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02389aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 7FDDC40429A811E89683D52297128E48 003 SILO 005 20180317010024 008 170803s2017 nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1503941469 020 $a 9781503941465 020 $a 1503941477 020 $a 9781503941472 035 $a (OCoLC)999389569 040 $a JBU $e rda $c JBU $d JBU $d JAG $d DAD $d IGA $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d ZAC $d INR $d IWP $d SILO 043 $a n-us-nb 100 1 $a Wheeler, Theodore 245 10 $a Kings of broken things : $b a novel / $c Theodore Wheeler. 260 $a New York : $b Little A, $c 2017 300 $a 322 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a An exciting, gritty portrait of a corrupt American city on the edge of self-destruction. During the waning days of World War I, three lost souls find themselves adrift in Omaha, Nebraska, at a time of unprecendented nationalism, xenohobia, and political corruption. Adolescent European refugee Karel Miihlstein's life is transformed after neighborhood boys discover his prodigious natural talent for baseball. Jake Strauss, a young man with a violent past and desperate for a second chance, is drawn into a criminal underworld. Evie Chambers, a kept woman, is trying to make ends meet and looking every which way to escape her cheerless existence. As wounded soldiers return from the front and black migrant workers move north in search of economic opportunity, the immigrant wards of Omaha become a thinderbox of racial resentment stoked by unscrupulous politicians. Punctuated by an unspeakable act of mob violence, the fates of Karel, Jake, and Evie will become inexorably entangled with the schemes of a ruthless political boss whose will to power knows no bounds. 651 0 $a Omaha (Neb.) $x Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $z Omaha $z Omaha $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Immigrants $z Omaha $z Omaha $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Race riots $z Omaha $z Omaha $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Political corruption $x Fiction. 941 $a 7 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909045359.0 952 $l CXPC586 $d 20190321010340.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20181107034925.0 952 $l LIPB815 $d 20181027115116.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006110741.0 952 $l CUPC586 $d 20180731015530.0 952 $l VGPC334 $d 20180525011744.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7FDDC40429A811E89683D52297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search