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1) Never
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English
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"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
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English
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"Following The Inner Circle and The Fifth Assassin, Brad Meltzer returns with the next novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Culper Ring series. Beecher White makes an alarming discovery on the White House grounds: there is a severed arm buried in the Rose Garden. As he investigates, he realizes it's a message one that may have dire repercussions for the President. Even worse, the message turns Beecher's personal life upside down, pointing...
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 356 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
Smarting over his role in an embarrassing failed gubernatorial campaign, ambitious young politico Henry Hatten lands a lucky job as a communications director for a senator's presidential campaign only to find himself embroiled in brutal dealings that make him question his sense of morality.
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Anti-terrorism operative Mitch Rapp chases false leads throughout the world to prevent nuclear weapons from falling into terrorist hands before posing as an American ISIS recruit in Russia, where he uncovers a catastrophic plot.
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Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 28
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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When the bodies of two high-profile women are discovered, bearing signs of rape, and an innocent man is accused of the crime, Thomas Pitt's quest for the truth forces him to play a dangerous game of international politics and murder.
7) The 45th
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Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A presidential candidate with no experience, who writes his own speeches, refuses campaign contributions, and is too liberal for conservatives and too conservative for liberals, is elected president.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968 when King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. But that may not have been the case. Now, fifty years later, former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, must reckon with the truth of what really happened that fateful day in Memphis. It all turns on an incident from...
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Stone Barrington volume 30
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English
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"Stone Barrington enters the cutthroat fray of politics in the exceptional new thriller from New York Times--bestselling author Stuart Woods. When Stone Barrington travels to Los Angeles for the biggest political convention of the year, he finds the scene quite shaken up: a dazzling newcomer-and close friend of Stone's-has given the delegates an unexpected choice, crucial alliances are made and broken behind closed doors, and it seems that more than...
10) Heroes proved
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Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
In 2032, conservative Christians have been driven underground by a repressive government that discredits a former war hero during an effort to rescue a kidnapped scientist.
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
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English
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"#1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling author Brad Thor is back with his most gripping thriller yet! In ancient texts, there are stories about men who struck from the shadows, seemingly beyond the reach of death itself. These men were considered part angel, part demon. Their loyalty was to their families, their friends, and their kings. You crossed these men at your peril. And once crossed, there was no crossing...
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CIA Agent Tommy Carmellini volume Book 8
Publisher
Regnery Fiction
Language
English
Description
With the new president-elect settling into the White House, his chief of staff discovers evidence of vote tampering, bringing the validity of the election into question.
15) Hope was here
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
186 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
16) Vote for me!
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Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A satire of American politics finds a donkey and an elephant resorting to just about anything to garner votes, and after all the mud-slinging is done and the votes are tallied, they are both quite surprised by the results.
17) The outsider
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Intervening in a violent mugging and catching the eye of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, young law clerk Grayson Hernandez becomes caught in the crosshairs of a serial killer when the FBI asks for his assistance in hunting for a murderer.
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
To help the U.S.'s effort to foster democracy in Kyrgyzstan, Foreign Service officer Katarina "Kate" Wallander infiltrates an underground movement accused of sabotaging the ruling government and learns disturbing fact about Kyrgyz, the country's dictator.
20) Best kept secret
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Series
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English
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Embarking on a shared family life after the events of The Sins of the Father, Harry, Emma, Sebastian and Jessica find their happiness challenged by Emma's brother's engagement to a fortune-seeker, Sebastian's hedonist pursuits and a grudge-bearing enemy from the past who would destroy their careers.