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Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences - and isn't half as easy as they'd imagined.

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 trappings and encumbrances, and went to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the deepest jungles of Brazil.

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.

When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal.

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. This time he tells the story of a dying judge who leaves his dissolute sons three million dollars in used bank notes.

In 1970, The Ford County Times, one of Mississipi's more colourful weekly newspapers, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by 23-year-old college drop-out, Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgittt family.

In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a full pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. It's a controversial move, but what no one else knows is that the presidential pardon ocomes as a result of enormous pressure from the CIA.

An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know.A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is, at whatever cost to Mark and his family. Only she can save Mark from these twin threats.

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. This book tells his story.

A sequel to A TIME TO KILLHe will make them pay . . .Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate. The will is dynamite. Seth has left ninety per cent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid.The vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only subject more incendiary than money in Ford County is race, and this case has both.AS the relatives contest the will, and unscrupulous lawyers hasten to benefit, Jake searches for answers to the many questions left by Seth Hubbard's death:What made him write that last-minute will leaving everything to a poor black woman named Lettie Lang?Why did he choose to kill himself on the desolate piece of land known as Sycamore Row?And what was it that Seth and his brother witnessed as children that, in his words, 'no human should ever see'?************Praise for SYCAMORE ROW'A gripping read' - Literary Review'A fantastic book' - 5 STAR reader review'Just as good [as A Time To Kill] . . . an excellent climax' - 5 STAR reader review'Grisham at his best'- 5 STAR reader review

America's greatest storyteller brings us a new masterpiece of legal courage and gripping suspense - and his finest heroine since The Pelican Brief. Donovan Gray is ruthless and fearless. Just the kind of lawyer you need, deep in small-town Appalachia. Samantha Kofer is a world away from her former life at New York's biggest law firm. If she is going to survive in coal country, she needs to start learning fast. Because as Donovan knows only too well, the mountains have their own laws. And standing up for the truth means putting your life on the line ...

No one is above the law . . . Deputy Stuart Kofer is a protected man. Though he's turned his drunken rages on his girlfriend, Josie, and her children many times before, the police code of silence has always shielded him. But one night he goes too far, leaving Josie for dead on the floor before passing out. Her son, sixteen-year-old Drew, knows he only has this one chance to save them. He picks up a gun and takes the law into his own hands. In Clanton, Mississippi, there is no one more hated than a cop killer - but a cop killer's defence lawyer comes close. Jake Brigance doesn't want this impossible case but he's the only one with enough experience to defend the boy. As the trial begins, it seems there is only one outcome: the gas chamber for Drew. But, as the town of Clanton discovers once again, when Jake Brigance takes on an impossible case, anything is possible ... Starring the same hero and setting that featured in John Grisham's multi-million-selling bestsellers A Time to Kill (adapted as a film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey) and Sycamore Row, A Time for Mercy is an unforgettable thriller you won't be able to put down.

Following John Grisham's international bestsellers, Camino Island and Camino Winds, Camino Ghosts is the story of an island off the Florida coast with a haunted, violent history and an uncertain future.Dark Isle is said to be cursed: drownings, disappearances and hauntings have been the fate of intruders. It was settled by freed slaves 300 years ago, and their descendants lived there until 1955, when the last one was forced to leave. Now abandoned, it is the target of greedy developers.Lovely Jackson is the last survivor of Dark Isle and claims to be its legal owner. But there is not a shred of evidence to prove that is true.It's unlikely that the developers will be deterred by the claims of one old woman. They have millions; Lovely only has Steven Mahon, a pro bono environmental lawyer, and Mercer Mann, a floundering novelist, to fight in her corner.With the court case looming and the bulldozers waiting to roll in, Steven and Mercer are in a race against time to unearth the truth behind Lovely's story and, together, save the legacy of the island.Praise for Camino Winds:'In American icon John Grisham's new novel, Camino Winds, an odd assortment of mystery and crime authors, some of them felons themselves, discover one of their colleagues has been murdered during the fury of a massive hurricane-the perfect crime scene' Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing'The Camino Island series, featuring trouble-prone bookseller Bruce Cable, is a perfect escapist mix of detective action, insider riffs on the literary world - and even a little romance' Mail on Sunday'Camino Winds has all the usual Grisham hallmarks - a pacy plot and tension-filled scenes' Independent'Another compelling read from Grisham, and will satisfy old fans and please new readers alike' Press Association

In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system

The new incredible legal thriller from John Grisham.350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films:NO ONE WRITES DRAMA LIKE JOHN GRISHAM

Books are signed and numbered, with printed endpapers, foil stamping, a cloth slipcase, and a ribbon marker.#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham returns to Mississippi in his most gripping thriller yet. Grisham takes his powerful storytelling to the next level, his trademark twists and turns will keep you tearing through the pages until the stunning conclusion.

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.

IN THE BASEBALL DRAFT OF 1971, RON WILLIAMSON WAS THE FIRST PLAYER CHOSEN FROM OKLAHOMA. SIGNING WITH OAKLAND, HE SAID GOODBYE TO HIS SMALL HOME TOWN AND LEFT FOR CALIFORNIA TO PURSUE HIS DREAMS OF 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 20 HOURS A DAY ON HER SOFA. IN 1982, A 21 YEAR-OLD COCKTAIL WAITRESS, DEBRA SUE CARTER, WAS RAPED AND MURDERED, AND FOR FIVE YEARS THE CRIME WENT UNSOLVED. FINALLY, DESPERATE FOR SOMEONE TO BLAME, POLICE CAME TO SUSPECT RON WILLIAMSON AND HIS FRIEND DENNIS FRITZ. THE TWO WERE FINALLY ARRESTED IN 1987 AND CHARGED WITH 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. BUT AS GRISHAM METHODICALLY LAYS OUT, THERE WAS NO CASE AGAINST HIM. RON WILLIAMSON WAS WRONGLY CONDEMNED TO DIE. 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. अडा या ओक्लाहोमाच्या छोट्या गावातील रॉन विल्यमसन... बेसबॉलमध्ये उज्ज्वल भविष्य असताना दारू आणि अमली पदार्थांच्या आहारी गेलेला, विचित्र वागणारा, आईबरोबर राहणारा एक बेरोजगार, घटस्फोटित, मानसिक विकारांनी त्रस्त तरुण.. नाइट क्लबमध्ये काम करणाऱ्या डेबी कार्टर या कॉकटेल वेट्रेसवर अमानुष बलात्कार करून तिचा खून करण्यात येतो... खुनाच्या आदल्या रात्री ग्लेन गोअर या माणसाबरोबर तिला पाहिल्याचं बNयाच साक्षीदारांनी सांगूनही रॉन विल्यमसनवर या खुनाचा आळ येतो...