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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." - A Painted House (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Billy Ray Cobb was the younger and smaller of the two rednecks. At twenty-three he was already a three-year veteran of the state penitentiary at Parchman. Possession, with intent to sell. He was a lean, tough little punk who had survived prison by somehow maintaining a ready supply of drugs that he sold and sometimes gave to the blacks and the guards for protection. In the year since his release he had continued to prosper, and his small-time narcotics business had elevated him to the position of one of the more affluent rednecks in Ford County. - A Time to Kill (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The gate was packed with weary travelers, most of them standing and huddled along the walls because the meager allotment of plastic chairs had long since been taken. Every plane that came and went held at least eighty passengers, yet the gate had seats for only a few dozen. - Skipping Christmas (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] For the weekly docket the court jester wore his standard garb of well-used and deeply faded maroon pajamas and lavender terry-cloth shower shoes with no socks. - The Brethren (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The decision to bomb the office of the radical Jew lawyer was reached with relative ease. - The Chamber (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Mark was eleven and had been smoking off and on for two years, never trying to quit but being careful not to get hooked. He preferred Kools, his ex-father's brand, but his mother smoked Viginia Slims at the rate of two packs a day, and could in an average week pilfer ten or twelve from her. - The Client (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The senior partner studied the resume for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. McDeere, at least not on paper. He had the brains, the ambition, the good looks. And he was hungry; with his background, he had to be. He was married, and that was mandatory. - The Firm [Books (First Lines)] They found him in Ponta Pora, a pleasant little town in Brazil, on the border of Paraguay, in a land still known as the Frontier. - The Partner (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK He seemed incapable of creating such chaos, but much of what he saw below could be blamed on him. And that was fine. He was ninety-one, paralyzed, strapped in a wheelchair and hooked to oxygen. - The Pelican Brief (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession. - The Rainmaker (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The face of Nicholas Easter was slightly hidden by a display rack filled with slim cordless phones, and he was looking not directly at the hidden camera but somewhere off to the left, perhaps at a customer, or perhaps at a counter where a group of kids hovered over the latest electronic games from Asia. - The Runaway Jury (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The man with the rubber boots stepped into the elevator behind me, but I didn't see him at first. I smelled him though--the pungent odor of smoke and cheap wine and life on the street without soap. - The Street Lawyer (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] It came by mail, regular postage, the old-fashioned way since the Judge was almost eighty and distrusted modern devices. - The Summons (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Down to the last day, even the last hour now. I'm an old man, lonely and unloved, sick and hurting and tired of living. I am ready for the hereafter; it has to be better than this. - The Testament (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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