Diversified publishing jun 2022 (2 Ergebnisse)
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Diversified Publishing Jun 2022, 2022
Serie: Jake Brigance, Buch 1 von 1. Buch 1 von 1 - Jake Brigance
- Softcover
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, DeutschlandAHA-BUCH GmbH
Verkäufer/-in kontaktierenVerkäufer/-in mit 5 SternenZustand: Neu
EUR 31,37
EUR 62,02 VersandVersand von Deutschland nach USAAnzahl: 6 verfügbar
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The law works in mysterious ways in the first collection of novellas from John Grisham, the acknowledged master of the legal thriller."Grisham is exceptionally good at what he does."The Washington Post"Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional settin…g of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories, where Jake Brigance tries to help an old friend. Three years earlier, Mack Stafford stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night. His homecoming does not go as planned.In "Strawberry Moon," we meet Cody Wallace, a young death row inmate only three hours away from execution. His lawyers can't save him, the courts slam the door, and the governor says no to a last-minute request for clemency. As the clock winds down, Cody has one final request.And in "Sparring Partners," feuding brothers Kirk and Rusty Malloy struggle to keep their father's once prosperous firm afloat. As it disintegrates, Diantha Bradshaw, the only person the partners trust, must make a choice: save the Malloys, or take a stand for the first time in her career and save herself.By turns suspenseful, hilarious, powerful, and moving, these are three of the greatest stories John Grisham has ever told.
- Softcover
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, DeutschlandAHA-BUCH GmbH
Verkäufer/-in kontaktierenVerkäufer/-in mit 5 SternenZustand: Neu
EUR 35,49
EUR 62,83 VersandVersand von Deutschland nach USAAnzahl: 2 verfügbar
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "Brooks' chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling." The New York Times Book Review "Horse isn't just an animal storyit's a moving narrative about race and art." TIME"A thrilling story about humanity in all its ugliness and beauty . . . the evocative voices create a story so po…werful, reading it feels like watching a neck-and-neck horse race, galloping to its conclusionyou just can't look away." Oprah DailyWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize A Massachusetts Book Award Honor BookA discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American historyKentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack.New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance.Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horseone studying the stallion's bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.
