GRISHAM JOHN

(P/B) THE STREET LAWYER
Michael Brock is a man in the fast lane. He's a rising star at Drake & Sweeney, a giant Washington law firm. No time to waste, no time to toss a few coins to beggars. No time for a conscience. Until the day a man takes several lawyers hostage at his firm, shouting about an eviction. Police snipers shoot the hostage taker dead, but Brock feels compelled to investigate. What he discovers is a shocking violation of the rights of the homeless on the city streets, with Drake & Sweeney up to its neck in it, and suddenly his conscience begins to ...
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Η ΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΙΑ
Ο Τζέικ Μπριγκάνς, ο δικηγόρος της θρυλικής Ετυμηγορίας, αναλαμβάνει μια νέα συνταρακτική υπόθεση... Ο βαθύπλουτος Σεθ Χάμπαρντ αργοπεθαίνει βαριά άρρωστος, πριν κρεμαστεί από έναν πλάτανο, δίνοντας τέλος στο μαρτύριό του, αφήνει μια καινούρια, χειρόγραφη διαθήκη. Η πράξη του αυτή οδηγεί τα παιδιά του και τη μαύρη υπηρέτριά του σε μια αντιπαράθεση περίπλοκη και δραματική όσο κι εκείνη η δίκη για φόνο που κατέστησε άλλοτε τον Μπριγκάνς έναν από τους πιο διάσημους πολίτες της Κομητείας Φορντ. Η δεύτερη διαθήκη γεννάει πάρα πολλά ερωτηματικά:...
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(P/B) THE GUARDIANS
He was framed for murder. Now he needs someone on the outside to save him. For 22 years Quincy Miller has sat on Death Row without friends, family or legal representation. He was accused of killing a Keith Russo, a lawyer in a small Florida town. But there were no witnesses and no motive. Just the fact that Quincy was black in an all-white town and that a blood-splattered torch was found in the boot of his car. A torch he swore was planted. A torch that conveniently disappeared from evidence just before his trial. It made no difference. Th...
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(P/B) A PAINTED HOUSE
"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 two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost 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 the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a seven year old farm boy n...
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(P/B) THE BRETHREN
Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, and three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. They meet each day in the law library where they spend hours writing letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it's starting to pay big. The money is pouring in. But then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous friends, and The Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over. (From the publi...
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(P/B) THE CHAMBER
There are some cases you have to take. Adam Hill is a rookie lawyer at a top Chicago firm. The world is at his feet. So why does he volunteer to represent a KKK terrorist under threat of execution? And why is the defendant happy to put his life in a novice's hands? The answer lies twenty years in the past, but there are darker, more shocking secrets to be uncovered... A classic legal thriller from legendary author John Grisham, whose books have sold over 300 million copies. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE PARTNER
A man will do almost anything for ninety million dollars. So will its rightful owners. They found him in a small town in Brazil, near the border with Paraguay. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, and his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. They'd chased him around the world, always just missing him. It had cost their clients $3.5 million. But so far none of them had complained. The man they were about to kidnap had not always been called Danilo Silva. Before he had had another life, a life which e...
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(P/B) THEODORE BOONE
'I'm the lawyer, and you're the client. My advice to you is to bury this and not tell a soul. Never. Got it?" Theodore Boone, courtroom hero and the only kid lawyer in town, is facing a tough week at school with his exams. But things take a turn for the worse when a huge scandal is revealed - by none other than his best friend, April. And when April makes a decision that Theodore advises against, the scandal suddenly blows up and is all over the news. Their futures are on the line and April's running scared. Can Theodore find a way to re...
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(P/B) ROGUE LAWYER
Sometimes you have to fight dirty to get clean. Sebastian Rudd takes the cases no one else wants to take: the drug-addled punk accused of murdering two little girls; a crime lord on death row; a homeowner accused of shooting at a SWAT team. Rudd believes that every person accused of a crime is entitled to a fair trial - even if he has to cheat to get one. He antagonizes people from both sides of the law: his last office was firebombed, either by drug dealers or cops. He doesn't know or care which. But things are about to get even more com...
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(P/B) THE CONFESSION
An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched and waited as police and prosecutors arrested Donte Drumm, a local football star with no connection to the crime. Tried, convicted and sentenced, Drumm was sent to death row: his fate had been decided. Nine years later, Donte Drumm is four days from execution. ...
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Ο ΜΕΣΑΖΟΝΤΑΣ
Λίγο πριν αποχαιρετήσει το Οβάλ Γραφείο, σχεδόν την τελευταία στιγμή, ο απερχόμενος Πρόεδρος των ΗΠΑ απονέμει χάρη στον Τζόελ Μπάκμαν, πρώην μεγαλοδικηγόρο και πανίσχυρο παράγοντα της πολιτικής ζωής της Ουάσιγκτον, που εδώ και έξι χρόνια κρατείται σε μια ομοσπονδιακή φυλακή. Πολλοί θεωρούν την πράξη του σκανδαλώδη. Κανείς δεν γνωρίζει πως ο Πρόεδρος υπογράφει αυτή τη χάρη κάτω από την αφόρητη πίεση της CIA. Φαίνεται πως ο Μπάκμαν, τις ημέρες της παντοδυναμίας του, είχε αποκτήσει πρόσβαση σε στοιχεία που θέτουν σε κίνδυνο το πιο εξελιγμένο ...
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Η ΕΦΕΣΗ
Στην κατάμεστη αίθουσα ενός δικαστηρίου του Μισισιπή, οι ένορκοι επιστρέφουν με μια ετυμηγορία-καταπέλτη: η εταιρεία χημικών που κατηγορείται ότι μόλυνε με τοξικά απόβλητα το νερό μιας μικρής πόλης, προκαλώντας το χειρότερο ποσοστό καρκίνου στην ιστορία, κρίνεται ένοχη. Η εταιρεία τώρα προσφεύγει στο Ανώτατο Δικαστήριο του Μισισιπή, του οποίου οι εννέα δικαστές θα κρίνουν την έφεση. Ποιοι είναι, όμως, οι εννέα; Πώς θα ψηφίσουν; Θα μπορούσε κάποιος να αντικατασταθεί πριν η υπόθεση κριθεί οριστικά; (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ...
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ΚΕΡΚΙΔΕΣ
Οι παλαίμαχοι μιας γυμνασιακής ομάδας του αμερικάνικου φούτμπολ επιστρέφουν στην πόλη και ξανασμίγουν. Με αλλεπάλληλα φλασμπάκ ζουν και πάλι την ένταση του αγώνα, το μόχθο των προπονήσεων, το θαυμασμό των κατοίκων, τη λατρεία των τσιρλίντερς. Ο Τζον Γκρίσαμ εγκαταλείπει για λίγο τις δικαστικές αίθουσες και τις δικανικές διαμάχες, χάρη στις οποίες θεωρείται ένας από τους μεγαλύτερους συγγραφείς μπεστ σέλερ της εποχής μας. Διεισδύει στα αποδυτήρια της ομάδας και μας μυεί στα μυστικά ενός καθαρά αμερικάνικου αθλήματος, όπου η ωμή βία συνυπάρχ...
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Η ΟΜΟΛΟΓΙΑ
Για κάθε αθώο που μπαίνει στη φυλακή, ένας ένοχος μένει ελεύθερος. Δεν καταλαβαίνει πώς η αστυνομία και οι εισαγγελείς έπιασαν το λάθος άνθρωπο, και σίγουρα δεν τον νοιάζει. Απλώς ευλογεί την τύχη του και συνεχίζει ανενόχλητος τη ζωή του, ενώ κάποιος άλλος πληρώνει για το δικό του έγκλημα. Ο Τράβις Μπόιετ είναι ένας τέτοιος άνθρωπος. Το 1998, στη μικρή πόλη Σλόουν του Τέξας, απήγαγε, βίασε και στραγγάλισε μια δημοφιλή τσιρλίντερ του σχολείου. Κι ύστερα είδε κατάπληκτος να συλλαμβάνουν αντί γι' αυτόν τον Ντόντι Ντραμ, έναν τοπικό αστέρα του...
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(P/B) A TIME TO KILL
When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It's the kind of case that can make or break a young lawyer. But in the maelstrom of Clanton, it is also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer k...
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(P/B) THE TESTAMENT
Troy Phelen 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. Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long. Emerging from his fourth stay in rehab he knows returning to the real world is always difficult, but this time it's going to be murder. Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God, who walked away from the modern world with all its strivings and trappin...
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(P/B) THEODORE BOONE
In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he's only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he's one of them. He dreams of a life in the courtroom, but finds himself there sooner than expected when he is dragged into the middle of a sensational murder trial. A cold-blooded killer is about to go free, and only Theo knows the truth. The stakes are high, but Theo won't stop until justice is served. (From the publisher) "Not since Nancy Drew has a nosy, crime-obsessed kid been so hard to resist" (New York Times) "Th...
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(P/B) PLAYING FOR PIZZA
With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick Dockery provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughing stock and, of course, was immediately dropped by the Browns and shunned by all other teams. But all Rick knows is football, and he insists that his agent, Arnie, finds a team that needs him. Against enormous odds, Arnie finally locates just such a team and informs Rick that, miraculously, he can in fact now be a starting quarterback - for the mighty Panthers o...
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THE PELICAN BRIEF (+MP3 AUDIO CD)
In Washington, two Supreme Court judges are murdered and only the young and beautiful law student Darby Shaw knows why. She has uncovered a deadly secret, but will anyone believe her? Can she stay alive long enough to persuade them she is right? (From the publisher)...
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Ο ΣΥΝΕΡΓΑΤΗΣ
Ο Μάικλ Μάκεβοϊ είναι γεννημένος δικηγόρος -μεγάλωσε μέσα στο δικηγορικό γραφείο του πατέρα του, στο Γιορκ της Πενσιλβάνια. Τώρα τελειώνει με άριστα τις σπουδές του στο Γέιλ και το μέλλον του προβλέπεται λαμπρό. Μόνο που ο Κάιλ έχει ένα μυστικό, ένα μελανό σημείο από τα φοιτητικά του χρόνια, που προσπαθεί να ξεχάσει. Αλλά το μυστικό του πέφτει σε λάθος χέρια, κι ο Κάιλ εξαναγκάζεται να δεχτεί μια δουλειά που δε θέλει -αν και για τους περισσότερους συμφοιτητές του θα ήταν η δουλειά των ονείρων τους. Τρεις μόλις μήνες μετά την αποφοίτησή του...
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