Playground to be a gambler

to be a gambler

and the files from one of the largest investigations in FBI history

and wholly original

the joy of a hard-earned reprieve

a Trappist monk

Playground to be a gamblerFour lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve year old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a