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1) The appeal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history.
The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict—or reverse it.
The chemical company...
The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict—or reverse it.
The chemical company...
Author
Series
Mags and Baxter mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a water-rights standoff in Nevada escalates into murder and Mags Rogers' great-aunt, Jeep, becomes a prime suspect, it is up to Mags; her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter; and Jeep's German Shepherd mix, King, to sniff out the real killer.
Author
Series
Colter Shaw novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Just hours after the harrowing events of The Never Game and The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he has taken on the mission his father began years ago: finding a missing courier bag containing evidence that will bring down a corporate espionage firm responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of deaths.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 44
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her teenage son and other kids are imprisoned for misdemeanors, a woman hires private investigator Spenser to find the truth behind a corrupt judge's unusually hard sentencing practices for minors.
Author
Series
Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her corporation, Corta Helio, which controls the Moon's Helium-3 industry, is confronted by many enemies, Adriana Corta and her five children must navigate a world of corporate warfare to save the family empire.
9) Run: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Fired for no apparent reason from the huge technical corporation where his wife works as a high-powered executive, consultant Marc Bowman is baffled by a series of strange occurrences before his wife suddenly disappears.
10) Firebreak
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In a future world ruled by corporations in a perpetual civil war, expert gamer Mallory is offered a dangerous side job looking for a missing girl who may be linked to an online character.
Author
Series
Jay Porter novels volume 1
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
When African-American lawyer Jay Porter jumps into the bayou to save a drowning white woman in Houston, Texas, in 1981, he finds his practice and life in danger when he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation involving Houston's elite.
Author
Series
Sam Dryden novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Joining a former colleague who needs help rescuing four kidnapped girls, Sam Dryden discovers that his friend has been secretly working to develop a world-changing technology that murderous adversaries would claim for their own agendas.
13) Luna: wolf moon
Author
Series
Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
On an unstable lunar environment, the shifting loyalties and political machinations of different family corporations reach the zenith of their most fertile plots as outright war erupts.
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Pulled from their duties to keep track of sequestered jurors in a high-profile trial involving a massive drug conspiracy, Arliss Cutter and deputy Lola Teariki realize that they are dealing with something much bigger, and darker, than a simple drug trial when the prosecuting attorney is murdered.
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