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Corey Grace-a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio-is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle with the favorite of the party establishment and a magnetic leader of the Christian right. A decorated Gulf War pilot, Grace insists on voting his own conscience rather than the party line, and this stubborn independence-together with his growing romance with Lexie Hart, an African-American movie star-has...
2) Saving Faith
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When a zealous CIA chief uncovers evidence of bribery in high places, he compels Washington influence peddler Danny Buchanan to spy on his clients, but when Buchanan tells his story to the FBI, the tables are turned. Believe the power: In a secluded house not far from Washington, D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had, a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done too much, knows too much, and she'll...
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"I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency. When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take...
5) Numero zero
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"A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news. A paranoid editor, walking through the streets of Milan, reconstructing fifty years of history against the backdrop of a plot involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double. The murder of Pope John Paul I, the CIA, red terrorists handled by secret services, twenty years of bloodshed, and events that seem outlandish until the BBC proves them true. A fragile love story...
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Moses Lake volume 3
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Congressional staffer Mallory Hale is about to embark on an adventure completely off the map. After a whirlwind romance, she is hopelessly in love with two men-- fortunately, they're related. Daniel Everson and his little boy, Nick, are a package deal. When Daniel asks her to marry him, move to Texas, and form a family, Mallory takes a leap of faith and begins a sweet, mishap-filled journey into ranch living, Moses Lake society, and a marriage that...
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A satire on America featuring a capitalist trying to avoid ruin. The hero is Charlie Croker of Altanta whose plantation and skyscraper face repossession by banks for non-repayment of a loan. One way out might be to request leniency in return for hushing up a rape.
8) The hopefuls
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"Laced with sly humor and insider detail, Jennifer Close's new novel tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to DC, a city of idealism, ambition and complicated friendships among young Washington's aspiring elite"--
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
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A thriller of unparalled suspense that dares to explore the unthinkable. Trapped behind a two-way mirror in a country house in Maryland Luther Whitney, a professional burglar, witnesses an event that destroys his faith in justice forever. A vicious murder - involving the US President. Now Whitney is the property at stake and, by the time he has escaped across a cornfield pursued by two Secret Service agents, a young woman has been sexually assualted,...
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England's Tower of London was the terrifying last stop for generations of English political prisoners. Across the years, four young royals shared the same small rooms in their dark prison, as all four shared the unfortunate role of being perceived as threats to the reigning monarch; Lady Katherine Grey, Lady Jane's younger sister, Kate Plantagenet, an English princess who lived nearly a century before her, and Edward and Richard, the boy princes imprisoned...
11) The 500: a novel
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Mike Ford volume 01
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Mike Ford turned himself around and worked his way into Harvard Law School. Now he is employed by the Davies Group, Washington's most high-powered and well-respected strategic consulting firm that specializes in pulling strings and peddling influence for the people who really run Washington. Quickly pulled into a seductive, dangerous web of power and corruption, Mike struggles to find his way out. But how does one save his soul when he has made a...
13) One sweet ride
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Gray built his racing empire on hard work and muscle. He wants nothing to do with his estranged father's campaign, but Evelyn can be pretty persuasive. She's willing to learn about racing, and maybe even get a little dirty. Evelyn's number-one goal is politics, and the more she learns about Gray, the more she wants him-- and that threatens to derail the carefully laid plans for her future. With their passion running hotter than either imagined, one...
14) Fatal chaos
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Fatal series volume 12
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Escaping DC during the dog days of summer is one of the smartest moves Washington metro police lieutenant Samantha Holland ever made. Beach walks aren't quite as romantic with the Secret Service in tow, but Sam and her husband, Vice President Nick Cappuano, cherish the chance to recharge and reconnect especially with a scandal swirling around the administration. No sooner are they back home than a fatal drive-by shooting sets the city on edge. The...
15) The zero game
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Bored congressional aides Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are invited to join the Zero Game, a contest in which players bet on seemingly inconsequential matters such as how many times a senator will say a certain word, but they find themselves pursued by a determined assassin when they question the outcome of what they thought was a sure-thing wager on the sale of an abandoned South Dakota gold mine.
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"Haunted by the death of her sister, Finola Shanahan has resolved that she's not worthy of a family of her own and commits to spending her days caring for immigrants in the slums. Unwilling to consider marriage, Finola has perfected the ability to sabotage the relationships her parents arrange for her. At wit's end, her father calls upon the local Irish matchmaker, who pairs her with successful wagonmaker Riley Rafferty. After her usual tricks fail,...
17) Shining city
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Peter Rena and Randi Brooks volume 1
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Peter Rena is a 'fixer'. He and his partner, Randi Brooks, earn their living making the problems of the powerful disappear. They get their biggest job yet when the White House hires them to vet the president's nominee for the Supreme Court. Judge Roland Madison is a legal giant, but he's a political maverick, with views that might make the already tricky confirmation process even more difficult. Rena and his team go full-bore to cover every inch of...
18) The abduction
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Days before a presidential election, someone abducts the granddaughter of the Republican candidate. For Attorney General Allison Leahy, the Democratic candidate, it is an opportunity to shine, or is it? What if the FBI discovers her party organized the abduction? A tale of political skullduggery.
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Twenty years after the Srebrenica massacre that claimed the life of his friend and colleague, Eric Petrosian is back in Sarajevo at the American embassy, and the specter of war once again hangs over the Balkans. The Bosnian Serb leader, who had for a time been seeking a stable peace, has turned back to his nationalist roots and is threatening to pull Bosnia apart in a bloody struggle for control... and behind him is a shadowy mafia figure pulling...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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"This book is the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948. Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, " We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved...
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