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African American legislators African American presidential candidates Chisholm, Shirley 1924-2005 Legislators Presidential candidates Presidential candidates Fiction Presidential candidates United States Fiction Women journalists Fiction Women legislators Women presidential candidatesClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: While working on a television series that will focus on a woman senator who is running for vice-president, journalist Pat Traymore discovers terrible secrets that threaten to destroy the candidate's reputation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLASandford, John
Summary: Lucas Davenport is on a campaign tour with his friend, the governor, who is running for president. When he realizes someone is trying to assassinate the governor, Lucas must do everything he can to protect him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2016
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SANIsaacs, Susan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISATruman, Margaret
Summary: President Burton Pyle and candidate Robert Colgate are seeking the presidency in a coming election; two crimes begin to connect with the presidential race, the death of Rosalie Curzon, a Washington call girl, and the kidnapping of the daughter of Robert Colgate's close friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M TRUWiehl, Lis W
Summary: "How far would a candidate go to become President of the United States? In covering the presidential election campaign, star newsmaker Erica Sparks notices that favored candidate Senator Mike Ortiz seems dependent on his wife to an unnatural degree. Celeste Ortiz is a brilliant and glamorous billionaire who--along with her best friend and confidant Lily Lau--has engineered her husband's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIEFlynn, Vince.
Summary: Vice President Sherman Baxter is lagging in the polls, and he only has two weeks to salvage his sinking ship of a campaign. After delivering a speech at Georgetown University, things take a deadly turn for Baxter when his motorcade is ambushed by terrorists. His wife and several Secret Services agents are killed in the attack. As a result, Baxter wins the election on sympathy votes alone. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FlyCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FLYIsaacs, Susan
Summary: After Harvard and the Columbia School of Journalism, Amy becomes a political reporter for the prestigious weekly In Depth. While covering a political fund-raiser, Amy meets a college student who claims to be the son of one of the presidential candidates. It's precisely the sort of story that In Depth wouldn't deign to cover, but the idea of tracking down a lost parent and demanding recognition...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ISACunningham, Vinson
Summary: "I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency. When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2024
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Summary: "Dean and Dre, the seventeen-year-old sons of the Republican and Democratic candidates for president of the United States, fall in love on the sidelines of their parents' presidential campaigns"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUTMargolin, Phillip.
Summary: Writing sensational stories based on her own paranoid fears, Washington, D.C. tabloid reporter Vanessa Kohler pursues a theory about a government conspiracy to cover up a secret military unit and stumbles across a clandestine operation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS MARWoods, Stuart.
Summary: Will Lee has established himself as the respected Senator from Georgia. The Vice President has told Lee, confidentially, that he will not run for President and he urges Lee to announce his candidacy. But, when the President is felled by a stroke, the Vice President takes over. Uncertain of the Vice President's plans, Lee is in a perilous political position. Everywhere he turns, he sees layers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M WOOUris, Leon
Summary: A man who is seeking election as president of the United States discovers that his biological parents were Jews. He is Quinn O'Connell, a Jew adopted by Irish Catholic parents and his opponent prepares to exploit this.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URIMargolin, Phillip.
Summary: Writing sensational stories based on her own paranoid fears, Washington, D.C. tabloid reporter Vanessa Kohler pursues a theory about a government conspiracy to cover up a secret military unit and stumbles across a clandestine operation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARTata, A. J. (Anthony J.)
Summary: "How do you overturn an election?" It's a question that has obsessed presidential candidate Jamie Carter ever since her loss to businessman and political neophyte President Jack Smart. In spite of the election results, she's determined to take what she sees as her rightful place in the White House--through any means possible. First, she establishes residency in North Carolina. Then, when the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TATChua, Amy
Summary: "Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUAgresti, Aimee
Summary: Thrust into Washington, D.C.'s most influential circle when her fiance runs for office, Cady Davenport finds an unlikely group of friends in the spouses of other political candidates who have been left behind for the election trail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AGRPepper, David (David A.)
Summary: Can someone heist the majority of the House of Representatives with no one noticing? That's the electoral coup that turns America upside down in The people's house...until one man notices. Youngstown reporter Jack Sharpe stumbles across an odd election result in the Ohio Congressional district he covers. The story takes him far beyond his corner of Ohio as he discovers an international...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Helena Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEPMerullo, Roland.
Summary: The American political system is thrown into a tizzy when Jesus appears and announces that he is planning to run for president, sending the two major party candidates and the world media into a last-ditch effort to discredit him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MERQuinlan, Skye
Summary: Harper McKinley is many things: a band geek, the daughter of the school dean, the daughter of the Republican presidental candidate... and the alleged owner of a lesbian profile on Tinder. Since Tinder profiles are forbidden for students at her school, and being gay is not in line with the family values of her father's political party, Harper faces serious consequences on two fronts if anyone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co., Macmillan 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC QUIMilbrandt, Dave
Summary: "When high school teacher Myles Bradford wins the Powerball lottery, he decides to do something truly unexpected: run for President of the United States. Bradford is eager about the opportunity, but his family clearly is not. With little time to sway them to his side, he's thrust into running a quarter-billion-dollar nationwide campaign, complete with cross-country flights and road trips,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ambassador International 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILPatterson, Richard North.
Summary: Corey Grace, a Republican senator from Ohio noted for voting his own conscience rather than the party line, becomes locked in a no-holds-barred presidential primary campaign with his rival, a member of the party establishment and leader of the Christian right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATPearson, Ridley.
Summary: Eight years ago, in Sun Valley--snowcapped playground for the wealthy and ambitious--all that stood between New York State attorney general Elizabeth Shaler and a knife-wielding killer was local patrolman Walt Fleming. Now Liz Shaler returns to Sun Valley as the crown jewel and keynote speaker for billionaire Patrick Cutter's world-famous C3, a media and communications conference where the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAPatterson, Richard North.
Summary: Corey Grace, a Republican senator from Ohio noted for voting his own conscience rather than the party line, becomes locked in a no-holds-barred presidential primary campaign with his rival, a member of the party establishment and leader of the Christian right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance Audiobook 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) is a hero and trailblazer. She was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972). Written by award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome, here is her story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023