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082 1 _aFIC GRI
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100 1 _aGrisham, John
_d(1955-)
245 1 0 _aGray Mountain
_c/ John Grisham.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aNew York
_b: Doubleday
_c, 2014
300 _a368 p.
_c; 25 cm
520 _aThe 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.
546 _aEnglish.
650 4 _aWomen lawyers
_v--Fiction
650 4 _aCoal mines and mining--
_vFiction
650 4 _aCoal trade --
_vFiction
650 4 _aLegal aid --
_vFiction
650 4 _aCountry lawyers --
_vFiction
651 4 _aVirginia
_v--Fiction
651 4 _aAppalachian Region --
_vFiction
655 4 _aLegal stories
655 4 _aSuspense fiction
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