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Summary: "The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARBerry, Steve
Summary: "The next in New York Times top 5 bestseller Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series involves the Knights of Malta, papal conclave, and lost documents that could change history. A deadly race for the Vatican's oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest international Cotton Malone thriller. The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BERBerry, Steve
Summary: "A deadly race for the Vatican's oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest international Cotton Malone thriller. The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled Rome for Malta in search of a document that dates back to the 4th century and Constantine the Great. Former Justice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERVásquez, Juan Gabriel
Summary: A man who was arrested for attempting to steal a suit belonging to a murdered politician from a Columbian museum sets of a series of public fixations on conspiracy theories, assassinations, and the country's historical secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASEl Rashidi, Yasmine
Summary: "A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELRPasternak, Boris Leonidovich
Summary: Yuri Zhivago, doctor and poet, lives and loves during the first three decades of 20th-century Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1991
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PasternakCastleberry, Brian
Summary: "A stunning literary saga in the tradition of DeLillo and Egan, chronicling the unexpectedly and eerily intersecting lives of a lineage of American dreamers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASMallon, Thomas
Summary: Reimagines the turbulent second term and political relationships of a mercurial President George W. Bush from the perspectives of two West Texans with disparate ideological views.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALTapper, Jake
Summary: Charlie Marder is an unlikely Congressman. Thrust into office by his family ties after his predecessor died mysteriously, Charlie is struggling to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, DC, alongside his young wife Margaret, a zoologist with ambitions of her own. But when Charlie discovers a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of governance, he has to fight not only for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TAPCarroll, James
Summary: Vietnam: bitterly contested on the American home front and on the battlefields of Southeast Asia. Risking his vows to the priesthood and his status as a Korean War hero, Michael Maguire struggles with God and country in this thrilling novel of faith, truth, and honor, "so rich and vital it leaves you breathless."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARTapper, Jake
Summary: "It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up--and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong. Now he's off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt master Evel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAPTapper, Jake
Summary: In a fast-paced sequel to The Hellfire Club, Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington D.C., arrive in Los Angeles on their latest case, only to be pursued by sinister forces from Hollywood's stages to the newly founded Church of Scientology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TAPCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tapper 2021Litfin, Bryan M.
Summary: "Rome stands at the brink of war. Constantine's army is on the move. Will the barbarian warrior and the senator's daughter live to see the Empire bow the knee to Christ?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Litfin 2020Stephenson, Neal.
Summary: In the wake of a power struggle between the throne-seeking Tories and Whigs in early eighteenth-century England, Daniel Waterhouse teams up with Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group that uses time bombs to kill Natural Philosophers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEGreeley, Andrew M.
Summary: Approaching fifty, Chucky O'Malley finds himself in the grip of a debilitating midlife crisis and travels the world searching for a way to renew his weary spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GREArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: Embarking on a shared family life, Harry, Emma, Sebastian, and Jessica find their happiness challenged by Emma's brother's engagement to a fortune-seeker, Sebastian's hedonist pursuits, and a grudge-bearing enemy from the past who would destroy their careers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Archer 2013Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Summary: Re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and the resulting civil war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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Summary: "The year is 1998. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is a lonely American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny's bemused eyes, we watch global interests flock to her temporary backyard for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hearing rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror. We...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Media Reads, a Zando imprint 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIEEphron, Amy.
Summary: An American journalist is sent to 1890s Cuba to rescue from prison the daughter of an opponent of Spanish rule. The operation, which leads to love, is organized by a newspaper to raise support for war with Spain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPHFaulks, Sebastian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAUKillens, John Oliver
Summary: "A major literary event-the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the Black Arts Movement and mentor to celebrated writers, including Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Arthur Flowers, and Terry McMillan. Wanderlust has taken Jimmy Jay Leander Johnson on numerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 35, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KILMakiya, Kanan
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Republic of Fear, a gritty, unflinching, haunting novel about Iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 American war. Told from the perspective of a Shi'ite militiaman whose participation in the execution of Saddam Hussein changes his life in ways he could not anticipate, the novel examines the birth of sectarian politics out of a legacy of betrayal and victimhood....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAKMallon, Thomas
Summary: "Captures the crusading ideologies, blunders, and glamour of the still-hotly-debated Reagan years, taking readers to the political gridiron of Washington, the wealthiest enclaves of Southern California, and the volcanic landscape of Iceland, where the president engages in two almost apocalyptic days of negotiation with Mikhail Gorbachev"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALNaslund, Sena Jeter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2003