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02782aim a22004215a 4500 001 3D79EBC4940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231206010040 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 221205s2022 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 $a 9798765065716 028 42 $a MWT15302298 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23/eng/20221202 100 1 $a Everett, Percival, $e author. 245 10 $a Dr. No : $b a novel $h [electronic resource] / $c Percival Everett. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Tantor Media, Inc., $c 2022. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (540 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 $a Read by Amir Abdullah. 520 $a A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for "nothing.") He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox containing nothing. Once he controls nothing he'll proceed with a dastardly plan to turn a Massachusetts town into nothing. Or so he thinks. With the help of the brainy and brainwashed astrophysicist-turned-henchwoman Eigen Vector, our professor tries to foil the villain while remaining in his employ. In the process, Wala Kitu learns that Sill's desire to become a literal Bond villain originated in some real all-American villainy related to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. As Sill says, "Professor, think of it this way. This country has never given anything to us and it never will. We have given everything to it. I think it's time we gave nothing back." 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Mathematics teachers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a College teachers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nothing (Philosophy) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Theft $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Villains $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Good and evil $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Abdullah, Amir $c (Narrator), $e narrator. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15296709?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ttm_9798765065716_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206011750.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3D79EBC4940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search