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A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe Paperback Book

By the renowned author of Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.

Publication Date: Jan 1966

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A Time to Run

by Barbara Boxer

California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer makes her fiction debut with this political and romantic drama. The thriller begins in Spring 2001. As Democratic freshman Senator Ellen Fischer prepares to oppose the confirmation of a conservative Supreme...

Publication Date: Aug 2006

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Blow the House Down

by Robert Baer

Long obsessed with the abduction and murder of his agency mentor, veteran CIA officer Max Waller continues to investigate the crime, until he suddenly finds himself the target of powerful dark forces within the intelligence community, in a debut...

Publication Date: Jan 2007

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Clark Gifford's Body

by Kenneth Fearing

Back in Print After Fifty YearsClark Gifford? A cipher. A disaffected, vaguely idealistic politician in a nameless media-driven modern state where representative politics has dwindled to the corrupt transaction of business as usual and a...

Publication Date: Oct 2006

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The Fourth K

by Mario Puzo

A PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY. AN ARAB TERRORIST ATTACK. DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE. Mario Puzo envisioned it all in his eerily prescient 1991 novel, The Fourth K.President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to office, in large part, thanks to the legacy...

Publication Date: Nov 2004

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The Senator and the Priest

by Andrew M. Greeley

One of America’s most beloved storytellers, Father Andrew Greeley returns with an explosive novel about the corrosive political culture tearing apart America—and one man’s family.Tommy Moran, an Irish Catholic kid from the...

Publication Date: Oct 2007

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Windy City

by Scott Simon

The acclaimed author of the intensely powerful novel Pretty Birds, Scott Simon now gives us a story that is both laugh-out-loud funny and heart-piercing–as sprawling and brawling as Chicago, where politics is a contact sport.The mayor of...

Publication Date: Apr 2009

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Extreme Measures: A Thriller (Mitch Rapp Novels)

by Vince Flynn

Vince Flynn's thrillers, featuring counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, dominate the imagination of readers everywhere. In them, Flynn captures the secretive world of the fearless men and women, who, bound by duty, risk their lives in a covert...

Publication Date: Aug 2009

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The Hunters: A Presidential Agent Novel

by W. E. B. Griffin

The first two novels in W. E. B. Griffin's exciting new Presidential Agent series, By Order of the President and The Hostage, immediately raced up the bestseller lists-The Hostage debuting at #1. Told in 'punchy prose that connects like a right hook'...

Publication Date: Jan 2008

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Separation of Power (Mitch Rapp Novels)

by Vince Flynn

CIA superagent Mitch Rapp is back in action in Vince Flynn's high-velocity New York Times bestseller.Newly appointed CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy is the target of an inside plot to destroy her and prematurely end the American President's term....

Publication Date: Jun 2009

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Thunder from Jerusalem of the Struggle for Jerusalem (Thoene, Bodie, Zion Legacy, Bk. 2.)

by Bodie Thoene

May 19, 1948. The state of Israel is five days old. The city of Jerusalem is tenuously poised for a clash that will be critical in the life of the new country. Holding the keys to an Israeli victory is a diverse, rag-tag group: Peter Wallich, once...

Publication Date: Oct 2001

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Boomsday

by Christopher Buckley

BOOMSDAY'S heroine is Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger who incites massive political turmoil when, outraged over mounting Social Security debt, she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill...

Publication Date: May 2008

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Blowback: A Thriller

by Brad Thor

Scot Harvath's counterterrorism career has just crashed and burned—thanks in part to a ruthless senator with her sights set on the White House. But when the war on terror takes a chilling turn, the president has no choice but to secretly bring...

Publication Date: Jun 2006

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Blast from the Past

by Ben Elton

Ready to follow Nick Hornsby and Helen Fielding as the next big thing from Cool Britannia to hit America is Ben Elton. Already known to a wide public television audience as the funnyman behind Blackadder, The Young Ones, and The Thin Blue Line,...

Publication Date: Oct 2000

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By the Rivers of Babylon

by Nelson DeMille

Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries - and a...

Publication Date: Jun 1990

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Eleanor vs. Ike

by Robin Gerber

It is a time of turmoil, with the nation mired in an unpopular war in Korea and with Senator Joseph McCarthy stirring up fear of a lurking Communist 'menace.' Racial discrimination is rampant. A woman's place is in the home. And when a shocking...

Publication Date: Jan 2008

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Farishta

by Patricia McArdle

Twenty-one years ago, diplomat Angela Morgan's husband died in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. Shattered by her loss, she retreated to the backwaters of the State...

Publication Date: Jun 2012

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Primary Colors of Politics

by Joe Klein

This thinly-disguised roman a clef about a presidential campaign that is uncannily like the 1992 Clinton campaign.The story involves Governor Jack Stanton, a deft and ambitious politician, and his equally ambitious wife, Susan, who is aware of her...

Publication Date: Nov 1996

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Rubicon of Suspense

by Lawrence Alexander

Hoping to escape the political spotlight, Bobby Hart, senator from California, declined a presidential run. But while in Germany, the idealistic young politician discovers terrifying evidence of a conspiracy to destroy democracy in America—an...

Publication Date: Jul 2009

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To the Death

by Patrick Robinson

A fast-paced thriller and the grand finale of the gripping bestselling series featuring Admiral Arnold Morgan. When a terrorist bomb explodes in Boston's Logan Airport, Admiral Arnold Morgan, the President's most trusted advisor, moves quickly...

Publication Date: Apr 2009

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The Race

by Richard North Patterson

He's a decorated Gulf War pilot. A fashion plate. A ladies' man. An independent thinker who speaks his mind and never takes no for an answer. The only thing Americans can expect from Corey Grace is the unexpected...Love him or hate him, the...

Publication Date: Jul 2008

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Diamondhead

by Patrick Robinson

When Navy SEAL Mack Bedford's fellow officers are brutally killed by Iraqi insurgents using a cruel, new, anti-tank Diamondhead missile, Mack avenges their murders by gunning down the then-unarmed attackers, ultimately getting himself court-martialed...

Publication Date: May 2010

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Capitol Threat of Suspense

by William Bernhardt

When Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid came to Washington, D.C., to defend a senator caught in a red-hot sex scandal turned murder case, he never dreamed he’d end up trading the courtroom for the senate chamber. And after his not-so-distinguished...

Publication Date: Dec 2007

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Strike Force

by Dale Brown

A new era appears to be dawning in the Middle East. But the free world must be wary of old enemies . . . Rebel Iranian General Hesarak al-Kan Buzhazi is launching a coup that could destroy Iran's theocratic regime, and must turn to his...

Publication Date: May 2008

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The Overton Window

by Glenn Beck

A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed . . . can it be stopped? There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future. It works by manipulating public...

Publication Date: Dec 2010

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Resistance

by Barry H. Lopez

From the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction—a passionate response to the changes shaping our country today. In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have...

Publication Date: Jun 2005

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Mission of Honor (Tom Clancy's Op-Center, 9)

by Jeff Rovin

The kidnapping of a Catholic priest by a group of African militiamen, who order all Catholic missionaries out of Botswanna, sends the Op-Center, with their own military team, Striker, out of commission, into the middle of a dangerous civil war in...

Publication Date: Jun 2002

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Stephen Coonts' Deep Black: Sea of Terror

by Stephen Coonts

THE ENEMY IS ON BOARD. Two massive ships are on a dual path to destruction. One is a freighter carrying nuclear materials to Japan; the other, a cruise ship heading for the Mediterranean. Neither will reach their destinations. Two factions...

Publication Date: Feb 2010

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A Man in Full

by Tom Wolfe

The setting is Atlanta, Georgia — a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego...