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Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing...

"PhD candidate Barkley Michaelson is a man with a big problem. Living in the shadow of his philandering, arrogant father Eli, he's never been good enough for the old man-- and that was before Eli won the Nobel Prize. So when Barkley's kidnapped on the eve of the Nobel ceremony and held for the $2 million in prize money, it's no surprise that Eli refuses to pay. Realizing that his fate rests in his own hands, Barkley decides to use his smarts and finally...