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A judge, known as "the piranha" of the judicial system, puts her personal life on the back burner to pursue white-collar criminals with their hands in public pockets. After gaining fame for locking up an embezzling CEO, she pushes the limits of her intoxicating power further than ever and winds up isloated in a dangerous game of threats and intimidation.
145) Dziewiętnaście minut
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Byc soba i narazic sie na wykluczenie ze spolecznosci? Czy udawac, ze jest sie kims innym? Poruszajaca opowiesc o tym, jak trudno poznac kogos do konca i jak bolesna bywa utrata niewinnosci. Siedemnastoletni Peter Houghton, od lat ponizany psychicznie i fizycznie przez szkolnych kolegów, zostaje doprowadzony do ostatecznosci. Feralnego ranka wyrusza do szkoly z plecakiem wypchanym bronia. Dziewietnascie minut - tyle wystarczy, zeby dopelnic zemsty...
147) RBG: a to z
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"This intricately illustrated and fastidiously researched book unpacks the life of RBG, who herself was larger-than-life. It explores Ruth's early days growing up in Brooklyn, New York, in her family home; her time at Cornell, where she was first in her class, and Harvard, where she was the first female member of the Harvard Law Review; her persistence in fighting for gender equality, and the indelible impact she had on the world. Featuring jaw-dropping...
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"Born in Washington, DC, in 1970, and raised in Miami, Florida, Ketanji Brown Jackson developed an interest in law and politics at an early age. As a preschooler, she sat with her father and watched him complete his law school assignments. And even thoughsome people, including a school guidance counselor, discouraged Ketanji from aiming high, she proved them wrong and graduated with honors from Harvard Law School. She went on to serve on the U.S....
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Burren mysteries volume 12
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When Mara, Brehon of the Burren, is summoned to the sandy beach of Fanore, on the western fringe of the kingdom of the Burren, she sees a sight that she has never witnessed before during her thirty years as law-enforcer and investigating magistrate: a dead man lying in a boat with no oars. Immediately her scholars jump to the conclusion that the man has been found guilty of kin-murder. The Brehon sentence for this worst of all crimes is that the murderer...
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"From her start in Depression-era New York, to her final days at the pinnacle of the American legal system, Ruth Bader Ginsburg defied convention, blazing a trail that helped bring greater equality to women, and to all Americans. In this collection of in-depth interviews -- including her last, as well as one of her first -- Ginsburg details her rise from a Brooklyn public school to becoming the second woman on the United States Supreme Court, and...
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"When Susan Oki Mollway became a federal judge in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii in 1998, she was surprised that she was the first Asian American woman to be appointed on the federal bench in the United States. She would remain an exclusive member of Asian American women who are federal judges until a decade later when Kiyo A. Matsumoto was appointed to the federal bench for the Eastern District of New York. Since then,...
154) Spięcie
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Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork and with his five-year-old daughter Georgia in the custody of her grandparents. But Crawford has cleaned up his act, met all the court imposed requirements, and now the fate of his family lies with Judge Holly Spencer. Holly, ambitious and confident, temporarily occupies the...
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"This title examines the life and career of the lawyer and judge who was confirmed to the US Supreme Court in 2020. Nominated by President Donald Trump in the final months of his term, Barrett became the fifth female justice in the history of the Supreme Court"--
158) Chińczyk
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W styczniu 2006 roku w odludnej wiosce zostaje brutalnie zamordowanych kilkanaście osób, w Szwecji wybucha medialna gorączka, a dochodzenie w zagadkowej sprawie nie prowadzi do jej wyjaśnienia. Tymczasem Birgitta Roslin, doświadczony sędzia, odkrywa, że jest spokrewniona z dwiema ofiarami i rozpoczyna prywatne śledztwo. Niebawem wpada na trop Chińczyka, który może być odpowiedzialny za masakrę. Ten ślad prowadzi do stolicy Chin i Birgitta...
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