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21) The last juror
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[2004]
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English
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A convicted rapist and murderer returns to Ford County, Mississippi, seeking revenge on the jurors who dared convict him.
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[2022]
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Jake Brigance returns; a death row inmate makes an unusual final request; a dysfunctional legal family gets their day in court-but maybe not the way they envisioned it. These are just a few of the unforgettable characters you'll encounter in Sparring Partners, three novellas that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that John Grisham is truly America's Favorite Storyteller. 320pp.
23) The rainmaker
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English
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Abandoning his aspirations about living the good life, Memphis attorney Rudy Baylor fears he will lose everything in the face of a pivotal case that could cost him his life or turn him into the biggest rainmaker in the land.
24) The appeal
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[2008]
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English
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In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical...
25) A time to kill
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English
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A Southern town is shocked when a 10-year-old black girl is raped by two white men--until the girl's father takes the law into his own hands.
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Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Clay Carter, a public defender, reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes 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...
27) The Rooster Bar
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
Description
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 have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own...
28) The confession
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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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When Travis Boyette is paroled because of inoperable brain tumor, for the first time in his life, he decides to do the right thing and tell police about a crime he committed and another man is about to be executed for.
30) Calico Joe
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English
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In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
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Theodore Boone volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
Description
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
32) The client
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English
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A New Orleans lawyer kills himself, and the suicide is witnessed by Mark Sway, a bright 11-year-old boy, who overhears from the dying man a deadly secret about a Louisiana senator's murder. The accused killer, Mafia thug Barry Muldanno, is about to go on trial. Mark hires a lawyer, Reggie Love, and comes up with a plan.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
With two attorneys for parents, thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows more about the law than most lawyers do. But when a high profile murder trial comes to his small town and Theo gets pulled into it, it's up to this amateur attorney to save the day.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
Description
Bienvenido de nuevo a Camino Island, donde cualquier cosa puede suceder, incluso un asesinato en medio de un huracán, que podría resultar ser el crimen perfecto. . . Justo cuando Bay Books de Bruce Cable se prepara para el regreso del exitoso autor Mercer Mann, el huracán Leo se desvía de su curso previsto y se dirige directamente a la isla. El gobernador de Florida ordena una evacuación obligatoria, y la mayoría de los residentes suben a bordo...
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Theodore Boone volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
Description
"Aspiring lawyer Theodore Boone takes the stand to protect his political and environmental freedoms in the fourth installment of the series"--
38) The firm
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English
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Mitch McDeere, a Harvard Law School graduate, has a beautiful, loving wife and a sharp, ethical mind. He settles down to a career in a high-rolling Memphis law firm that gives him all the material and professional perks and sets him up finding tax shelters for wealthy Texans. But for some reason, the firm's associates keep dying. Now Mitch is caught between his need to provide for his family, his increasingly sinister employers, and an FBI agent who's...
39) Los guardianes
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: Bestselling author John Grisham delivers a classic legal thriller--with a twist. (English edition: The Guardians / 9780593129982 / [Bantam Dell, 6/16/2020]) 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 Quincy Miller, a young black man who...
40) Camino Island
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Series
Camino Island novels volume 1
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English
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Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
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