Jess Walter
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"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause....
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"This humorous, heartfelt and redemptive collection of short fiction from the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Beautiful Ruins explores moments when everything changes-for the better, worse and outrageous-as an unforgettable cast of characters question life and search for inspiration. "--
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"We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of our most talked-about writers. 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...
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From the highly acclaimed new crime novelist: a story of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics, and murder—set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1980 presidential election
It's the fall of 1980, the last week before the presidential election that pits the downtrodden Jimmy Carter against the suspiciously sunny Ronald Reagan. In a seedy suburban house in Spokane, a small-time crook formerly from New York, Vince Camden,
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ReganBooks
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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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 his memory is skipping,...
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Regan Books
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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In Over Tumbled Graves, Jess Walter, National Book Award finalist and author of Citizen Vince and The Zero, confronts our fascination with pathology and murder. A thriller of extraordinary depth and dimension, Over Tumbled Graves follows Caroline Mabry, a Spokane police detective searching for a serial murderer.
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ReganBooks
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[2003]
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English
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When a disoriented and strangely familiar figure appears, wanting to write a lengthy confession, Spokane police detective Caroline Mabry finds herself challenged to investigate a murder and the darkly intertwined lives of two men.
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ReganBooks
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2002.
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English
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On the last hot day of summer in 1992, gunfire cracked over a rocky knob in northern Idaho, just south of the Canadian border. By the next day three people were dead, and a small war was joined, pitting the full might of federal law enforcement against one well-armed family. Drawing on extensive interviews with Randy Weaver's family, government insiders, and others, Jess Walter traces the paths that led the Weavers to their confrontation with federal...
13) Ruby Ridge
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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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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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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2005.
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English
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After local marshals arrived at a remote cabin in Idaho to serve a warrant on a white supremacist zealot for weapons violations, the confrontation led to a gunfight in which Randy Weaver's 14 year old son and a deputy were killed. In the horrifying 11 day siege, Weaver's wife was shot by an FBI sniper, and a shocked nation was forced to consider the fine line between freedom, protection, and murder in this controversial tragedy. A true story that...
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Hearst Corporation
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Three new stories for men, by three of the most ambitious and talented names in fiction
A search for an eight-ball of cocaine, turns into a pistol-whipping and executions in Aaron Gwyn's stunning and disquieting "You and Me and the Devil Makes Three." Gwyn, who was born in Tulsa and raised on a cattle ranch, is the author of the novel The World Beneath and the story collection Dog on a Cross, about which the Boston Globe wrote, "In Gwyn's expert
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