Arcadia Public Library

Inspired by four shocking and true events, the film focuses on four characters who are driven to violent ends. An angry miner, enraged by widespread corruption, decides to take justice into his own hands. A rootless migrant discovers the infinite possibilities of owning a firearm. A young receptionist is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. A young factory worker goes from one discouraging job to the next, only to face increasingly degrading...

In this first great story, Dicker is already facing his favorite themes (existential dilemmas, big questions, violence and the possibility of redemption) and demonstrates his extraordinary ability to trap us with a powerful story and some characters that are recorded by fire.

Twelve previously unpublished non-fiction writings and short stories on war and peace, including an essay on the destruction of Dresden, a story about the first-meal fantasies of three soldiers, and a meditation on the impossibility of shielding children from the temptations of violence.

Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....

"Ante acontecimientos como el del 26 de septiembre de 2014, ningún país puede seguir adelante sin conocer la verdad a la que tienen derecho las víctimas y la sociedad. Los hechos de Iguala nos obligan a reflexionar sobre el momento que vive México: retratan con crudeza la degradación de las instituciones cuya obligación es procurar justicia y protegernos; al mismo tiempo nos retratan como sociedad, muestran cuáles son nuestros temores más...