Phoning Home is a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking essays featuring the author’s quirky family, his Jewish heritage and his New York City upbringing. Jacob M. Appel’s recollections and insights, informed and filtered by...
Lawyers
- Author:Appel, Jacob M.Summary:
- Author:Emery, AnneSummary:
Declan Burke fled Ireland forty years ago and never looked back. Now settled in New York, he thinks he's put the old country behind him, until he reads the obituary of one Cathal Murphy. The obituary, he sees at once, is not about...
- Author:Bigger, Philip J.Summary:
James Donovan was a larger-than-life figure who led a fascinatingly varied career, primarily as a negotiator on behalf of prisoners. In 1957 he became involved with defending the captured Russian spy Rudolf Abel, and then rapidly became...
- Author:Locke, M. LouisaSummary:
It’s the summer of 1879, and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, is in trouble. Annie’s husband squandered her fortune before committing suicide five years earlier, and one of his creditors is now threatening to take the...
- Author:Fordham, JudithSummary:
The true story of Judith Fordham's journey through the legal system to become a successful barrister and Associate Professor of Forensic Science at Murdoch University.
- Author:Reynolds, BillSummary:
The man who gave it all away at age 50, when some people start planning for retirement, John Lefebvre hit the digital motherlode--Neteller, a tiny Canadian internet start-up that processed payments between players and online gambling...
- Author:Barton, BeverlySummary:
A woman seeks justice for her murdered cousin-but can't resist a seductive suspect-in this romantic thriller by the New York Times bestselling author. In the courtroom, defense lawyer Quinn Cortez has a reputation as a ruthless...
- Author:Stevenson, BryanSummary:
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
- Author:Sakamoto, MarkSummary:
The heart-rending true story of two families on either side of the Second World War—and a moving tribute to the nature of forgiveness. When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean traded his quiet yet troubled life on the...
- Author:Pitts, GordonSummary:
Purdy Crawford’s name is synonymous with Canadian business and law. But even after education at Mount Allison and Harvard, Purdy arrived on Toronto’s Bay Street as an outsider, the son of a coal miner from tiny Five Islands, Nova Scotia...
- Author:Dranoff, Linda SilverSummary:
Lawyer, activist, and former Chatelaine legal columnist Linda Silver Dranoff details her trailblazing journey from a traditional 1950s childhood to the battlegrounds of the courts of law and the halls of power where she and a generation...
- Author:Martini, SteveSummary:
Madriani is faced with daunting ballistics evidence: a so-called "double tap"-two bullet wounds tightly grouped in the victim's head, shots that could have been made only by a crack marksman. Paul's client, Emiliano Ruiz, is an enigma-a...
- Author:Patterson, James, Roughan, HowardSummary:
Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons: the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of...
- Author:Singer, RandySummary:
Lawyer and ex-convict Landon Reed, desperate to prove his worth, takes a high-profile murder case, but when his boss and other lawyers in the firm are murdered, Landon must find the killer before he become the next target.
- Author:Crilley, PaulSummary:
What drives the Man Without Fear? Matt Murdock was raised by a single father, an over-the-hill prizefighter with one last chance to make good-a chance that cost him his life. Taunted and tormented by other children, Matt's life was...
- Author:Arthurs, Harry W.Summary:
Harry W. Arthurs is a name held in high esteem by labour lawyers and academics throughout the world. Although many are familiar with Arthurs's contributions and accomplishments, few are acquainted with the man himself, or how he...
- Author:Thomas, JodiSummary:
When Emily starts a writing group in her little town of Harmony, Texas, its members are given a chance to learn to write while reexamining their lives. But when a person from her past appears at the library, Emily is faced with more...
- Author:Emery, AnneSummary:
Lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins is used to defending murderers, and occasionally investigating murders himself. But he can't round up the usual suspects this time. The blood-drenched body of Reinhold Schellenberg, a world-renowned...
- Author:Jones, BurnleySummary:
Born and raised in Truro, Nova Scotia, Burnley "Rocky" Jones is one of Canada's most important figures of social justice. Often referred to as Canada's Stokely Carmichael, Jones was tirelessly dedicated to student movements, peace...
- Author:Dylan, RachelSummary:
Corporate litigator Mia Shaw suffers the shock of her life when she finds her colleague and friend brutally murdered. Grief-stricken and furious, Mia vows that she will do anything to seek justice and make the killer pay. The man...