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Title : A Painted House Material Type: printed text Authors: Grisham, John, Author Publisher: New York : Random House Publication Date: 2001 ISBN (or other code): 038550120x Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: 3 Culture:3.40 Literature:National literatures:North American literature Class number: 813 American Fiction Abstract: "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 the new novel from 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 he finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever.Hold
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Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 5855 813 GRI Libro Biblioteca Carrasco Novelas & Novelas extranjeras Available
Title : The brethren Material Type: printed text Authors: Grisham, John, Author Publisher: New York : Doubleday Publication Date: 2000 Pagination: 366 p. ISBN (or other code): 978-0-385-49746-6 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: 3 Culture:3.40 Literature:National literatures:North American literature Class number: 813 American Fiction Abstract: Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a "camp," home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals--drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, two Wall Street crooks, one doctor, at least five lawyers.
And three former judges who call themselves the Brethren: one from Texas, one from California, and one from Mississippi. They meet each day in the law library, their turf at Trumble, where they write briefs, handle cases for other inmates, practice law without a license, and sometimes dispense jailhouse justice. And they spend hours writing letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it's starting to really work. The money is pouring in.
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.Hold
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Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 5487 813 GRI Libro Biblioteca Carrasco Novelas & Novelas extranjeras Available
Title : The Broker Material Type: printed text Authors: Grisham, John, Author Publisher: U.S.A. : Random House Publication Date: 2005 Pagination: 368 p. ISBN (or other code): 978-0-385-51045-5 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: 3 Culture:3.40 Literature:National literatures:North American literature Class number: 813 American Fiction Abstract: In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.
Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive--there is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?Hold
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Title : THE CONFESSION Material Type: printed text Authors: Grisham, John, Author Publisher: New York : Doubleday Publication Date: 2010 Hold
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Title : The Confession Material Type: printed text Authors: Grisham, John, Author Publisher: New York : Random House Publication Date: 2010 Pagination: 432 p. ISBN (or other code): 978-0-385-52804-7 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: 3 Culture:3.40 Literature:National literatures:North American literature Class number: 813 American Fiction Abstract: For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. He just can’t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved when the verdict is guilty. He laughs when the police and prosecutors congratulate themselves. He is content to allow an innocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to be executed.
Travis Boyette is such a man. 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 in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row.
Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Donté is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what’s right and confess.
But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that they’re about to execute an innocent man?Hold
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