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In his first courtroom thriller since A Time to Kill, John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America - and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam. In his final semester of law school Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first "clie...

The court is back in session with "The Summons." For the first time since "A Time to Kill, " Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, a place rich in colorful characters and dark family secrets.

Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die. His heirs, to no one's surprise--especially Troy's--are circling like vultures.Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long. His second marriage in a shambles, and he is emerging from his fourth stay in rehab armed with li...

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front 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. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynami...

They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in Brazil, a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well.But Danilo had a past with many chapters. Four years earlier he had been Patrick Lani...

Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a "camp, " home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals--drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, two Wall Street crooks, one doctor, at least five lawyers.And three former judges who call themselves the Brethren: one from Texas, one from California, and one from Mississippi. They meet each day in the law library, their turf at Trumble, where they write brief...

In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm:Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison:Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just hap...

In 1970, Willie Traynor came to Mississippi in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old college dropout found himself the owner of Ford County's only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While the rest of America was in the grips of social turmoil, Willie's adopted town of Clanton lived on the edge of another age, until the brutal murder of a young mother rocked the sleepy communit...

For a young lawyer on the make, it was an offer he couldn't refuse: a position at a law firm where the bucks, billable hours, and benefits are over the top. It's a dream job for an up-and-comer--if he can overlook the uneasy feeling he gets at the office. Then an FBI investigation plunges the straight and narrow attorney into a nightmare of terror and intrigue, with no choice but to pit his wits, ethics, and legal skills against the firm's dea...

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life...

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life...

Contemporary / British English Mitch McDeere is young, intelligent and ambitious. When he gets a job with the law firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke it seems to be the path to money and power. But soon Mitch finds that the firm is listening to all his phone calls, and the FBI want to speak to him. Money and power has a price - and it could be Mitch's life. This Pack contains a Book and MP3

Imagine a year without Christmas. they won't be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash, But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences - and isn't half as easy as they'd imagined.

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life...

Sein persönlichstes Buch!Inez Graney scheut keine Mühe, um ihren Sohn zu besuchen. Seit elf Jahren sitzt Raymond im Todestrakt. Seine Brüder, die ihre Mutter stets begleiten, halten Raymond für einen schrägen Vogel. Oft muss Inez zwischen ihren Söhnen vermitteln. So auch diesmal, an diesem besonderen Besuchstag, an dem Raymond Graney hingerichtet wird. John Grisham erzählt Stories, die den Leser ins Herz treffen, und schafft Figuren, die man n...

Skipping Christmas, " the perennial hardcover bestseller, is available this season in hardcover and, for the first time ever, also available in a mass market movie-tie in edition on sale 10/12. The book ties in with the major motion picture, "Christmas With The Kranks, " starring Tim Allen, Tim Akroyd, and Jamie Lee Curtis. 0-385-50841-7$14.95 / Bantam

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life...

Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the eldest, a Virginia law professor, newly sing...

Wenn ein Brief zur Waffe wirdDrei verurteilte Richter brüten im Gefängnis über einem genialen Coup. Wenn alles klappt, haben sie für die Zeit nach dem Knast ausgesorgt. Sie sind gerissen und haben die richtigen Kontakte, aber ist ihre Strategie wirklich wasserdicht? Ein raffiniertes Szenario entlang der Säulen der Macht.«Der spannendste Grisham seit "Der Partner" - ein geradezu diebisches Vergnügen.» Entertainment Weekly

Brimming with all the intrigue and suspense that classies a John Grisham novel, this new bestseller from the undisputed master of the legal thriller stars young Theodore Boone, who's 'half the man, twice the lawyer', and will keep readers guessing and pages turning. 'If you aspire to turn your children into lawyers who will keep you in your old age, John Grisham's "Theodore Boone", his first novel for young people, might be for you' "Sunday Times