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Lanny Budd novels volume 5
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English
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A series of novels ranging from World War I through World War II, in which Lanny Budd is the main character. He becomes a latter day questing spirit who becomes intimate with many of the world's most prominent figures and witnesses many of modern history's most important events.
2) Prophet song
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"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
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Master novelist Drury probes the controversy and political machinations as America strives to land on Mars . . .
A mission that may be torn apart by the nation's turmoil . . .
The Throne of Saturn shows the struggle of dedicated and courageous astronauts to set foot on the red planet and maintain our quest for the stars
4) Rubicon
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It could Happen . . .
Bobby Hart, an idealistic young senator from California, thinks that he's escaped the political spotlight when he decides not to run for president. Then, on a secret mission to Germany, he discovers that there is going to be an assassination. He doesn't know who is the target, who is behind the plan, or where it will take place. All he knows is that it will happen before the election. And that it operates under the code name...
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2004.
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“Combine equal parts of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series and Chine Miéville’s Perdido Street Station, throw in a dash of Aubrey BeardsleyandJ.K. Huysmans, and you’ll get some idea of this disturbing, decadent first novel.”—Publishers Weekly
Gwynn and Raule are rebels on the run, with little in common except being on the losing side of a hard-fought war. Gwynn is a gunslinger from the...
Gwynn and Raule are rebels on the run, with little in common except being on the losing side of a hard-fought war. Gwynn is a gunslinger from the...
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Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers volume 3
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English
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When Poke Rafferty is given the chance to write the biography of Khun Pan, a Thai billionaire, he discovers that there are powerful political figures who do not want Pan portrayed as a hero to the poor, while others want to expose his dark side for their own advantage.
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After years of violence, a tense calm pervades Northern Ireland, soon to be broken by Jimmy Coogan, an IRA veteran gone renegade. Jimmy has stolen ten pounds of plastic explosive, intending to destroy the parliamentary ambitions of the IRA leadership.
Into Jimmy's turbulent world come two young Americans: Brian, vain, ironic, but well-meaning; and Clare, a beautiful, earnest college student. In Ireland on an errand for his Irish Republican family...
10) Prince of peace
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Vietnam was bitterly contested not only on the battlefields of Southeast Asia but on the American home front. From the author of The Cloister, Prince of Peace is a thrilling saga of faith, truth, and honor.
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From a Pulitzer Prize winner, "a believable worst-case scenario about the consequences of our failure to bring the Gulf War to a satisfactory end" (Publishers Weekly).
This classic political thriller by New York Times–bestselling author Allen Drury is as insightful and relevant today as when it was first published.
Secretary of State Raymond Cass Stanley struggles to help the US President avoid a potentially disastrous head-on collision...
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Advise and consent volume 4
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English
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Part of the saga begun with the Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, "one of the finest and most gripping political novels of our era"(The New York Times).
The United States is thrown into chaos as the President is killed in a plane crash shortly after securing his party's nomination in a hotly contested race for re-election. As suspicions are cast upon the circumstances of the plane crash, the incumbent party quickly convenes...
13) Checkmate
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The new, revised story of Checkmate, is the first in The White House National Security Series, and features young scientist, Dr. Cameron Talbot who invents a breakthrough technology to defend against cruise missiles. She needs support from skeptical company officers, funding from a reluctant Congress, and help from Lt. Col. Hunt Daniels, detailed to The White House NSC. With disaster brewing overseas, threats to New Delhi, the Taj Mahal, and to Cameron...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the pulse-pounding Vertical Run comes a spellbinding new white-knuckle thriller to keep you up all night.
Charlie McKenzie is the best at what he does, and what he does best of all is the CIA's dirty work. At least he did until his bosses double-crossed him. Jailed and disgraced to cover up a mammoth intelligence blunder, Charlie wants to get even.
Opportunity knocks when Irina Kolodenkova, a young Russian...
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Josie Kendall novels volume 1
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English
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Josie Kendall is a new player in the D.C. political scene, working for an "activist fundraising organization," while her husband Rafe, a longtime Washington insider, is on a new track as a literary agent while supporting Josie as she learns the political ropes. When the shady customer Josie was hitting up for a million dollars for alternative energy funding turns up dead, and the police suspect Josie of adultery and Rafe of homicide, they have to...
16) The busy body
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Ghostwriter volume 01
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2024.
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English
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"It's a dream assignment. Former Senator Dorothy Gibson, aka "that woman," is the most talked-about person in the country right now, though largely for the wrong reasons. As an independent candidate for President of the United States, Dorothy split the vote and is being blamed for the shocking result. After her very public defeat, she's retreated to her home in rural Maine, inviting her ghostwriter to join her. Her collaborator is impressed by Dorothy's...
17) Wide awake now
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"A gay Jewish man has just been elected president of the United States--or so it seems, until the governor of Kansas decides that some election results in his state are invalid and awards crucial votes to the other candidate, his fellow party member. Things quickly go very wrong--and hundreds of thousands of people flock to Kansas to protest for what they believe is right and just. Among them are Jimmy and Duncan, teens who are not only fighting for...
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Bill Hefflin novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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The CIA learns that a mole's handler is a KGB agent known as Boris. CIA analyst Bill Hefflin recognizes that name, the code name of his longtime KGB asset. If the defector is correct, Hefflin realizes Boris must be a triple agent, and his supposed mole has been passing false intel to Hefflin and the CIA. What's more, this makes Hefflin the prime suspect as the KGB mole inside the Agency. Hefflin is given a chance to prove his innocence by returning...
19) Gambit
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In this second book of the White House national security thriller series, Dr. Cameron Talbot, a famous expert on missile defense systems, returns to investigate how American airplanes could plummet from the sky-though nothing shows up on radar and none of the usual terrorist suspects have claimed responsibility.
With the country in a panic and the economy taking a nose-dive, the beautiful scientist finds herself once again enmeshed in international...
20) Fail-safe
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The question of accidental war is examined in this novel about American planes which fly past the point of recall to drop nuclear bombs on Moscow.
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