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Author
Language
English
Description
That the Chinese government seeks to infiltrate American institutions is hardly surprising. What is wholly new, however, are the number of American elites who are eager to help the Chinese dictatorship in its quest for global hegemony.
Presidential families, Silicon Valley gurus, Wall Street high rollers, Ivy League universities, even professional athletes--all willing to sacrifice American strength and security on the altar of personal enrichment.
In...
Author
Series
James Reece volume 1
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
�2018
Edition
Special collector's edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece's entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government. Now, with no family and free from the military's command structure,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD ; WIdescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 646 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
They've always been a great team. But now, Frank and Claire become even greater adversaries as their marriage stumbles and their ambitions are at odds.
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Takes readers behind the scenes--from the sweaty cubicles where senators dial corporate CEOs for dollars, to lavish retreats where billionaires boost their favored candidates, to the map rooms where lawmakers scheme to handpick their voters. It highlights the heroic efforts of those unrigging the system to return power to We the People. -- adapted from back cover.
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (176 min.) : digital sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two years of stalking the streets as the Batman, striking fear into the hearts of criminals, has led Bruce Wayne deep into the shadows of Gotham City. With only a few trusted allies, Alfred Pennyworth, Lt. James Gordon, amongst the city's corrupt network of officials and high-profile figures, the lone vigilante has established himself as the sole embodiment of vengeance amongst his fellow citizens. When a killer targets Gotham's elite with a series...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 240 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The liberal media loves to characterize the Obama years as free of scandal. They pretend this is true because virtually every office in the executive branch worked to withhold evidence of wrongdoing, silence witness testimony, destroy federal records, classify embarrassing information, and retaliate against truth tellers. In this informative and optimistic book, Chaffetz highlights the tactics of the Deep State and offers a way to fight back and win....
49) The Batman
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (175 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Batman must investigate Gotham City's hidden political corruption when the Riddler begins murdering key political figures.
Author
Series
Arkady Renko volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition."
Physical Desc
292 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith, 'the master of the international thriller' (The New York Times) creates the most compelling heroine of his career and the most realistic, damning portrait of modern Russia in contemporary literature. One of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko -- cynnical, analytical, and quietly subversive -- has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation...
51) Fast track
Author
Series
Buchanan / FBI volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Family secrets and a hidden past-a woman's search to uncover the truth ignites danger and passion in the latest novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Julie Garwood. Cordelia Kane has always been a daddy's girl-her father raised her alone after her mother died in a car crash when Cordelia was just two years old. So when he has a serious heart attack, Cordelia is devastated, and the emotion is only intensified by the confusion she feels...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations, map, facsimiles ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Woodward reveals the story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and libraries, Woodward has uncovered new dimensions of Nixon's secrets, obsessions and deceptions.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.
54) Boss Tweed
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The rise and fall of the corrupt pol who conceived the soul of modern New York. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast. Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody's paying attention?...
56) Iron heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The human revolution has risen against the Automae of Rabu, and at its heart is Ayla. Once a handmaiden, now a fugitive, Ayla narrowly escaped the palace of Lady Crier, the girl she would've killed if they hadn't fallen in love first. Unbeknownst to Ayla, Crier escaped as well, joining with rebels and determined to find her way back to her love. When their paths finally cross and Ayla is charged to destroy the Iron Heart, neither girl is prepared...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison.
1999, Bolivia. Francisco's father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system. Now Francisco and his young sister must move into prison with their father. There, they find a world unlike anything they've ever known. Prison life is dirty,...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
xxi, 266 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Klein uncovers the real story behind Hillary's email scandals and the dirty political games that have kept her one step ahead of the law. Klein reveals what the FBI's team of 100-plus investigators really found on Clinton's server and how Comey, the FBI director, personally went to the Oval Office to warn President Obama against any attempt to intervene in the investigation.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers an inside look through the gilded gates of Mar-a-Lago, the palatial resort where President Trump conducts government business with little regard for ethics, security, or even the law.
60) A delicate truth
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (11 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A Delicate Truth opens in 2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal...