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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A propulsive and ambitious thriller about a woman trying to rescue her twin sister from captivity in North Korea, and the North Korean citizens with whom she forms an unlikely alliance Star of the North opens in 1988, when a Korean American teenager is kidnapped from a South Korean beach by North Korean operatives. Twenty-two years later, her brilliant twin sister, Jenna, is still searching for her, and ends up on the radar of the CIA. When evidence...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet meant to quell unruly...
10) México roto
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"The pandemic is not over yet and the president's stubbornness continues to cause thousands of deaths; broken promises have deeply permeated Mexican society. The question is: will that society be able to pull a dictator from power, or, on the contrary, will this "messiah" continue to buy his way, lie, hide his shady dealings, and betray the population with the same cynicism as always? And Martinillo, how will he manage to save himself from the same...
Author
Series
Hayley Chill novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Recently elected President Richard Monroe-populist, controversial, and divisive-is at the center of an increasingly polarized Washington, DC. Never has the partisan drama been so tense or the paranoia so rampant. In the midst of contentious political turf wars, the White House chief of staff is found dead in his house. A tenacious intern discovers a single, ominous clue that suggests he died from something other than natural causes, and that a wide-ranging...
13) Hidden empire
Author
Series
Empire novels (Orson Scott Card) volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Card's bestselling novel "Empire," President Averell Torrent launches America into a get-tough, this-world-is-our-empire foreign policy stance. When Captain Bartholomew "Cole" Coleman sees the danger Torrent poses to American democracy and the potential disasters involved in his foreign military adventures, he quickly runs afoul of Torrent and, while on the run, finds proof that Torrent orchestrated a presidential assassination.
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English
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Hired by a prestigious D.C., attorney and Presidential confidant, ex-cop turned private eye Dana Cutler shadows campaign volunteer Charlotte Walsh--documenting the lovely political science major's whereabouts with pictures and voicemails. The boring surveillance becomes interesting one night when Charlotte has a clandestine meeting with the President of the United States. After the 19-year-old's mutilated body is found the next day, police conclude...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From National Book Award finalist and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), Charles Baxter, a timely and unsettling new novel about the people drawn to and unmoored by a local activist group more dangerous than it appears. Brettigan's son, a once promising actor, has gone missing, and despite the fact that his wife, Alma, knows he left on purpose, she has been searching for him all over the city. She checks the usual places, churches,...
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English
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"When the animals at Manor Farm revolt against their master, Mr. Jones, their goal is to take over the farm and establish an ideal community based on hard work, honesty, and the equality of all animals. Guided by the memory of Old Major's utopian vision and the seven commandments, Animal Farm, as the animals have renamed it, briefly fulfills the ideal."--Container.
Author
Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 3
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After the murders of two U.S. agents in Prague and a series of brutal killings of Americans, Secret Service agent Scot Harvath hunts for an ex-KGB double agent, only to discover a conspiracy aimed at shattering the peace between nations.
20) Trap the devil
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A group of some of the most powerful people in the government, the military, and the private sector, has begun a brutal plan to quietly take over the reins of the U.S. government. They've begun to remove the people who stand in their way--and replace them with their own sympathizers and puppets. They've already taken out the Speaker of the House--whose death was made to look like an accidental drowning--and the president and vice president are next....
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