This near-future political satire about the election of a new president argues that socialism and populism will eventually give rise to chaos and disaster. Authored by Ingersoll Lockwood-around whom conspiracy theories concerning the...
Political fiction
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Author:Lockwood, IngersollSummary: - Author:Majumdar, MeghaSummary:
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! A New York Times Notable Book For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise — to the middle class...
- Author:Hanif, MohammedSummary:
There is a saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. A Case of Exploding Mangoes is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest aircraft, carrying Pakistan's military dictator General...
- Author:Yalfani, MehriSummary:
A Palace in Paradise is a novel about the complex Iranian refugee and immigrant community in Toronto and the way in which one woman's death changes the lives of many others. The people in this community are connected by family ties...
- Author:LaManna, RossSummary:
The ruthless Batu Khan has forged an empire across Mongolia and central Asia. He has developed a frightening arsenal of weaponry and uses mind-altering drugs to give his minions superhuman strength. When Khan invades the Ukraine, the...
- Author:Warren, Robert PennSummary:
This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. All the King's Men tells the story of Willie Stark, a southern-fried politician who builds...
- Author:Hayden, LauraSummary:
Emily Benton has spent her entire life immersed in politics. Having been raised in the industry, she has the kinds of contacts that it takes most politicians decades to build. She knows that she can win the race for president of the...
- Author:Trinetti, Paul A.Summary:
A cop. An ex-FBI agent turned private eye. His contact within the Bureau. An anti-capitalist activist. A shady financier and his right-hand man. A biker gang. The brother of a murdered woman, seeking vengeance. A software program that...
- Author:Houellebecq, MichelSummary:
En 2027, Paul Raison soutient le candidat de la majorité pour l'élection présidentielle. Une description du monde qui nous entoure abordant des sujets aussi divers que l'amour, la mort, la société contemporaine...
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
In this political fable, the animals of Manor Farm revolt against their human rulers to establish the democratic Animal Farm. But as the society evolves, leaders become rulers and totalitarianism is re-established.
- Author:Karafilly, IrenaSummary:
'A very accomplished novel' Louis de Bernieres, author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin 'Hard to put this book down' Sofka Zinovieff. Calliope Adham - young, strong-willed, and recently widowed - is schoolmistress...
- Author:Thor, BradSummary:
#1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling author Brad Thor is back with his most gripping thriller yet! In ancient texts, there are stories about men who struck from the shadows, seemingly beyond...
- Author:Lockwood, IngersollSummary:
Ingersoll Lockwood invented the fictional character Baron Trump in 1890 for a two-part sci-fi/fantasy series about a privileged boy who undertakes a sequence of fantastic voyages. The style of the Baron Trump series-a mix of fantasy and...
- Author:Dovey, CeridwenSummary:
Dovey offers a character study of three men held captive after a military coup. All linked closely with the deposed president, the portraitist longs for his pregnant wife, the chef takes solace in preparing meals for the new regime, and...
- Author:De Robertis, CarolinaSummary:
"Carolina's writing, as always, blew me away. Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution-and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again-either through...
- Author:Wendel, TimSummary:
A long-forgotten scrapbook stirs Billy Bryan's memories of a distant past and beckons him and his grown daughter on a reluctant journey to relive his role in history. In 1947 Billy Bryan was playing winter ball in Cuba, his future as...
- Author:DeMille, NelsonSummary:
St. Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for a shock. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act: the seizure of...
- Author:Soyinka, WoleSummary:
The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly half a century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the...
- Author:Quirk, MatthewSummary:
When John Byrne is arrested in a case of mistaken identity, he is picked up by Thomas Hayes. Hayes, a special ops commander, claims his team has been wrongly accused of terrorism. Byrne must decide where his allegiances lie--or he and...
- Author:Bowen, MichaelSummary:
A dead body in a locked room in a affluent Virginia country house. Nine people present in the house. No confessions and no witnesses. And now a very important document has gone missing: a document that might relate to a CIA scandal in...
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