Lady Justice

Lady Justice
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780525561408
ISBN-13 : 0525561404
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Lady Justice by : Dahlia Lithwick

Winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Current Interest An instant New York Times Bestseller! “Stirring…Lithwick’s approach, interweaving interviews with legal commentary, allows her subjects to shine...Inspiring.”—New York Times Book Review “In Dahlia Lithwick’s urgent, engaging Lady Justice, Dobbs serves as a devastating bookend to a story that begins in hope.”—Boston Globe Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation’s foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump’s presidency—and won After the sudden shock of Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, many Americans felt lost and uncertain. It was clear he and his administration were going to pursue a series of retrograde, devastating policies. What could be done? Immediately, women lawyers all around the country, independently of each other, sprang into action, and they had a common goal: they weren’t going to stand by in the face of injustice, while Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the Republican party did everything in their power to remake the judiciary in their own conservative image. Over the next four years, the women worked tirelessly to hold the line against the most chaotic and malign presidency in living memory. There was Sally Yates, the acting attorney general of the United States, who refused to sign off on the Muslim travel ban. And Becca Heller, the founder of a refugee assistance program who brought the fight over the travel ban to the airports. And Roberta Kaplan, the famed commercial litigator, who sued the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. And, of course, Stacey Abrams, whose efforts to protect the voting rights of millions of Georgians may well have been what won the Senate for the Democrats in 2020. These are just a handful of the stories Lithwick dramatizes in thrilling detail to tell a brand-new and deeply inspiring account of the Trump years. With unparalleled access to her subjects, she has written a luminous book, not about the villains of the Trump years, but about the heroes. And as the country confronts the news that the Supreme Court, which includes three Trump-appointed justices, will soon overturn Roe v. Wade, Lithwick shines a light on not only the major consequences of such a decision, but issues a clarion call to all who might, like the women in this book, feel the urgency to join the fight. A celebration of the tireless efforts, legal ingenuity, and indefatigable spirit of the women whose work all too often went unrecognized at the time, Lady Justice is destined to be treasured and passed from hand to hand for generations to come, not just among lawyers and law students, but among all optimistic and hopeful Americans.

Weep No More, My Lady

Weep No More, My Lady
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 416
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781668052716
ISBN-13 : 1668052717
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Weep No More, My Lady by : Mary Higgins Clark

Elizabeth Lange is determined to unearth the truth about how her beloved sister really died. But as glimpses of the dark truth are revealed, an unexpected source threatens to engulf her entirely.

My Mother's Rules

My Mother's Rules
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Publisher : Agate Publishing
Total Pages : 194
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781932841220
ISBN-13 : 1932841229
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis My Mother's Rules by : Lynn Toler

"Autobiography of Judge Lynn Toler describing her sometimes difficult upbringing and the life-lessons she learned from her mother"--Provided by publisher.

Equal to Everything

Equal to Everything
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 36
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ISBN-10 : 1912273489
ISBN-13 : 9781912273485
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Equal to Everything by : Afua Hirsch

My Lady Judge

My Lady Judge
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 324
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0312386117
ISBN-13 : 9780312386115
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis My Lady Judge by : Cora Harrison

Mara, a judge in sixteenth-century Ireland, arrives in a small independent kingdom on the west coast of Ireland, a land that lives according to the ancient Celtic laws, to investigate the mysterious death of her assistant during a May Day festival.

Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 349
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ISBN-10 : 9780307762528
ISBN-13 : 0307762521
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Blood Meridian by : Cormac McCarthy

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Michaelmas Tribute

Michaelmas Tribute
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 340
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0330446460
ISBN-13 : 9780330446464
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Michaelmas Tribute by : Cora Harrison

In 1509, in the kingdom of the Burren, people lived according to the ancient customs and Brehon laws of their ancestors. The Michaelmas Fair: a time for trade and celebration. A chance for the people of the Burren to gather, buy and sell their wares and give tribute to the lord of their clans. When the steward of the MacNamara clan demands more, tempers run high. Then the steward's body is found in the local churchyard; he's been beaten to death. Was it revenge, greed or something more sinister that led to his murder? Mara tries to piece the puzzle together but, distracted by thoughts of the King's surprising offer of marriage, nothing seems to make sense. Is Mara prepared to give up her position as Brehon to become Queen? And will she be able to bring the killer to justice before they strike again...

Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 298
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780062065414
ISBN-13 : 0062065416
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover by : Sarah MacLean

RITA® Award-winning author Sarah MacLean reveals the identity of The Fallen Angel's final scoundrel in the spectacular conclusion to her New York Times bestselling Rules of Scoundrels series . . . By day, she is Lady Georgiana, sister to a duke, ruined before her first season in the worst kind of scandal. But the truth is far more shocking—in London's darkest corners, she is Chase, the mysterious, unknown founder of the city's most legendary gaming hell. For years, her double identity has gone undiscovered . . . until now. Brilliant, driven, handsome-as-sin Duncan West is intrigued by the beautiful, ruined woman who is somehow connected to a world of darkness and sin. He knows she is more than she seems, and he vows to uncover all of Georgiana's secrets, laying bare her past, threatening her present, and risking all she holds dear . . . including her heart.

The Judge and the Lady

The Judge and the Lady
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Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9781927129302
ISBN-13 : 1927129303
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The Judge and the Lady by : Marlyn Horsdal

When the beautiful and flirtatious Eleanor Wentworth is sent away from London in 1870 for her scandalous behaviour, she arrives, angry and rebellious, in Victoria, a town that falls far below her expectations of society. Soon, however, she is befriended by Celia Turner, the freethinking young wife of a conservative minister, and unlikely though it seems, they become lifelong friends. When Eleanor meets the fascinating judge Matthew Baillie Begbie, the first chief justice of BC, life in the colony suddenly becomes much more attractive. Discover life in vibrant, late-nineteenth century Victoria and meet the characters who helped build the province's rich history.

Shortlisted

Shortlisted
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 301
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781479895915
ISBN-13 : 1479895911
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Shortlisted by : Hannah Brenner Johnson

Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's Nonfiction Best Book of 2020, National Law Journal The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court after centuries of male appointments, a watershed moment in the long struggle for gender equality. Yet few know about the remarkable women considered in the decades before her triumph. Shortlisted tells the overlooked stories of nine extraordinary women—a cohort large enough to seat the entire Supreme Court—who appeared on presidential lists dating back to the 1930s. Florence Allen, the first female judge on the highest court in Ohio, was named repeatedly in those early years. Eight more followed, including Amalya Kearse, a federal appellate judge who was the first African American woman viewed as a potential Supreme Court nominee. Award-winning scholars Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson cleverly weave together long-forgotten materials from presidential libraries and private archives to reveal the professional and personal lives of these accomplished women. In addition to filling a notable historical gap, the book exposes the tragedy of the shortlist. Listing and bypassing qualified female candidates creates a false appearance of diversity that preserves the status quo, a fate all too familiar for women, especially minorities. Shortlisted offers a roadmap to combat enduring bias and discrimination. It is a must-read for those seeking positions of power as well as for the powerful who select them in the legal profession and beyond.