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Gray Mountain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780385537148)
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x#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - John Grisham has a new hero ... and she's full of surprises.
The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track--until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia, a part of the world she has only read about. Mattie Wyatt, lifelong Brady resident and head of the town's legal aid clinic, is there to teach her how to "help real people with real problems." For the first time in her career, Samantha prepares a lawsuit, sees the inside of an actual courtroom, gets scolded by a judge, and receives threats from locals who aren't so thrilled to have a big-city lawyer in town. And she learns that Brady, like most small towns, harbors some big secrets. Her new job takes Samantha into the murky and dangerous world of coal mining, where laws are often broken, rules are ignored, regulations are flouted, communities are divided, and the land itself is under attack from Big Coal. Violence is always just around the corner, and within weeks Samantha finds herself engulfed in litigation that turns deadly. Don't miss John Grisham's new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
Author: John Grisham
ISBN-10: 038553714X
ISBN-13: 9780385537148
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2014
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.60w x 1.20d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 20
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 170392 / Gray Mountain
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/15/2014 pg. 50
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2014
Publishers Weekly 09/29/2014
Library Journal 05/15/2014
The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track--until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia, a part of the world she has only read about. Mattie Wyatt, lifelong Brady resident and head of the town's legal aid clinic, is there to teach her how to "help real people with real problems." For the first time in her career, Samantha prepares a lawsuit, sees the inside of an actual courtroom, gets scolded by a judge, and receives threats from locals who aren't so thrilled to have a big-city lawyer in town. And she learns that Brady, like most small towns, harbors some big secrets. Her new job takes Samantha into the murky and dangerous world of coal mining, where laws are often broken, rules are ignored, regulations are flouted, communities are divided, and the land itself is under attack from Big Coal. Violence is always just around the corner, and within weeks Samantha finds herself engulfed in litigation that turns deadly. Don't miss John Grisham's new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
Author: John Grisham
ISBN-10: 038553714X
ISBN-13: 9780385537148
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2014
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.60w x 1.20d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 20
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 170392 / Gray Mountain
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/15/2014 pg. 50
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2014
Publishers Weekly 09/29/2014
Library Journal 05/15/2014
By John Grisham
xJohn Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system. John lives on a farm in central Virginia.
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