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2) The firm
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the master of legal thrillers, a page-turning classic of “suit-and-dagger suspense” (The New York Times): At the top of his class at Harvard Law, Mitch McDeere had his choice of the best firms in America. He made a deadly mistake.
Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
For a young lawyer...
Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
For a young lawyer...
4) Taft
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English
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John Nickel, an African American blues musician managing a Memphis bar, hires a white brother and sister even though he knows they mean trouble, as he pines to be reunited with his son.
5) Blue dahlia
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English
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Centering around three courageous women, who meet for the first time at a crossroads in their lives, this first installment in a new trilogy follows Stella as she casts aside her fears and finds a special love that she will do anything to protect.
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Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 6
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
After trying to take Hamburgeragogoland, also known as the United States, by storm when her family vacations in Memphis, Tennessee, a British teen returns home to deal with the attentions of too many boys, weird parents, and mad cats
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English
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"In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's trajectory,...
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Sophie Trace trilogy volume 2
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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When Vanessa Jessup returns home from her sophomore year of college, her mother, Police Chief Brill Jessup, is stunned to see that she's pregnant by one of her professors. Brill is glad Vanessa rejected the father's abortion ultimatum, but hurt that she ignored her upbringing and angry that the professor has disappeared without a trace. But that's not all Brill's got on her plate. One of her detectives has been killed, and the attacker has threatened...
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English
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"Twenty something Daniel Friedman's debut hit novel, Don't Ever Get Old, was a huge critical and word-of-mouth success. Friedman's unforgettable protagonist Buck Schatz is back, and, once again, this 88-year-old retired Memphis cop refuses to go gently into that good night. Having sustained injuries in Don't Ever Get Old, Buck is living at a retirement home with his wife, and he's downright miserable being treated like the elderly person he is. But...
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
Description
In an ambitious narrative structure reminiscent of Robert Altman's classic film Nashville, Larry Brown weaves together the stories of a sprawling cast of eccentric and lovable characters, each embarked on a quest for meaning, fulfillment, and love -- with poignant and uproarious results. Set in Memphis and North Mississippi, The Rabbit Factory follows the colliding lives of, among others, Arthur, an older, socially ill-at-ease man of considerable...
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Nick Travers mysteries volume 3
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When her mother Ruby Nell enters a Memphis mambo contest, Callie Valentine Jones, Elvis, her basset hound who believes he is the King reincarnated, and her cousin Lovie chaperone Ruby as a killer takes out the competition--one by one
Author
Series
Sophie Trace trilogy volume 1
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Brill Jessup just became the first female police chief in Sophie Trace, Tennessee, and is riding on the credentials of a stellar eighteen-year career on the Memphis police force...Before she even has time to unpack her boxes, people start disappearing. Lots of them. To complicate matters, a local legend has many residents believing that the cause is unearthly--tied to red "shadows", or spirits of the departed Cherokee who once inhabited the land..."--p.[4]...
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Memphis Cold Case novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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In a desperate search for her kidnapped niece, Carly Smith comes face to face with her sister's killer and must decide whether to trust her ex-boyfriend, officer Logan Donovan, when he steps in to help.
A victim of sex trafficking, Carly Smith had been at the mercy of merciless men, ignored by law enforcement officers who should have helped her, and seemingly rejected by her family. Though she escaped her captors and is working hard on building a...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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All she wants is a settled-down life. What she gets is a dog - and a whole new normal. Brydie gets a night-shift job at a big-box grocery. Whoever guessed there were so many people who wanted baked goods after midnight? Then, she gets an idea: why not combine her baking skills with her new-found dog knowledge? And so her store Pupcakes is born. Along with a new start comes a possible new love. Brydie begins to realize that life is a little bit like...
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Logan Point volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"In a steamy small town of secrets, danger, and broken promises, a woman reaches out to a former love to save her brother's life--can she prevent her own secret from being revealed?"--
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Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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A cryptic plea from a childhood friend sends Nate and Nicki Price from New Orleans to Memphis. They find signs of a struggle at Danny Andre's address-- and signs of a lifestyle not in keeping with the choirboy they fondly remember. Danny's sister, Isabelle, accepts their help reluctantly. Together they must rely on their faith-- and get beyond painful memories.
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