LEADER 00000nim a22005175i 4500 001 MWT15302298 003 MWT 005 20221214062122.1 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 221205s2022 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 9798765065716|q(sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 8765065719|q(sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 MWT15302298 037 15302298|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda|beng 082 04 813/.54|223/eng/20221202 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Everett, Percival,|eauthor. 245 10 Dr. No :|ba novel /|cPercival Everett. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bTantor Media, Incorporated,|c2022. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (540 min.)) :|bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 Read by Amir Abdullah. 520 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 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 Mathematics teachers|vFiction. 650 0 College teachers|vFiction. 650 0 Nothing (Philosophy)|vFiction. 650 0 Theft|vFiction. 650 0 Villains|vFiction. 650 0 Good and evil|vFiction. 700 1 Abdullah, Amir|c(Narrator),|enarrator. 710 2 hoopla digital. 914 MWT15302298