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The Prince
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One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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On Liberty
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Meditations
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Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States of America, Bill of Rights and Constitutional Amendments (Including Images of Original
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Animal Farm
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Can You Stiff Your Divorce Lawyer? Tales of How Cunning Clients Can Get Free Legal Work, as Told by an Experienced Divorce Attorney
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Portia Porter (Goodreads Author)
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The Trial
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Crime and Punishment
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Fahrenheit 451
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The Firm
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
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The Rule of Law
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
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The Brothers Karamazov
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The Social Contract
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The Age of Reason
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The Trial and Death of Socrates
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The Pelican Brief
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
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A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 822,671 ratings
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Leviathan
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The Federalist Papers
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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4.51 avg rating — 215,369 ratings
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The Concept of the Political
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Elements of the Philosophy of Right
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The Law
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4.34 avg rating — 13,709 ratings
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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3.79 avg rating — 18,585 ratings
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Politics
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3.98 avg rating — 42,282 ratings
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Beyond Good and Evil
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4.03 avg rating — 111,215 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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4.24 avg rating — 23,607 ratings
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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4.07 avg rating — 172,221 ratings
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Tao Te Ching
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4.29 avg rating — 179,373 ratings
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The Runaway Jury
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 313,287 ratings
score: 442,
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Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
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4.30 avg rating — 27,179 ratings
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A Theory of Justice
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3.95 avg rating — 13,468 ratings
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The United States of Elfin: Imagining a More Elven Style of Government
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The Silver Elves (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 399,
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A Civil Action
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Jonathan Harr (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 16,951 ratings
score: 385,
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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3.98 avg rating — 27,379 ratings
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
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4.14 avg rating — 585 ratings
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 83,452 ratings
score: 373,
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The Symposium
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4.09 avg rating — 87,516 ratings
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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3.95 avg rating — 47,187 ratings
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The Complete Essays
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4.23 avg rating — 21,755 ratings
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The Metamorphosis
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3.90 avg rating — 1,371,226 ratings
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Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
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3.93 avg rating — 24,005 ratings
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Bleak House
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4.02 avg rating — 113,038 ratings
score: 324,
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 255 ratings
score: 300,
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Historical and Theological Foundations of Law: Classical and Medieval
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4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 298,
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The Function of Equity in International Law
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Catharine Titi (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 298,
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McClurg's 1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School, 2d: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to ... the First Year of Law Schoo
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4.09 avg rating — 783 ratings
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Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining
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3.82 avg rating — 851 ratings
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Getting to Yes with Yourself: And Other Worthy Opponents
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3.96 avg rating — 2,191 ratings
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Metaphysics
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4.07 avg rating — 17,868 ratings
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A Treatise of Human Nature
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3.95 avg rating — 12,600 ratings
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God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
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Jim Wallis (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 3,560 ratings
score: 294,
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A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations
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3.88 avg rating — 382 ratings
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Historical and Theological Foundations of Law: Reformation and Colonial
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Gideon's Trumpet
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3.91 avg rating — 3,055 ratings
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The Assault on Reason
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3.78 avg rating — 7,363 ratings
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Democracy in America
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4.05 avg rating — 26,779 ratings
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A History of American Law
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4.13 avg rating — 540 ratings
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
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4.18 avg rating — 10,285 ratings
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
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3.77 avg rating — 36,267 ratings
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The Bhagavad Gita
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4.19 avg rating — 80,265 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
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3.68 avg rating — 192,497 ratings
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An Introduction to Legal Reasoning
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3.60 avg rating — 229 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 717,341 ratings
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The Rainmaker
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 205,624 ratings
score: 254,
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,169,554 ratings
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Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings
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4.14 avg rating — 15,782 ratings
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The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
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Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 252,631 ratings
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Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
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Richard Kluger (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 715 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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The Spirit of the Laws
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Historical and Theological Foundations of Law: Ancient Wisdom
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3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Take Charge: The Skills That Drive Professional Success
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Norman Bacal (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 44 ratings
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A CONSTITUTION FOR A DEMOCRACY: (An excursion in nonfiction)
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Rohit Roy Kajaria (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Get Bail, Leave Jail: America’s Guide to Hiring a Bondsman, Navigating Bail Bonds, and Getting out of Custody before Trial
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Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family
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3.91 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Commentaries on the Laws of England
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Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas
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4.07 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse
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4.22 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Vindiciae, Contra Tyrannos: Or, Concerning the Legitimate Power of a Prince Over the People, and of the People Over a Prince
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3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Legally Blonde
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Just Mercy
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Personal Injuries (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #5)
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Scott Turow (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 7,472 ratings
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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3.94 avg rating — 22,150 ratings
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The Appeal
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 61,905 ratings
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Angel of Death Row: My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 115,935 ratings
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Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution
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The Woman in White
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Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System
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The Common Law
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The Republic
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Civilization and Its Discontents
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Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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*Contains legal movie trivia and other interesting nuggets.
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Sonia J. Buck, Esq.
Linnell, Choate & Webber, LLP
83 Pleasant Street
Auburn, ME 04210
telephone: (207) 784-4563
fax: (207) 784-1981
www.lcwlaw.com