Martin Clark
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For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the poor, the addicted, and the unfortunate souls who constantly cycle through the courts, charged with petty crimes. Then, in the summer of 2020, he's assigned to a grotesque murder case that brings national media focus to rural Patrick County, Virginia--Alicia Benson, the wife of a wealthy businessman, is murdered in her home. The accused killer, Damian...
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"From Martin Clark--praised by Entertainment Weekly as "our best legal-thriller writer"--comes a wickedly clever, tenderhearted, and intricately plotted novel about a hard-luck lawyer's refusal to concede defeat, even as fate, the court system, and a gang of untouchable con artists conspire against him. Kevin Moore, once a high-flying Virginia attorney, hits rock bottom after an inexplicably tumultuous summer leaves him disbarred and separated from...
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Lisa and Joe Stone, partners in their small law firm in Virginia, handle less-than-glamorous cases, including never- ending complaints from their cantankerous client Lettie VanSandt. When Lettie dies in a freakish fire, they question how "accidental" her demise actually was.
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Mason Hunt escaped an embattled childhood by earning a full ride to law school. Mason, returning to his Virginia hometown to be the country's commonwealth attorney, finds his happiness shattered by an unexpected tragedy. Things only get worse when his brother Gates, currently serving a 20-year prison term, asks Mason to use his pull to set him free. When Mason refuses, Gates hatches a plan to destroy his brother's life with a secret they both swore...
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In this masterful debut, Martin Clark proves to be the heir apparent of great Southern raconteurs and the envy of more seasoned novelists as he takes us on a frantic tour of the modern south. Hung over, beaten by the unforgiving sun, bitter at his estranged wife, and dreading the daya's docket of petty criminal cases, Judge Evers Wheeling is in need of something on the morning he's accosted by Ruth Esther English. Ruth Esther's strange story certainly...
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Plain Heathen Mischief ups the existential ante, as Joel King, a defrocked Baptist minister, finds life even more bedeviling once he's served six months for a career-ending crime he might not even have committed. Now his incommunicado wife wants a divorce, the teenage vixen of his disgrace is suing him for a cool $5 million, a fresh start in Montana offers no hope for ex-cons of any religious persuasion, and the refuge provided by his sister turns...
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Many people dismiss the Bible as a real source of wisdom for every area of life, believing the popular delusion that the Bible is full of mistakes and is no longer relevant to our modern world. However, neglecting and rejecting God's Word has its consequences. There are many questions today that demand answers in our daily lives; we can't avoid them. The Bible is vital in solving (and preventing) the very real problems people face today.
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8) Blue
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Pentatone Classics
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[2022]
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English
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A performance by the Washington National Opera. Conducted by Roderick Cox.
"In Harlem, a couple celebrates the birth of their firstborn--a boy, Black and beautiful. As the mother worries for their son's future in today's America, the father wrestles with his role as a police officer, a "Black man in blue." When the unimaginable happens and the son is killed by a white officer, they must face every family's worst fear." --
