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The Pelican Brief

John Grisham - Bantam Dell/Random House
Format: Paperback

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...
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The Client: A Novel

John Grisham - Dell
Format: Paperback

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother are sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer leaves Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most-sought-after dead body in America.Now Mark is caught...
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The Chamber

John Grisham - Doubleday; Limited edition
Format: Hardcover

In the corridors of Chicagos 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...
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The Runaway Jury

John Grisham - Doubleday & Co.
Format: Print book

Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juroris convinced he's...
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The Partner: A Novel

John Grisham - Dell; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROnce he was a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then Patrick Lanigan stole ninety million dollars from his own firm—and ran for his life. For four years, he evaded men who were rich and powerful, and who would stop...
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The Street Lawyer

John Grisham - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover

Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins...
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The Testament

John Grisham - Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

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...
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The Brethren

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks...
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A Painted House

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

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...
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Skipping Christmas

John Grisham - CNIB
Format: Hardcover

Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock...
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The Summons

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Print book

Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep.And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives...
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The King of Torts

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street...
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Bleachers

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Book

High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football...
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The Last Juror

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally...
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The Broker

John Grisham - Random House Large Print
Format: Hardcover

In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after...
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Playing For Pizza: A Novel

John Grisham - Doubleday; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns In the AFC Championship game against Denver to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone Rick actually got into the game With a -point lead and just minutes to go Rick provided what was arguably the worst single...
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The appeal

John Grisham - Random House Large Print Publishing
Format: Large Print Hardcover

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.
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The Associate

John Grisham - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, waituntil you meet Kyle McAvoy, The AssociateKyle McAvoy grew up in his father's small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless...
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Ford County: Stories

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest...
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The Confession: A Novel

John Grisham - Random House Large Print; Lrg edition
Format: Large Print

An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. He just can’t...
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The Litigators

John Grisham - Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The partners at Finley Figgall two of themoften refer to themselves as a boutique law firm. Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers whove...
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Calico Joe

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball ... Whatever happened to Calico Joe? It began quietly enough with a pulled hamstring. The first baseman for the Cubs AAA affiliate in Wichita went down as he rounded...
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The Racketeer

John Grisham - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered.Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five.Who...
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Sycamore Row

John Grisham - Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

John Grisham takes you back to where it all began . . . John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that...
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Gray Mountain: A Novel

John Grisham - Random House Large Print; Lrg edition
Format: Large Print

John Grisham has a new hero . . . and she's full of surprises The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track - until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky"...
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Rogue Lawyer

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Print book

On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates,...
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The Whistler

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Print book

From John Grisham, America's #1 bestselling author, comes the most electrifying novel of the year, a high-stakes thrill ride through the darkest corners of the Sunshine State. We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity and impartiality are the bedrock of the entire judicial...
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Camino Island: A Novel

John Grisham - Random House Large Print
Format: Paperback

A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino...
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The Rooster Bar

JOHN GRISHAM - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham's newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that's on shaky ground. Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they...
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The Reckoning: A Novel

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

#1 bestselling author John Grisham's The Reckoning is his most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet. "A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga ... The Reckoning is Grisham's argument that he's not just a boilerplate thriller writer. Most jurors...
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The Guardians

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

John Grisham delivers a classic legal thriller--with a twist.In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect...
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Camino Winds

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham returns to Camino Island in this irresistible page-turner that's as refreshing as an island breeze. In Camino Winds, mystery and intrigue once again catch up with novelist Mercer Mann, proving that the suspense never rests...
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A Time for Mercy

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Jake Brigance, the protagonist of A Time to Kill, John Grisham's classic legal thriller is back. This time he's at the epicenter of a sensational murder trial that bitterly divides the citizens of Clanton, Mississippi. A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time....
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