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.

Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a "camp

Like-new copy - Stated First Edition (November, 2001) - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $19.95 - Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, 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 house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty; they won't be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren't even going to have a tree. They won't need one, because come December 25 they're setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas bring enormous consequences - and isn't half as easy as they'd imagined.

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Like-new condition - Appears unread - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $19.95 - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages.

Like-new copy - Appears unread - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - 487 pages -

Like-new condition - Appears unread - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $19.95 - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages.

1st edition.~ Cloth, dj, F/F. 367pp, a nice fine copy. ~ Grisham's 8th Judicial thriller.

180 x 110 mm Antal sidor: 473. Clanton, Mississippi. En tioårig flickas liv krossas för alltid av två berusade och hänsynslösa unga män. Den lilla stadens vita invånarmajoritet reagerar med fasa och chock på det vidriga brottet. Tills flickans svarte far skaffar ett automatgevär - och tar rättvisan i egna händer fylld av sorg och vanmakt. I tio dagar flammar de brinnande korsen i Clanton. I tio dagar bryts tystnaden i staden av krypskytteeld. I tio dagar och varar den rättegång som blir centrum för världens uppmärksamhet - rättegången där den unge försvarsadvokaten Jake Brigance kämpar först för att rädda livet på sin klient...och sedan för att rädda sitt eget.