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Days before a presidential election, someone abducts the granddaughter of the Republican candidate. For Attorney General Allison Leahy, the Democratic candidate, it is an opportunity to shine, or is it? What if the FBI discovers her party organized the abduction? A tale of political skullduggery.
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"Intrepid feline Sneaky Pie Brown is taking time off from her busy schedule writing bestselling mysteries to run for President of the United States. Hail to the Chief: Sneaky Pie heads to the Oval Office with an animal-friendly agenda to unify all Americans-regardless of whether they walk on two or four feet or even if they fly. With help from her friends, Sneaky crisscrosses her home state of Virginia hoping to go where no cat since Socks Clinton...
3) Netroots rising: how a citizen army of bloggers and online activists is changing American politics
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Praeger
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Smarting over his role in an embarrassing failed gubernatorial campaign, ambitious young politico Henry Hatten lands a lucky job as a communications director for a senator's presidential campaign only to find himself embroiled in brutal dealings that make him question his sense of morality.
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Warner Home Video
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[2016]
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English
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A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist 'Calamity' Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy, now coaching the opposition.
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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
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Barrett Raines mystery novels volume 3
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
11) Real Life
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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What is it really like to be a compulsive pursuer of women, a wealthy surgeon or a novice running for parliament? Drawing on the technique of “direct cinema”, which gives the camera privileged “fly on the wall” access to the subject, this series presents the daily minutiae that shape human personalities and reveals very immediate situations that are unfamiliar to public audiences.
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Chivers Press
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1998, 1957.
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English
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When old H. B. Bennett, the state's richest banker, pits his strength against the Cobra Copper Company, everyone expects fireworks. Instead, however, Bennett, who is seeking a place as a U.S. Senator, fetes his potential constituents with hundreds of barrels of whiskey, beefsteak by the ton, and an entire chorus of New York show girls.
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Just Desserts volume 2
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Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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While running for Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, attorney and co-owner of the Just Desserts bakery Troy Elliot puts everything on the line when he falls in love with his rival's beautiful campaign manager and daughter, fellow attorney Amina Salman.
15) Submission
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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2015.
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English
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In a near-future France, François, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession--the ideas and works of the novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans--has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalist society where consumerism has become the new religion, François is spiritually barren, but seeking to fill the vacuum of his existence. And he is not alone. As the...
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2015.
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English
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Once a leading attacker of the Clintons, David is now the progressive movement's defender and truth-teller. In this personal account, Brock disarms the far-reaching tentacles of the Republican Leviathan: the Koch Brothers, the Clinton-haters and the Fox Noise Machine. Brock takes readers inside his Democratic war rooms as they do battle, 24/7, with right-wing forces to shape the stories that will decide who will win the White House in 2016. And finally...
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Shimmering with rage and sparkling with subtle humor, Billie Starr's Book of Sorries showcases Edgar Award-nominee Deborah E. Kennedy's singular voice as Jenny, a heroine in the vein of Olive Kitteridge and Miles Roby in Empire Falls, and shines a light on the town of Benson, Indiana, where lakes, grudges, and family rifts run deep - but so does a mother's love. Sometimes, a woman has to rescue herself. Jenny Newberg, Queen of Bad Decisions, is about...
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45th Parallel Press
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[2025]
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English
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"History's Most Vicious Campaigns explores some of the most cutting campaigns in our nation's history, from Jefferson and Adams to Trump and Clinton. Struggling readers will be drawn into this series by considerate text, engaging photos, and high-interest content"--
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