Wed Nov 17 06:37:51 2010 UTClccn-n88-231236Novelists, American--20th centuryAuthors, American--20th century0.340.380.40John_Grishamn 88231236oca02472528aGrisham, JohnGrishėm, DzhonГришэм, Джонגרישם, ג׳וןגרישם, ג׳ון. גינצבורג־הירש, עדיlccn-no96-54430Beck, Michael1949-nrtlccn-n2006-51543Williamson, Ronald Keith1953-2004np-berthon, patrickBerthon, Patricktrllccn-n80-76145Ku Klux Klan (1915- )lccn-n91-10500Muller, Frank1951-nrtlccn-no99-29339Tremps, Enrictrlviaf-DNB|132387905Kuipers, Hugolccn-n79-6848United StatesSupreme Courtlccn-n82-60550Brauer, Charlesprfviaf-103879127Beck, MichaelnrtGrisham, JohnGrisham, John100Legal storiesSuspense fictionMystery fictionDetective and mystery storiesLegal stories, AmericanAdventure storiesAdventure fictionSpanish fictionSpanish language materialsFootball storiesCivil rights movementsDeath, ApparentBombingsDeath row inmatesChemical industryFootball storiesNew York (State)--New York--Wall StreetSchool sportsTrials (Offenses against the environment)Football coachesTeacher-student relationshipsDeathFuneral rites and ceremoniesCorporations--Corrupt practicesChemical industry--Waste disposal--Environmental aspectsLouisiana--New OrleansKu Klux Klan (1915- )Football playersMississippi--GreenvilleCapital punishmentOklahomaTrials, litigation, etc.BoysWilliamson, Ronald Keith,--1953-2004PardonAttempted murderJudicial errorArkansasPrisonersJudgesMurderAudiobooksLaw firmsMississippi--BiloxiRevengeBrazilSuspense fictionOrganized crimeJuryItalyAmericansLegal storiesTennessee--MemphisEx-convictsWashington (D.C.)Large type booksTrials (Murder)AudiobooksMississippiFiction19861989199119921993199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920107449742210410book813.54ps3557.r5355ocn658931374ocn422206950ocn419633012ocn417073291ocn421761138ocn407116931ocn4213667135134738118格利斯汉Гришам, Джонגרישם, ג׳ון. גינצבורג־הירש, עדיジョン・グリシャムГришэм, Джонジョン．グリシャムジョン・クリシャムגרישם, ג׳וןגרישם, ג'ון46698958259ocn055502623sw027660671:lccn-n88-231236Truebook19930.39Grisham, JohnLegal storiesMystery fictionDetective and mystery stories

Mark Sway, 11, witnesses a Mafia lawyer's suicide, which puts him in danger from Barry the Blade & a politically ambitious U.S. attorney. In the two years since The Firm first captured the imagination of America's readers, John Grisham, with three consecutive number-one bestsellers, has become one of the most popular authors of our time. Now, in The Client, he has written a novel so irresistible, so thoroughly entertaining and satisfying, that it is sure not only to please his millions of fans, but to win him new ones as well. This is the story of eleven-year-old Mark Sway, who, as the novel opens, witnesses the bizarre suicide of a New Orleans attorney. Just before he dies, the lawyer tells Mark a deadly secret concerning the recent murder of a Louisiana Senator, whose accused killer, Mafia thug Barry Muldanno, is about to go to trial. The police, the federal prosecutor and the FBI pressure Mark to tell them the attorney's last words, but he knows that with the mob watching his every move, revealing his secret will almost surely get him killed. So Mark, streetwise and old beyond his years, hires a lawyer: Reggie Love, a fifty-two-year-old divorcee who's been through more than anyone could imagine and survived, basically, because she's tough. And feisty. And loves helping kids overlooked or abused by the system. But when Mark's life is threatened, and Reggie discovers her office has been bugged, and even the Juvenile Court judge says Mark has no choice but to talk, she realizes that this time she's in way over her head. But then Mark comes up with a plan... a crazy plan, in Reggie's opinion, but it's their only hope. And it just might work. With the page-turning suspense and terrific plot twists that have become John Grisham's trademark, he has once again crafted a novel that simply cannot be put down. But in The ClientGrisham has gone a step further - with a cast of unforgettable characters headed by the most original hero in years, he has mixed equal parts humor and warmth to truly expand the boundaries of the legal thriller.

+-+K62979038545688986235ocn025990887sw025308328:lccn-n88-231236Truebook19920.39Grisham, JohnMystery fictionLegal storiesDetective and mystery stories

"In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the 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."--Colophon.

+-+734679038545239591283ocn022108726sw022108726:lccn-n88-231236Truebook19910.38Grisham, JohnMystery fictionLegal storiesSuspense fictionAdventure storiesDetective and mystery stories

Mitch McDeere, a Harvard Law graduate, becomes suspicious of his Memphis tax firm when mysterious deaths, obsessive office security, and the Chicago mob figure into its operations.

+-+798169038544999424227ocn034208175sw034208175:lccn-n88-231236Truebook19960.39Grisham, JohnLegal storiesSuspense fictionDetective and mystery stories

In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer, that is a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company, and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors' increasingly odd behavior. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more important, why?

+-+894729038544888775201ocn030075172sw030075172:lccn-n88-231236Truebook19940.40Grisham, JohnLegal storiesAdventure storiesDetective and mystery storiesSuspense fiction

In Mississippi, a young lawyer races against time to save his grandfather from the gas chamber. The grandfather was tried three times for a Ku Klux Klan bombing which killed two civil rights workers in 1967. He was found innocent twice, but guilty the third time. By the author of A Time To Kill.

+-+372979038544218184221ocn031969873sw031969873:lccn-n88-231236Truebook19950.40Grisham, JohnLegal storiesSuspense fictionMystery fictionLegal stories, AmericanDetective and mystery stories

In his final semester of law school, Rudy Baylor "finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America -- and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam."

+-+182979038543979499219ocn040173200sw040173200:lccn-n88-231236Truebook19990.38Grisham, JohnLegal storiesSuspense fiction

A lawyer searches the Brazilian jungle for a missionary doctor working with Indians, the illegitimate daughter of an American tycoon who left her his fortune. But the tycoon's real children are determined to prevent the inheritance.

+-+553849038543618994236ocn038277014sw034415447:lccn-n88-231236Truebook19970.35Grisham, JohnLegal storiesSuspense fictionDetective and mystery storiesMystery fictionAdventure

A thriller on the international movement of dirty money. Its protagonist is an American lawyer who skips the country with $90 million belonging to crooks. They catch up with him in Brazil, torture him, but he does not know where the money is, his lawyer girlfriend is circulating it around the globe. Extradited to the U.S. to face various charges he is going to use the money to get off.

+-+604729038543488720211ocn057003872sw038314337:lccn-n88-231236Truebook19980.37Grisham, JohnLegal storiesSuspense fictionDetective and mystery storiesMystery fiction

A corporate lawyer in Washington goes to war against his own company to defend the homeless. It happens after Michael Brock is abducted by a homeless man and held hostage. The homeless man is killed by a police sharpshooter and the lawyer is rescued, but the experience changes his life. 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 into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a conscience. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived; his assailant did not. Who was this man? Michael did some digging, and learned that he was a mentally ill veteran who'd been in and out of shelters for many years. Then Michael dug a little deeper, and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake & Sweeney. The fast track derailed; the ladder collapsed. Michael bolted the firm and took a top-secret file with him. He landed in the streets, an advocate for the homeless, a street lawyer.

+-+744549038542909572193ocn054083777sw042700960:lccn-n88-231236Truebook20000.38Grisham, JohnMystery fictionLegal storiesDetective and mystery storiesSuspense fictionDetective and mystery stories, American

In a federal prison, three former judges who call themselves "the brethren" meet in the law library to run a rougher form of justice inside their community and make a some money, but when one of their scams derails, they are forced to confront the world of their own creation.

+-+172459028542729247183ocn049559833sw043326141:lccn-n88-231236Truebook20010.38Grisham, JohnDomestic fictionMystery fictionSuspense fictionBildungsromansDetective and mystery stories

"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 could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'." Thus begins from author John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and, sometimes, each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. This is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.

+-+K57650038542349963163ocn051033987sw050670474:lccn-n88-231236Truebook20030.34Grisham, JohnLegal storiesLegal stories, AmericanMystery fictionSuspense fiction

Clay Carter, a public defender, reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, assuming 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 settlement that would totally change his life--that would make him almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts.

+-+795350038542029325144ocn048258563sw048249382:lccn-n88-231236Truebook20020.38Grisham, JohnLegal storiesMystery fictionSuspense fictionDetective and mystery stories

Ray Atlee and his brother, Forrest, receive a letter from their father, a reclusive, retired judge, instructing them to return home to Clanton, Mississippi, to discuss his estate, but the judge dies before his sons arrive, leaving behind a secret known only to Ray.

+-+773850038541538992122ocn070251230sw070251230:lccn-n88-231236Falsebook2006Grisham, JohnSpanish language materials

John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits-- drinking, drugs, and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a 21-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.

+-+387260038541459967143ocn057236073sw057142483:lccn-n88-231236Truebook2005Grisham, JohnSuspense fictionLegal stories

John Grisham delivers another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not whether he will be killed, but rather who will kill him first.

+-+909560038541189630143ocn053989269sw053814218:lccn-n88-231236Truebook20040.37Grisham, JohnSuspense fictionLegal storiesMystery fictionLegal stories, American

In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers 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 raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details and the paper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when he was found guilty. He was sentenced to life in prison, but in Mississippi, in 1970, "life" didn't necessarily mean "life" and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County and the retribution began.

+-+389560038540819014238ocn019514018sw019514018:lccn-n88-231236Truebook19920.37Grisham, JohnLegal storiesMystery fictionSuspense fictionLegal stories, American

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.

+-+27266759953935810189ocn052644759sw052566722:lccn-n88-231236Truebook20030.36Grisham, JohnFootball storiesYoung adult fictionSports stories

Presents a novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion.

+-+761660038537277141106ocn054083800sw047867714:lccn-n88-231236Truebook20010.36Grisham, JohnChristmas storiesHumorous fictionHumorous storiesShort stories

Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents.

+-+28376280053658792391ocn180190918sw154799808:lccn-n88-231236Truebook2008Grisham, JohnLegal storiesDetective and mystery stories

Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.

+-+350168482598610486ocn035280625sw035280625:lccn-n88-231236Falsebook19970.59Pringle, Mary Beth+-+0281478685850295ocn040139937sw031729707:lccn-n88-231236Falsevisu19940.41Feature filmsFilm adaptationsLegal drama

Mark Sway is an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but unseasoned attorney who risks her career for him ... but never imagines she'll also risk her life.

+-+7488954748338291817ocn037939866sw036142013:lccn-n88-231236Falsevisu19970.44Feature filmsFilm adaptations

A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tension to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.

+-+07268964803556352119ocn051926559sw029513896:lccn-n88-231236Falsevisu20000.43Feature films

A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.

+-+9987078182454703013ocn040746823sw018673831:lccn-n88-231236Falsevisu19970.41Feature films

A rookie lawyer in over his head on a high-profile case hires a feisty paralawyer who specializes in flunking the bar. Their chances of winning are slim to none, until they uncover a trail of corruption.

+-+97691873054304301ocn040925828sw040925828:lccn-n88-231236Falsebook19990.15Conley-Weaver, Robyn

Discusses the life, career, and influence of the popular writer of legal thrillers.

+-+85801551063263261ocn051477157sw051477157:lccn-n88-231236Falsebook20030.383161917ocn030615985sw030615985:lccn-n88-231236Falsevisu19940.41Film adaptations

Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everyone else wants her dead.

+-+4843476480353153265ocn231688103sw085813957:lccn-n88-231236Falsebook2007Pringle, Mary Beth

Grisham is one of the most prolific and beloved mystery writers today, still reaching the top of the bestseller lists with books like The Testament and King of Torts. In recent times, he has also experimented with different genres, such as A Painted House, a semi-autobiographical work, and Skipping Christmas, a holiday narrative. This volume follows up the critical analysis of Grisham's work in Pringle's earlier John Grisham: A Critical Companion, examining his writing from 1997 to the present.--From publisher description.

1481481ocn051511565sw051511565:lccn-n88-231236Falsebook20030.15Ishizuka, Kathy

Discusses the life, career, and influence of the popular writer of legal thrillers.

+-+07567511252579ocn068756631sw053888068:lccn-n88-231236Falsevisu20040.37Feature films

A juror on the inside, and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.

16375ocn048049083sw048049083:lccn-n88-231236Falsebook20000.67Lanier, Nace Y10102ocn030144037sw030144037:lccn-n88-231236Falsebook19940.85Verich, Thomas M992ocn032645996sw032645996:lccn-n88-231236Falsevisu19940.48

Two best-selling authors, John Grisham and Stephen King, discuss their works.

771ocn466363083sw466363083:lccn-n88-231236Falsevisu1997

A young law student writes a brief which holds the solution to the murders of two Supreme Court justices, and soon she is running for her life.

+-+774347648035661ocn244252256sw244252256:lccn-n88-231236Falsevisu2008

In this program, Bill Moyers and John Grisham, best-selling author of The firm, The pelican brief, and The rainmaker, engage in a far-ranging conversation that offers insights into the background and beliefs that influence Grisham's work and provides an unexpected look at his views about the state of the nation. Also on the program: Katherine S. Newman, coauthor of The missing class: portraits of the near poor in America, on the state of the economy; a look at the predicted $2.5 billion poitical ad budget for the 2008 election, a windfall for big media; and an essay that seperates the facts from the spin at the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland.

441ocn048035629sw048035629:lccn-n88-231236Falsebook19990.67+-+K575340306332ocn179008300sw179008300:lccn-n88-231236Falsevisu2006Film adaptations

A father and daughter, both lawyers, find themselves on opposite sides of a large class action suit ; a famous attorney is hired to save the lives of two teenagers convicted of murder ; a jury consultant is determined to improve the odds for a favorable verdict ; an alcoholic lawyer tries to redeem himself by winning a complicated malpractice case.

222ocn191880733sw191880733:lccn-n88-231236FalsebookGrisham, John

Broadside, correspondence, and an invitation related to John Grisham's A Time to Kill.

122ocn048049082sw048049082:lccn-n88-231236Falsebook20000.67Lanier, Nace+-+K629790385Thu Dec 02 20:45:56 EST 2010