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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He’s been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work—on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian origin. He thinks he has Covid. His wife...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 335 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Starting a rumor about an assassination plot targeting the Dalai Lama as part of an effort to gain support for a secret weapons system, Bird McIntyre and Angel Templeton provoke Washington crises that bring the United States and China to the brink of war.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
285 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frustrated by the Senate's rejections of his Supreme Court nominees for reasons of elitism and pettiness, the president of the United States brashly nominates a beloved reality-show judge, thrusting the judge into a heated confirmation battle.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 275 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Herb Nutterman, a long-time Trump Organization employee, unexpectedly becomes President Trump's White House chief of staff and finds himself entangled in Russian intrigue and leading the president's reelection campaign.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Details how the author coped with the passing of his parents, William F. Buckley, Jr., the father of the modern conservative movement, and Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most colorful socialites, between 2007 and 2008.