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501) 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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"For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police and the world's journalists. In this rigorusly researched factual novel--drawn almost entirely from historical documents--Olivier Guez traces Mengele's footsteps through...
503) Greenwich
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Two deaths, one natural and one violent, take readers behind the facade of wealth, power, and fame in a suspense-packed novel by the author of "Redemption" and "The Immigrant's Daughter."
504) The days of Afrekete
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2021.
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Inspired by Mrs. Dalloway and Sula, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel about two women who rediscover themselves--and perhaps each other. Liselle Belmont is having a dinner party. It seems a strange occasion--her husband, Winn, has lost his bid for the state legislature--but what better way to thank key supporters than a feast? Liselle was never sure about her husband becoming a politician, never sure about the limelight, never sure...
505) House witness
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Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 12
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Investigating the murder of his employer's illegitimate son, political fixer Joe DeMarco begins to question the guilt of a chief suspect when he realizes that someone has been interfering with the case's witnesses.
506) Order to kill
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 15
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Rapp heads to Pakistan to confront a mortal threat he may not be prepared for. In fact, this time he might have met his match. Mitch Rapp is used to winning. But now the CIA operative finds himself chasing false leads from continent to continent in an effort to keep nukes from falling into the hands of terrorists. Together with friend and colleague Scott Coleman, Rapp struggles to prevent the loss of these lethal weapons, and soon it becomes alarmingly...
507) Iron wolf
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In the spring of 2017, the U.S. economy is rebounding under President Stacy Anne Barbeau, the country's first female president. But her leadership is about to be severely tested: Russian president Gennadiy Gryzlov has sent Special Troops, disguised as pro-Russian activists, into Ukraine and Moldova. Though NATO is outraged, its response is tepid. Refusing to let Russian aggression go unpunished, former U.S. president Kevin Martindale approaches Polish...
508) The price of power
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When a hawkish Congress ordered an attack on Indonesia and a pacifist president countermanded it, Admiral Billings obeyed Congress. Now Billings is facing a Navy court martial for disobedience while Congress prepares to impeach the president. A sequel to Balance of Power.
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"The discovery of an ancient cuneiform guides an unlikely group to a secret portal buried in the desert long ago. A near-death experience in the Iraq desert transforms the lives of the FBI's most wanted terrorist, and his young disciple, and alters the fate of a Pulitzer Prize-winning female journalist, and a decorated U.S. Marine about to be executed. Guided by a visionary young girl from Peru, they become aware of an ancient past, and an energy...
510) Deep background
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The American president is assassinated during a White House press conference and the assassin commits suicide. Julia Lancette of the CIA joins two presidential staffers to find the people responsible and discovers CIA involvement.
511) The American mission
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[2014]
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A debut inspired by the U.S. Foreign Service veteran author's contributions to certifying conflict-free diamonds follows the disgrace of a former State Department star who starts over at a Congo mining facility that is being oppressed by corrupt interests.
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Arkady Renko novels volume 10
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2023.
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"It's June 2021, and Arkady knows that Russia is preparing to invade and subsequently annex Ukraine as it did Crimea in 2014. He is, however, preoccupied with other grievances. His longtime lover, Tatiana Petrovna, has deserted him for her work as an investigative reporter. His corrupt boss has relegated him to a desk job. And he is having trouble with his dexterity and balance. A visit to his doctor reveals that these are symptoms for Parkinson's...
513) Big guns: a novel
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In response to efforts to ban handguns in America's cities, the CEO of an arms company, worried about his bottom line, introduces federal legislation that would require every American own a gun.
515) Boomsday: a novel
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Author Christopher Buckley imagines a not-so-distant future when America teeters on the brink of economic disaster as the baby boomers start retiring; Cassandra, Buckley's heroine, is a twenty-nine-year-old PR chick who blogs at night about the impending Boomsday budget crisis.
516) Ice fire: a thriller
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Cajun-born Jock Boucher is a renegade federal judge who takes justice into his own hands. When Bob Palmetto, a scientist who's been hiding from authorities for 20 years, claims that another judge accepted bribes and helped an energy company steal his intellectual property, Jock investigates and verifies the corruption claims. With the help of Detective Fitch of the New Orleans Police Department, seeks justice against the company and its powerful founder...
517) Double crossfire
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Jake Mahegan thrillers volume 6
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"“How do you overturn an election?” It's a question that has obsessed presidential candidate Jamie Carter ever since her loss to businessman and political neophyte President Jack Smart. In spite of the election results, she's determined to take what she sees as her rightful place in the White House-through any means possible. First, she establishes residency in North Carolina. Then, when the state's Pro Tem of the US Senate is found dead, she...
518) The simple truth
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
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Young attorney Michael Fiske broke the law when he took Rufus Harms's prison letter from the Supreme Court. But he also sealed his own fate. Suddenly everyone who has anything to do with Harms or his appeal mysteriously dies. Now Michael's brother John, a cop turned attorney, comes to Washington to find out why his brother was murdered--and what it had to do with a crime that Harms committed twenty-five years before. But the one man who can help John,...
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"Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi's...
520) The ambassador
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An American ambassador in Vietnam faces a moral and political crisis when he is placed in the position of having to decide the fate of the country and the life or death of its rulers.
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