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Not every man with a  metal press in his garage revolutionizes an industry and achieves fabulous wealth. Gaston Glock did. I didn't know (or care) anything about guns before starting this book, but Paul Barrett has crafted an engaging tale, highlighting the engineering, marketing, and financial genius of the Glock corporation. The narrative is enhanced by a healthy portion of malfeasance, backstabbing, personal destruction, and the occasional murderous rampage.

We Are All Equally Far from Love

By Adania Shibli

As the title suggests, the vignettes that comprise this novel never get close enough to the essence of romantic relationships to fully understand them. Instead they circle, approach, and observe as people fall in and out of love and try to make sense of the ensuing wreckage. Shibli seems to view the most intimate of emotions from a distant telescope that brings the intensely personal into focus as the contours of her characters remain blurred and universal. The second of her novels to be translated from Arabic, it's a poetic, urgent hint that this is a voice for the world to look out for.