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01-01-00: the Novel of the Millennium
From the Publisher: "At 1:01 a.m. on January 1, 2000, computer systems around the world are synchronized to unleash an apocalytic virus. Susan Garnett, senior analyst at the FBI's high-tech crime unit, must uncover and disarm the virus before the countdown brings catastrophic results. At 1:01 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time on December 11, 1999, computer systems all around the world's computers will be at their most vulnerable point in history. Susan traces the virus' signal to its point of origin, an area near Tikal, the site of one of the largest and most advanced cities of the ancient Maya. How can such an advanced virus originate from a primitive region of the world? What type of global event will the virus trigger at the turn of the millennium? Certain that the answers are hidden in the densely packed jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula, Susan convinces the U.S. government to allow her and Cameron Slater, an anthropologist who has studied the Maya extensively, to travel to this remote region in a last-ditch effort to stop the countdown. As 01-01-00 approaches, Susan and Cameron must draw on their combined knowledge of ancient glyphs and modern algorithms in order to crack a code hidden in the virus. Failure to solve the riddles, both ancient and new, before the year 2000, may unleash a global event of apocalyptic proportions. "... Show More
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2666
From the Publisher: "Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño’s life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared."... Show More
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Action!
From the Publisher: "Author Robert Cort, the producer of fifty-two films that have grossed more than $2 billion at the box office, has written a novel that is not only a page-turning family drama but also an inside account of Hollywood and how movies are really made. "... Show More
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Adam Resurrected
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All Over Creation
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From the Publisher: "Yumi Fuller is a rebellious daughter returning to her family’s Idaho potato farm to help her ailing parents who finds herself in a firestorm over genetically engineered spuds in this tale of family, food, and corporate greed. Blackstone Audie Award Winner"... Show More
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All the Sad Young Literary Men
From the Publisher: "A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, All the Sad Young Literary Men charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle through the encouragement of the women who love and despise them to find a semblance of maturity, responsibility, and even literary fame.<p>Heartbroken in his university town, Mark tries to focus his attention on his graduate work concerning Russian revolt, only to be lured again and again to the free pornography on the library computers. Sam binds himself to the task of crafting “the first great Zionist epic” even though he speaks no Hebrew, has never visited Israel, and is not a practicing Jew. Keith, thwarted by inherited notions of greatness and memories of his broken family, finds solace in the arms of the selfless woman who most reminds him of his past.<p>At every turn, at each character’s misstep, All the Sad Young Literary Men radiates with comedic warmth and biting honesty and signals the arrival of a brave and trenchant new writer."... Show More
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Allan Quatermain
From the Publisher: "Three Englishmen and their guide trek into the remote interior of Africa in search of a lost white race. Through unknown territories, their perilous journey finally takes them to Zu-Vendis, a kingdom ruled by beautiful twin sisters. This sequel to King Solomon’s Mines is filled with the spirit of adventure."... Show More
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América
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Angels Unaware
From the Publisher: "It was 1895, and time for a change, thought Rebecca Rice. For thirteen years, Rebecca had suffocated under the social restraints of widowhood. She couldn’t remember a time in her life when she hadn’t done exactly what was expected of her. Until now.<P>Armed with a knowledge of nursing and faith healing that she had learned from a visiting missionary group, Rebecca headed for the hill country of southeastern Oklahoma, Indian Territory, to share her new vocation. But the clannish folk of the hill country, reared and groomed in suspicion and superstition, resent Rebecca’s presence in their midst. Faced with such human conflicts as hate and ignorance, Rebecca must also struggle with tornados and floods. But her greatest adversary is the circuit-riding preacher, Zake Daniels, who fears Rebecca’s teachings will threaten his hold on his flock."... Show More
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Anonymous Lawyer
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Arch of Triumph: a Novel of a Man Without a Country
From the Publisher: "Ravic, a German doctor and refugee living in Paris in 1939, has been treating some of the city’s most elite citizens, all the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany. Although he’s given up on love, life has a curious way of turning romantic."... Show More
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Art of Social War: a Novel
From the Publisher: "Stacey Knight wants nothing more in the world than to marry her devoted fiancé, Jamey, enjoy her career success overseeing the “I Heart New York” campaign, and live in her beloved hometown. But when her fiancé asks her to move to Los Angeles, the newlyweds land in a technicolor, high-stakes social war, pursued by ruthless power-brokers in the film demimonde and their trophy wives. Stacey must navigate a sea of confusing social obstacles, packs of wild coyotes (literally), and extremely bad behavior using The Art of War as her guide."... Show More
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Atlas Shrugged
From the Publisher: "This is the story of a man who says that he will stop the motor of the world—and does. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Tremendous in scope, breath taking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man’s body but about the murder and rebirth of a man’s spirit. This is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, which launched a unique ideology, objectivism, and a movement. With the publication of this work in 1957, Rand gained an instant following and became a phenomenon. Atlas Shrugged emerged as a premier moral apology for capitalism, a defense that had an electrifying effect on millions of readers, and now listeners, who have never heard capitalism defended in other than technical terms."... Show More
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Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel
From the Publisher: "Atmospheric Disturbances is at once a moving love story, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind. With tremendous compassion and sophistication, Galchen investigates the moment of crisis when you suddenly realize that the reality you insist upon is no longer one you can accept, and that the person you love has merely become the person you live with. This anticipated debut explores the mysterious nature of human relationships, and how we spend our lives trying to weather the storms of our own making."... Show More
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Atomic Romance
From the Publisher: "Reed is an engineer at a uranium-enrichment plant. Despite his father’s tragic death at the plant, Reed stays on, proud of his work. As for radioactive incidents he’s endured, Reed prefers to think about other things. His casual attitude toward danger infuriates his girlfriend, Julia, a biologist. So when news reports evidence of radioactive pollution at the plant, Reed and Julia face an unprecedented challenge."... Show More
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August Folly: a Novel
From the Publisher: "In August Folly, the village of Worsted is staging Hippolytus. Inevitably, the most absurd romances bloom. Boorish young Richard Tebbins, just down from Oxford, falls in love with Mrs. Dean, mother of nine, whose oldest son loves Richard’s sister, who in turn loves another. And round and round it goes. Amidst a series of comic catastrophes, everyone manages to redeem themselves. Witty, snobbish, sweet, and evocative, Mrs. Thirkell’s Barsetshire novels provide a bemused scrutiny of British manners in the most delightfully entertaining doses. "... Show More
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Awakening Storm
From the Publisher: "Michael Rivers still has nightmares of the preacher who terrorized his childhood. Now when a new child is threatened by the controlling televangelist, Michael must confront his own past. "... Show More
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Bachelors
From the Publisher: "A barrister, a “priest,” a detective, a lovelorn Irishman, a handwriting expert, a heinous spiritual medium…the very British bachelors of Muriel Spark’s supreme 1960 novel come in every stripe. First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs and shopping at Fortnum’s, the cozy bachelors are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough, the men are variously tormented—defrauded, stolen from, blackmailed, or pressed to attend horrid séances—and then plunged, all together, into the nastiest of lawsuits. At the center of that suit hovers pale, blank Patrick Seton, the medium. Meanwhile, horrors of every size plague the poor bachelors—from epileptic fits to forgeries, spiritualists foaming with protoplasm, and murder—and each horror delights, lit up by Spark’s uncanny wit, at once malicious, funny, and deadly serious."... Show More
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Ballad of Peckham Rye
From the Publisher: "The Ballad of Peckham Rye is the wickedly farcical fable of a blue-collar town turned upside down. When the firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley hires Dougal Douglas (a.k.a. Douglas Dougal) to do “human research” into the private lives of its workforce, they are in no way prepared for the mayhem, mutiny, and murder he will stir up. In fact, this Music Man of the thoroughly modern corporation changes the lives of all the eccentric characters he meets, from Miss Merle Coverdale, head of the typing pool, to V.R. Druce, unsuspecting Managing Director. This is Dame Muriel Spark at her most devilishly piquant."... Show More
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Bathhouse
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Beautiful Miscellaneous: a Novel
From the Publisher: "Dominic Smith’s novel explores genius and loss, failure and redemption, and a son’s struggle with the crushing weight of his father’s expectations. Nathan Nelson is just above average in everything he does. However, his father, a renowned physicist, pursuing his quest to uncover his son’s latent gifts, sends Nathan to whiz-kid summer camps to learn college algebra. By the time Nathan is seventeen, hopes for a late-blooming prodigy seem dashed. Then a tragic accident and ensuing coma leave Nathan with an altered mind that allows him to memorize vast amounts of information. Nathan’s father, seeking an application for the new talent, sends him to a research institute where, amid misfits and savants, Nathan tries to find a purpose for the new way he perceives the world."... Show More
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Before Lunch
From the Publisher: "Published in 1939, Before Lunch is a portrait of the charming English community of ""Barsetshire."" When the erection of a tea shop and garage threatens to spoil the bovine pastures of Pooker's Piece, Lady Bond and Lord Pomfret unite with the Middletons and the Stoners to stop it. In the meantime, the young and the not-so-young all fall in love—though not always with the right person—and sort out their affairs in a hilarious welter of cross-purposes.<p>For those who have read and reread Austen, Trollope, and Dickens, discovering a novel by Angela Thirkell is akin to finding gold in an abandoned mine. Long out of print, her novels are currently enjoying a minor renaissance."... Show More
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Bel Canto
From the Publisher: "Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country’s vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of a powerful Japanese businessman. A famous American opera diva entertains the international guests. It is a night out of a fairytale—until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage.<p>But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario turns into something quite different, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds, people from different countries and continents become compatriots, and passionate, ill-fated love blooms upon this unlikely soil."... Show More
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Believe Me
From the Publisher: "“How did Arkman Noah/Provide for protozoa?” It’s not often that an acclaimed historian is revealed to be the author of light verse, but John R. Alden here presents 1,707 couplets, quatrains, and other terse verse in the tradition of Ogden Nash. His subject matter, ranging from dinosaurs to computers, from Jonah to George Bush, is sure to amuse and delight. "... Show More
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Best Revenge: A Novel of Broadway
From the Publisher: "Ben Riller is the most successful producer on Broadway, but his newest production is in danger of closing before it opens. When he turns for advice to his late father, he becomes involved with two generations of wonderful underworld characters who force him to choose between moral and financial ruin."... Show More
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Bet Your Bottom Dollar: A Bottom Dollar Girls Novel
From the Publisher: "Welcome to the Bottom Dollar Emporium of Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, where everything from coconut mallow cookies to Clabber girl Baking Powder costs only a dollar, and coffee and gossip are free. For Elizabeth, Mavis, and Attalee, the Bottom Dollar Girls, logging nine to five at the Bottom Dollar is not just work time, it’s family time. So when news gets out that the Super Saver Dollar Store chain plans to set up shop and run the Bottom Dollar out of town, things go cattywampus."... Show More
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Better Than I Know Myself
From the Publisher: "When Carmen, Jewell, and Regina first cross paths, they plan to keep on walking. They had little in common. But each has what the other needs, and through the years of betrayal and secrets, they unite in a circle of sisterhood that is strained but never broken."... Show More
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Big Sur
From the Publisher: "“Big Sur’s a humane, precise account of the extraordinary ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac, a superior novelist who had strength to complete his poetic narrative, a task few scribes so afflicted have accomplished—others crack up.”—Allen Ginsberg"... Show More
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Bird Songs in Literature: Bird Songs and the Poems They Have Inspired
From the Publisher: "How many of us who have read of the skylark and nightingale since our school days actually have ever heard their song? And how many of us realize the extent to which birds have appeared in the work of leading English and American poets?<p>The songs and calls of fifty of the more common birds of England and North America are paired with such classic poems as “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Oriole’s Secret” by Emily Dickinson, “An Essay on Man” by Alexander Pope, “Roadless Area” by Paul Brooks, “To a Skylark” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Birds of Killingworth” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Princess” by Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Oven Bird” by Robert Frost, “Thoreau’s Flute” by Louisa May Alcott, and “The Wasteland” by T. S. Eliot. No effort was spared in obtaining the best field recordings to supplement those used from the Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology."... Show More
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Black Mask Audio Magazine Volume 1, Number 1.: Classic Hard-boiled Tales from the Original Black Mask
From the Publisher: "Tough detectives, rotten crooks and dangerous dames.<p>In the1930s and '40s, Black Mask was the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. In its pages writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Earl Stanley Gardner reshaped the established view of mystery fiction, creating the ""hard-boiled"" private eye. Now comes this series in which the toughest of tough detectives are resurrected from its pages in sonic dramatization from the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear.<p>Stories included in this volume are “Lost and Found” by Hugh B. Cave, “Pigeon Blood” by Paul Cain, “Rough Justice” by Frederick Nebel, “Black” by Paul Cain, “The Missing Mr. Lee” by Hugh B. Cave, and “Trouble Chaser” by Paul Cain."... Show More
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Blame: a Novel
From the Publisher: "Patsy MacLemoore, a history professor in her late twenties, has a brand-new Ph.D. from Berkeley and a wild streak. She wakes up in jail after an epic alcoholic blackout. “Okay, what’d I do?” she asks her lawyer and jailers. In fact, two Jehovah’s Witnesses, a mother and daughter, are dead, run over in Patsy’s driveway, and Patsy will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. She goes to prison, gets sober, and upon her release finds a new community (and a husband) in AA. She resists temptations, strives for goodness, and becomes a selfless teacher, friend, and wife. Then, decades later, another unimaginable piece of information turns up. For the reader, it is an electrifying moment; a joyous, fall-off-the-couch-with-surprise moment. For Patsy, it is more complicated. Blame must be reapportioned, her life reassessed."... Show More
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Bob the Gambler
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Book of Kings
From the Publisher: "While Europe drifts toward Nazism, four students share an apartment in Paris. Thackara brilliantly forges the stories of these four men whose lives mirror the larger picture, while the listener follows Hitler’s rise from a dozen different perspectives."... Show More
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Bowl of Cherries: a Novel
From the Publisher: "Kicked out of Yale at age 14, the precocious Judd Breslau takes a questionable job from the eccentric Phillips Chatterton, a bathrobe-wearing Egyptologist working out of a dilapidated home laboratory. There, he falls for young Valerie Chatterton, who quickly leads Breslau away from his research and into, in order: the attic, a Colorado equestrian ranch, a porn studio beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, and a jail cell in southern Iraq, where we find him awaiting his own execution while the war rages on in the north.<p>Written by a 90-year-old debut novelist, ex-Marine, two-time Oscar nominee, and co-creator of Mr. Magoo, Bowl of Cherries rivals the liveliest comic novels for sheer gleeful inventiveness. This is a book of astounding breadth and sharp consequence, containing all the joy, derangement, terror, and doubt of adolescence and modern times."... Show More
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Brandons
From the Publisher: "The Brandons is replete with youthful nonsense and middle-aged folly. People will fall in love with the wrong person, and all are determined to misunderstand each other. The Brandons and their friends and servants are irresistible. This is the gentlest of social satire. "... Show More
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Bright Shiny Morning
From the Publisher: "This sweeping, kaleidoscopic portrait of Los Angeles captures the divided soul of that city through vivid stories of its inhabitants, each living on the fault line between hope and oblivion. A closeted, narcissistic movie star whose obsession with a young talent agent nearly destroys his career; an alcoholic in Venice Beach who finds his life turned upside down when a meth-addled teenage girl shows up half-dead at the restroom he calls home; a nineteen-year-old couple who flee their hometown and struggle to survive on the violent fringes of the city; and the bright young daughter of Mexican immigrants whose humiliating experience as a housekeeper threatens to derail her dreams. Together, these diverse stories provide an X-ray of a city that symbolizes the extremes of American life."... Show More
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Broken for You
From the Publisher: "Exuberant, heartbreaking, and alive with a potpourri of eccentric and irresistible characters, this novel explores the saving graces of surrogate families and shows how far the tiniest repair jobs can go in righting the world’s wrongs."... Show More
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Broken Ground
From the Publisher: "After living in America for many years, Kaethe Shalk returns to Berlin to search for the daughter she lost. Now in the metaphorical broken ground left by the demise of the Berlin Wall, she encounters the isolated parts of her past and present."... Show More
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Brothers K
From the Publisher: "This touching, uplifting novel spans decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. Here there is a father whose dreams of glory on a baseball field are shattered by a mill accident, a mother who clings obsessively to a religion as a ward against the darkest hour of her past, and four brothers who come of age during the seismic upheavals of the sixties and who each choose their own way to deal with what the world has become.<p>By turns uproariously funny and deeply moving, and beautifully written throughout, The Brothers K tells a story both striking in its originality and poignant in its universality."... Show More
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California Fever
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Carry Me Down
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Catherine Carmier
From the Publisher: "Catherine Carmier is a compel-ling love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence. After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to his benefactor, Aunt Charlotte. Surrounded by family and old friends, he discovers that his bonds to them have been irreparably rent by his absence. In the midst of his alienation from those around him, he falls in love with Catherine Carmier, setting the stage for conflicts and confrontations that are complex and universal in their implications."... Show More
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Chemistry for Beginners
From the Publisher: "Researching female orgasms, Dr. Steven J. Fisher thinks he has sex down to an exact science. But Dr. Fisher is really just a shy chemist who is a beginner in the ways of love. When a beautiful and orgasmically-challenged Ph.D. student named Annie begins participating in his study, everything Dr. Fisher thinks he knows about women is turned on its head. Cleverly presented through excerpts from Steven’s clinical study and Annie’s blog entries, this book gets to the heart of what makes us all tick, showing that love is, in fact, all about chemistry."... Show More
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Christmas Lights: A Novel
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Cigar Roller
From the Publisher: "Amadeo Terra, former cigar-factory worker, is confined in a Florida hospital after a paralyzing stoke. His body no longer works, but his mind is very much alive. One day, the taste of mango on his tongue brings memories flooding back of his life in Havana, including some long-buried facts. "... Show More
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Close Quarters
Contemporary American Fiction
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The Coin of Carthage
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Cold Sassy Tree: a Novel
From the Publisher: "In the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, on July 5, 1906, things take a scandalous turn. On that day, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy’s adventures begin and an unimpeachably pious, deliciously irreverent town comes to life. "... Show More
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Colonel Rutherford's Colt
From the Publisher: "Jimmy Roy Guy, a gun dealer with an imagination that borders on mystic vision, delights in telling elaborate stories about the histories of the weapons he sells. When Jimmy makes an agreement with the widow of white supremacist martyr Bob Champion to broker her husband's infamous Colt .45, the widow stipulates that he keep it out of the hands of Champion's disciple, who considers it a powerful talisman for his racist agenda. But Jimmy is not intimidated by “the Major”—for the gun has launched a story, and when Jimmy begins a story, one way or another, he's bound to see it through."... Show More
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