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A time to kill
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194 editions published between 1989 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 8,463 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Criminal lawyer Jake Brigance faces the fight of his life when he is asked to defend Carl Hailey, who, in a rage of anger, shot and killed the men on trial for the rape of his daughter
The client
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123 editions published between 1992 and 2012 in 6 languages and held by 8,238 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Mark Sway, 11, witnesses a Mafia lawyer's suicide, which puts him in danger from Barry the Blade & a politically ambitious U.S. attorney. In the two years since The Firm first captured the imagination of America's readers, John Grisham, with three consecutive number-one bestsellers, has become one of the most popular authors of our time. Now, in The Client, he has written a novel so irresistible, so thoroughly entertaining and satisfying, that it is sure not only to please his millions of fans, but to win him new ones as well. This is the story of eleven-year-old Mark Sway, who, as the novel opens, witnesses the bizarre suicide of a New Orleans attorney. Just before he dies, the lawyer tells Mark a deadly secret concerning the recent murder of a Louisiana Senator, whose accused killer, Mafia thug Barry Muldanno, is about to go to trial. The police, the federal prosecutor and the FBI pressure Mark to tell them the attorney's last words, but he knows that with the mob watching his every move, revealing his secret will almost surely get him killed. So Mark, streetwise and old beyond his years, hires a lawyer: Reggie Love, a fifty-two-year-old divorcee who's been through more than anyone could imagine and survived, basically, because she's tough. And feisty. And loves helping kids overlooked or abused by the system. But when Mark's life is threatened, and Reggie discovers her office has been bugged, and even the Juvenile Court judge says Mark has no choice but to talk, she realizes that this time she's in way over her head. But then Mark comes up with a plan... a crazy plan, in Reggie's opinion, but it's their only hope. And it just might work. With the page-turning suspense and terrific plot twists that have become John Grisham's trademark, he has once again crafted a novel that simply cannot be put down. But in The ClientGrisham has gone a step further - with a cast of unforgettable characters headed by the most original hero in years, he has mixed equal parts humor and warmth to truly expand the boundaries of the legal thriller
The king of torts
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152 editions published between 1984 and 2012 in 23 languages and held by 7,888 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Clay Carter, a public defender, reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, assuming it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life - that would make him almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts
The firm
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159 editions published between 1991 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 7,887 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Mitch McDeere, a Harvard Law graduate, becomes suspicious of his Memphis tax firm when mysterious deaths, obsessive office security, and the Chicago mob figure into its operations
The last juror
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105 editions published between 2001 and 2012 in 8 languages and held by 7,841 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colourful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered. The paper reported all the gruesome details, and began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courtroom in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty. But nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled and the retribution began
The broker
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88 editions published between 2004 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 7,711 WorldCat member libraries worldwide John Grisham delivers another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not whether he will be killed, but rather who will kill him first
The testament
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148 editions published between 1997 and 2013 in 11 languages and held by 7,707 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A lawyer searches the Brazilian jungle for a missionary doctor working with Indians, the illegitimate daughter of an American tycoon who left her his fortune. But the tycoon's real children are determined to prevent the inheritance
The brethren
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124 editions published between 1997 and 2012 in English and Dutch and held by 7,646 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In a federal prison, three former judges who call themselves "the brethren" meet in the law library to run a rougher form of justice inside their community and to make some money, but when one of their scams derails, they are forced to confront the world of their own creation
The runaway jury
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140 editions published between 1995 and 2012 in 12 languages and held by 7,586 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The jury in a landmark tobacco trial begins acting strangely
The street lawyer
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199 editions published between 1998 and 2012 in 17 languages and held by 7,488 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A corporate lawyer in Washington goes to war against his own company to defend the homeless. It happens after Michael Brock is abducted by a homeless man and held hostage. The homeless man is killed by a police sharpshooter and the lawyer is rescued, but the experience changes his life
The pelican brief
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133 editions published between 1992 and 2010 in 7 languages and held by 7,413 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the floor of a posh home ... in a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death ... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated."--Colophon
A painted house : a novel
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92 editions published between 2000 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 7,394 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'." Thus begins from author John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and, sometimes, each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. This is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience
The chamber
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104 editions published between 1994 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 7,304 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In Mississippi, a young lawyer races against time to save his grandfather from the gas chamber. The grandfather was tried three times for a Ku Klux Klan bombing which killed two civil rights workers in 1967. He was found innocent twice, but guilty the third time. By the author of A Time To Kill
The summons
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73 editions published between 2000 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 7,302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Ray Atlee and his brother, Forrest, receive a letter from their father, a reclusive, retired judge, instructing them to return home to Clanton, Mississippi, to discuss his estate, but the judge dies before his sons arrive, leaving behind a secret known only to Ray
The partner
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132 editions published between 1961 and 2013 in 12 languages and held by 7,285 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A thriller on the international movement of dirty money. Its protagonist is an American lawyer who skips the country with $90 million belonging to crooks. They catch up with him in Brazil, torture him, but he does not know where the money is, his lawyer girlfriend is circulating it around the globe. Extradited to the U.S. to face various charges he is going to use the money to get off
The rainmaker
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141 editions published between 1976 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 7,062 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In his final semester of law school, Rudy Baylor "finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America -- and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam."
The innocent man : murder and injustice in a small town
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73 editions published between 2004 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 6,901 WorldCat member libraries worldwide John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits-- drinking, drugs, and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a 21-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you
The appeal
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64 editions published between 2002 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 6,832 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting candidate to run for Supreme Court judge when a Mississippi rules agains one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into the towns water supply causing a cancer cluster
Bleachers
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57 editions published between 2003 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 6,804 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Presents a novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion
Skipping Christmas
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54 editions published between 2001 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 6,241 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents more
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Ǧrīšām, Ǧūn, 1955-
Grišams, Džons
Grišèm, Džon.
Grišem, Džon, 1955-
Grisham, John
Grishėm, Dzhon
Grisjem, Dzjon
Гришэм, Джон
גרישם, ג׳ון
גרישם, ג׳ון. גינצבורג־הירש, עדי
그리샴, 존 1955-
존그리샴 1955-
グリシャム, ジョン
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