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John Grisham
John Grisham (born 1955)

lawyer, politician, film producer, actor, television producer, missionary, jurist

  • Mississippi State University, University of Mississippi

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Theodore Boone, The Activist
Theodore Boone
A Time to Kill
The Chamber
The Confession
The Client
The Pelican Brief
The Last Juror
The Firm
The Summons
The Appeal
The King of Torts
The Partner
The Street Lawyer
The Innocent Man
Ford County
The Runaway Jury
The Rainmaker
The Testament
A Painted House
Playing for Pizza
The Brethren
The Broker
The Associate
Skipping Christmas
Gray Mountain
Sycamore Row
The Whistler
The Litigators
Bleachers
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 4 1993
The innocent man
Theodore Boone, The Abduction
Rogue Lawyer
The Racketeer
Theodore Boone, the accused
Reader's Digest--Volume 1 1997
Legal Briefs
Skipping Christmas
The Pelican Brief (adaptation)
Camino Island
The Firm (adaptation)
Calico Joe
Reader's Digest--Volume 5 1997
The broker
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 1 1995
Theodore Boone, The Fugitive
The Street Lawyer
The Rooster Bar
The Rainmaker
Novels (Firm / Pelican Brief)
The Testament (adaptation)
The Reckoning
The innocent man
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 5 1995
SelectEditions--Volume 4 1999
SelectEditions--Volume 4 1998
The Guardians
The partner
Selections from Reader's Digest Condensed Books
The rainmaker
Camino Winds
The brethren
Theodore Boone - The Scandal
The John Grisham Value Collection (Client / Firm / Time to Kill)
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 5 1992
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 3 1991
The Client (adaptation)
A Time for Mercy
The Chamber (adaptation)
Novels (Client / King of Torts)
Novels (Client / Firm)
The Testament
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
Best Sellers
The WaveDancer Benefit
Novels (Appeal / Chamber / Firm)
The last juror
Novels (King of Torts / Last Juror)
Novels (Client / Street Lawyer)
Partner, The X36 Dumpbin
Collected John Grisham
A Time to Kill (adaptation)
THE SUMMONS AND THE KING OF TORTS
Theodore Boone, The Accomplice
Novels (Chamber / Rainmaker)
The Appeal. 2/2
THE BRETHREN AND A PAINTED HOUSE
THE PELICAN BRIEF
A TIME TO KILL
Novels (Brethren / Summons)
The Rainmaker ('Zao yu ren', in traditional Chinese, NOT in English)
The Judge's List
THE RAINMAKER
Camino Winds
Novels (King of Torts / Time to Kill)
Theodore Boone Deluxe Box Set (Accused / Activist / Abduction / Kid Lawyer)
Theodore Boone, kid lawyer
The Street Lawyer ('Jie to lu shi', in traditional Chinese, NOT in English)
Sooley
Novels (Chamber / Firm)
Theodore Boone
Select editions
Novels (Partner / Street Lawyer / Time to Kill)
A Time To Kill
The Innocent Man
Runaway Jury
The Client: Level 4 (Pearson English Graded Readers)
The Judge's List - Limited Edition
Novels (Firm / Pelican Brief / Time to Kill)
L'idéaliste
Novels (Firm / Time to Kill)
Los litigantes
Rogue Lawyer
The Broker
Novels (Chamber / Time to Kill)
Runaway Jury
La gran estafa
Novels (Pelican Brief / Time to Kill)
Novels (Chamber / Client / Pelican Brief / Time to Kill)
Peguin Readers 5
Bleachers
Die Wächter
Theodore Boone box set
Sparring Partners
Klient
Sooley - Limited Edition
The Boys from Biloxi
La ragazza scomparsa. Theodore Boone
Adalet Pesinde
Jack Cristil
Niewinny
The Appeal. 1/2
When Truth Is All You Have
4 Novels (Client / Firm / Pelican Brief / Time to Kill)
Le manipulateur
The Scandal
L'héritage
I confratelli
Ominąć święta
Le Dernier Juré
La Dernière Récolte
The Rainmaker. 1/2
El manuscrito
A Time for Mercy
KART) CLIENTE,EL
The Testament / A Time To Kill
L'accusato. Theodore Boone
EL PROYECTO WILLIAMSON
L'héritage
Le contrat
Level 6
Wspólnik
PENGUIN READERS 6
Level 4
Kancelaria
The Partner [1/2]
Level 4
Le couloir de la mort
L'avvocato canaglia
El socio
De verdediging
Wo Shi Tou Hao Xian Yi Ren
L'avvocato canaglia (Rogue Lawyer / Partners)
La trampa
Sooley
Judge's List
De aanklacht
Shui Zai Zuo Bi?
Novels (Partner / Runaway Jury)
Time for Mercy
KSIĄŻKI WYBRANE
L'informatore
Testament
Ford County
Gran Estafa
Sooley (Spanish Edition)
Bu Cun Zai de Zheng Ren
Sooley
El sueño de Sooley
La Giuria
PENGUIN READERS 6
The Last Juror
Wastelands
The litigators
Judge's List
Los litigantes
La transaction
THE ROOSTER BAR*
Novels (Broker / Last Juror)
Sooley
Bei Kong Xia de Mu Ji Zhe
Visualizing the Blues
John Grisham CD Audiobook Bundle #2
Appeal
Ajuste de cuentas
Wyspa Camino
Fetching Raymond (Storycuts)
The Chamber
Muhbir
EL ULTIMO PARTIDO
Time to Kill
Theodore Boone Untitled 6 India (kids Edition)
Blood Drive (Storycuts)
Grisham SP21 Mixed Backlist 12c MM Prepack with Shelftalker
Sycamore Row
The Pelican Brief / Every Living Thing
Davet
PENGUIN READERS 4
Judge's List
Fish Files (Storycuts)
Yagmurcu
El soborno
TIEMPO DE MATAR
Camino Winds (el Manuscrito)
Itiraf
Causa justa
Camino Island (el Caso Fitzgerald)
Brethren
Novels (Brethren / Chamber)
Sycamore Row
Peguin Readers 5
Peguin Readers 6
PENGUIN ACTIVE READING 2
Testament
CAMARA DE GAS
Accused
Shi Zong de N© Tong Xue
Testament, Level 6
HesaplaÅŸma
El jurado
MÜÅžTERÄ°
Sparring Partners - Limited Edition
El Estafador
A Painted House
Theodore Boone Untitled 4 India (kids Edition)
Cinarli Yol
Non coupable
Vurguncu
Theodore Boone 5 India (kids Edition)
Skipping Christmas
New John Grisham Legal Thriller
Casino (Storycuts)
Playing for Pizza
Sparring Partners
Sparring Partners
Król afer
Dalavere
Tiempo de Matar / a Time to Kill
La Herencia
Time to Kill
Reckoning
Theodore Boone 6-Book Box Set
Camino Island
Painted House
Peguin Readers 5
Davaci
Un abogado rebelde
El caso Fitzgerald
La gran estafa
Zolotoĭ dozhdʹ
Grisham Spring-Summer 2019 12c PPK with Shelftalker
Kacirilan Kiz
CONFESSION
La Tapadera
Theodore Boone
Das Talent
Prestuplenie bez nakazanii͡a
The Street Lawyer
TESTAMENTO, EL
Kucuk Avukat
Masum Adam
Sycamore Row - Limited Edition
Accused
Boyal. Die Farm.
Theodore Boone : el Cómplice / Theodore Boone
Il professionista
Il tempo della clemenza
Vasiyetname
Funny Boy (Storycuts)
Tiempo de perdón
Theodore Boone : the Fugitive
Judge's List
Chamber; The Rainmaker
Tiempo de Perdón / a Time for Mercy
Juri
Last Juror
Summons
Time for Mercy - Limited Edition
Sakin Cennet
The Whistler
SANIK
Temyiz
Associate
Broker
Tuzak
Pelikan Dosyasi
Rainmaker
Street Lawyer
PENGUIN READERS 5
The Pelican Brief / Every Living Thing
Time for Mercy/Grisham MM 12c Solo Floor Display
Litigators
Boys from Biloxi - Limited Edition
Więzienny prawnik
Quiet Haven (Storycuts)
Los Litigantes
Maden
GENERIC Sparring Partners 8-Copy Floor Display
Gray Mountain
INTERMEDIARIO, EL-POCKET
Innocent Man
Lista Del Juez / the Judge's List
SECRETO DE GRAY MOUNTAIN, EL-POCKET
CONFESION, LA
Le cas Fitzgerald
EL INTERMEDIARIO
Boys from Biloxi 8-Copy Floor Display
Theodore Boone - Kid Lawyer
Le droit de tuer
El proyecto Williamson
Racketeer
Michael's Room (Storycuts)
Sycamore Row
Sirket
Theodore Boone
El estafador
L'accusé
Joven Abogado / Kid Lawyer
GUARDIANES, LOS
Son Juri Uyesi
Broker
De claim
Touchdown
Pas de Noël cette année
Der Coach
Die Farm
Les partenaires
The Runaway Jury
Het laatste jurylid
L'affaire Pélican
De afperser
China Miéville
China Miéville (born 1972)

politician, academic, literary critic, blogger, anthropologist, political scientist

  • London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Cambridge

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King Rat
The City & The City
Iron Council
Un Lun Dun
Railsea
Kraken
Perdido Street Station
The Scar
The library book
Looking for Jake and Other Stories
Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters
Looking for Jake
Embassytown
This Census-Taker
2001
October
Pathfinder Chronicles
The Last Days of New Paris
The City & the City
A Spectre, Haunting
Dial H.
Between Equal Rights
Out of the Ruins
The Future of Public Space
La ciudad de la ciudad
John Constatine, Hellblazer
The worst breakfast
Three moments of an explosion
La cicatriz
The Book of Elsewhere
Walrus and the Warwolf
Londons Overthrow
Dial H.
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories
Children of Cthulhu
The Tain
Natural Causes
Kraken
La città & la città
El Azogue
Perdido Street Station 2. Der Weber
Los últimos días de Nueva París
Saturnalia
The Bestiary
König Ratte
First Men in the Moon
Tragedy of the Worker
Perdido Street Station 1. Die Falter
Red Planets
La estación de la calle Perdido
Embassytown
Elcilik Kenti
Ekim-Rus Devriminin Hikayesi
Il treno degli dèi
Perdido Street Station : Tome 1 (French edition)
Lun Dun
La citta delle navi
Die letzten Tage von Neu-Paris (German Edition)
Yara
Iron Council Set W'Stones
La Cicatriz
Demir Konsey
Perdido Street Station, Tome 1 :
Demirdenizi
Perdido Sokagi Istasyonu
Kizil Dunyalar
Yeni Paris'in Son Günleri
China Miéville: Critical Essays
Embassytown
La ciudad y la ciudad / The City & the City (Spanish Edition)
Le concile de fer
Dial H the deluxe edition
Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy
Kraken - Bir Canavarin Anatomisi
Worst Breakfast
Perdido Street Station, Tome 2 :
Miasto I Miasto
Scar
En quête de Jake et autres nouvelles (Outre fleuve) (French Edition)
Kral Fare
Sehir ve Sehir
Perdido Street Station : Tome 2 (French edition)
Regele ÅŸobolan
Lombres
Toromorze
Octubre. La historia de la revolución rusa
Núria Albó
Núria Albó (born 1930)

poet, teacher, politician

  • University of Barcelona

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Vilmos Korn
Vilmos Korn (1899-1970)

politician, journalist

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Gemma Lienas
Gemma Lienas (born 1951)

politician, women's rights activist

  • Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Ralph Delahaye Paine
Ralph Delahaye Paine (1871-1925)

journalist, politician, biographer, humorist, essayist

  • Yale University

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The ships and sailors of old Salem
The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors
The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812
In Zanzibar
The old merchant marine
The ships and sailors of old Salem
The fighting fleets
Ships across the sea
The head coach
The Old Merchant Marine
College years
The First Yale unit
The head coach
Fight for a Free Sea
The Book of Buried Treasure
Old Merchant Marine
The greater America
Roads of adventure
The old merchant marine
The Old Merchant Marine (A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors)
The Book of Buried Treasure - Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons etc,
The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812
The Judgments Of The Sea
The Old Merchant Marine
Joshua Barney
The book of buried treasure
The Ships And Sailors Of Old Salem
Of the Nature of Things
The Fight For A Free Sea - A Chronicle Of The War Of 1812
Lost ships and lonely seas
Ships Across The Sea
Cadet of the Black Star Line
The Old Merchant Marine Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors
Joshua Barney, a forgotten hero of blue water
The Fight for a Free Sea
Privateers of '76
The fight for a free sea
Lost Ships and Lonely Seas
The Old Merchant Marine, a Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors
The book of pirate treasures
The Fight for a Free Sea (A Chronicle of the War of 1812)
The Corsair in the war zone
The Fighting Fleets
The Call Of The Offshore Wind
The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors
The steam-shovel man
Sons of Eli
Colonial ships and sailors
The ships and sailors of Old Salem, Massachusetts
The old merchant marines
The ships and sailors of old Salem
The praying skipper
The adventures of Captain O'Shea
J. Archibald McKackney
The call of the offshore wind
The Book of Pirate Treasures
The book of buried treasure
Campus days
Frigate and clipper
J. Archibald McKackney (collector of whiskers)
The judgments of the sea
The wrecking master
A cadet of the Black Star line
Blackbeard, buccaneer
First down, Kentucky!
The old merchant marine
The wall between
The stroke oar
The long road home
The twisted skein
The fight for a free sea
Frigate and clipper
The fugitive freshman
The Dragon and the Cross
Comrades of the rolling ocean
The old merchant marine
The praying skipper and other stories
The Penfold adventure
Midshipman Wickham
The story of Martin Coe