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IF YOU'VE EVER wondered about your blood relatives: Who ARE these people? I have absolutely nothing in common with them--you'll identify with Strangers­in-Blood. Dramatically tracking a card with no return address, Janice Law stirs the ashes of a SO-year estrangement from a much older brother, while trying to unrav­el a mystery of their heritage. With her experiences, she interweaves profiles of celebrities who reveal their family estrangement...

What is it like to be a judge? At nearly every event I attend, people ask me that.My short answer is: Great! or It's fine! What it is like to be a judge is much too complex to be answered in any brief manner.Shortly after I was elected as judge in Harris County, (Houston, Texas) Criminal Court No. 5, I attended New Judges' School in Dallas with other newly elected judicial colleagues from all over Texas. One December evening, our instructors d...

Governor Lurleen Wallace of Alabama and Evita Perón, First Lady of Argentina were women in their time but were not women of their time. Born in the same era, both First Ladys emerged as charismatic leaders-the trajectory of their high profile achievements paralleling in astonishing chrysalis patterns, eclipsing the political Suns of the steely-eyed men they married. When a white woman, Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace, died of cancer in 1968 i...

In the style of National Treasure hit films, Janice Law's fast-paced fiction thriller discloses how a wicked secret double-encrypted in an 18th century diary, intersects dramatically with 16th century Vatican art under the U.S. Capitol dome from which a gadfly journalist plunges to his death. Law teams a former criminal court judge with an Indian chief to unravel America's most stubborn history mystery: the two-century old disappearance of the...

This book is about sex.This book is about the institutional power to grant or deny sex.This book details how far human beings are willing to go to achieve a goal. This is a book about the extremes of every passion, including murder.When Deputy Joseph Richard Quinn and three other veteran Harris County sheriff's deputies with guns drawn, burst into a southeast Houston apartment the night of September 17, 1998, searching for a black male with a ...

Children's history-based fantasy fiction Capitol Cat & Watch Dog Succulent Sleuths Protect U.S. Botanic Garden is Judge Janice Law's ninth book, and her fourth book detailing the fun Washington D.C. adventures of Capitol Cat and Watch Dog as they work to prevent the theft of a giant Saguaro cactus from the U.S. Botanic Garden with the help of Dee, a junior intern. The trio, with the help of the U.S. Capitol Police, thwart the efforts of would-...

Capitol Cat & Watch Dog Outwit the U.S. Supreme Court is a sequel to Capitol Cat & Watch Dog Unite Lady Freedoms. Both tales are fact-and history-based fictional narratives of magical realism. These further adventures continue teaming a police dog with a cat who lives secretly in the U.S. Capitol Building. When the daring duo invades the U.S. Supreme Court nocturnally, they meet a new character-Supreme Cat-who joins in their quest to preserve ...