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In 1917 Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, was executed by revolutionaries. Now, in response to the collapse of the country's economy, the people have voted to instate a new Tsar, one who will be chosen from the descendents of Nicholas II. But a powerful group of Western businessmen want to make sure he is a candidate they can control, and hire African-American lawyer Miles Lord, with his knowledge of Russian language and history, to check the background...
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2017.
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"From New York Times bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb comes a finely wrought novel set in nineteenth-century West Virginia, based on the true story of one of the strangest murder trials in American history--the case of the Greenbrier Ghost. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930 Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P. D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical school,...
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Danny Cavanaugh volume 1
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c1999
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Attorney Brad Miller, FBI agent Keith Evans, and private investigator Dana Cutler untangle a five-year-old murder case involving a ghost ship and the President's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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2017.
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"In a small Georgia town where racial tensions run high and lives are at stake, can one lawyer stand up for justice against the tide of prejudice on every side? Adisa Johnson, a young African American attorney, is living her dream of practicing law with a prestigious firm in downtown Atlanta. Then a split-second mistake changes the course of her career. Left with no other options, Adisa returns to her hometown where a few days earlier a white police...
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Invisible life trilogy volume 3
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[1999]
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The interwoven lives of two black couples, one straight, the other homosexual. Raymond and Trent of Seattle are the homosexuals, while Jared and Nicole of New York are married. They are connected because Raymond, a lawyer, was engaged to Nicole, an actress. The novel follows their dramas, including Raymond's when his nomination for a federal judgeship is threatened by Trent's criminal record. By the author of Just As I Am.
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Invisible life trilogy volume 2
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1995
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Raymond, a young Black lawyer from the South, struggles to come to terms with his sexuality and AIDS, while Nicole, an aspiring actress and singer, attempts to find a genuine love relationship
9) Sweet tea
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2021.
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"Althea Dailey...[is] about to make partner at her prestigious law firm in New York...When she has to travel South for a case, she pays a long-overdue visit back home to Milford, Georgia. To her surprise, a white man she's never met has befriended her grandmother...Althea's grandmother is famous for her cooking...But Althea suspects Jack of trying to steal her grandmother's recipes. Despite Althea and Jack's first impressions of one another, they...