The Firm, a novel by John Grisham: Summary
The story follows Mitchell Y. McDeere, a new recruited lawyer who has the brains, the ambition, and the good looks. His dream comes true. A twenty –five man from a poor family turns to be a rich young lawyer. His father was killed in the coal mines when he was seven years old. His mother remarried and lives in Florida. He had two brothers. Rusty was killed in Vietnam. He has another brother Ray. He was top five in class and Harvard selected him. His wife, Abby, has a degree in elementary education. For the past three years she taught at a private kindergarten.
The Son, a Crime Thriller by Joe Nesbo: summary
Prisoner Chaplain Per Vollan visited a young boy in prison and brought him a Bible. The chaplain saw the boy had opened the Bible. It’s simple trick; inside were folded papers with information Sonny needed in order to confess and three small bags of heroin. He brought the description of the house he entered- the house of the ship owner named Kjersti Morsand. The prison governor Arild Franck looked his watch. Most escaped prisoners were brought back in the first twelve hours. Franck had asked for twenty-four hours’ media blackout to find Lothus. Nestor Hugo reacted to the news. He had to find Sonny Lofthus, they persuade him to confess to the murder of Mrs. Morsand before anyone else got to him.
Interview with the Vampire (1976), a Novel by Anne Rice: summary
The vampire was utterly white and smooth, as if he were sculpted from bleached one, and his face was seemingly inanimate as a statue, except for brilliant green eyes that looked down at the boy intently like flame in skull. The boy shuddered, his eyes moved slowly over the finely tailored black coat he’d only glimpsed in the bar, and the gleam of white collar that as white as the vampire’s flesh. He stared at the vampire’s full black hair, the waves that were combed back over the tips of the ears. The vampire in French accent ensured he would not hurt the boy, then he started his story before he became a vampire.
Hannibal (1999), a Psychological Thriller Novel by Thomas Harris: Summary
Clarice Starling, FBI Special Agent’s colorful career began soon after she arrived at the FBI Academy as a trainee. An honors graduate of University of Virginia in psychology and criminology, she was assigned to interview the lethal madman Dr. Lecter Hannibal, dubbed by newspaper; Hannibal the Cannibal and received information from him that was important in the search and rescue daughter of former US Senator.
American Gods (2001), a Horror Mystery by Neil Gaiman: summary
The story follows Shadow Moon who lives among the gods in America, Odin chooses him as his errand boy. The gods are now living with human in human's form. When the people came to America, they brought their gods. They brought Odin, Loki and Thor, Anansi, and Leprechauns. The gods rode their minds, traveled with the settlers to the new lands across the ocean. But now people abandon them, they leave them. They love new gods. Wednesday, Odin, wants to gather all the gods, restore the worship for them, but not all of gods welcome the ideas, some of them already enjoy themselves as human.
Airframe (1996), a Techno-thriller by Michael Crichton: summary
Transpacific 545 made emergency landing at LAX, the report indicated fifty-six injured, and three dead. The plane was an N-22, built by Norton Craft in Burbank. Khaterine Casey Singleton was the Quality Assurance rep on The Incident Review Team -IRT. She was the only daughter of an editor at the Detroit News. She had grown up in suburbs of Detroit. Her two older brothers were both engineers at Ford.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain: summary
An old lady pulled her spectacles angrily and shouted a name of young boy, Tom. She wanted to lash her nephew but every time she hit him her old heart most broke. The trouble kid was her death sister’s boy. He was not like his half younger brother, Sid, who was a quite boy and had no adventure.
Jim, the small colored boy who worked for Aunt Polly; splitting the wood before supper; on Saturday, he painted the board fence nine feet high. His aunt told him to help Jim. Bringing the water from the town pump had always been hateful work in Tom’s eyes. Although the pump was only a hundred and fifty yards off, Jim never got back with bucket of water under an hour and even then somebody generally had to go after him. There was company at the pump, white, mulatto, and Negro boys and girls. While they were waiting their turns the children would been resting, trading playthings, quarrelling, fighting, and skylarking.
The Girl on the Train (2015), a Psychological Thriller by Paula Hawkins: summary
The train crawled along, it juddered past ware-houses, water towers, bridges, and sheds, past modest Victorian houses. She knew a house by heart- the brick, that the color of the curtains in the upstairs bedroom, that there was four tiles missing from the section, and that the paint was peeling off the bathroom window frame. The house was much like the other houses along the stretch of the track. She knew it and the occupants of the house. Passengers whipped past Jason and Jess’s place, the train passed in a blur of evening sunshine. They were a perfect couple, golden couple. In her imagination, she named him Jason and the young woman Jesse.
The Sign of Four (1890), Sherlock Holmes, a Detective Novel by Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle: summary
A young lady brought her case to Holmes and Watson. Miss Mary Morstan was a blonde young lady, small, dainty, well gloved, and dressed in the most perfect taste. Her father disappeared upon the third of December, 1878 nearly ten years ago. Morstan was an officer in an Indian regiment, who sent Mary home when she was quite a child. Mary was placed, however, in a comfortable boarding establishment at Edinburgh, and there she remained until she was seventeen years of age. In the year 1878 her father, who was senior captain of his regiment, obtained twelve months leave ad came home.
A Little Life (2015), A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara: summary
Four men just dealt with an agent, they rented a cheap apartment at Lispenard Street in New York. The apartment was not impressive. There was a small foyer, little larger than size of a doormat, from which pronged the kitchen (a hot, greasy little cube) to the right and dining area to the left that would accommodate perhaps a card table.
In their first year in college, the four of them had shared a space that consisted of a cinder-blocked common room. Malcom was the only one of the four of them who lived at home, and as JB liked to say, if he had Malcom’s home, he would live at home too. Malcom’s sister, Flora, who was three years older than him, had moved out of the basement apartment recently, and Jude had taken her place as a short-term solution. It was natural that he would live with Willem; they had been roommates throughout college.
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