheringly sarcastic yet brilliant professor. Terrorizing some, inspiring others, the professor easily separates the men from the boys by the time the term is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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Dow, David R.

Summary: "A riveting, artfully written memoir of a lawyer's life as he races to prevent death row inmates from being executed"--Provided by the publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010

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Carter, Stephen L.

Summary: After the death of his father, the flamboyant and controversial Judge Oliver Garland, his son Talcott must unravel the truth about his father's life, a quest that brings him face to face with old scandals and family secrets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002

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Longworth, M. L. (Mary Lou)

Summary: "Antoine Verlaque, examining magistrate for the beautiful town of Aix-en-Provence, doesn't like Christmas. The decorations appear in the shops far too early, festive tourists swarm the streets, and his beloved Cours Mirabeau is lined with chalets selling what he regards as tacky trinkets. But his wife and partner Marine Bonnet is determined to make this a Christmas they can both enjoy,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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Truman, Margaret

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1996

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Caudwell, Sarah.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Publ. 1981

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Scottoline, Lisa.

Summary: Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class. When a colleague talks Nat into teaching a class at a local prison, her comfortable world turns upside. A violent prison riot breaks out, and in the chaos, Nat rushes to help an injured guard. Before he dies, he asks her to deliver a cryptic message. The dying declaration...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2007

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Truman, Margaret

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Publisher / Publication Date: Published by Random House Large Print in association with Random House, Inc. 1999

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Scottoline, Lisa.

Summary: Law professor Natalie Greco accompanies a colleague to a course he's teaching at a prison. A riot breaks out, and Natalie hears the last words of a dying prison guard. Suddenly, she finds herself framed for murder and has to run from the police and killers while she tries to figure out the meaning of the guard's last words.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2007

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Truman, Margaret

Summary: When the body of a young theatre volunteer named Nadia Zarinski is found in a dark alley, two cops, Rick Klayman and Moses "Mo" Johnson, discover that Nadia was the intern for, and the rumored lover of, an influential right-wing Senator.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002

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Truman, Margaret

Summary: Law professor MacKenzie Smith and his wife Annabel are on the scene again--when the body of Mac's assistant is discovered on the banks of the Potomac.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 1994

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Williams, Patricia J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1991

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Eskens, Allen

Summary: "When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah's file. When he does, he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2023

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Gimenez, Mark.

Summary: John Bookman--Book to his friends--is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He's thirty-five, handsome and unmarried. He teaches Constitutional Law, reduces senators to blithering fools on talk shows, and is often mentioned as a future Supreme Court nominee. But Book is also famous for something more unusual. He likes to take on lost causes and win. Consequently, when he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2013

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James, Rawn.

Summary: "The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education is widely considered the milestone victory of the civil rights movement, but it was only the culmination of a decades-long legal campaign, brilliantly and relentlessly waged. 'Root and Branch' is the epic story of the two fiercely dedicated lawyers who led that fight, from county courthouses to the marble halls of the Supreme Court"...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2010

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Caudwell, Sarah.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1995

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Longworth, M. L. (Mary Lou)

Summary: "Something strange has happened at the unassuming Mus©♭e de Quentin-Savary in Aix-en-Provence. When the director, Monsieur Achille Formentin, walks in one beautiful April morning, he is shocked to find the whole museum emptied of its contents -- only a bench, the reception desk, and a lowly fern remain. Distressed, he calls the local police, and Aix's examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque sets...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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Scottoline, Lisa.

Summary: After Natalie "Nat" Greco takes a teaching assignment in a local prison, the unthinkable happens and the inmates riot. When Nat tries to help a wounded guard, he speaks his dying words into her ear: "Tell my wife it's under the floor." Though Nat survives the riot, the guard's cryptic message places her life in the ultimate peril.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007

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Truman, Margaret

Summary: Washington, D.C., crime-stoppers Mac and Annabel Smith buy an apartment in the Watergate complex hoping to simplify their lives, only to stumble upon a plot by Mexican drug lords to kill a future U.S. president.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print in association with Random House 1998

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Truman, Margaret

Summary: PIs Mac and Annabel Smith investigate the death of Pauline Juris, a Washington secretary, whose body was found floating off Roosevelt Island. The suspects include her boss, his wife, their daughter and their son, each of whom had a reason to kill her. By the author of Murder at the Pentagon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1994

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