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The long-awaited memoir of her tumultuous year in office, A Woman First: First Woman is an intimate first-person account of the public and private lives of Selina Meyer, America's first woman president. Known and beloved throughout the world as a vocal and fearless advocate for adult literacy, fighting AIDS, our military families, and as a stalwart champion of the oppressed, especially the long-suffering people of Tibet, President Meyer is considered...
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The president of the United States stands on an outdoor stage, flanked by powerful members of his administration and party. Television crews are preparing for broadcast. High above the stage, on a nearby rooftop, a decorated sniper adjusts the scope on his rifle. Afterwards, America will never be the same. Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the law when a public act of violence throws the country into chaos...
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Stranger volume 2
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Tate Pub & Enterprises
Pub. Date
2012
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227 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
4) Blowback
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English
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US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they've sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
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305 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Dan Lenson is assigned to serve in the White House, taking over counter-narcotics efforts for President Robert De Bari, only to uncover a horrific terrorist plot to smuggle a dirty bomb into the United States.
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Black autumn companion volume 4
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2018.
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153 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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President Nathaniel "Dutch" McAdams and his family are swept away on Air Force One when a Black Swan event cripples the rattled American economy. Meant to be a safe-haven, he soon finds the violence in the air just as savage as the chaos on the ground.
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2021.
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English
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"Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL--and a past president--has always defended his family as staunchly as he has his country. Now those defenses are under attack. A madman abducts Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie--turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches in real time, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths: as a leader, a warrior, and a father"--
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[2023]
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English
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"For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets. So when Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can't turn down an invitation to visit the country. But what seems like an ordinary opportunity to preach the values of democracy quickly turns...
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Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xiii, 608 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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To implement his most ambitious plan of all, a ruthless billionaire must get President Jack Ryan out of the way and assembles the most vicious mercenaries alive to kidnap the First Lady.
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English
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The White House is the home of the President of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a U.S. President vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so? An unprecedented collaboration between President Bill Clinton and the world's bestselling novelist, James Patterson, The President Is Missing is a breathtaking story from the pinnacle of power. Full of what it truly feels like to...
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A Jack Ryan Novel volume 19
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Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
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11 audio discs (13 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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President Jack Ryan has faced many challenges, but this one is personal. A buddy of his from college days, Father Pat West, has been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam.
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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First published in 1935, when Americans were still largely oblivious to the rise of Hitler in Europe, this prescient novel tells a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy and offers an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.
Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip. The suspiciously fascist Windrip is
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Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"The nation's first female vice president is dead. The public, including international investigator Robert Brixton, believes it was natural causes, complications related to a long-hidden heart condition. Kendra Rendine, head of Vice President Stephanie Davenport's Secret Service security detail, covertly approaches Brixton to look deeper into Davenport's death. Brixton discovers that a rumored affair between Vice President Davenport and President...
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Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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x, 441 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"With the unexpected death of Russian president Aleksandr Luganov, and Iran's efforts to acquire fully operational nuclear warheads successfully thwarted, American president Andrew Clarke decides the moment has come to unveil his comprehensive proposal to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. However, when a series of senior American officials involved in the peace process are assassinated, Clarke orders Marcus Ryker and a team of CIA...
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Black Autumn volume 8
Publisher
Readyman
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
371 pages; 21 cm
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English
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"President Nathaniel 'Dutch' McAdams saves his family from the apocalypse but sacrifices his duty in the process. With the nation in ruins, he retreats into a brutal regimen of physical fitness and combat training, resolving to fight to the death as a partisan for the country he failed. His family settled among the Paiute Indians of Northern Nevada where, two months later, a Russian Spetsnaz unit comes searching for the nuclear missile control briefcase...
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[2017]
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English
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On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son's body. Willie finds himself in a strange purgatory-- the bardo-- where ghosts commisserate quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance ... and where a struggle erupts over...
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2001.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 66
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1137 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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Newly elected, Jack Ryan has found that being President is not easy: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; there's a revolution in Liberia; the Asian economy is going down the tubes; and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to assassinate the chairman of the SVR-the former KGB-with a rocket-propelled grenade. Were the potential assassins political enemies, the Russian Mafia, or disaffected former KGB? Or is something far more dangerous at work...
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Sean Dillon) volume 19
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English
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A devil is indeed waiting. The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Minister's private army are called in, augmented by an extraordinary new...
19) Below the belt
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Newly ensconced in his Santa Fe abode with a lovely female companion, Stone Barrington receives a call from an old friend requesting a delicate favor. A situation has arisen that could escalate into an explosive quagmire, and only someone with Stone's stealth and subtlety can contain the damage. At the center of these events is an impressive gentleman whose star is on the rise, and who'd like to get Stone in his corner. He's charming and ambitious...
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