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3. Dark waters
Publisher:
Universal
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
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Publisher:
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
Chronicles the twenty-year legal battle between crusading lawyer Steven Donziger and Texaco/Chevron, detailing the corporation's destruction of rain forest Aboriginal homes and the extreme prosecution tactics that culminated in Donziger's indictment for racketeering.
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Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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Description:
With rich detail, compelling honesty, and a storyteller's gift, RFK Jr. describes his life growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that we confront today. "With emotion and striking detail, RFK Jr. recalls both the private joys and very public pain of his childhood."- Independent Catholic News In this powerful book that combines the best aspects of memoir...
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Series:
A.J. Palladino volume 1
Language:
English
Description:
As a single mom of a special-needs boy, Angela is happy for any work she can get, even if it means returning to the West Virginia hometown she left in disgrace. But when her new boss turns up dead, Angela discovers that her own secrets aren't the only ones her mountain hometown has kept buried.
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Series:
Jay Porter volume 2
Language:
English
Description:
"Acclaimed author Attica Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter (her Black Water Rising protagonist), who takes one last case on the behalf of the community of Pleasantville in this new thriller--only to become embroiled in its shadowy politics, a disturbing education in how far those in power are willing to go to win"--
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Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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From New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer comes a sensational biography of the son of the legendary Senator and troubled standard bearer of America's most fabled political dynasty. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. inherited his assassinated father's piercing blue eyes and Brahmin style, earning a reputation as the nation's foremost environmental activist and lawyer - the "toxic avenger" - battling corporate polluters. But in this, the most revelatory...
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Publisher:
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Description:
The world's preeminent environmental organization began with a layer of soot on the windowsill of a Greenwich Village apartment. Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) founder John H. Adams, a pioneer of environmental action, was working as a lawyer for the U.S. Attorney's office when he and fellow lawyers teamed up to form a grassroots environmental advocacy group. Since 1970, NRDC has grown into an international powerhouse with 1.2 million members...