Ferber, Edna
Summary: Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Doran and Company 1930
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERRobinson, Kim Stanley.
Summary: Environmental aide Charlie Quibler is frustrated in his attempts to prove to the government that global warming has reached cataclysmic levels, a situation that is complicated when a promising technology is exploited for private interests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SF Robinson 2004Sandford, John
Summary: Summoned by the White House chief of staff to investigate a series of elected official disappearances, Army intelligence veteran Jacob Winter finds the situation worsening when one of the missing victims is found brutally murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREBoxer, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOXHuston, James W.
Summary: An American president refuses to attack Indonesia for a terrorist hit on a U.S. ship, so Congress goes over his head and an aircraft carrier strikes. A look at the Letters of Marque and Reprisal, a little-known law which empowers Congress to do this.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow and Co. 1998
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Summary: At the request of the White House, Jake Winter investigates the disappearance of former Senator Lincoln Bowe. But the trail of clues leads Jake into the heart of a scandal that could cost him his life and topple the federal government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2006
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Summary: Summoned by the White House chief of staff to investigate a series of elected official disappearances, Army intelligence veteran Jacob Winter finds the situation worsening when one of the missing victims is found brutally murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOXRosenstiel, Tom
Summary: "It's presidential primary season in Washington, D.C., and both parties are on edge. At campaign rallies for all the candidates around the country, there are disturbing incidents of violence and protest and shocking acts of civil disobedience. Peter Rena and Randi Brooks are happy to sit it out. Against this backdrop, Wendy Upton, the highly respected centrist senator, must make a choice: she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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Summary: When the deaths of several high-level politicians are linked to a single professional killer, new president Will Lee, with the help of his CIA director wife, follows leads from a quiet D.C. suburb to an island hideaway in Maine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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Summary: After a mysterious fatal car accident kills his predecessor, Congressman Charlie Marder struggles to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, D.C., where he finds an underworld of backroom deals, secret societies, and a conspiracy at the highest levels of the government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tapper 2018Baldacci, David.
Summary: "The assassination of the Speaker of the House sets the members of the Camel Club in a race to prevent a silent yet bloody coup in Washington"--Provided by the publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Summary: Sabrina Galloway is one of the top scientists at EchoEnergy, a company that has made a successful breakthrough in the quest for an alternative fuel. There is the promise of a cleaner tomorrow, and the economic impact on world markets could be staggering. But in the euphoria of excitement, Sabrina makes an alarming discovery: someone has tampered with the production process, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2007
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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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Summary: The assassination of the Speaker of the House sets the members of the Camel Club in a race to prevent a silent yet bloody coup in Washington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner 2006
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Summary: "A breathless and highly charged political thriller: the story of a senator who is offered the VP slot by both parties' presidential nominees and then gets ominous threats."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2019
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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