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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 20
Language
English
Description
Aboard an icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean a sonar operator hears an unusual noise coming from the ocean floor. She can't isolate it and chalks the event up to an anomaly in a newly installed system. Meanwhile, operatives with the Chinese Ministry of State Security are dealing with their own mystery - the disappearance of brilliant but eccentric scientist, Liu Wangshu. They're desperate to keep his crucial knowledge of aerospace and naval technology...
Author
Series
Marcus Ryker novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"With the unexpected death of Russian President Aleksandr Luganov, and Iran's efforts to acquire fully operational nuclear warheads successfully thwarted, American President Andrew Clarke decides the moment has come to unveil his comprehensive proposal to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. However, when a series of senior American officials involved in the peace process are assassinated, Clarke orders Marcus Ryker and a team of CIA...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 456 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the historic arc of Lincoln's life from his picaresque days as a gangly young lawyer in Sangamon County, Illinois, through his improbable marriage to Kentucky belle Mary Todd, to his 1865 visit to war-shattered Richmond only days before his assassination.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A faded newspaperman finds the scoop of a lifetime in a Chicago basement: diaries belonging to the infamous Judith Campbell Exner, who consorted with America's most powerful politicians, entertainers, and criminals in the 1960s.
66) Alien in chief
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"As Kitty can tell you, it's not easy being the wife of the vice president--especially not when he's an alien from the Alpha Centauri system. But she and her A-C husband, Jeff, have learned how to roll with whatever life and the bad guys throw at them--they think. When the Alpha Centauri Planetary Council requests a visit with the president and vice president, things look politically dicey. When the most dangerous prisoners in the most secure supermax...
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
465 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the moment Secret Service agent Travis Beaumont strides through the door of Monica Shaw's flower shop, she feels a sizzle of attraction. After years of putting everyone else first, Monica is ready to grab hold of life. But the President's son is getting married in Valentine Valley, and Travis should be avoiding all distractions -- not fantasizing about a sexy-as-hell florist. Especially when she's keeping secrets that could jeopardize his assignment....
68) The first family
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Language
English
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The White House is not an easy place to grow up, so when the president's son Cam Hilliard, a sixteen-year-old chess champion, experiences extreme fatigue, moodiness, and an uncharacteristic violent outburst, doctors are quick to dismiss the troubles as teen angst. But Secret Service agent Karen Ray, whose job is to guard the president's family with her life, is convinced Cam's issues are serious - serious enough for her to summon her physician ex-husband...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The president of the United States stands on an outdoor stage, flanked by powerful members of his administration and party. Television crews are preparing for broadcast. High above the stage, on a nearby rooftop, a decorated sniper adjusts the scope on his rifle. Afterwards, America will never be the same. Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the law when a public act of violence throws the country into...
70) Madam President
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
523 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Kramer, the forty-fifth president of the United States, has done the unprecedented in allowing a network news team to document a day in her life--and that of her most senior staff. But while twenty news cameras are embedded with the president, the unthinkable happens: five major attacks are leveled on US soil. Her secretary of defense, Melanie, and her press secretary, Dale, must instantly jump to action in supporting the president and...
71) Grant: a novel
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Language
English
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Description
A novel covering the final years of Ulysses S. Grant's troubled life.
72) Below the belt
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 40
Language
English
Description
Newly ensconced in his Santa Fe abode with a lovely female companion, Stone Barrington receives a call from an old friend requesting a delicate favor. A situation has arisen that could escalate into an explosive quagmire, and only someone with Stone's stealth and subtlety can contain the damage. At the center of these events is an impressive gentleman whose star is on the rise, and who'd like to get Stone in his corner. He's charming and ambitious...
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Series
Publisher
Tor Books, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The aliens have seen many worlds, but they know that Earth in particular is a jewel. They lust for its soaring mountains, its shining seas, its gorgeous forests, and majestic deserts. There is just one part of the planet that they don't want: us. Flynn Carroll knows that the aliens have found a way to eliminate humanity: capture the mind of the president of the United States. Though Carroll is determined to stop the aliens from achieving their goal,...
74) Crooked
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Richard Milhous Nixon lived one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth century. Our thirty-seventh president's political career spanned the button-down fifties, the Mad Men sixties, and the turbulent seventies. He faced down the Russians, the Chinese, and ultimately his own government. The man went from political mastermind to a national joke, sobbing in the Oval Office, leaving us with one burning question: how could he have lost it all?...
Author
Series
Supernaturals volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five years ago, the ghost hunting Supernaturals disbanded after being accused of faking their experiences at Summer House. Now, the eccentric but brilliant team of scientists and paranormal experts are being asked to join forces once again-- this time to save the president. Through strenuous investigation and mysterious messages about returning home, the team soon discovers the long lost home of the president: a small town in California called Moreno,...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Kensington trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
500 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Aaron Burr was a hero of the Revolution, a brilliant politician, lawyer, and very nearly president; a skillful survivor in a raw new country filled with constantly shifting loyalties. But there were dark whispers about him: that he was untrustworthy, a libertine, a man unafraid of claiming whatever he believed should be his. Sold into slavery as a child in India, Mary Emmons was brought to an America torn by war. Toughened by the experiences of her...
Author
Language
English
Description
Alice may be the president's daughter, but she's nobody's darling. As bold as her signature color Alice Blue, the gum-chewing, cigarette-smoking, poker-playing First Daughter discovers that the only way for a woman to stand out in Washington is to make waves--oceans of them. With the canny sophistication of the savviest politician on the Hill, Alice uses her celebrity to her advantage, testing the limits of her power and the seductive thrill of political...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In one of his most accomplished, compelling novels yet, acclaimed New York Times bestseller Jeff Shaara accomplishes what only the finest historical fiction can do - he brings to life one of the most consequential figures in U.S. history - Theodore Roosevelt - peeling back the many-layered history of the man, and the country he personified. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, from the waning days of the rugged frontier...
79) Without fail
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
Jack Reacher is hired to attempt to assassinate the Vice President of the United States to ensure that his security team is up to scratch, but in the meantime there is a very real and deadly team of assassins that has just put the VP in their sights.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The title of this nail-biter is a deceiver. Yes, it's the Kennedys, here called the McCormacks, and, yes, it's the sixties, here called the seventies. An alternate universe like ours, but not. This president, aglow with Hollywood glamour, gets to live out two terms. His kid brother, the hard-edged one, gets a term of his own. The funhouse distortions continue. The Vietnam War, once popular and eagerly boosted by the brothers, is so out of favor it's...
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