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Summary: "...Hackberry Holland makes his first appearance in this early gem...Against the backdrop of growing civil rights turmoil in a sultry border town, the hard-drinking ex-POW attorney yields to the myriad of urgings of his wife, his brother, and his so-called friends to make a bid for a congressional seat--and finds himself embroiled in the seamy world of Texas powerbrokers. And when Hack attempts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURO'Brien, Tim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRJohnston, E. K.
Summary: Padmé is adjusting to being a wartime senator during the Clone Wars. Her secret husband, Anakin Skwyalker, is off fighting the war, and excels at being a wartime Jedi. In contrast, when Padmé gets the opportunity to see the casualties on the war-torn front lines, she is horrified. The stakes have never been higher for the galaxy, or for the newly-married couple. Meanwhile, with Padmé on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Lucasfilm Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JOHDiamond, Diana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DIAWright, Lawrence
Summary: "Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, he bought his own bull at auction, saving it from being sold to a slaughterhouse. But when a fire breaks out at a neighbors farm, Sonny makes headlines in another way: Not waiting for help, he bolts to the farm and heroically saves the familys daughter and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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Summary: "Inspired by Mrs. Dalloway and Sula, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel about two Philadelphia women at midlife who rediscover themselves-and perhaps each other"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLDimberg, Kelsey Rae
Summary: Finn Hunt is working a dull office job when she meets the city's First Family, Philip and Marina Martin and their daughter. She eagerly agrees to be their nanny. But behind every façade lurks a less attractive truth. While Finn becomes caught up in a web of deceit, she too has a background she has hidden. Under the hot Phoenix sun, everything is about to be laid bare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DIMDate, S. V. (Shirish V.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DATAdebayo, Ayobami
Summary: "A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two people caught in the riptides of wealth, power, poverty, and corruption, by the celebrated author of Stay With Me"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLYCoelho, Paulo.
Summary: "A woman around her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: a solid and stable marriage, a loving husband, sweet and well-behaved children and a job as a journalist she can't complain about. However, she can no longer bear the necessary effort to fake happiness when all she feels in life is an enormous apathy. All that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COEChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: "Kate Chase was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of Salmon P. Chase. Her father was Abraham Lincoln's secretary of the treasury, and he aspired to even greater heights. Kate stepped into the role of establishing her thrice-widowed father in Washington society and as a future presidential candidate. Her efforts were successful enough that The Washington...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIGorman, Edward.
Summary: Dev Conrad has spent several years as a paid consultant to senators and congressmen, but not even Dev's skepticism can prepare him for what he finds when he's abruptly pulled in to help get Senator Warren Nichols re-elected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GORDimberg, Kelsey Rae
Summary: Accepting what she believes will be a dream job from a prominent political family, a young nanny is dazzled by her employers' glamorous life before a mysterious stranger draws her into a menacing web of secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIMSanchez, Jasper
Summary: Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SANClinton, Hillary Rodham
Summary: This high-stakes thriller follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray, and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC PENWeiner, Jennifer.
Summary: A politician's wife retreats with her grown daughters to a Connecticut beach house after a painful public betrayal, an escape marked by new beginnings and her younger daughter's pregnancy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEIArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, twin brothers are accidentally separated at birth. One brother grows up to be a war hero in Vietnam and a successful 1990s bank executive, while the other distinguishes himself as a lawyer and politician. When both men decide to run for governor, they learn the truth about their kinship-- and must face its tragic consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARCBeres, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Medallion Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERO'Connell, J. P.
Summary: "Hotel Portofino has only been open a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its coproprietor Bella Ainsworth. She is short of staff and ready money. Her high-class guests are demanding and hard to please. And she is being targeted by a scheming and corrupt local politician, who threatens to drag her into the red-hot political cauldron of Mussolini's Italy. To make matters worse,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCOChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase, rose to prominence in the antebellum years and was appointed secretary of the treasury in Abraham Lincoln' s cabinet, while aspiring to even greater heights. Beautiful, intelligent, regal, and entrancing, young Kate Chase stepped into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIModesitt, L. E.
Summary: "L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio, continues his brand new, gaslamp, political fantasy series with Councilor the thrilling sequel to Isolate. Continued poor harvests and steam-powered industrialization displace and impoverish thousands. Protests grow and gather followers. Against this rising tide of social unrest, Steffan Dekkard, newly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODCampbell, R. Wright.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1991
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CAMVachss, Andrew H.
Summary: The time, 1959-and America. The place-a small, entirely corrupt Midwestern burg named Locke City, currently owned top to bottom by homegrown Royal Beaumont. Crippled by a childhood disease, Royal rules from a wheelchair-throne; few, though, have ever doubted that his power is absolute. Or not until now, when rival mobs-one Irish, one Italian-suddenly sense windows of opportunity. They lurk at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005