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Most addiction memoirs end with sobriety. This one begins there. After years of relapses, Gail Brenner Nastasia was finally clean and ready for the promises of sobriety. Within a few years, everything she thought she ever wanted was hers: a husband, healthy children, and a prestigious legal career. Until she blew it all up. She ended her marriage by becoming involved with an active addict, her finances were in ruins, and she was living in constant chaos. In Staying Clean...

The Enigma of Clarence Thomas is a groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice everyone knows about but no one knows. “One of the marvels of Robin’s razor-sharp book is how carefully he marshals his evidence.... It isn’t every day that reading about ideas can be both so...

Have you ever wondered what a judge is really thinking? To most people, judges are mysterious creatures. Judge Mader shines a bright spotlight on the hidden folds of the judging world. The old saying is that judges merely "follow the law". Yet following the law can produce wildly different results depending upon each judge's background, politics, and life experiences. Even the floor of the courthouse to which a case is assigned can mean the difference between prison and freedom.  Never before has the judging world been laid bare for all to see.

In Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times. From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nation’s capital; from the male stronghold of the army where she broke gender and color barriers to the pulpits of churches where women had waited for years for the right to minister - in all these places, Dovey Johnson Roundtree sought justice.

In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl along the banks of the Yuba River, and was awaiting execution at San Quentin. After reviewing the case, Gardner agreed to help - it seemed the fate of the "Red-Headed Killer" hinged on the testimony of a colorblind witness.

Given her incredible tenure as a Supreme Court justice as well as her monumental impact on the modern women’s rights movement, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become one of the most prominent political leaders of today. To complement her judicial significance, she has also become one of the most culturally popular political figures in US history. Not only has her workout routine gone viral (and been detailed in a book by her trainer), but RBG’s story has been featured in multiple critically acclaimed films. 

A practicing attorney’s unflinching account of what fifty years of representing vulnerable people actually costs. In 1956, a six-year-old boy in a Sacramento Catholic school classroom scooted over in his desk—physically moved his small body to the right—to make room for his guardian angel...

I was born into a name that was never just a name. It was a legacy—weighted with duty, burnished by reputation, and bound by silence. I was taught to guard it at any cost. Yet behind those carefully tended walls, kindness was scarce, and protection was nowhere to be found.This book is my...

What happens when a confident, successful American attorney—a former prosecutor, judge, and law professor—lands an internship with a British barrister and moves his family to England? He meets his match in the person of Barrister Giles Adams-Smyth. With the wry humor reminiscent of Bill Bryson, our narrator recounts his initial impression that “I was about to become a small planet, captured by the gravitational pull of a much larger planet, and soon I would become a satellite circling planet Giles.

Good Purpose is more than a memoir. It's a battle-tested argument that purpose-driven companies don't just do good—they outperform. Cherkasky's insider accounts of Gotti, Eliot Spitzer, the FBI, Wall Street, and corporate America offer access no journalist can replicate.

Few people have as informed a perspective on good versus evil as Judge Travis Bryan III. With nearly fifty years of experience in the criminal justice system—as a prosecutor, defense attorney, and since 2008 a district court judge for the State of Texas—Bryan has seen the struggle between right and wrong play out from all sides time and time again.

Surviving the Law: From Undocumented Immigration to Doctors, Lawyers and Scientists is the remarkable and inspiring journey of a young boy who, despite being undocumented, defied the odds and became a successful lawyer. This powerful narrative weaves together his struggles, resilience, and determination as he navigates a world full of obstacles. Alongside his story, the book highlights the journeys of other undocumented graduate students who, despite facing systemic barriers, went on to achieve greatness in their respective fields.

An irreverently funny and deeply moving story of growing up on the Rez and figuring out what it means to fight for your people, in the courtroom as a lawyer, and throughout life as a good relative When Lakota law professor Elaine Yellow Horse was a kid, her mother told her that her...

Bloomsbury presents The Deserving, written and read by Elizabeth Vartkessian. A groundbreaking new take on the American justice system from one of its unknown revolutionaries, offering a powerful new vision of responsibility, punishment, and repair. "The first book I’m aware of to pull back...

Nobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don’t know exists—one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off—and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution. “We are all a moment away...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more—a...

Until he joined the U.S. government in 1934, Robert H. Jackson had been a lawyer in private practice in Upstate New York who was admitted to the bar without going to college and after completing only one year of law school. Jackson became, in rapid succession, United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, where he successfully defended New Deal programs before the Supreme Court. 

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An intimate and no-holds-barred memoir by Canada's top defence lawyer, Nothing But the Truth weaves Marie Henein's personal story with her strongly held views on society's most pressing issues, legal and otherwise. With Nothing But the Truth, Marie Henein, arguably the most...

In 2005, after working for ten years in a comfortable but mundane corporate job in San Antonio, Texas, Vincent Sellers successfully managed to leave behind a dreary cubicle landscape and begin the exciting challenges of a crime-fighting FBI agent. His journey is chronicled in Eyes Pried Open: Rookie FBI Agent. Listeners will experience both the highs and the lows of an FBI agent working bank robbery, kidnapping, murder-for-hire cases, and border-related crimes in San Diego, California.

From Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, a deeply felt memoir that is also an ode to America and a solemn reminder of the promises and values on which this country’s greatness resides, spanning from Breyer’s coming of age in an era of post-war idealism, to his appointment to the court...