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Atascadero Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
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Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don?t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
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FIC
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Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
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Creston Library - Adult Fiction
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"Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon. They've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can't just retire. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to...
3) Slow horses
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Slough House volume 1
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Intelligence agent River Cartwright, after being banished from high-profile work for incompetence, suspects a prominant British journalist with ties to an extremist party of being behind the kidnapping of a Muslim teenager.
4) Recursion
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Atascadero Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Investigating a suicide, New York City police officer Barry Sutton finds a connection to the outbreak of a memory-altering disease and a controversial neuroscientist working to preserve precious memories.
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Thursday Murder Club novels volume 1
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6 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 41 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 41 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
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Series
Flavia De Luce mysteries volume 9
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
FIC M
1 available
FIC M
1 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
FIC M
1 available
FIC M
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Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
FIC M
1 available
FIC M
1 available
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Santa Margarita Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
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Cambria Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
1 available
Shell Beach Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
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FIC LT
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Description
""The world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their...
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Series
Maid novels volume 1
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
FIC M
1 available
FIC M
1 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
FIC M
1 available
FIC M
1 available
Cambria Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
FIC M
2 available
FIC M
2 available
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7 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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Arroyo Grande Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT PBK
1 available
FIC LT PBK
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Cambria Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT PBK
1 available
FIC LT PBK
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"Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has had to navigate life's complexities all by herself. No matter--she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of...
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Series
Sam Clair novels volume 1
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
FIC M
1 available
FIC M
1 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
FIC M
1 available
FIC M
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Description
"A witty, entertaining mystery featuring a hilarious, sharp as a tack new amateur sleuth from the critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder. It's just another day at the office for book editor Samantha Clair. Checking jacket copy for howlers, wondering how to break it to her star novelist that her latest effort is utterly unpublishable, lunch scheduled with gossipy author Kit Lowell, whose new book will deliciously dish the dirt on the...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
FIC M
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FIC M
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"Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise....
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6 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Description
Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and...
Author
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
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Cayucos Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
1 available
FIC PBK
1 available
Los Osos Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
1 available
FIC PBK
1 available
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1 copy, 12 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 12 people are on the wait list.
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Arroyo Grande Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT PBK
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FIC LT PBK
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Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your eighteen-year-old son. He’s past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don’t know who. You don’t know why. You only know your son is now in custody,...
12) Ninth house
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Series
Alex Stern volume 1
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Atascadero Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
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Fiction
1 available
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 11 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 11 people are on the wait list.
Description
Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend...
13) The maidens
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Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
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FIC
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Los Osos Library - Adult Fiction
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FIC
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Morro Bay Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
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FIC
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
1 available
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
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Atascadero Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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Arroyo Grande Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
2 available
FIC LT
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Atascadero Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT
1 available
FIC LT
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Morro Bay Library - Large Print Fiction
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FIC LT
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"Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
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FIC
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
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Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
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FIC
1 available
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San Luis Obispo Library - Large Print Fiction - Large Print
FIC LT PBK
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FIC LT PBK
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Description
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past--the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia's death and the conviction of the school's athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers--needs--to...
15) Upgrade
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
FIC SF
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FIC SF
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Cambria Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
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FIC SF
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Morro Bay Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
FIC SF
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FIC SF
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San Luis Obispo Library - Large Print Fiction - Large Print
FIC LT
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FIC LT
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Arroyo Grande Library - Large Print Fiction - Large Print
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FIC LT
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Description
Logan Ramsay can feel his brain...changing. And his body too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything-his family, his job, even his freedom. Because the truth of what's happened to him is more disturbing than he could possibly imagine. His DNA has been rewritten with a genetic-engineering breakthrough beyond anything...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
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FIC SF
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Nipomo Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
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Fiction
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Description
A mind-bending, relentlessly paced science-fiction thriller, in which an ordinary man is kidnapped, knocked unconscious--and awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew.
17) Mexican Gothic
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
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Los Osos Library - Adult Fiction
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Morro Bay Library - Adult Fiction
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FIC
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Description
After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noem? Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She?s not sure what she will find?her cousin?s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noem? knows little about the region. Noem? is also an unlikely rescuer: She?s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited...
18) Rebecca
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
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FIC PBK
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Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
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FIC
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Morro Bay Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
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Fiction
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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The second Mrs. Maxim de Winter finds it difficult and frightening to live in the shadow of her predecessor, a situation that is exacerbated by her husband's moodiness, and the presence of sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.
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Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
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FIC
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Nipomo Library - Adult Fiction
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FIC
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Atascadero Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
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Description
"Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and philanthropist--and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson,...
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Series
Harlem trilogy (Colson Whitehead) volume 1
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
3 available
FIC
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Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
1 available
FIC
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
2 available
Fiction
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
1 available
Fiction
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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San Luis Obispo Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT PBK
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FIC LT PBK
1 available
Nipomo Library - Large Print Fiction
FIC LT PBK
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FIC LT PBK
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Description
""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a...