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Lisa Scottoline, the national best-selling author of Mistaken Identity and Moment of Truth, delivers a taut and intriguing legal thriller where the line between lawyer and client vanishes and the search for justice turns into a fight to the death.

Accused is the first legal thriller in New York Times best seller Lisa Scottoline's Rosato & DiNunzio series. Fiona Gardner was murdered six years ago in what appeared to be an open-and-shut case. The man condemned pleaded guilty. But Fiona's sister, Allegra, is convinced he is innocent.

Law professor Natalie Greco has an ordered life. Then, one terrible day, everything changes. While visiting a prison, a riot erupts and a prison guard is fatally injured. Nat rushes to help him, only to hear his last words: "Tell my wife. It's under the floor. The money." Nat feels she must find his widow. But this is no simple quest, and along the way, Nat is framed for murder and the retiring scholar finds herself in a desperate fight to save her own life.

Assistant US Attorney Vicki Allegretti goes to meet a confidential informant and finds herself facing a loaded 9 mm Glock semiautomatic weapon, wielded by a panicky teenager. Violence is the last thing this neophyte lawyer expects. The case is easy, the kind given to new ADAs to help them cut their teeth. Yet almost before she has time to react, her partner is dead, shot in the chest.

Someone is posing as the outspoken, blue-eyed, blond attorney and is wreaking havoc around town, apparently determined to destroy everything Bennie loves. Only one person can pull off this double deception: Bennie's identical twin sister, Alice Connelly. But as far as Bennie knows, Alice left Philly long ago and never looked back.

TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm - except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with proof of embezzlement.

Anne Murphy is the smart young new girl at a top Philadelphia law firm. She leaves town for the 4th July weekend to prepare for a trial, but when she buys her morning paper, her own photo is all over the front page with the headline 'Lawyer Murdered'. Anne sets out to find her supposed killer, playing dead in order to stay alive. She tries to go it alone, but quickly realises that she'll have to trust people she barely knows.

When Mary DiNunzio takes on a case, she is determined to win, despite the fact that her partner, Bennie Rosato, is representing the opposition. A war of wills and legal strategy between Mary and Bennie forces everyone in the company to choose a side, and the law firm faces being torn apart.

For Bennie Rosato, founder of the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm, failure has never been an option. Thirteen years ago, she took on Jason Leftavick, a 12-year-old boy who was sent to a juvenile detention centre after fighting a class bully. Bennie couldn't free Jason, and his remains the one case that haunts her.

Judy Carrier has always been a champion of the underdog. When her aunt's beloved friend Iris Juarez is found murdered and a cache of dirty money is discovered, Judy and her aunt know there must be more to it. No one was harder working or more loyal than Iris. Their quest for justice takes them into a shadowy world of people who are so desperate that they cannot go to the police - and where others are so ruthless, they're counting on that vulnerability. As Judy digs deeper into the investigation, she knows she must do whatever it takes to help the betrayed....

Everybody around lawyer Mary DiNunzio thinks it's time she stopped being a young widow. They're all trying to fix her up with a new man - her Italian parents, her best friend, Judy, even the office security guard. But all Mary wants to do is immerse herself in her latest assignment - representing the Brandolini estate. The roots of the case go back many years, to when Amadeo Brandolini emigrated to Philadelphia and became a successful businessman.

Il dottor Noah Alderman, vedovo e padre single, sposa in seconde nozze Maggie Ippoliti, ritrovando la felicità che credeva per sempre perduta. Anche Maggie è entusiasta del matrimonio nonostante la profonda nostalgia per la figlia Anna che non vede da molti anni. Ma la vita, sorprendendola, le offre una seconda possibilità per essere la madre che non è mai stata: un giorno Anna si mette in contatto con lei e le chiede di accoglierla nella sua casa.

Rosato and DiNunzio are being sued for reverse sex discrimination by three plaintiffs who claim they weren't hired because they were men. Their lawyer, Nick Machiavelli, once lost a case to Mary DiNunzio, and now he wants a rematch. Mary and her partner, Bennie Rosato, soon figure out that Machiavelli manufactured the entire story and entrapped the law firm's only male lawyer, John Foxman, into admitting sexual discrimination. Events turn deadly when Foxman ends up murdered. Now it's all on the line as the women have to figure out who killed Foxman and save the law firm they love.

Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat? is a collection of funny stories and true confessions that every woman can relate to by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella - the unstoppable, irreverent mother-daughter team.

Lisa Scottoline, internationally best-selling author of Keep Quiet, returns with Every Fifteen Minutes, the compulsive tale of a doctor whose life is being unravelled from the outside in.... Dr Eric Parrish is the chief of a highly regarded psychiatric unit near Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife, he is doing his best to be a single parent to his seven-year-old daughter, Hannah. But when Eric takes on a new patient, his entire world begins to crumble.

Elisabetta, a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist, Marco, the brash and athletic son of professional cyclists, and Sandro, a kind-hearted and thoughtful Jewish mathematics prodigy, grow up best of friends. Their friendship blossoms to love, with both Sandro and Marco hoping to win Elisabetta's heart. But in the autumn of 1937, everything changes as Mussolini asserts his power, aligning Italy's Fascists with Hitler's Nazis. Soon, everything that they hold dear is tested in ways they never could have imagined.

When a woman and her husband, desperate for a baby, find themselves unable to conceive, they decide to take further steps. Since it is the husband who is infertile, the heroine decides to use a donor. And all seems to be well. Three months pass, and she is happily pregnant. But a shocking revelation occurs when she discovers that a man arrested for a series of brutal murders is her donor - the biological father of the child she is carrying.

Shy, dyslexic and small for his age, 10-year-old Patrick O'Brien is a natural target at school. But when Patrick is accused of attacking a school aide, the tables are turned and the aide promptly sues the boy, his family and the school district. Patrick's grandfather turns to the lawyers of Rosato & DiNunzio for help, and Mary DiNunzio is soon on the case. But there is more to the story than meets the eye, and Patrick may be more troubled than he seems.

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

A Central Valley la vita scorre lenta e serena come al solito, o almeno questo è ciò che sembra. Paul, Mindy e Evan Kostis sono appena tornati dalla vacanza alle Cayman, Susan Sematov, dopo la morte del marito, continua a prendersi cura di Raz e Ryan, e Heather Larkin dedica ogni sua attenzione all’amato figlio Jordan... Niente, insomma, sembra destabilizzare la tranquilla quotidianità degli abitanti della piccola città, finché l'arrivo di un nuovo insegnante, Chris Brennan, non sconvolge completamente le loro esistenze.