Ben has just returned from a war waged against a nameless enemy. To avoid being nabbed by police and forced to work in a factory, he'll need to find a wife. But to do that, he must wear a bachelor's suit--and the tailor won't make one...
Political fiction
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Author:Holmes, JuliaSummary: - Author:Haigh, JenniferSummary:
Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street clinic for almost a decade. But as anti-abortion protests intensify, fear creeps into Claudia's days, an anxiety she manages with frequent visits to an affable pot dealer.
- Author:Stanton, MarleneSummary:
Smart, sarcastic TV reporter Mercy Pepper struggles with feelings of guilt after her cameraman dies while on assignment with her. A news tape that he had hidden in his personal effects contains a secretly recorded conversation, and...
- Author:Furst, AlanSummary:
Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the region's shifting political currents when he discovers that his latest film is linked to the destinies of...
- Author:Kiesling, LydiaSummary:
A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden State. The year is 1998, the End of History. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is an American teenager...
- Author:Watson, SarahSummary:
From the creator of the hit TV series The Bold Type comes an empowering and heartfelt novel about a future female president's senior year of high school. Ava, CJ, Jordan, and Martha (listed in alphabetical order out of fairness...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
President Will Lee's vice president just died during surgery and confirmation hearings for the new vice president are under way. Teddy Fay, the rogue CIA agent, is plotting his revenge on CIA director Kate Rule Lee, the president...
- Author:Moore, TomSummary:
Some people age gracefully as wisdom and calm come with the grey hair. Others become crotchety, opinionated, and odd. People avoid them and laugh at them. Still others give up on life, on ambition, on dreams, and settle into a pleasant...
- Author:Burns, AnnaSummary:
A darkly humorous, poignant debut novel chronicles the life and times of Amelia, a young woman growing up in a crazy family amid the violence and devastation of a Belfast during the Troubles.
- Author:Aiken, GordonSummary:
Canadians took politics seriously in the years following Confederation and Gordon Aiken's novel about pioneer Muskoka and the fledgling nation's capital shows why. Unique events in the Dominion's second election, in 1872, inspired Aiken...
- Author:Aiken, GordonSummary:
Canadians took politics seriously in the years following Confederation and Gordon Aiken’s novel about pioneer Muskoka and the fledgling nation’s capital shows why. Unique events in the Dominion’s second election, in 1872, inspired...
- Author:Conrad, JosephSummary:
Around the figure of Nostromo, Conrad spins a story about revolution, politics, and racial conflicts as complex as Nostromo, the man whose greatest enemy is himself. Heading the Gould Concession, the imperialistic silver mine, which...
- Author:Norman, MichaelSummary:
Kanab, Utah is bitterly divided by the politics of land management. When environmentalist David Greenbriar is found dead, County Sheriff, Charley Sutter, seeks help from newly appointed Law Enforcement Ranger, J. D. Books. Books...
- Author:Mills, KyleSummary:
Mitch Rapp is used to winning. But now the CIA operative finds himself chasing false leads from continent to continent in an effort to keep Pakistani nukes from falling into the hands of terrorists. Together with friend and colleague...
- Author:Mukasonga, ScholastiqueSummary:
Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded into respectable citizens and to escape the dangers of the outside world. Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, we watch as these girls try on their parents...
- Author:Standiford, LesSummary:
John Deal is no hero–he just happens to be in the right place at the right time, cruising in the Gulf of Mexico when a group of Cuban refugees are tossed overboard in a smuggling operation gone awry. Then, presidential politics,...
- Author:Flynn, VinceSummary:
In the aftermath of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, CIA director Irene Kennedy and operative Mitch Kelly are dispatched to the Middle East to diffuse Iran's sworn retaliation against the United States.
- Author:Flynn, VinceSummary:
In a new thriller featuring CIA superagent Mitch Rapp, fearless Americans must risk their lives for their country's security, fighting a covert war that can never be discussed, even with their own political leaders.
- Author:DeMille, NelsonSummary:
Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and taken a job following Russian diplomats working at the UN Mission. But Corey realizes something the US government doesn't: the all-too-real threat of a newly resurgent Russia.
- Author:SMITH, WilburSummary:
An epic of love, hatred and revenge. The long and deadly enmity between Manfred de la Rey and Charsa Courtney explodes against the backdrop of a South Africa swept by the fires of racial conflict.
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