The first entry in Leslie Stewart's diary read: "Dear Diary; This morning I met the man I am going to marry." It was simple, optimistic statement, without the slightest portent of the dramatic chain of events that was...
Political fiction
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Author:Sheldon, SidneySummary: - Author:Berry, SteveSummary:
ICritically-acclaimed and award-winning narrator Scott Brick returns to tell the thrilling first case of Cotton Malone -- eponymous hero of Berry's iconic New York Times bestselling series. History recalls that the ugly feud...
- Author:Nasrallah, DimitriSummary:
An election sets the stage for Oedipal rivalry and civil revolt. An intimate novel about the levers of power and privilege that shape the lives of the people most affected by war and insurrection.
- Author:May, James L.Summary:
A political prisoner incarcerated on the island of Solovetsky, the most notorious Russian prison camp of the 1920s, is mysteriously conscripted to solve the murder of a fellow inmate.
- Author:Saniee, Parinoush, Khalili, SaraSummary:
Selected as one of World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations of 2013 Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, from before the 1979 revolution, through the Islamic Republic, and up to the present, The Book of Fate is a...
- Author:Alrawi, KarimSummary:
Set amid the upheaval of the Arab Spring and the brutal repression of a totalitarian regime. Tarek, a young father, watches as the city he lives in is mired in protests, hemmed in by barricades and strangely inundated by great flocks of...
- Author:Ho-Kei, Chan, Tiang, JeremySummary:
From award-winning Hong Kong writer Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a Hong Kong detective who rises from constable to senior inspector over the span of several decades, from the 1960s to the present day, and...
- Author:Moore, BrianSummary:
In a bleak Eastern bloc country, someone tries to kill Cardinal Bem. That night, he is kidnapped. He must find out the identity of his captors to avert the revolution that will result from his disappearance.
- Author:Forsyth, KateSummary:
May 1941. Alenka, a young Greek woman, saves the lives of two soldiers during a Nazi attack against Crete. Both men fall in love with Alenka, and their friendship suffers under the strain of their rivalry.
- Author:Solomon, AsaliSummary:
Inspired by Mrs. Dalloway and Sula, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel of two women at midlife who rediscover themselves-and perhaps each other. Liselle Belmont is having a dinner party. It seems a strange occasion-...
- Author:Tapper, JakeSummary:
Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington, DC, long for a rest, but Attorney General Robert Kennedy asks them to look into a threat to the presidency, and the security of the nation.
- Author:Müller, HertaSummary:
Romania, 1989. Three friends are enjoying comfortable lives, but one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the whole group. Terror ensues as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world...
- Author:Reza, ParisaSummary:
In Iran in the early 1920s, in the remote village of Ghamsar, Talla and Sardar, two teenagers dreaming of a better life, fall in love and marry. Sardar brings his young bride with him across the mountains to the suburbs of Tehran, where...
- Author:Brammer, Billy Lee.Summary:
Brammer, who served on Lyndon Johnson's staff, uses his knowledge as a political insider to show the good and the bad of politics. Three interlocking tales each feature a different protagonist--a state legislator, a junior senator, and...
- Author:Mattich, AlenSummary:
The third installment in Alen Mattich's highly addictive Marko della Torre series. Autumn 1991. Civil war has broken out in Yugoslavia with Croatia's declaration of independence, and former secret policeman Marko della Torre is set...
- Author:Karafilly, IrenaSummary:
It is autumn, 1997 and Kate Thuringer is back in her hometown to help her college-age daughter settle into her new life. A professional photographer, Kate has lived in Western Canada for nearly three decades. Before her marriage,...
- Author:Meltzer, BradSummary:
When Clementine Kaye, Beecher White's first childhood crush, shows up at the National Archives asking for his help, Beecher tries to impress her by showing her the secret vault of the President of the United States. After they...
- Author:Kundera, MilanSummary:
All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-...
- Author:Berry, SteveSummary:
Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth about...
- Author:Silva, DanielSummary:
The Israeli intelligence chief recalls two former agents to eliminate a top Palestinian terrorist. The former agents were once lovers and their pasts and their enemies come back to haunt them as the terrorist begins his campaign of...
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