Posts in the "Contemporary" Category

  • The Summons

    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 alone in the [...]

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  • The Quiet Game

    When former prosecutor Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, he doesn’t find the peace he desperately craves. He finds that his own father is being blackmailed by a corrupt ex-cop. And when Penn investigates, he uncovers a murderous secret-and the small town’s violent past…. “Rivals John Grisham’s Best.”-Library Journal “Grabs You Fast [...]

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  • The Appeal (John Grisham)

    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 [...]

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  • The Testament (John Grisham)

    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 [...]

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  • Bleachers

    A tale of fleeting youth, sporting legends and heroes, and the many ways boys become men. Price: Array

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  • 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 [...]

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  • The Summons

    For the first time since “A Time to Kill”, Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi – a place rich in colourful characters and dark family secrets. Price: Array

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  • Bleachers

    Neely Crenshaw was once star quarterback for Messina High School’s football team. His playing days ended with a sickening injury. Afterwards his life went nowhere: his marriage foundered and his real estate business drifted. For fifteen years he’s been trying to forget his glorious past as sporting hero but hasn’t been able to move on. [...]

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  • 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 [...]

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  • The Street Lawyer

    Michael was a top lawyer at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. firm when a chance, violent encounter with a homeless man with a secret knocks him off the corporate ladder and leaves him in the streets, a poverty lawyer and a thief. Price: Array

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