Presents the story of two children whose lives become bitter products of their father's educational philosophy.
Political fiction
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Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary: - Author:Quirk, MatthewSummary:
As a Secret Service agent, Nick Averose spent a decade protecting the powerful by thinking like an assassin. Now, he uses that skill to test security around our highest officials for vulnerabilities. His latest assignment is the home of...
- Author:Lawson, MichaelSummary:
When Joe DeMarco is framed for the murder of the House Majority Whip in the US Capitol, he calls on his enigmatic friend Emma, an ex-DIA agent, to search for the true killer.
- Author:Lawson, MichaelSummary:
Congressional fixer Joe DeMarco is dispatched to Boston to help Elinore Dobbs, an elderly woman fighting against a real estate developer intent on tearing down her apartment building. But when Elinore suffers a horrible "accident,"...
- Author:Lawson, MichaelSummary:
Joe DeMarco's longtime employer John Mahoney has kept an explosive secret: he has a son, and that son has just been shot dead in a bar in Manhattan. Mahoney immediately dispatches DeMarco to his native New York to provide the...
- Author:Sepetys, RutaSummary:
A gut-wrenching, startling historical thriller about communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray....
- Author:Syjuco, MiguelSummary:
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR “A super-typhoon of a novel. A Babel of rogues, survivors, and shape-shifters. A polemic against corruption and greed. A sassy, swerving mini-series, touched by grace and beauty. A...
- Author:Lisac, MarkSummary:
Mark Lisac's Image Decay returns to the pugnacious world of backroom politics laid out in his award-nominated Where the Bodies Lie. Set again in that “unnamed capital city east of the Rockies,” where the Brutalist architecture of the...
- Author:Holiday, EllenSummary:
Senator Davis Hudson has a silver tongue that has so far kept the stress off those lesser political organs, the heart and the brain. But he’s just made a political speech that will transform him from a Senate back-bencher to a public...
- Author:Murphy, Sarah XerarSummary:
The first of two-part novel, Itzel I tells the story of three disparate characters swept up in the drama of the Mexican student movement of 1968 whose ending in the Massacre in Tlatelolco on October 2nd, a date now always commemorated...
- Author:Murphy, Sarah XerarSummary:
In Itzel II, we continue to follow Nauta, Itzel and Basta through the cascading outcomes of their desire for agency and for change in their world. We move from the Oaxaca coast back to Mexico City, from Nauta's Brooklyn streets to her...
- Author:Mattich, AlenSummary:
The second novel in the Marko della Torre series, Killing Pilgrim is a propulsive political thriller following a complex plot hatched by members of the CIA and set against the backdrop of war-torn Yugoslavia. Early autumn, 1991. Croatia...
- Author:Robinson, PatrickSummary:
In a covert operation, the U.S. Navy must intercept and destroy Russian submarines being sold to China. The submarines are of an advanced design and would enable China to attack Taiwan.
- Author:Green, GilaSummary:
Eve and Manny are engaged in post-civil war Israel, but Manny has a secret: he’s falling in love with his religious roots and turning his back on moral relativism. As their wedding date approaches, Manny deserts Eve, and in the midst of...
- Author:LeBlanc, Perrine, Hamilton, David ScottSummary:
Set against the backdrop of Stalinism and then the collapse of the USSR, Kolia is a luminous and unforgettable story about a boy born in a Siberian Gulag and his eventual freedom and life as a clown in the Moscow circus in the 1960s....
- Author:Rhéaume, SuzanneSummary:
Mesdames, faites-vous plaisir en vous offrant ce roman exceptionnel. Une histoire touchante et peu banale. Samuelle Bergeron, épouse du premier ministre du Canada, a une vie lourdement hypothéquée. Elle se conforme aux exigences que lui...
- Author:Pelletier, Pierre RaphaëlSummary:
Oscillant entre la colère et la nostalgie, mêlant souvenirs et faits historiques, ce récit de Pierre Raphaël Pelletier nous replonge dans l'époque, pas si lointaine, où le centre-ville de Hull a été sauvagement démembré...
- Author:Frédéric ParrotSummary:
Québec, 20XX. L'Amérique est en déroute, rongée par une famine qui sévit depuis dix ans. Baraque, l'errant, le bohème, tente de survivre grâce à l'écriture. Dans des cahiers, il consigne des lettres et des contes...
- Author:Ginder, GrantSummary:
Nancy Harrison is running for Senate, and she’s going to win, goddamnit. Not that that’s her slogan, although it could be. She’s said all the right things. Passed all the right legislation. Chapped her lips kissing babies. There’s just...
- Author:Bowery, LizSummary:
Thom is working on a presidential campaign. But he is tested when the Governor asks him to pretend date his nemesis, Clay, to secure the liberal vote.
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