{"title":"Chris Harding Thornton","description":"Chris Harding Thornton, a seventh-generation Nebraskan, holds an MFA from the University of Washington and a PhD from the University of Nebraska, where she has taught courses in literature and writing. Her other professions have included quality assurance overseer at a condom factory, jar-lid screwer at a plastics plant, closer at Burger King, record store clerk, all-ages club manager, and PR writer. Pickard County Atlas is her first novel.","products":[{"product_id":"pickard-county-atlas-paperback","title":"Pickard County Atlas - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An atmospheric, slow-burning beauty of a book, rich with raw-edged lyricism and achingly real characters.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTana French, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Searcher\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSmall-town secrets loom large in this spellbinding debut about the aftershocks of crime and trauma that shake a Nebraskan town.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a dusty town in Nebraska's rugged sandhills, sheriff's deputy Harley Jensen patrols the streets at night, on the lookout for something to take his mind off the past, which weighs him down like an anvil. And he's not the only one--Pickard County is full of restless souls looking for change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePam bristles against her role as wife and mother, hemmed in by the tragic history of the Reddick family, which is still coping, decades later, with the murder of one of its own. Her husband, Rick, bows beneath the pressures of raising a family while struggling with the wreckage of his youth. And then there's Paul, the youngest Reddick, town miscreant and flint to Harley's steel--and in this stark, Shakespearean drama, it's just a matter of time until their conflict throws the spark that will burn Pickard County to the ground. Unfolding over six tense days, Chris Harding Thornton's \u003ci\u003ePickard County Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e sets Harley and the Reddicks on a collision course, propelling them toward an incendiary moment that will either redeem or end them.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68286921703647,"sku":"9781250829597","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/K4a6cuS2yR9781250829597.webp?v=1792803039"},{"product_id":"little-underworld-paperback","title":"Little Underworld - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChinatown \u003c\/i\u003emeets the Coen brothers in 1930s Omaha in this atmospheric noir by a native Nebraskan.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOmaha, 1930. PI Jim Beely's life wasn't a peach to begin with. And now there's a dead guy in his backseat. The last thing he needs to deal with is a cop--much less the notoriously crooked Frank Tvrdik. But where a square-dealing lawman would see homicide, Frank spots opportunity. He can make the body disappear. All Jim needs to do is double-cross a politician bent on shuttering Omaha's speakeasies, some of the few places to make an illegal, honest living in a city that's a racket. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter the double-cross goes haywire, Jim gets his bell rung in a bizarre attack. A man on his payroll turns up dead. And Jim and Frank form an unlikely alliance, digging for the reality behind patently false headlines. They comb the city's bordellos, gin joints, and gambling houses. They search for answers in the fun-house mirror of Omaha politics. All the while, the death toll mounts, outmatched only by the absurdity of it all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the clock runs down, Jim and Frank must make a choice that can't be unmade. One that leaves them asking what it means to be good. And how the hell you go on living when you're not. Laying bare historical myth and political corruption, Chris Harding Thornton's\u003ci\u003e Little Underworld\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing, darkly funny novel and a ferocious romp through a world not so distant from our own.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68330575855839,"sku":"9781250371805","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/IXSHqE9_vE9781250371805.webp?v=1793224262"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/chris-harding-thornton.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}