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Automne 1946. Pete Banning, l'enfant chéri de Clanton, Mississippi, est revenu de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en héros, décoré des plus hautes distinctions militaires. Propriétaire d'une plantation de coton et fidèle de l'Église méthodiste, il est considéré comme un père et un voisin exemplaire. Un matin d'octobre, il se lève tôt, se rend en ville et abat son ami, le révérend Dexter Bell. Que s'est-il passé pour que Pete, membre respecté de la communauté, devienne un meurtrier ? Et pourquoi se mure-t-il dans le silence ? Nul ne le sait.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Fans of John Grisham live for his legal thrillers, but now and then he serves up something unexpected. That’s exactly what he does, with great success, in Playing for Pizza.”—USA Today After providing what is arguably the worst single performance in the...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In a tense, poignant novel of a boy awakening to his small town’s secrets, “John Grisham takes command of this literary category just as forcefully as he did legal thrillers with The Firm” (Entertainment Weekly). “You can’t help thinking of other...

WHO JUDGES A JUDGE? A corrupt judge is getting away with murder. Lacy Stoltz investigates judicial misconduct in Florida. When she meets Greg Meyers, an indicted lawyer, he tells her a secret that will put her in the firing line. Myers has dirt on a judge in league with organised crime who had...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a “riveting” (The New York Times) courtroom drama from “the best thriller writer alive” (Ken Follett). There is a time to kill and a time for justice...

Jake Brigance, the protagonist of John Grisham's classic legal thriller, A Time to Kill, is back. This time he's at the epicenter of a sensational murder trial that bitterly divides the citizens of Clanton, Mississippi. John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time...

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
Neely Crenshaw was once star quarterback for Messina High School's football team. Afterwards his life went nowhere. But now the man who molded him, Coach Eddie Rake, is dying and Neely returns to Messina.

Some call him the charlatan of the century, others - a genius. Elon Musk, who at the age of 27 became a millionaire, is an ambiguous figure. But everyone agrees that he has had incredible success in business, creating companies that earn billions. What distinguishes him from other rich people is his ambitious ideas and incredible plans in the field of space research, the dissemination of alternative forms of energy and transport, even in the creation of artificial intelligence.

Jack Ma's small Internet company, which provides small enterprises the opportunity to sell their goods and services, since its start in 1999 has turned into a large company, with value exceeding $231 billion! The Alibaba group includes Alibaba.com, Yahoo! China, Alibaba Pictures, and even payment system Alipay.

“A riveting and infuriating examination of criminal prosecutions, revealing how easy it is to convict the wrong person and how nearly impossible it is to undo the error.” —Washington Post "No one has illuminated this problem more thoughtfully and persistently." —Bryan Stevenson...

Bruce Cable, Betreiber der Buchhandlung Bay Books, bereitet gerade die Lesung eines Bestsellerautors vor, als Hurrikan Leo Camino Island heimsucht. Der Gouverneur ordnet eine Evakuierung der Insel an, aber Bruce beschließt zu bleiben. Der Sturm fordert mehrere Todesopfer und auch Bruces Freund Nelson Kerr, ein Thrillerautor, kommt ums Leben. Allerdings stellt sich heraus, dass nicht der Sturm die Todesursache war, sondern mehrere Schussverletzungen am Kopf. Bruce beginnt zu ermitteln: Könnte die Lösung des Falls auf den Seiten von Nelsons Roman zu finden sein?

Tonya Hailey, ein zehnjähriges Mädchen, wurde von zwei betrunkenen Männern brutal vergewaltigt und missbraucht. Wenige Tage später erschießt Tonyas Vater Carl Lee Hailey die beiden Täter im Gerichtsgebäude, in dem sie zu einer ersten Anhörung vorgeführt wurden. Das Gerichtsverfahren, dass gegen ihn eingeleitet wird, gerät zum Sensationsprozess. Denn: die beiden Gewaltverbrecher sind Weiße; Carl Lee ist ein Schwarzer.

Bruce Cable possède une librairie réputée à Santa Rosa sur l'île de Camino, en Floride. Bien que son affaire soit prospère, l'argent provient surtout du commerce de livres anciens et d'éditions originales. Peu de gens, toutefois, savent que Cable a parfois recours au marché parallèle dans sa quête de manuscrits précieux. Dans le même temps, la bibliothèque de l'Université de Princeton est cambriolée. Les pertes sont inestimables... Mercer Mann, jeune romancière en panne d'inspiration, est contactée par une femme mystérieuse travaillant pour une compagnie d'assurances.

New York, 2008. La carrière de Samantha Kofer dans un grand cabinet d'avocats de Wall Street est sur des rails dorés... Mais la récession frappe. La jeune femme se retrouve congédiée du jour au lendemain. Samantha a toutefois de la chance dans son malheur : si elle accepte de travailler gratuitement pendant un an dans un centre d'aide juridique, elle pourra peut-être réintégrer sa place. En quelques jours, Samantha quitte Manhattan pour s'installer à Brady, en Virginie, une petite ville minière.

Seth Hubbard, homme riche atteint d'un cancer, n'a confiance en personne. Avant de se pendre à un sycomore, il laisse un testament manuscrit...

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
A U.S. State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI wants him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever.

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
Two supreme court justices are dead. Their murders are connected only in one mind, and in one legal brief conceived by that mind. Brilliant, beautiful, and ambitious, New Orleans legal student Darby Shaw little realises that her speculative brief will penetrate to the highest levels of power in Washington and cause shockwaves there.

Brought to you by Penguin. Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only...

Brought to you by Penguin. John Grisham's first and most shocking novel, adapted as a film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the violent racists who raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of the small town of Clanton, Mississippi see it as...

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
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 two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost 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'.