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The undomestic goddess

2005
Ambitious young lawyer Samantha Sweeting stumbles into an entirely new way of life when a costly error at work has her fleeing to the countryside where she is mistakenly hired as a housekeeper--despite a complete lack of domestic skills--and finds love with the handsome gardener.

Unfit to practice

2002
Attorney Nina Reilly finds her career in jeopardy when someone steals her confidential case files and begins revealing the secrets in them.

The house

2006
Thirty-eight-year-old lawyer Sarah Anderson's riskless life changes when a gift from an elderly client--and a request that she do something daring with it--leads her to a crumbling San Francisco mansion whose history, involving a woman, a child, and war-torn France, helps her dream new dreams and find a new love.

A question of choice

1993
The history of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States, as told by the woman who argued the case before the Supreme Court.

Michelle Obama

a portrait of the first lady
2009
Photographs and text chronicle the life and accomplishments of Michelle Robinson Obama, from her childhood on Chicago's South Side, her marriage to Barack Obama, becoming the First Lady, and related topics.

Courting trouble

2002
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.

The last Nazi

2003
Melissa Gale is a federal investigator who comes to realize that a student of the monstrous Nazi torturer Josef Mengele is still alive and has been patiently planning acts of genetic terrorism. What's worse, she finds the plot involves her own unborn child.

Now you see her

a novel
2011

Between sisters

a novel
2009
Half-sisters Meghann Dontess, a high-powered lawyer, and Claire Cavenaugh, a single mother who helps run a campground, meet again years after being abandoned by their mother when Claire announces her intention to marry thrice-divorced country crooner Bobby Austin, but the sisters learn they may have waited too long for a reunion when Claire is diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor.

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