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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Vernon Ingledew's campaign for governor is hindered by his "thirteen albatrosses" until the campaign attracts some of America's heaviest political hitters, whose devotion will be tested by various sexual exploits and political escapades.
142) The hothouse
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Harrowing, moody, and supremely powerful, "The Hothouse", first published in 1953, stands among the finest novels written in postwar Germany. Largely unrecognized beyond Germany during his lifetime, Koeppen sought to make sense of German life amid the vast political and social reconstruction of the war-ravaged nation.
143) The kept woman
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Samantha Monroe, a divorced mother of three, is approached by politician Jack Tolliver, who wants to hire Sam to play his fiance so that he can clean up his womanizing image in time for a senate race, but when the two actually fall in love, they discover that keeping up appearances is more difficult than they anticipated and one wrong move could ruin everything.
144) When I'm with you
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Longtime New Orleans bachelor Rafe Lawson is finally ready to tie the knot. His heart has been captured by gorgeous senator's daughter Avery Richards. Then the media descends, jeopardizing her Secret Service career--and their imminent wedding. But it's the unexpected return of Rafe's first love that could cost the tycoon everything"--
Author
Publisher
Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishing, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Emperor is dead. Long live the Empire. General Bordan has a lifetime of duty and sacrifice behind him in the service of the Empire. But with rebellion brewing in the countryside, and assassins, thieves and politicians vying for power in the city, it is all Bordan can do to protect the heir to the throne. Apprentice Magician Kyron is assigned to the late Emperor's honour guard escorting his body on the long road back to the capital. Mistrusted...
146) Truth and other lies
Author
Publisher
Ten16 Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Megan Barnes' life is in free fall. After losing both her job as a reporter and her boyfriend in the same day, she retreats to Chicago and moves in with Helen, her over-protective mother. Before long, the two are clashing over everything from pro-choice to #MeToo, not to mention Helen's run for US Congress which puts Megan's career on hold until after the election. Desperate to reboot her life, Megan gets her chance when an altercation at a campus...
147) Worse angels
Author
Series
Isaiah Coleridge ; 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ex-majordomo and bodyguard to an industrial tycoon-cum-U.S. senator, Badja Adeyemi is in hiding and shortly on his way to either a jail cell or a grave, depending on who finds him first. In his final days as a free man, he hires Isaiah Coleridge to tie up a loose end: the suspicious death of his nephew four years earlier. At the time police declared it an accident, and Adeyemi isn't sure it wasn't, but one final look may bring his sister peace. So...
148) True horizons
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
All the possibilities: "Among the ambitious influences crowding Washington, D.C.s' hallowed halls, Shelby Campbell stands apart from the petty politicians demanding Senator Alan MacGregor's time. Fearless in expressing her beliefs, she challenges his views with an impressive intellect that also captures his heart. However, Shelby and Alan are connected by an enmity shared between their families for generations. Unwilling to let the past decide their...
149) The art of scandal
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On the night of her Mayor husband's 40th birthday, Rachel Abbott receives a sexy, explicit text from her husband, which she quickly realizes was meant for another woman. They're at a crossroads and divorce is inevitable, but Rachel is determined not to leave her thirteen-year marriage with nothing. Meanwhile, Matt, the rising star of a Kennedyesque political dynasty with eyes on the White House, can't afford a messy split in the middle of his reelection...
150) Antigenesis
Author
Publisher
D.S. Whitaker
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Thousands of Russian soldiers die of an unusual illness during an exercise near the Arctic Circle. Russia and China threaten retaliation assuming the virus is a US bioweapon. As the White House, Pentagon and National Security Agency discuss the ramifications, they bring in a consultant, Ally, a former CDC virus hunter. Ally works with a NSA spy to track down the origin and trail of the virus to halt the spread. She discovers the virus is spread by...
151) El día del ajuste
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"El misterioso libro azul de Talbott Reynolds pasa de mano en mano en la clandestinidad y una sociedad sedienta de la sangre de la élite se prepara para seguir sus instrucciones: el Día del Ajuste está aquí. Cuando llegue, los Más Odiados de América serán ejecutados y un nuevo orden se instaurará. Y los Estados Unidos se reunificarán en tres nuevos estados separados según la raza y las preferencias sexuales. Chuck Palahniuk muestra sin tapujos...
152) After the banquet
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
Redoubtable middle-aged Kazu falls hopelessly in love with Yuken Noguchi, idealist politician of the Radical Party. The problem is, Noguchi cannot see practical politics for what it is: a form of ideological prostitution. Kazu, who has come up in the world the hard way, bears no illusions - Noguchi, for all his bookish wisdom, has a lot of them. Kazu is the proprietor of a Setsugoan, an After-Snow-Retreat, where she is in the habit of entertaining...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the near future, an America ruled by sharks- the Wall Street kind. Greedy gangster bankers. Carnivorous corporate creeps. Fascist war profiteers who cruise the oceans of dark power with their bloody jaws wide open, escorted by scavenger politicians nibbling at their scraps. But other predators are stirring in the sea. These new hunters are young, cunning, and agile, with nothing to lose and only freedom to gain. Their motto: hatred of...
Author
Series
Fix ; 1
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Eisner Award-nominated team behind Superior Foes of Spider-Man, bestselling writer Nick Spener (Morning Glories) and artist Steve Lieber (Detective Comics, Whiteout) are in cahoots again for an all-new, ongoing crime series, The Fix. The Fix is a story of the crooked cops, scheming mobsters, and corrupt politicians that run Los Angeles - and the sex toy that can bring them all down. Oh, and the hero is a drug-sniffing beagle named Pretzels"--Back...
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