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21) Oath of office
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
When Dr. John Merriman goes on a shooting spree at the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. When Lou begins to look into it, the terrifying evidence he finds takes him down a path to an unspeakable conspiracy that seems to lead directly to the White House and those in the highest positions of power.
22) Absolute rage
Author
Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi volume 14
Publisher
Atria
Language
English
Formats
Description
The tide quickly changes, however, when Marlene befriends her beachside neighbor, Rose Wickham-Heeney, a northeastern aristocrat turned wife of West Virginia coal mine union leader Ralph "Red" Heeney. Soon after the fun-filled weeks of family barbecues and lazy afternoons with the Heeneys, the Karps discover that Rose, Red, and their daughter Lizzie, have been brutally murdered back home in McCullensburg. Irresistible force meets immovable object...
23) Trash
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.
Author
Series
Light the abyss volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
In a post-apocalyptic future, teenaged Leyla feels compelled to search for Ari, while seeking to uncover the mystery behind her past.
Author
Series
[Michael Kelly mystery] volume 5
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Receiving a lucrative anonymous offer to track down an escaped criminal, private investigator Michael Kelly unwinds the past of the fugitive's wife, who harbors deeply complicated and dangerous reasons for standing by her husband.
26) Tatiana
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 as obsessed with secrecy and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. The fearless investigative reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire, Grisha Grigorenko, is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord....
Author
Series
Maureen Coughlin novel volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with a dead-end job and a strained relationship with her mother, Maureen witnesses an encounter between a co-worker and an aspiring politician and is threatened into silence, a situation that is complicated by the co-worker's suspicious death.
Author
Publisher
Mapletree
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A provocative novel of religion, politics, good-old-boy corruption, and a little romance thrown in. Gordon Ryan deftly weaves the story of Matthew Sterling and his encounters with corruption in the fictitious Utah community of Snowy Ridge with the eerily similar tale his ancestor, Revolutionary War hero Andrew McBride.
Author
Series
Capital crimes volume 23
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
When Illinois senator Lyle Simmons returns from a political fundraiser to find his wife murdered, Detective Charles Chang is assigned to the investigation, in a case that draws him into the dangerous world of political lobbyists with whom the senator has a close relationship.
Author
Series
Carter Ross mystery volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Traces the investigation of reporter Carter Ross into the house fire deaths of two boys whose mother claims she was working two jobs to support them, a story that is thrown into dispute by a corrupt government program and the disappearance of the mother's boyfriend.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An attack on the White House sends the President and his top aides to take shelter in a top secret government facility buried deep underground--but they soon discover the threat is locked inside with them.
33) State tectonics
Author
Series
Centenal cycle volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The future of democracy must evolve or die. The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later, it's time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever. Unknown enemies are attacking Information's network infrastructure. Spies, former superpowers,...
34) Turbulence
Author
Language
English
Description
Stone Barrington and several friends are vacationing in Florida when an extreme weather event puts a damper on their trip. Even worse, the hurricane-force winds blow a powerful, noxious politician straight onto Stone's doorstep. Though they part ways before long, Stone soon learns that he hasn't seen the last of his new acquaintance. It turns out that this official has some shady associates who may have destructive plans afoot, and Stone needs an...
35) Null states
Author
Series
Centenal cycle volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the last controversial global election, the global infomocracy that has ensured thirty years of world peace is fraying at the edges. As the new Supermajority government struggles to establish its legitimacy, agents of Information across the globe strive to keep the peace and maintain the flows of data that feed the new world order. In the newly-incorporated DarFur, a governor dies in a fiery explosion. In Geneva, a superpower hatches plans...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
More than just a classic political novel, Warrens tale of power and corruption in the Depression-era South is a sustained meditation on the unforeseen consequences of every human act, the vexing connectedness of all people and the possibilityits not much of oneof goodness in a sinful world. Willie Stark, Warrens lightly disguised version of Huey Long, the one time Louisiana strongman/governor, begins as a genuine...
37) Amsterdam
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
The Booker Prize-winning contemporary morality talecleverly disguised as a comic novelfrom the acclaimed author of Atonement. On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"[Delving into high-stakes politics, this book follows three players.] Tom Pauley is a conservative trial attorney in Durham, NC, who is tapped by GOP leaders to campaign for the Governor's mansion. His bold style makes him a favorite for a run at the White House. Mitchell Mason is the president-elect of the United States, pushed into politics by a father determined to create a political dynasty ... Samantha Davis is a child actor-turned-lawyer-turned-journalist,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name. Co-written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, this rollicking novel is rife with unscrupulous politicians, colorful plutocrats, and blindly optimistic speculators caught up in a frenzy of romance,...
40) Deep harbor
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In this stirring new novel, acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels delves into the remarkable ways in which moments of crises can lead to our greatest acts of courage . . . When Carol Ann "CJ" Jansen lost her beloved older brother, Kick, in a boating accident, she came adrift. Kick had taken on the role of caring for his little sister after their parents were killed in a car crash. Inheriting half his fortune has left CJ financially...
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