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1) Dead watch
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Series
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English
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Lucas Davenport novels delivers “a page-turner with a new hero, [and a] breakneck pace" (Minneapolis Star Tribune).
“Former Sen. Lincoln Bowe, a Republican, has been missing for several days, setting off alarms on both sides of the political aisle. Finally, he is discovered in the remote Virginia woods, barb-wired to a tree, burned almost beyond recognition and...
“Former Sen. Lincoln Bowe, a Republican, has been missing for several days, setting off alarms on both sides of the political aisle. Finally, he is discovered in the remote Virginia woods, barb-wired to a tree, burned almost beyond recognition and...
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Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world’s climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next.
But the president-elect remains optimistic...
But the president-elect remains optimistic...
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English
Description
The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt presents a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation’s capital—and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly yet humorously realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts...
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English
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“Ellison sought no less than to create a Book of Blackness, a literary composition of the tradition at its most sublime and fundamental." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., TIME
From the renowned author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth is brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise. With a new introduction by National Book Award-winning author and scholar...
From the renowned author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth is brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise. With a new introduction by National Book Award-winning author and scholar...
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English
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"On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a brutal regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days may be guilty of murder. She says nothing, assuming no one will believe her, given her family's shameful support of the former regime and her lack of evidence. They are the same reasons she told no one, a decade earlier, what happened with the senator while they were dating." --
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English
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Wealthy socialite Jessie Roland flees to Washington, D.C., to escape a domineering mother and marry a senator's son, but when the marriage turns abusive, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will change her life forever and lead her to Lucas Palmer, a rancher who will show her the way home.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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English
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When Cameron Carter goes straight from high school in small-town California to a summer internship with a powerful U.S. congressman that he admires, he soon learns that not everything in Washington, D.C. is as it appears.
9) White smoke
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Natural born leader Victoria Emerson, at the request of the deposed president of the U.S., arrives at the Hilltop Manor bunker where the remnants of the U.S. government have been imprisoned, and must call on her deepest personal resources and her unwavering convictions to restore justice to this broken world.
11) The run: a novel
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English
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A respected senator from Georgia, Will Lee has aspirations of more.But a cruel stroke of fate thrusts him onto the national stage well before he expects, and long before he's ready, for a national campaign.
The road to the White House, however, will be more treacherous — and deadly — than Will and his intelligent, strikingly beautiful wife, Kate, an associate director in the Central Intelligence Agency, can imagine.A courageous
...14) Black: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
15) The first 48
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Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 24 cm
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English
Author
Series
Rotters' Club volume 2
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
17) Blue fire
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
They call it Hell Day--a world war that lasted less than twenty-four hours. Nations unleashed weapons that destroyed more than a century's worth of technology. Those who survived must live as their ancestors did, off a land ruled by the whims of nature. One-time congressional representative Victoria Emerson has become the new leader of the small town of Ortho, West Virginia. She has been struggling to provide food and shelter for the town's inhabitants,...
Author
Series
Belles of Lordsburg volume 1
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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