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IDENTICAL By Scott Turow 371 pp. Grand Central Publishing. $28. It is always a pleasure to visit Kindle County, Scott Turow's shadow version of greater Chicago, which he has been [...]

OUT OF ORDER Stories From the History of the Supreme Court By Sandra Day O'Connor Illustrated. 233 pp. Random House. $26. Sandra Day O'Connor retired from the Supreme Court in [...]

GUILT Stories By Ferdinand von Schirach. Translated by Carol Brown Janeway. 143 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $24. Ferdinand von Schirach is both a German criminal defense lawyer and an exceptional [...]

THE CITIZEN'S CONSTITUTION An Annotated Guide By Seth Lipsky 336 pp. Basic Books. $25.95 THE ANNOTATED U.S. CONSTITUTION AND DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE By Edited by Jack N. Rakove Illustrated. 354 [...]

PACKING THE COURT The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court By James MacGregor Burns 326 pp. The Penguin Press. $27.95 Two big ideas animate [...]

THE WRIGHT 3 By Blue Balliett. Illustrated by Brett Helquist. 318 pp. Scholastic Press. $16.99. (Ages 9 and up) THERE is a lot going on in ''The Wright 3,'' Blue [...]

THE DEATH OF INNOCENTS An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions. By Helen Prejean. 310 pp. Random House. $25.95. IN ''Dead Man Walking,'' her fine, furious denunciation of the death penalty, [...]

THE ABERNATHY BOYS By L. J. Hunt. HarperCollins, $15.99. (Ages 8 to 12) In the late summer of 1909, two very young boys set off by themselves on an extraordinary [...]

FOOLS RUSH IN Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner. By Nina Munk. Illustrated. 352 pp. New York: HarperBusiness. $26.95. THERE MUST BE A PONY IN [...]

RUMPOLE AND THE PRIMROSE PATH By John Mortimer. 212 pp. New York: Viking. $24.95. THE art of cross-examination, Horace Rumpole declares, is ''not the art of examining crossly.'' ''Lull the [...]

Ballet School By Naia Bray-Moffat. Photography by David Handley. 48 pp. New York: DK Publishing. $12.99. (All ages) On Your Toes A Ballet ABC. Written and illustrated by Rachel Isadora. [...]

BALLERINA! Written and illustrated by Peter Sis. HarperCollins, $14.95. (Ages 3 and up) Peter Sis, a talented and prolific illustrator and an occasional author, has achieved something special in his [...]

AUTHOR UNKNOWN On the Trail of Anonymous. By Don Foster. 318 pp. New York: Henry Holt & Company. $26. ''FOr God's sake,'' said Joe Klein, ''definitely, I didn't write it.'' [...]

The great political caricaturist and magazine artist Edward Sorel has also illustrated children's books for years, and lately he has taken to writing them as well. His latest collaboration with [...]

Lawyer A Life of Counsel and Controversy. By Arthur L. Liman with Peter Israel. Illustrated. 386 pp. New York: Public Affairs. $30. If an image of Arthur L. Liman still [...]

WORLD WAR 3.0 Microsoft and Its Enemies. By Ken Auletta. Illustrated. 436 pp. New York: Random House. $27.95. PRIDE BEFORE THE FALL The Trials of Bill Gates and the End [...]

LAW IN AMERICA A Short History. By Lawrence M. Friedman. 207 pp. New York: A Modern Library Chronicles Book/The Modern Library. $19.95. JOSEPH G. BALDWIN, later a justice of the [...]

Written and illustrated by Amy Schwartz. Atheneum, $16.95. (Ages 3 to 6) The copyright page of 'The Boys Team' bristles with information. It identifies the book's genre with impressive specificity: [...]

THE SUMMONS By John Grisham. 341 pp. New York: Doubleday. $27.95. PICKING a title for a new legal thriller cannot be easy. All the good ones are taken. Have a [...]

And Other Christmas Poems. By Julia Cunningham. Illustrated by Anita Lobel. Greenwillow/HarperCollins, $15.95. (Ages 5 to 9) The nine powerful and varied poems in 'The Stable Rat' touch on aspects [...]

Written and illustrated by Peter Sis. HarperCollins, $14.95. (Ages 3 and up) Peter Sis, a talented and prolific illustrator and an occasional author, has achieved something special in his series [...]