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"After one of the most contentious and divisive elections in American history, the new president is finally settling into the West Wing. But when his chief of staff discovers evidence that voting machines in key counties in swing states were tampered with, the whole administration is in danger of unraveling. Did someone steal the election? Are America's enemies involved? Were the tampered-with machines actually rigged to swing the election the other...
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East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
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Brooke Chandler, a CIA operative, begins a race against time to find a nuclear weapon that AL Qaeda operative Amer Al Zaroor is moving toward Israel; he must overcome the skepticism of the CIA and the White House, find the bomb, and disable it before it causes the Middle East to go up in flames.
5) Red metal
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A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control for generations over the world's hi-tech sector. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the fray in Africa, a French Special Forces captain and his...
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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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Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 1
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A young archivist working in the National Archives and his childhood crush accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact--a 200-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington--hidden inside a desk chair. Eager to discover why the President is hiding this important national treasure, the two soon find themselves entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will reveal the most well-kept secret of the U.S. Presidency.
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Cotton Malone novels volume 7
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Four United States presidents have been assassinated-in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963-each murder seemingly unrelated and separated by time. But what if those presidents were all killed for the same reason: a clause in the United States Constitution-contained within Article 1, Section 8-that would shock Americans? This question is what faces former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone in his latest adventure. When a bold assassination attempt...
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Thi debut thriller follows a former Army veteran seeking solitude in the Alaskan wilderness after her husband's death--only to find herself a pawn in a deadly game with Russia. After her young husband's untimely death, Army veteran Cassie Gale decides to take a few days of solitude in the Alaska wilderness before she starts her new job. But when she fails to show up on her first day and her dog is discovered injured at her wrecked campsite, her father...
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It's November 1944--Willi Graf, a German rocket engineer, is launching Nazi Germany's V2 rockets at London from Occupied Holland. Kay Connolly, once an actress, now a young English Intelligence officer, ships out for Belgium to locate the launch sites and neutralize the threat. But when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a suspect. Unknown to each other, Graf and Connolly find themselves on opposite sides in the...
11) Threat vector
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Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke Quiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an invasion of Taiwan. The Ryan administration is determined to thwart China's ambitions, but the stakes are...
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Broadcasting from a secret location with the help of a young computer prodigy, a septuagenarian radical and fugitive from the law leads an eccentric group of activists who carry out their own version of guerrilla warfare when they decide that their home state might be better off seceding from the United States.
13) Seizure
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Dr. Daniel Lowell, inventor of a new cloning procedure, and Senator Ashley Butler, the conservative chairman of a subcommittee on health policy, make an unethical and underhanded bargain when Butler promises government support for Lowell's technology if the doctor will use it to treat Butler's Parkinson's disease.
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An airliner is shot down by a missile off Long Island, the president blames Islamic fundamentalists and calls for a new system of missile defense. But CIA agent Michael Osbourne suspects a plot by the people most likely to benefit from such a system, the manufacturer.
15) When she woke
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In the future, abortion has become a crime as a series of events threatens the existence of the United States. One woman wakes up to discover that her skin color has been changed to red as punishment for having the procedure done. Now she must embark on a dangerous journey in order to find refuge from a hostile and threatening society.
16) 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.
17) The last jihad
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Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy thrillers volume 1
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Jon Bennett is a top Wall Street strategist turned senior White House advisor. But nothing has prepared him for the terror that he will face. Only a solid Arab-Israeli coalition against Iraq can keep the U.S. and other Western nations from certain devastation.
18) Term limits
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Mitch Rapp novel volume 01
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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 27
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Former U.S. Marine and freshman congressman Michael O'Rourke is the only person who has a clue as to what is going on when three of Washington's most powerful politicians are executed as an initial strike in what promises to be an all-out attack on the American government.
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With fifty thousand Russian troops poised to invade a NATO nation, can Jack Ryan move swiftly enough to stop [Russian president Valeri] Volodin's grand plan of global conflict and conquest?"--Jacket. When Russian President Valeri Volodin's ambitions are foiled in Dagestan, he faces a difficult choice. The oligarchs who support him expect a constant flow of graft, but with energy prices cratering, the Russian economy sputters to a virtual halt. A floating...
20) Debt of honor
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Razio Yamata is one of Japan's most influential industrialists, and part of a relatively small group of authority who wield tremendous authority in the Pacific Rim's economic powerhouse. He has devised a plan to cripple the American greatness, humble the US military, and elevate Japan to a position of dominance on the world stage. Yamata's motivation lies in his desire to pay off a Debt of Honor to his parents and to the country he feels is responsible...
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