When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why.

"An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. She writes of her precarious childhood and the refuge she...

Politics cost Joe Faroe his career, his freedom, and a woman who still haunts him, and ever since, Joe has worked outside the rules and politics of government as a kidnap specialist for a Manhattan-based, global business that concentrates on the shadow world where governments can't go. Then someone he called a friend dies while trying to kill him and Joe retires, sick of trying to save a world that doesn't want to be saved. When Catherine Silva,

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Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens—until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's...

A steamy reimagining of the scandal-marked 1930 disappearance of Justice Joseph Crater explores events decades later from the perspectives of the three women who knew him best--his Chanel-draped wife, his showgirl mistress, and his dutiful housemaid.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was ahead of her time-so she decided to pave the way. Now, the Supreme Court Justice helps make decisions that impact all Americans.

Offers a collection of engaging, serious, and playful writings and speeches from the Supreme Court justice on topics ranging from gender equality and the workings of the Court to Judaism and the value of looking beyond U.S. shores when interpreting the Constitution.

Provides an eye-opening account of the twin struggles for gender equality and civil rights in the 20th Century. Born to a blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley became the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, the first of ten she would eventually argue. She defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, helped to argue in Brown vs. The Board of Education, and played a critical role in vanquishing...

Traces the achievements of the celebrated Supreme Court justice through the lens of her many famous acts of civil disagreement against inequality, unfair treatment, and human rights injustice.