women lawyers

The Iranian government tried everything to silence Shirin Ebadi: They arrested her, bugged her phones, attacked her home, shadowed her everywhere she went, seized her office, and nailed a death threat to her front door. But stopped Ebadi from her work as a human rights lawyer defending women, children, and the persecuted in Iran. After several years of harrassment and intimidation, the Iranian spy services turned their sights onto Ebadi's only weakness: those she loved the most, her family. First the authorities detained her daughter, then they laid a trap for her husband straight out of a spy novel. The Iranian government took everything from Shirin Ebadi--her marriage, her home, her property, her bank accounts, they even seized her Nobel Prize--but the one thing they could not take was her spirit and her desire for a better future for her country.

"A debut romantic comedy set in Los Angeles where two people are brought together by a very decent proposal cooked up by a very secretive benefactor in which the strangers go on one year of dates, one date a week, for half a million dollars each if they can stand each other for the whole time"--Provided by publisher.

Lake Tahoe attorney Nina Reilly risks her life and her career when she takes on the high-ticket palimony case of socialite Lindy Markov.

Beautiful young attorney Anne Murphy, shocked to find her picture and a report of her death on the front page of the newspaper, realizes that Willa, the new friend who was caring for Anne's cat while she vacationed at the shore, was murdered in her place, most likely by a stalker who had tried to kill Anne once before.

"[A] selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the work ways of the Supreme Court, on being Jewish, on law and lawyers in opera, and on the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution"--Provided by publisher.

Defense lawyer Clare Westbrook uses the inheritance she received from the father she never knew to start her own law practice in a tough Phoenix neighborhood, but when shots take out her street-level windows just as she opens for business, Clare must rely on Tony Sonterra, a former lover, for protection.

Rachael received anonymous notes about a long-buried body of a 15-year-old boy that is found and searches out the identity of the writer.

A baby is found abandoned and Rachael digs for the truth of what really happened...and who is responsible.