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Kindle County ; 5
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English
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To Robbie Feaver the law is all about making a play-to a client, a jury, or a judge. But when the flashy, womanizing, multimillion-dollar personal injury lawyer is caught offering bribes, he's forced to wear a wire. Even as the besieged attorney looks after his ailing wife, Feaver must also make tapes that will hurl his friends, his enemies, his city, and a particular FBI undercover agent into a crisis of conscience and law. Now Robbie Feaver is making...
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"In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later and approaching 40, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered 20 years...
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English
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Elegantly handsome Shane Callan was trouble--Dirty Harry in disguise--and not quite civilized underneath! But Faith Kincaid was stuck with him. Her decision to appear as a witness in a bribery trial had placed her in peril so great, Shane had been assigned to protect her ... P. [4] of the cover.
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English
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Andrews's latest Southern charmer begins with junior lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew in the crosshairs of a political bribery investigation. Suddenly unemployed and the victim of a sleazy smear campaign by her former boss, Dempsey decides to take up her father's offer of flipping a recently inherited family home in Guthrie, Ga. As it turns out, the house needs much more than a fresh coat of paint, and Dempsey's ornery cousin and her dog are squatting...
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Pub. Date
[1987]
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English
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What if you were offered a gig by some shadowy and well-financed interests to funnel five million dollars to rebels holed up in the Philippine mountains? They need to fund a revolt against the Aquino government and a resourceful and gutsy team to engineer it. And what a team it is: Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert, is the only man the rebel leader trusts as a liaison; Georgia Blue is a colorful, statuesque female bodyguard; " Otherguy"...
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Robaud. Robaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Robaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"National bestselling author Kiki Swinson's novels set it off with killer plot twists, merciless characters--and an unsparing portrayal of Southern struggling, lying, betraying . . . and dying. Now everything is on the line as a female firefighter desperate for money gets caught up in a man-made disaster . . . Set your schemes . . . A volunteer Virginia Beach firefighter, Alayna Curry faces death every day--and is proud to carry on her retired father's...
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the shootings at Columbine High School, a small town in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania elected a charismatic judge who was hell-bent on keeping kids in line. Under his reign, more than 3,000 children were ripped from their families and imprisoned for years over petty crimes. When one parent dared to question his harsh brand of justice, it was revealed the judge had received millions of dollars in payments from the privately-owned juvenile...
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"The Yards:" A young ex-convict takes a job working for his uncle in the New York City rail yards, but his straight-and-narrow life gets off track as he learns about the business of bribery, competitor sabotage, and worse from a crooked coworker.
"The Lookout:" Haunted by his former glory, an injured athlete takes a job as a janitor in a bank after high school and finds himself wrapped up in a robbery plot.
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English
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"Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist"--
13) Baksheesh
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Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Kati Hirschel, the owner of Istanbul's only mystery book store, is fed up. It all starts when her lover Selim insists that she behave like the Turkish wife of a respectable lawyer--looking glamorous and making witty small talk the only requirements. Then her landlady announces an outrageous rent increase on her Istanbul apartment. She'd rather find a new place by bribing government officials, paying baksheesh, than moving in with Selim. Kati is offered...
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Doubleday & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
A corrupt Texas businessman attempts to bribe the board of directors of a Bahamian development company in exchange for a sweetheart real-estate deal. But the scheme goes horribly awry through the machinations of an ex-call girl and professional kept-woman. Aware that her looks and power are finally fading, she sets out to make the big score and doesn't care who gets hurt in the process.
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Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Matthew, Angelia, and Charlie are just three children among the thousands who appeared in Ciavarella's courtroom between 2003 and 2008 and were sent away to a detention facility in which, it later came to light, Ciavarella had a personal financial stake. Ecenbarger shows how this miscarriage of justice underscores a multitude of problems with our juvenile justice system, which too often criminalizes standard adolescent behavior, treats adolescents...
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Bombardier Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An exhaustively researched book that reads like an investigative thriller, Fallout reveals how Obama's "Russian Reset" led to corruption, scandal, and a desperate bid to impeach Donald Trump. In 2015, a major story broke exposing Hillary Clinton's role in approving the sale of American uranium assets to the Russian state nuclear agency, Rosatom. Not only did the sale of Uranium One put 20 percent of America's domestic uranium supply under the control...
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