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Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The year is 2010, Saudi Arabia is now Republic of Islamyah, the Chinese are providing arms and training to them, the Iranians have the bomb, and Secretary of Defense Henry Conrad thinks the time is ripe to invade Islamyah and seize its oil.
Author
Publisher
Signet Book
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Art restorer and former spy Gabriel Allon is called upon by the head of Israeli intelligence to stop a Palestinian plot to kill Yasir Arafat, ending peace talks in the Middle East--a plot run by the man responsible for the deaths of Gabriel's wife and child.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Stella Silver, a white college student, is horrified when she witnesses people from her Birmingham, Alabama community rejoicing over the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and is drawn into the struggle for civil rights, which brings her in touch with people not only of different races, but dangerously different opinions.
4) Seizure
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Senator Ashley Butler fervidly opposes any legislation supporting biotechnology and strives to outlaw cloning. His adversary, Dr. Daniel Lowell, has almost perfected an innovative stem cell procedure that reverses the effects of several critical diseases. When Senator Butler learns that he has Parkinson's Disease, he puts his political beliefs aside and makes Lowell a surprising offer: he will become Lowell's guinea pig. But when the powerful new...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
White House advisor Jon Bennett arrives in the Middle East in hopes of closing an Arab-Israeli peace deal which would require the historic enemies to work together to tap into a newly discovered tract of oil and natural gas deep beneath the Mediterranean--a venture the U.S. has promised to underwrite for billions of dollars, but there are those who do not want to see the plan succeed.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Eva van Rensburg returns to South Africa after a ten year absence to tend to her ailing father, and fueled by her dead mother's diaries, embarks on an exploration of her youth on Skinner's Drift farm, and the social and political upheavals that splintered her family.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002, c1955
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Indochina, an English correspondent observes a well-intentioned but misguided young American military advisor covertly setting up a "Third Force" to replace the French-backed emperor, and then takes actions to stop him when they become embroiled in a love triangle.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Freddy, the Prince of Wales, overeducated and lacking charisma, is shipped off to America along with his beautiful, dimwitted wife, Fredericka, where they must travel incognito and without funds on a mission to reclaim the "colonies" for England.
12) The third option
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counter-terrorist operative, finds his mission to take out a German industrialist selling secret equipment to terrorists complicated by factions within the United States government who are trying to use him to discredit the president and the new head of the CIA's Counter-terrorism Center.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
American counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp rushes to pull the world back from the brink of nuclear war when Iran blames the U.S. and Israel for an attack that has left a radioactive bomb and environmental disaster in the middle of Iran's second largest city.
14) Split second
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Michelle Maxwell and Sean King, two former Secret Service agents whose careers were destroyed when presidential candidates under their protection were harmed, discover together that their cases, eight years apart, are connected, and that danger remains.
15) Mounting fears
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Incumbent U.S. president William Jefferson Lee struggles to be reelected as he deals with a scandal involving his vice president and a love triangle, the disappearance of a nuclear warhead which may be in the hands of terrorists, and a charismatic candidate who is closing in on him in the polls.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Presents Harriet Beecher Stowe's controversial 1852 novel depicting harsh conditions on three slave plantations in the American South; and includes an introduction, discussion questions, and activity suggestions for readers.
17) The comedians
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005, c1966
Language
English
Description
Three men, Brown, Smith, and Jones, meet on a ship bound for Haiti, where "Papa Doc" and the Tontons Macoute rule, with sinister secret police.
18) The inside ring
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
When a sniper opens fire on the President of the United States, General Andy Banks must face his own guilty conscience for ignoring a warning that came 2 days before the attack.
19) Man in the dark
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
While recovering from a car accident at his daughter's home in Vermont, seventy two year old August Brill dreams up an alternate twenty first century reality where the results of the 2000 Presidential election resulted in the secession of various states and the events of September 11, 2001 never happened.
20) Wide awake
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In the not-too-distant future, when a gay Jewish man is elected president of the United States, sixteen-year-old Duncan examines his feelings for his boyfriend, his political and religious beliefs, and tries to determine his rightful place in the world.
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