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Our man in the library, Pat Carty, selects the books that floated his boat over the last year.

Coming 20 years after Atkinson’s last short story collection, Normal Rules Don’t Apply mashes up the mythical and the mundane with a zest and…

"In Atkinson’s fiction, nothing is fixed or straightforward. The narration is quirky and humorous, events can be dreamlike or nightmarish in the same story, but the story remains realistic."

Normal Rules Don’t Apply, the author’s first book of short stories since 2002, redraws reality using the broad brushstrokes of a deity

The sentence would be really a bridge too far, even for this president. the reaction in congress i think would be one of abhorrence and repugnance. there would be action, although the pardon power is broad. its not unlimited. if it is misused for obstruction of justice and clearly a pardon for manafort would be to reward not only noncooperation but also witness tampering, confidential discussions with the white house after his conviction. potential destruction of documents, in effect, contempt f...

Documents, contempt for the rule of law and as many in the white house says the normal rules dont apply. so i think any pardon for manafort would trig arfire storm. >> pardon all kinds of dirt on him. everybody knows he dwood this to reward him stone walling. johnson. the african-american boxer. and remember that this sentence itself is so lenient, laughably lenient that it would in fact

Pretty high confidence in. thats not to say there wasnt evidence but not that met that threshold. its not surprising or out of or abnormal that i would not have known about the investigation. even more importantly, the content of that investigation. >> bret: just so everybody understands, there is this report that says there is no evidence of collusion. at the same time, the fbi has a counter intelligence -- counter terrorism, whatever you want to call it, investigation going on. and he doesnt k...

Attached to that primary. >> thats -- thats a fair argument, except if you really think that youre going to be the nominee and youll have to go toe to toe with obama, you want to start seating early with missouri and you want to make sure folks know your agenda and youre with them since missouri is very much going to be a battleground state. >> bob, when you go back to this same poll, what is interesting about your point about the normal rules dont apply, the tea party vote, this is, again, the ...

Rehab. glenn beck returns in a moment. first, bret baier with a special prepreview of "special report." >> bret: harris, coming up, specific examples from afghanistan where rules of engagement may be making it tough for u.s. troops fighting the taliban. and update on irans nuclear program. join me in 26 minutes for "special report." now back to glenn. ♪ ♪ >> glenn: all right. looking for common sense tonight. were trying to figure out how can we spend, how can we not spend ourselves in obliv...