[PDF] The Pelican Brief eBook

Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0440245931

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front 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. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder—a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one person she can trust—an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate—to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

Author : John Grisham
Publisher :
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Assassination
ISBN : 9781405880022

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A bright young law student and an investigative reporter go underground when trying to expose a cover-up about the killings of two Supreme Court Justices.

Author : Ruth Hooker
Publisher : Albert Whitman
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780807563953

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A resourceful brother and sister find adventure and mystery in the Florida Keys.

Author : Chris Nickson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,37 MB
Release : 1996-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312960433

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A biography of the African American actor who won an Academy Award for his role in the movie "Glory."

Author : Belva Plain
Publisher : Dell
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2014-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080415256X

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A story of family... the Osbornes -- two sisters and a brother -- united by family ties but split apart by different dreams. Lara, the happy young wife, longs for the family that will make her life whole. Connie, wild and lovely, is more like her brother Eddy -- bright, ambitious, and ready to seize all that life has to offer. A story of choices... Connie is looking for wealth -- to make or to marry. Lara, staying behind in a small Ohio town, finds everything she cherishes threatened by fate and by her own blind commitment. And Eddy, as Wall Street's "wonder boy," can make millions... if he ruthlessly uses his family and friends. A story of marriages... Lara's held together by devotion, Connie's shattered by infidelity and betrayal, and Eddy's rocked by shame and prison. Torn by conflicting loyalties, they are a family caught in the tides of scandal... and swept toward a fate where dreams may end or be born again...

Author : Alice Nannup
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9781863683289

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When the Pelican Laughedis a spirited and deeply moving story, full of humour and insight. Alice Nannup courageously tells us exactly what it was like to grow up as a black woman in Australia, and through her book she has passed on a precious heritage. There are many unsung heroines in Black Australia and Alice is one of them.

Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0440246024

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, 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 his newspaper 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 the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and 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. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307575985

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • 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? Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

Author : Katherine Paterson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 054741739X

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2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Meli Lleshi is positive that her drawing of her teacher with his pelican nose started it all. The Lleshis are Albanians living in Kosovo, a country trying to fight off Serbian oppressors, and suddenly they are homeless refugees. Old and young alike, they find their courage tested by hunger, illness, the long, arduous journey, and danger on every side. Then, unexpectedly, they are brought to America by a church group and begin a new life in a small Vermont town. The events of 9/11 bring more challenges for this Muslim family--but this country is their home now and there can be no turning back.A compassionate, powerful novel by a master storyteller.