The Judge S Daughter

Author : Ruth Hamilton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330542036

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Agnes Makepeace has always been courageous and strong-minded and on the surface, she couldn’t be more unlike the chilly, reserved Helen Spencer. Agnes knows there is a mystery to her own background and is determined to discover the truth about her past. She believes the key to unlock the secret is held with husband’s employer, Judge Zachary Spencer of Lambert House - a mean-spirited widower and solitary man. Judge Spencer has long neglected his daughter, Helen and notices her even less when he takes a new wife. But he has underestimated both the extent of his daughter’s misery and her determination to enact her revenge. Helen’s new-found confidence causes her to behave in a way that will have a lasting, and shocking impact on both families and, surprisingly, leads to a lifelong friendship with Agnes. Yet it is only when the broodingly silent house on Skirlaugh Rise ceases to hold its breath and deliver the answers that Agnes has been seeking that she can finally find the peace of mind she has always longed for.

Author : Peter Bullet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8775653931

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Author : Claudette Cleveland
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1797403974

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We all make many choices in our lives and none of them should be considered wrong choices. At the time we chose our journey's direction with all the knowledge we have at hand. Sometimes that direction ultimately turns out to not be something that we want, so we consider ourselves failures.This book, The Judge's Daughter, shows us through the characters that the choices weren't a mistake, but what you do with those choices is what counts. Wallowing in pity is not a positive step forward for the more difficult choices if acted upon will make us even stronger in the future.How important is heredity when you don't know what yours is? Is it important enough to kill for? Such was the case with the Prescott and McCauley families. They had it all. Infidelity, abortions, drugs, hitmen, spousal abuse, billions of dollars, pedophilia and enough lawyers, judges and politicians to really mix up the gene pool.The Judge's Daughter is an intriguing murder mystery that has more layers than a royal wedding cake including more family skeletons than a Halloween Fun House. Pepper it with a lot dry humor and it makes for an entertaining read. It is a mystery that makes you turn the last page before you discover who is behind the murders and who is whose father and mother.

Author : Jacqueline A. McLeod
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252093616

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Daughter of the Empire State by Jacqueline A. McLeod Pdf

This long overdue biography of the nation's first African American woman judge elevates Jane Matilda Bolin to her rightful place in American history as an activist, integrationist, jurist, and outspoken public figure in the political and professional milieu of New York City before the onset of the modern Civil Rights movement. Bolin was appointed to New York City's domestic relations court in 1939 for the first of four ten-year terms. When she retired in 1978, her career had extended well beyond the courtroom. Drawing on archival materials as well as a meeting with Bolin in 2002, historian Jacqueline A. McLeod reveals how Bolin parlayed her judicial position to impact significant reforms of the legal and social service system in New York. Beginning with Bolin's childhood and educational experiences at Wellesley and Yale, Daughter of the Empire State chronicles Bolin's relatively quick rise through the ranks of a profession that routinely excluded both women and African Americans. Deftly situating Bolin's experiences within the history of black women lawyers and the historical context of high-achieving black New Englanders, McLeod offers a multi-layered analysis of black women's professionalization in a segregated America. Linking Bolin's activist leanings and integrationist zeal to her involvement in the NAACP, McLeod analyzes Bolin's involvement at the local level as well as her tenure on the organization's national board of directors. An outspoken critic of the discriminatory practices of New York City's probation department and juvenile placement facilities, Bolin also co-founded, with Eleanor Roosevelt, the Wiltwyck School for boys in upstate New York and campaigned to transform the Domestic Relations Court with her judicial colleagues. McLeod's careful and highly readable account of these accomplishments inscribes Bolin onto the roster of important social reformers and early civil rights trailblazers.

Author : Lois Glass Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1418443190

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THE REICH MUTINY is based on a factual account of a previously undisclosed incident aboard a German U-boat off the coast of Florida in 1942. Two Americans, members of the German American Bund in New York and involved in Nazi-sponsored anti-war sentiments, train for sabotage of east coast shipping manufacturers and after Pearl Harbor, are subsequently picked up near Morgan City, Louisiana by a German U-boat, the U-168, and taken to Germany for further training. As the Americans survive a sea battle, tour occupied Paris and Berlin, and finally complete their training in Hanau, they realize that they have become caught in the political in-fight between the SD, the intelligence wing of the SS, and the Abwehr, the German army intelligence agency. The Americans' eventual participation in the mutiny and slaughter aboard the U-168 drives them underground inside the U.S. as they try to elude a relentless SS assassin, obsessed with the completion of his mission. THE REICH MUTINY spans both sides of the Atlantic, contains a fascinating love interest, historical perspective, murder, revenge, and mutiny on the high seas.

Author : Sharina Harris
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496725660

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Judge's Girls by Sharina Harris Pdf

"Written with powerful emotional honesty, warmth and humor, JUDGE'S GIRLS is a must-read." —Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling author Three very different women. Only one thing in common. But when their family patriarch dies and they must share his estate, the truths they discover will test them—and everything they think they know about each other. Beloved Georgia judge Joseph Donaldson was known for his unshakable fairness, his hard-won fortune—and a scandalous second marriage to his much-younger white secretary. Now he's left a will with a stunning provision. In order to collect their inheritance, his lawyer daughter Maya, her stepmother Jeanie, and Jeanie’s teen daughter, Ryder, must live together at the family lake house. Maya and Jeanie don’t exactly get along, but they reluctantly agree to try an uneasy peace for as long as it takes . . . But fragile ex-beauty queen Jeanie doesn’t know who she is beyond being a judge’s wife—and drinking away her insecurities has her in a dangerous downward spiral. Fed up with her mother’s humiliating behavior, Ryder tries to become popular at school in all the wrong ways. And when Maya attempts to help, she puts her successful career and her shaky love life at risk. Now with trouble they didn’t see coming—and secrets they can no longer hide—these women must somehow find the courage to admit their mistakes, see each other for who they really are—and slowly, perhaps even joyfully, discover everything they could be.

Author : Lois Glass Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1418443166

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Set in towns along the Mississippi River, The Judge's Daughter is a mid-nineteenth century romance novel. Fanny Britton, headstrong but resilient is dominated by her widowed father, the Judge. To gain independence, she must marry and meets the "perfect" man, Joshua Devlin, who claims to read law. She is seduced and learns too late that he is a riverboat deckhand with ambition toward wealth operating gambling casinos. Now pregnant, she must marry him, satisfied she can coerce him into law. Judge Britton annuls their marriage. They remarry. Devlin wrongly believes Fanny's cousin, Alex, fathered her second child. He leaves, accepts money from her rival, BEATY, who becomes his casino business partner. He still loves Fanny and seeks solace in alcohol. The Judge attempts to have Devlin assassinated. Beaty saves him, ships another body, made unrecognizable, to Fanny as Devlin. Fanny, "a widow," is again dependent on the Judge. He is caught in bank fraud and flees with Fanny and her children. Devlin returns reformed and wealthy, locates Fanny and suspects the Judge is his assassin. Fanny protects her father. Devlin finally turns to a rich widow. Fanny then tries to win him back and at the same time save her father.

Author : Thomas T. Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0984965890

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The Judge's Daugher by Thomas T. Thomas Pdf

Before the frenzied modern era of superhighways, television, and the internet, American life was lived in small towns, in places where families knew every neighbor; where the bonds of love and hatred, friendship and feud, were tightly woven across generations. In such a town lived Robert Wheelock. He was soft-spoken, intelligent, Harvard-educated, and seemingly destined from birth for great things. His father, the county judge and owner of the local railroad and electric company, was wealthy and respected. So Robert's own success appeared assured ... until the judge's sudden death dealt a blow to his expectations. In this kaleidoscopic book spanning three decades of American life, Robert Wheelock falls in love with his beautiful cousin and takes on his first clients as a lawyer with his own practice. He fights a series of bitter skirmishes with his stepmother, suffers personal tragedy and loss, and starts down the path of public life and civic duty first blazed by the judge. And then Robert commits an indiscretion that will haunt him for twenty years-an indiscretion that will jeopardize his marriage and his place in the community. The Judge's Daughter is the story of a man's conscience and his capacity for love, set in a time and place that will never exist again, but that will live forever in the American imagination.

Author : Brian M. Barry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429659935

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How Judges Judge by Brian M. Barry Pdf

A judge’s role is to make decisions. This book is about how judges undertake this task. It is about forces on the judicial role and their consequences, about empirical research from a variety of academic disciplines that observes and verifies how factors can affect how judges judge. On the one hand, judges decide by interpreting and applying the law, but much more affects judicial decision-making: psychological effects, group dynamics, numerical reasoning, biases, court processes, influences from political and other institutions, and technological advancement. All can have a bearing on judicial outcomes. In How Judges Judge: Empirical Insights into Judicial Decision-Making, Brian M. Barry explores how these factors, beyond the law, affect judges in their role. Case examples, judicial rulings, judges’ own self-reflections on their role and accounts from legal history complement this analysis to contextualise the research, make it more accessible and enrich the reader’s understanding and appreciation of judicial decision-making. Offering research-based insights into how judges make the decisions that can impact daily life and societies around the globe, this book will be of interest to practising and training judges, litigation lawyers and those studying law and related disciplines.

Author : Rick Malter,Rosalie Malter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Inner child
ISBN : 0874183227

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Shrinking the Judge by Rick Malter,Rosalie Malter Pdf

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Families
ISBN : OCLC:1054956680

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The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty Pdf

Laurel Hand is forced to face her Southern past when she returns to Mississippi for her father's funeral.

Author : Edward Foss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z22071000X

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The Judges of England; with Sketches of Their Lives, and Miscellaneous Notices by Edward Foss Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780978569495

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The Ancestry of Theodore Timothy Judge and Ellen Sheehy Judge by Anonim Pdf

Theodore Timothy Judge, son of Timothy Aloysius Judge and Hazel Agnes Russell, was born in 1921 in Westwood, California. He married Ellen Sheehy.

Author : Charles John Ellicott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:AH54KP

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An Old Testament Commentary for English Readers: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel by Charles John Ellicott Pdf

Author : Margery H. Reed,Joyce A. Higgins,Marianne S. Marsha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Charlestown (N.H. : Town)
ISBN : 1937721086

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The Judge's Daughter by Margery H. Reed,Joyce A. Higgins,Marianne S. Marsha Pdf