Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 27 October 2010
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The Last Innocent Man
Brilliant young defence attorney Nash suffers a crisis of conscience when he realizes many of the murderers and rapists he has defended were guilty of their crimes. Now defending a murder case, Nash falls into an ethical trap; he's in love with his client's wife but can't be sure of their alibis.
The devilish Chip Harrison--young, broke, and girlless--stumbles on a discarded bus ticket and finds himself in South Carolina, where he becomes the local sheriff's protege and falls in love with a preacher's daughter.
Manciple's tale (Canterbury Tales ) The Manciple, a purchasing agent for a law court, tells a fable about Phoebus Apollo and his pet crow, which is both an etiological myth explaining the crow's black feathers, and a moralistic injunction against Gossip.In the tale's prologue, the Host tries to rouse the drunken Cook to tell a tale, but he is too intoxicated. The Manciple insults the Cook, who falls semi-conscious from his horse, but they are reconciled by the Host and the Manciple offers the Cook another drink to make up.
Introverted and shy, 14-year-old Leah Nells has lived her life alone, with only books to keep her company. As she starts 9th grade, she finds herself lost within the complicated social universe of high school — especially when she falls in love with a boy from her class. Under pressure from her parents, her classmates, and the whole noisy world, can she become the girl she wants to be?