Buckley, Christopher

Summary: Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of citizens, chief among them "an ambitious senator seeking the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2007

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Buckley, Christopher

Summary: When a television judge ends up on the Supreme Court, romance and the fate of a presidential election take center stage in this comic political satire.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2008

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Buckley, Christopher

Summary: Florence Farfarletti has a plan for female emancipation in the Middle East, and enlists the help of a diverse group to help her carry out her plan of reaching her audience with TV shows.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004

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Buckley, Christopher

Summary: The attorney general has charged the First Lady of the United States with killing her philandering husband in the midst of a bedoom spat.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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Buckley, Christopher

Summary: Nick Naylor, chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies, undertakes a media blitz to defend the rights of smokers, a job that has unexpected repercussions when he is targeted by someone out to prove just how hazardous smoking can be.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2006

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Buckley, Christopher

Summary: "London, 1664. Twenty years after the English revolution, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II sits on the throne. The men who conspired to kill his father are either dead or disappeared. Baltasar 'Balty' St. Michel is twenty-four and has no skills and no employment. He gets by on handouts from his brother-in-law Samuel Pepys, an officer in the king's navy. Fed up with his needy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

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Buckley, Christopher

Summary: During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He's been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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Buckley, Christopher

Summary: Herb Nutterman, a long-time Trump Organization employee, unexpectedly becomes President Trump's White House chief of staff and finds himself entangled in Russian intrigue and leading the president's reelection campaign.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

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Buckley, Christopher

Summary: "The year is 1517. Dismas is a relic hunter: one who procures "authentic" religious relics for wealthy and influential clients. His two most important patrons are Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony and soon-to-be Cardinal Albrecht of Mainz. While Frederick is drawn to the recent writing of Martin Luther, Albrecht pursues the financial and political benefits of religion and seeks to buy a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

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Buckley, Christopher

Summary: When a television judge ends up on the Supreme Court, romance and the fate of a presidential election take center stage in this comic political satire.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2008

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Buckley, Christopher

Summary: Christopher Buckley provides hilarious insight on what could happen if the president were annoyed by the Senate for refusing one too many Supreme Court nominees. The answer? He would respond by nominating America's most popular TV judge.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008

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Summary: A charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco struggles with the twin demands of being successful at his job and acting as a good role model for his son.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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Heller, Joseph.

Summary: Presents the contemporary classic depicting the struggles of a United States airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II airbase. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996

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