Close, Jennifer
Summary: "A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Better Half tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among young Washington's aspiring elite. When Beth arrives in Washington, D.C., she hates everything about it: the confusing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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Summary: "A young wife follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington D.C., a city of idealism, ambition and complicated friendships among young Washington's aspiring elite"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLOClose, Jennifer
Summary: The story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among young Washington's aspiring elite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLOBernhardt, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERLeavitt, David
Summary: It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of friends, New Yorkers all, has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political catastrophe of their lives. They have just sat down to tea when their hostess, Eva Lindquist, proposes a dare. Who among them would be willing to ask Siri how to assassinate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEAMeltzer, Brad.
Summary: Michael Garrick, a young White House lawyer learns what it is like to fall in love with the world's most powerful daughter - the President's daughter. When they become ensnared in a scheme by a White House insider Michael trusts no one, not even Nora and battles to prove his innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MeltzGore, Kristin
Summary: A funny and moving debut novel about life on Capitol Hill as seen through the eyes of Samantha Joyce, a twenty-six year old health care analyst to Ohio Junior Senator Robert Gary. Hard working, idealistic, extremely competent as well as neurotic and prone to daydreaming, Sammy, as she's known to her friends, has little time for anything, much less a relationship. But in the midst of lobbying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GORQuirk, Matthew
Summary: "Framed and on the run for his life, a former Secret Service agent discovers how far some men will go to grasp the highest office in the land in this electrifying tale from the author of The Night Agent-a propulsive political thriller reminiscent of the best early Baldacci and Grisham novels"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC QUIQuirk, Matthew
Summary: No one was more surprised than FBI Agent Peter Sutherland when he's tapped to work in the White House Situation Room. When Peter was a boy, his father, a section chief in FBI counterintelligence, was suspected of selling secrets to the Russians. Peter has scrupulously done everything by the book, hoping his record will help him escape the taint of his past. At 1:05 a.m. the phone rings. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers 2019
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Summary: A young archivist working in the National Archives and his childhood crush accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact--a 200-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington--hidden inside a desk chair. Eager to discover why the President is hiding this important national treasure, the two soon find themselves entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. Large Print 2011
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Summary: Attorney Brad Miller, FBI agent Keith Evans, and private investigator Dana Cutler untangle a five-year-old murder case involving a ghost ship and the President's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "A game-changing peace treaty between Israel and the Saudis is nearly done. The secretary of state is headed to the region to seal the deal. And Special Agent Marcus Ryker is leading an advance trip along the Israeli-Lebanon border, ahead of the secretary's arrival. But when Ryker and his team are ambushed by Hezbollah forces, a nightmare scenario begins to unfold. The last thing the White...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROSAbrams, Stacey
Summary: "An inside-Washington thriller about an ambitious law clerk thrown into a life-or-death treasure hunt with major national implications when the Supreme Court justice she works for slips into a sudden coma"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ABRAbrams, Stacey
Summary: Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together. When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynn, the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile cases, has slipped into a coma, Avery's life turns upside down. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left instructions for her to serve as his legal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC ABRCoonts, Stephen
Summary: The daughter of an official at a minor bank in Estonia is kidnapped. CIA officer Tommy Carmellini is drawn into a murderous, international financial conspiracy that leaves a trail of death and corruption, extending from the small bank to the highest reaches of the Kremlin, to the halls of the Congress, and perhaps even to the CIA itself. In discovering the forces behind this blood-stained...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Fiction 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Coonts 2019Gore, Kristin
Summary: Twenty-something Sammy Joyce--hypochondriac, klutz, jumper-to-conclusions--is in the White House as a health-care advisor to the newly elected administration. Everything seems to be falling into place for her. However, soon after taking office, the administration finds itself deep in a red-hot scandal. President Wye's old problem with the bottle re-emerges. An informant within the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORMargolin, Phillip.
Summary: Hired by a prestigious D.C., attorney and Presidential confidant, ex-cop turned private eye Dana Cutler shadows campaign volunteer Charlotte Walsh--documenting the lovely political science major's whereabouts with pictures and voicemails. The boring surveillance becomes interesting one night when Charlotte has a clandestine meeting with the President of the United States. After the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARBaldacci, David.
Summary: Not far from Washington D.C., in a wooded area of Northern Virginia, a small house at the end of a gravel road serves a secret purpose. With its sophisticated security apparatus and hidden miniaturized cameras, it is being used by the FBI to interview one of the most important witnesses the agency has ever had, a young woman with an incredible story to tell. But others also know about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2014
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BALWilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILPatterson, Richard North.
Summary: President Kerry Kilcannon and his fiancee, television journalist Lara Costello, have at last decided to marry. But their wedding is followed by a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire, challenging their marriage and his presidency in ways so shattering and indelibly personal that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence and crush the most powerful lobby in Washington - the Sons of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATBaldacci, David.
Summary: "Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous adventure yet, a war on two fronts"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALLawson, Michael
Summary: Following an assassination attempt that wounds the president and kills the president's closest friend, General Andy Banks, the Secretary of Homeland Security, who had warned the Secret Service about the attack, initiates an investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWBuckley, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUCPatterson, Richard North.
Summary: When tragedy strikes at his own wedding, a young president takes on America's gun lobby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003