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21) Silent Joe
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 341 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
22) The runner
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the after math of the 2010 BP oil spill, an idealistic but flawed politician is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.
Author
Language
English
Description
State of Terror follows Ellen Adams, a novice Secretary of State, who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a brutal regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days may be guilty of murder. She says nothing, assuming no one will believe her, given her family's shameful support of the former regime and her lack of evidence. They are the same reasons she told no one, a decade earlier, what happened with the senator while they were dating"--
31) Power surge
Author
Series
Jake Ross novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jake Ross, the science advisor to a newly elected freshman senator, must figure out how Washington really works when his comprehensive energy plan runs afoul of special interests, cynical bureaucrats, and a powerful U.S. senator.
32) House justice
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 5
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a leak within the CIA results in the brutal torture and death of a US spy in Tehran, who just gave information to the CIA about a crooked American contractor in Iran, Joe DeMarco is tasked to investigate. Teaming up with the CIA, DeMarco discovers that the victim once had a fling with a journalist now serving time in prison and threatening to unravel DeMarco's entire operation.
34) Adulterio
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Primera Edición Vintage Español en Tapa Dura.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
A wife and mother in her thirties works through midlife apathy by engaging in a passionate affair with a successful politician who was once her high-school sweetheart.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
[1989], c1966
Physical Desc
150 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
By the renowned author of Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady's very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as "one of the most remarkable women ever known to Washington society." (Providence Journal) Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase,...
37) The means
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tom Pauley is a conservative trial attorney in Durham, NC, who is tapped by GOP leaders to campaign for the Governor's mansion. His bold style makes him a favorite for a run at the White House. Mitchell Mason is the president-elect of the United States, pushed into politics by a father determined to create a political dynasty ... Samantha Davis is a child actor-turned-lawyer-turned-journalist, working her way up from the bottom in a competitive industry....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
336 pages
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in Tinseltown. He operates with two simple rules--he'll do anything but murder, and he'll never work with commies. Freddy is a corrupt L.A. cop on the skids. He executed a cop killer named Horvath and it gores him. So Captain "Whiskey" Bill Parker cans him. Now, Freddy dons an array of new hats--sleazoid private eye, shakedown artist, matchmaker for Rock Hudson, pimp for President John F. Kennedy--and,...
39) Mismatch
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2008
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Physical Desc
5 CDs (5 hrs. 37 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bronwynn Prescott Pierson is a beautiful and privileged globe-trotter running from an unhappy engagement. Wade Grayson is a congressman from the heartland of America, raised in a salt-of-the-earth community. When they meet in the wild of Vermont, their attraction, however damaging to both, is undeniable.
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