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Author
Series
Overton Window volume 1
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented attack on U.S. soil shakes the country to the core and puts into motion a frightening plan, decades in the making, to transform America and demonize all those who stand in the way. Exposing the plan and revealing the conspirators behind it, PR executive Noah Gardner hatches his own plan to save both the woman he loves and the individual freedoms he once took for granted.
4) Blowback
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they've sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign...
Author
Language
English
Description
Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist and mercurial tyrant who terrorizes her neighborhood and her family with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her daughter, Miriam, is equally passionate in her activism, but flees Rose's suffocating influence and embraces the Age of Aquarius counterculture of Greenwich Village. Both women cast spells that entrance or enchain...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1959.
Language
English
Description
The President of the United States nominates the controversial Robert A. Leffingwell to be Secretary of State, and as that startling news reverberates throughout Washington a powerful politician commits suicide, a Congressional Committee comes up with a surprise witness, there is a vote of censure by the Senate, and the cynicism and selfishness and altruism and loyalty and ambitions of America's public servants are revealed.
7) Ancients
Author
Series
Event Group thriller volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When an ancient weapon of unprecedented destruction with ties to the fall of Atlantis is discovered in the South Pacific, Colonel Jack Collins and his covert team of Event Group agents work to prevent the weapon from falling into the hands of hate groupswho would destroy the world.
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
On a school field trip to Washington, D.C., student council member Grace and her classmates learn about the three branches of the federal government, how school government operates, the qualities of effective leadership, and how to be a good citizen.
9) Twilight
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In the dark aftermath of World War III, Samuel Simpson, an idealistic journalist, volunteers to become a records-keeper for a U.N. war crimes investigation team in New York State and suddenly finds himself and others the target of an unknown enemy.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
p2007.
Language
English
Description
Private detective Michael McGill received a call from the president's chief of staff, to look for the "backup" and "secret constitution" devised by our Founding Fathers, to be used to "drive the country back to a time when civility, God, and mom's homemade apple pie were all that mattered". However, no one can seem to find it. The author, Warren Ellis, gives us a glimpse of the results that the moral majority's policies would achieve if this were...
Author
Series
Tuttle twins volume 12
Publisher
Libertas Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Why do politicians like it when we are afraid? The Tuttle twins and their team of heroes tackle a new quest in an adventure game that they soon begin to realize is closer to reality than they might have guessed. A magical battle against the forces of Leviathan and its Idol turns out to be packed with lessons for what's happening in the world around them. Based on the book Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs, this story finds the twins learning the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster and St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When a reporter breaks the news that "Rats have invaded the toilet bowls" of the halls of Congress, it sparks a national frenzy. Activists see the rats upending "business as usual," and turn the invasion into a symbol against the lobbyists who hold Congress in their sway. A massive citizen uprising follows, which threatens to sweep Congress clean of Wall Street's chokehold of corruption--but the corporate titans have ways of fighting back! Gleefully...
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