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A reporter in Washington, D.C., investigates the death of a woman who was a politician's assistant and mistress.

A Depression-era tale of corruption and power. Good ol' country boy Bo Gillis is elected governor based solely on smear tactics engineered by crooked party boss Sylvester Marin. Married to Ada, an ambitious call girl he met during the campaign, Bo soon discovers he's only a puppet with Marin pulling the strings. So when Ada convinces her husband to stand up and fight back, it leads to car bombings and blackmail as Marin battles the Gillises for control...

A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey that tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest...

The leftist labor unions have the Democrats in their pockets. And were all paying the price. In this explosive book, Linda Chavez and fellow union expert Daniel Gray expose Big Labors corrupt bargain with the Democratic Partya dirty setup the Democrats dont want you to know about. All of us foot the bill for this systemnow its up to us to do something about it.

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 private secretary, Toby Bell,...

Reporter, Nick Mullen breaks an explosive story about a prominent member of the British Parliament who shares a call girl with a KBG spy. As Nick digs deeper, he turns up a prime witness: the politician's beautiful secretary, Nina, who joins him in his quest to find the truth-- no matter what it costs.

"[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,...

After her journalist-father's mysterious death in 2008, fifteen-year-old Shamiso must leave England for boarding school in Zimbabwe. There she and Tanyaradzwa, who is fighting cancer, form an unexpected friendship. In opening herself to someone with a potentially fatal illness, Shamiso knows she might be opening herself to more pain. Yet Tanyaradzwa is the only one who gives her the strength to ask what really happened to her father. -- adapted from...

A sardonic white hotel owner watches Haiti sink into barbarism with growing fatalism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a European ambassador, and the manipulations of a conniving British arms dealer.

A madcap send-up of politics, power, and pompous propriety. The story of an Oklahoma rancher who is appointed ambassador to Silvania, a tiny embattled monarchy. The king has been exiled and the country is being ruled by a young boy under the influence of an evil prince. The ambassador decides to teach them all good 'ol American values.