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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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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)
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Leviathan
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The Federalist Papers
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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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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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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Politics
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Beyond Good and Evil
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Tao Te Ching
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The Runaway Jury
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 313,267 ratings
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Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
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A Theory of Justice
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The United States of Elfin: Imagining a More Elven Style of Government
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A Civil Action
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Jonathan Harr (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 16,948 ratings
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
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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 — 83,449 ratings
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The Symposium
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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The Complete Essays
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The Metamorphosis
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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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Bleak House
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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
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Historical and Theological Foundations of Law: Classical and Medieval
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The Function of Equity in International Law
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Catharine Titi (Goodreads Author)
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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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Getting to Yes with Yourself: And Other Worthy Opponents
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Metaphysics
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A Treatise of Human Nature
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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 — 3,559 ratings
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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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Gideon's Trumpet
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The Assault on Reason
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Democracy in America
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A History of American Law
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
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The Bhagavad Gita
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The Communist Manifesto
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An Introduction to Legal Reasoning
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In Cold Blood
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The Rainmaker
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 205,593 ratings
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The Odyssey
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Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings
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The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)
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Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
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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)
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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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Take Charge: The Skills That Drive Professional Success
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Norman Bacal (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 43 ratings
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A CONSTITUTION FOR A DEMOCRACY: (An excursion in nonfiction)
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Rohit Roy Kajaria (Goodreads Author)
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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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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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The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse
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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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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)
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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The Appeal
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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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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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Sonia wrote: "Hello, I was wondering if you would be willing to add my book, Movie Therapy for Law Students, to your wonderful list of resources and reading materials for law students? http://www.barnesandnobl..."
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MOVIE THERAPY FOR LAW STUDENTS is a fun legal study aid or law school preparatory text, which surveys about 35 legal movies, focusing on the substantive areas of laws and legal issues that the movies raise. Packed with black letter law, statutory material, court cases, ethical rules, evidence rules, civil and criminal procedure rules, and dozens of law school and bar exam tips, this book is a must-read for any law student, pre-law or related undergraduate degree candidate, paralegal student, or bar exam candidate.
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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