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805) The outsider
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"Things aren't going well for Grayson Hernandez. Just graduated from a fourth-tier law school, he's drowning in student debt. The only job he can find is as a messenger at the Supreme Court, where he's forced to watch the best and the brightest from the outside--the elite group of lawyers who serve as the justices' law clerks. When Gray intervenes in a violent mugging, he finds himself in the good graces of the victim: the Chief Justice of the United...
Author
Series
John Hay mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The next John Hay historical thriller from award-winning political journalist Burt Solomon, this time focused on one of America's most controversial presidents: Andrew Johnson. Andrew Johnson was called The Great Commoner, appealing to the masses and loathing the establishment and all others he deemed elitists. Once Johnson made an enemy, you became his enemy for life. He saw insults where none was intended and personal loyalty meant everything...and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives...
813) Animal farm: 1984
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Animal farm: In this satire of the Russian revolution, Manor Farm is transformed into Animal Farm, a democracy proclaiming, "All animals are created equal." After totalitarian rule is re-established, the reality becomes, "But some animals are more equal than others."
1984: The year 1984 has come and gone, yet George Orwells' prophetic nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
1st Emily Bestler Bks./Atria Bks. hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
America is badly weakened by interal divisions, which is a perfect opening for ISIS to attack. Mitch Rapp must find and stop the masterminds of the bioterrorism threat that could kill millions, all while avoiding the dirty politians who are focused on the presidential election.
816) Bloody politics
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
The jogger's throat was cut, leaving a pool of blood on the pedestrian path. Molly Malone could tell by the neon yellow running shoe dangling off the stretcher that it was her friend Natasha Jorgensen. A junior congressional staffer, Natasha was on her way to meet with Molly to hand over important research on an international banking bill. Natasha was the third person who knew about the research to die. Molly fears she won't be the last.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Based on Philip Roth₂s acclaimed novel, this limited series brilliantly imagines an alternate American history during WWII. Told through the eyes of the Levins, a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, the six-part limited series charts the political rise of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, a xenophobic populist who captures the presidency in 1940 and turns the nation toward fascism.
818) Commander in chief
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by other international leaders, Jack Ryan alone counters the threat posed by Russian president Valeri Volodin. This isn't the first time that the dictator has threatened world peace, but this time he's playing a very nuanced game moving chess pieces around the board while isolating Ryan from the rest of the international community. Fortunately, Jack Ryan, Jr. and the rest of his Campus team find themselves in the middle of action with a...
Author
Series
Clifton chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Embarking on a shared family life, 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.
820) The historian's Wizard of Oz: reading L. Frank Baum's classic as a political and monetary allegory
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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