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A question of choice

1993
The history of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States, as told by the woman who argued the case before the Supreme Court.

Michelle Obama

a portrait of the first lady
2009
Photographs and text chronicle the life and accomplishments of Michelle Robinson Obama, from her childhood on Chicago's South Side, her marriage to Barack Obama, becoming the First Lady, and related topics.

Courting trouble

2002
Beautiful young attorney Anne Murphy, shocked to find her picture and a report of her death on the front page of the newspaper, realizes that Willa, the new friend who was caring for Anne's cat while she vacationed at the shore, was murdered in her place, most likely by a stalker who had tried to kill Anne once before.

The last Nazi

2003
Melissa Gale is a federal investigator who comes to realize that a student of the monstrous Nazi torturer Josef Mengele is still alive and has been patiently planning acts of genetic terrorism. What's worse, she finds the plot involves her own unborn child.

Now you see her

a novel
2011

Between sisters

a novel
2009
Half-sisters Meghann Dontess, a high-powered lawyer, and Claire Cavenaugh, a single mother who helps run a campground, meet again years after being abandoned by their mother when Claire announces her intention to marry thrice-divorced country crooner Bobby Austin, but the sisters learn they may have waited too long for a reunion when Claire is diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor.

Wife of moon

2004
Photographer Edward Curtis's plans to document the Arapaho culture in 1907, complete with a staged battle, turned to tragedy when the tribal chief's daughter was found murdered along with two others and Curtis discovers that they may be connected to a century-old unsolved murder.

The shadow dancer

2002
Father John O'Malley vows to help one of his parishioners, Vicky Holden, clear her name after she is accused of killing her husband, but as he begins his own investigation into the case, he begins to doubt the young woman's innocence.

The girl with braided hair

2007
Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley incite the malice of a killer when they set out to learn the truth about a skeleton found on the Wind River Reservation which could be that of Liz Plenty Horses, a woman who disappeared in 1973 after being accused of being an informant for the FBI in their case against members of the American Indian Movement.

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