Jess Walter
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes--for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous--as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in life and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places." --
We all live like we're famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities,...
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In "Thief, " a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund. In "We Live in Water, " a lawyer returns to a corrupt North Idaho town to find the father who disappeared thirty years earlier. In "Anything Helps, " a homeless man has to "go to cardboard" to raise enough money to buy his son the new Harry Potter book. In "Virgo, " a local newspaper editor tries to get back at his superstitious...
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The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller.
From its opening scene—when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head—novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that
...5) Ruby Ridge
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Ruby Ridge is a riveting account of the event that helped give rise to the modern American militia movement.
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Abril de 1962, Dee Moray, una bella actriz estadounidense de veintidós años, llega en barco, misteriosamente sola, al muelle de Porto Vergogna, al sur de Génova. Allí decide hospedarse en el pequeño hotel que regenta Pasquale, el no menos joven heredero de una modesta familia de restauradores italianos, donde conocerá a Alvis Bender, un novelista de mediana edad de cierto prestigio en los círculos literarios norteamericanos. Dee huye tras...