World War O
"World War Offshore" - no one knows how it started, or who's behind it, but one thing's for certain: it's the biggest anti-capitalist demonstration the world has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, spread across six continents, demanding an end to the "non-accountability of the 1%", re-regulation of the world's financial services, and a new era of social justice.MI7 takes the view that it's a problem best left to the appropriate law enforcement agencies - with the exception of one little detail. In order to get off the ground so effectively, its organisers had to bypass GCHQ in Britain, and the NSA in America. A breathtakingly impressive achievement, and possibly an ominous one. Next time, whoever does that may not be so benign. Agent John Mordred is assigned to investigate. His enquiry takes him halfway across the globe before depositing him in the Crown dependency of Jersey for what looks like a war of attrition.
Act of Treason
The fallout from a horrific Washington explosion has just begun, along with CIA superagent Mitch Rapp's hunt for a killer with a personal agenda in this "fun, finger-blistering page-turner" (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series. In the final weeks of a fierce presidential campaign, a motorcade carrying candidate Josh Alexander is shattered by a car bomb. Soon after the attack, Alexander is carried to victory by a sympathy vote, but his assailants have not been found. When CIA director Irene Kennedy and Special Agent Skip McMahon receive damaging intelligence on Washington's most powerful players, they call on Mitch Rapp--the one man reckless enough to unravel a global network of contract killers on an explosive mission that leads back to the heart of our nation's capital...and the inner sanctum of the Oval Office. "Taut writing and [a] plausible vision of the real work of the intelligence community" (Publishers Weekly) make Act of Treason an unputdownable and heart-pounding thriller.
Down Goes Trump
Down Goes Trump is a collection of satirical stories, based on news, about the entertaining but absurd and often quite dangerous events following the election of President Donald J. Trump in November 2016 until shortly after his loss to Joe Biden four years later.In addition to fictionalized first-person entries by Trump and contemporary political and social personalities Nancy Pelosi, Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, James Mattis, Rex Tillerson, John Bolton, Maxine Waters, Meryl Streep, Melania Trump, and many others, the author offers unexpected commentary by historical figures including Martin Luther King, General Robert E. Lee, Babe Ruth, Joseph Stalin, the Ayatollah Khomeini, and General Douglas MacArthur.There are no filters as Trump blunders the nation and world toward a nuclear confrontation with North Korea, a war with Iran, backs out of international agreements, wages psychological war again people of color in the United States, and bungles containment of the coronavirus. Buckle your seatbelts for a turbulent ride.
Greenbrier Chronicles
Greenbrier Chronicles is the story of how I became aware of critical environmental issues, from my early childhood through 40 years of medical practice, to my early years of retirement. In a quest to redefine my personal goals as I aged, I relate a number of personal vignettes that I believe are pivotal to my development, including obsessions with water, medicine and chemistry. This search for my Personal Legend comes to an inevitable conclusion: Climate change and environmental welfare are issues no one should ignore.As an added treat, this story centers primarily in the beautiful Greenbrier Cove of East Tennessee, my family's favorite vacation locale since I was five. It is here that the fictional Think Tank from Alpha Centauri emerges to help elucidate the climate debate. Through arguments made in this unlikely scenario, I expose the debates most contentious issues. Although this may seem to undermine my credibility, the result is raw insight into the most important dilemma facing out country in the 21st century, one that's being played as a chess game without the people's knowledge.
The Secret Witness
The story follows a female protagonist Constantia Dudley and her relationship with the mysterious Ormond. The Dudley family lives in New York where they get victimized by a trusted employee who embezzles their money and leave them in huge debt. They are forced to move to Philadelphia where they endure the loss of their mother, a yellow fever epidemic, rigors of winter and the exactions of landlords. Constantia, the daughter of the family, manages to keep the family afloat by her efforts and determination. Her luck changes when she meets Ormond, a wealthy military projector and conscientious atheist, who falls in love with her. Ormond helps the Dudley family to rise from poverty and makes numerous efforts to win Constantia's heart. The Secret Witness thematically focuses on the ways in which individuals change in reaction to their social environments. The novel thoroughly explores the republicanism and republican values common to the early American nation.
The Girl from Kandahar
In Afghanistan, British secret servicewoman Marcie Brown, posing as the third wife of one of ISAF's most trusted operatives, is killed in a drone strike. Or at least, that's what the official report states. Deep inside enemy territory, what remains of her body is deemed irrecoverable. Seven thousand miles away, her grieving husband, MI7 officer Nicholas Fleming, joins a police investigation which stumbles onto an Islamist plot to bomb central London. Handed responsibility for the counter-terrorism initiative, he uncovers evidence that one of the bombers is his wife. By degrees, the utterly unbelievable becomes plausible and, at last, undeniable. And to make matters worse, there's evidence that she's slowly recovering her memory ...
Exposed
Rashin joined the others in the recitation they always said before they ate: "We are the invisible hand of justice, the caretakers of humanity, the voice of reason when the world becomes unreasonable." Rashin believed in those words. Anton D. Morris has concocted not only a swiftly-paced suspense churner, he has also constructed a compelling premise about people's lot in life-how they got where they are-and whether or not they have the wherewithal to change life as they know it. Pacific Book Review Rashin is part of a Black secret society. He has a daughter and two sons. Cassandra's a scrupulous lawyer. Jason runs an international company. Horus runs for President of the United States. Horus has wit, charm, voter's confidence, and a troubling family secret that an upstart journalist wants to Expose. Morris has created more here than just another political potboiler. His examination of black families' ties to one another challenges readers to think twice about their own deeply held convictions ... Morris deftly interweaves socioeconomic theory and good old-fashioned storytelling. He keeps readers involved to the very end or perhaps even longer. -Recommended by Premium US Review of Books
The Social Magus
Everyone knows UK general elections aren't what they used to be. British politics, Westminster in particular, is mired in an integrity crisis. Expenses scandals, cash for questions, a tainted honours system and other wrong-turns have created a deeply disillusioned electorate. Enter Real Alternative, a bold new party with a youthful, charismatic leader and a radical manifesto. True, it stands to win very few seats, but what really matters is that it has galvanised the young and apathetic. And it apparently has the establishment running scared.Yet RA may be more vulnerable than it looks. Who's funding it? No one quite knows. If its backers are foreign, that would constitute a clear breach of electoral commission rules - which would please a lot of people in Whitehall.Agent John Mordred is assigned to investigate.
Colt’s Crisis
The Colt Garrett Series is a spy-thriller centering on defense policy wonk Colt Garrett. When the U.S. Secretary of Defense suddenly dies, creating political intrigue, Colt Garrett is appointed by the President to the second-most powerful job in the world. While onboard USS Ronald Reagan in the Western Pacific, he must find and recover missing biological warheads hidden in South Korea before U.S. efforts to bring peace to the region are derailed. Colt's son is a Navy pilot onboard the Reagan, and they struggle to repair their severely strained relationship, while Russian agents conspire to assassinate the new SECDEF before he can influence policy against Russian interests. Espionage, politics, betrayal, romance and assassination all while embarked on one of the most powerful ships in the world combine in this military tech thriller.Colt Garrett Book Categories1.- Spies & Politics2.- Thrillers and Mysteries 3.- Action thrillers4.- Suspense thrillers5.- Espionage6.- Political Intrigue7.- War & Military
I Was a VIP on 11/22/63
This novel is a suspenseful story of a presidential assassin based on real life events. We follow the assassin through his diary, letters, radio shows, and descriptions of his actions. Readers can peer into the mind of this assassin and see how he tries to fulfill his goals, despite numerous blockades. The novel is interspersed with extracts from real world leaders adding an opportunity to know more about the thinking of many other people as they discussed real momentous events in the novel.
The House
After the rogue administrations of Donald Trump and Alexander Baldwin have exposed the weaknesses of our constitutional order the nation has had enough. It calls a constitutional convention to reform our political system. Steve Schmidt, bestselling author of Independence, a novel of contemporary American politics, reports on the convention for the Atlantic Monthly. He has also reconnected with an old flame setting his life on two compelling, side by side tracks.
Machine-Ecole
Machine-Ecole raconte l'histoire d'un ministre de l'矇ducation, devenu Pr矇sident de la R矇publique, qui va mettre en place son grand projet: une 矇cole machine qui s'appuie sur les neurosciences, la neurop矇dagogie et les progr癡s de l'informatique, d矇sormais capables de cr矇er des 矇l癡ves augment矇s.Machine-Ecole c'est encore l'histoire de deux France qui se combattent: une France Populaire et une France plus bourgeoise qui ne partagent pas la m礙me vision de la soci矇t矇 et de l'individu.Machine-Ecole, c'est enfin le r矇cit du pouvoir grandissant des grandes firmes num矇riques, bien d矇cid矇es ? faire l'histoire.
Democracy
FOR reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington. She was in excellent health, but she said that the climate would do her good. In New York she had troops of friends, but she suddenly became eager to see again the very small number of those who lived on the Potomac. It was only to her closest intimates that she honestly acknowledged herself to be tortured by ennui. Since her husband's death, five years before, she had lost her taste for New York society; she had felt no interest in the price of stocks, and very little in the men who dealt in them; she had become serious. What was it all worth, this wilderness of men and women as monotonous as the brown stone houses they lived in? In her despair she had resorted to desperate measures. She had read philosophy in the original German, and the more she read, the more she was disheartened that so much culture should lead to nothing-nothing.
Eugenics and Other Evils
I publish these essays at the present time for a particular reason connected with the present situation; a reason which I should like briefly to emphasise and make clear. Though most of the conclusions, especially towards the end, are conceived with reference to recent events, the actual bulk of preliminary notes about the science of Eugenics were written before the war. It was a time when this theme was the topic of the hour; when eugenic babies (not visibly very distinguishable from other babies) sprawled all over the illustrated papers; when the evolutionary fancy of Nietzsche was the new cry among the intellectuals; and when Mr. Bernard Shaw and others were considering the idea that to breed a man like a cart-horse was the true way to attain that higher civilisation, of intellectual magnanimity and sympathetic insight, which may be found in cart-horses. It may therefore appear that I took the opinion too controversially, and it seems to me that I sometimes took it too seriously. But the criticism of Eugenics soon expanded of itself into a more general criticism of a modern craze for scientific officialism and strict social organisation.
The Optimistic Futurian
The Optimistic Futurian started out as a social experiment to combat the daily struggle of social media and the 24-hour news cycle. The pessimistic ranting and negativity drove me to create a series of short stories about the world my son will inherit from an optimistic perspective. These 17 stories don't show a dystopian nightmare of zombies or mutants. Instead, they show a younger generation tasked with the survival of the human race flourishing in spite of all criticism. From tera-forming Mars to creating an intelligent response to the growing student loan crisis this generation does what we only dreamed. They turn their empathy into a beacon for the world to see, creating a world based on character and turning a dying world into a symbol of human exceptionalism. If you are someone who thought we'd be closer to Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek vision by now, then this book is for you.
The Club II
We lured him to a motel with a promised sexual encounter unlike anything he'd ever known. We made good on our promise-there was no sex, but it was without doubt unlike anything he'd ever known. We spiked his drink, teased, and toyed with him until he passed out. Then we tied him up, duct-taped his mouth, threw him into the trunk of our car and drove him to an abandoned farmhouse in the woods where he could scream himself hoarse without anyone hearing him. We waited until the drug wore off and then introduced him to pain. In the end we gave him a choice; he could tell us what we wanted to know and die quickly or die stripped naked with syrup poured in his ears, nose, eyes, and on other areas of his body while tied down in the vicinity of a fire ant community. We took him outside where he could view the area-there were dozens of ant hills. I thanked him for his cooperation and made sure he saw me smile as I slit his throat. I can only speculate as to how deep corruption goes and who is involved in any given circumstance. I only know I will never fully trust my government ever again."
Sequence of Protocol
In every fiction, there's a bit of truth. In the mid-1960' and early 1970s, some of the most dangerous and ruthless young black men from the brutal streets of Philadelphia formed an alliance within the Nation of Islam's Mosque Number 12. Believing wholeheartedly in the teachings of Elijah Muhammad and his vision of self-sufficiency, they saw themselves as pioneers of a new black nation. Committed to do whatever was necessary, including becoming involved in organized crime and murder.
The Club
Geoff arrived home, was arrested, tried, found guilty, and executed for his fiancees' murder-a crime he did not commit. He awoke from a drug-induced coma to learn his execution had been faked and he now owed the Club the next ten years of his life. He accepted the Club's conditions and became a member--there was no choice. The Founding Fathers having fled tyrannical monarchies of Europe established the Club as insurance against their greatest fear-a corrupt and ever expanding central government. The first name on the Club's founding documents can be found on the American Declaration of Independence.
Not穩cia N瓊o 矇 Poesia. Ou 矇?
Livro de poesias sobre not穩cias. O jornalista Diego Machado transformou a repercuss瓊o de not穩cias em poesia. Alguns desses fatos ganharam os ve穩culos e polarizaram o bate-papo. O olhar destes poemas sai da inten癟瓊o (sempre frustrada do jornalismo) da imparcialidade e critica, opina e se coloca diante de not穩cias que, at矇 num mundo absurdo e inimagin獺vel, seria de se estranhar. Aconteceram e viraram versos.
El Islam en Cuba
El Islam en Cuba聶Un hecho aislado o un fen籀meno social?Esta obra aborda el tema del Islam en Cuba, particularmente estudia la comunidad Isl獺mica Cubana.El autor realiza un profundo an獺lisis sobre historia, tradici籀n y costumbres, as穩 como la inserci籀n del Islam en las principales religiones cubanas.Este libro invita a un di獺logo franco y espiritual, donde se pueden convertir las diferencias en interesantes puntos de vista; donde la historia se vuelve arte, y el discurso teol籀gico, poes穩a, mostr獺ndonos en esencia qui矇nes realmente somos, ya que el Islam no es un elemento ajeno a nuestra sociedad, sino que se encuentra insertado en nuestras m獺s aut矇nticas ra穩ces.
Mesnadas del pueblo
Mesnadas del pueblo es una obra de personajes ficticios que se desarrolla en las postrimer穩as del siglo XX.La idea de esta novela comenz籀 con los recuerdos que nos llegaron a la mente de aquellos hombres de a pi矇 que sufrieron los embates de la violencia pol穩tica, social y econ籀mica, suscitada en la selva peruana. Pobladores que se convirtieron en protagonistas de esta guerra milenaria, no porque fueron la causa, sino el efecto.Efecto traducido en miseria, muerte, olvido, orfandad, falta de oportunidad e impotencia de no poder accionar frente a los sanguinarios invasores, y al final, obligados por las circunstancias, esta poblaci籀n 矇tnica reaccion籀 por instinto de supervivencia ante la casi total inoperancia de un Estado que se ca穩a tambi矇n a pedazos; que m獺s que seguridad, su sola presencia causaba total inseguridad por su tambi矇n permanente implementada represi籀n contra 矇stos.
The Kramski Case
When someone starts assassinating paparazzi in three countries, MI7 sits up. Apparently, the killer is none other than Dmitri Vassyli Kramski, retired SVR field-operative and former Kremlin prot矇g矇. True, the Cold War is long finished, but everyone knows Vladimir Putin is as unhappy for Russia to play second fiddle on the international stage as even the most strident of his Communist predecessors. In 2010 therefore, East-West relations remain as tortuous as ever. Kramski's trail leads deep into London's 矇migr矇 community, forcing his pursuers into conflict with an unknown organisation bent on protecting him. Bit by bit, he begins to look less like a professional assassin and more like someone plotting to scupper the foundations of Western democracy itself. To compound matters, the Russians are as baffled by him as anyone.
The Flying Inn
The Flying Inn is set in a future England where the Temperance movement has allowed a bizarre form of "Progressive" Islam to dominate the political and social life of the country. Because of this, alcohol sales to the poor are effectively prohibited, while the rich can get alcoholic drinks "under a medical certificate". The story relates the adventures of Humphrey Pumph and Captain Patrick Dalroy, who roam the country in their cart with a barrel of rum in an attempt to evade Prohibition, exploiting loopholes in the law to temporarily prevent the police taking action against them. Eventually the heroes and their followers foil an attempted coup by an Islamic military force.
Memories of Lasting Shadows
It has been forty years since the United States of America abolished abortion. The long debate, which brought so much division and discord, was finally brought to an end, and two generations of citizens have reached maturity in this new normal.United States Senator Benjamin Pettus was alive when choice was the law of the land. A doctor by profession, over the past several years, he has struggled to preserve a sweeping federal healthcare law he helped create.Roberta Sheridan was born and raised in a world where terminating an unborn child is both illegal and unthinkable. A devout Christian and principled journalist, Roberta is about to discover that the past is never truly gone.Memories of Lasting Shadows takes readers into a vision of the future, where a nation comes to terms with its dark past and struggles to determine its present. A political thriller, the story navigates the D.C. area's partisanship, oratories, protests, and Beltway maneuvering which come together to forge a vast industry of ideological conflict.
GOTCHA!
Nine-time Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Ed. Weinberger, known for his work on such legendary comedies as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, and The Cosby Show, imagines an alternate Trump 2020 presidential campaign in this hilarious new novel.In GOTCHA! Weinberger creates a chaotic world inhabited by America's 45th President where cheating at golf is taken for granted; Fox anchors are valued advisors; and hydroxychloroquine is promoted as a COVID-19 cure.Spanning the critical period from March 5, 2020 to January 24, 2021, GOTCHA! takes readers into Trump's private world as he meets with his re-election committee, has a hush-hush dinner with Laura Ingraham, makes an angry early-morning call to Don, Jr., and asks Melania whether his bullet-proof vest makes him look fat. Trump tries to rush through a COVID-19 vaccine; attempts to build rapport with African Americans; and even gets away with shooting a protester on Fifth Avenue-an incident applauded by the NRA. With an entertaining mix of fiction and satire, this provocative novel looks into the corrupt, three-ring-circus that is Washington in the new normal.
The Dance of the Eagle and the Condor
Have you ever wondered what needs to change to achieve a thriving world that is more compassionate, caring and inclusive? A world that works for everyone, not just the elite 1%? After all, what's the definition of madness - to keep doing the same thing and expect different results?This novel is the story of a woman of Inca heritage called Ang矇lica who embarks on a quest to understand what global frameworks need to change to realise her vision of a fairer, more humane global community that respects the earth. A nuanced love story about a woman's determination to strive for a better world, despite obstacles and setbacks, political inertia and betrayal.A novel to help guide the world beyond the age of Trump.
Extreme Measures, Volume 11
#1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn delivers a white-knuckled rollercoaster ride of a novel featuring "the best hero the thriller genre has to offer" (The Real Book Spy) as Mitch Rapp wages a war against a new enemy with the help of a fellow soldier as dedicated--and as lethal--as they come. Counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his colleague Mike Nash may have finally met their match. The CIA has intercepted two terrorist cells, but a third--led by a dangerous mastermind determined to become al-Qaeda's new leader--is believed to be on the loose. With such a terrifyingly deadly enemy out there, Rapp needs the best of the best by his side and he believes he has that with Nash. Together, they have made careers out of meeting violence with extreme violence and have never wavered in the top-secret fight against the war on terrorism. Both have been forced to lie to virtually every single person they care about, and both have soldiered on with the knowledge that their lethal tactics have saved thousands of lives. But certain leaders on Capitol Hill are pushing to have men like Rapp and Nash put on a short leash. And then one spring afternoon in Washington, DC, everything changes. With nonstop action and ripped-from-the-headlines writing, Extreme Measures is the political thriller of our time and proves once again that, "in the world of black-ops thrillers, Mitch Rapp continues to be among the best of the best" (Booklist, starred review).
We Care
It has been three years since Nod was introduced by the Author in the "Department of Compassionate Services." Nod's life, as bear with PTSD and Depression, has not greatly improved. He continues to suffer from hallucination, flashbacks and nightmares. This book continues to examine his mental health while he attempts to deal with the Covid19 pandemic.
Hashticharot’s Revolution
Do you want to live in the new normal? Where bands of thugs roam the streets of our cities, where there remain no monuments to our past, where silence reigns before the cultural bullies, where any executive can eliminate any right by fiat, where our most sacred liberties may only be exercised by permission. Is this the nation we want our children and grandchildren to inherit? This does not have to be the end but we cannot continue our contest for liberty as we have in the past. The despots, the socialists and communists, they have stacked the deck so far in their favor that the traditional methods of voting, protesting, the courts; well, the results speak for themselves-look where we are. The truth is we have gotten to this point because we have been cooperating with our own subjugation by accepting the premise that because we live in a democracy we are bound by whatever our elected representatives decide to do. We are not. If our rulers make decisions or pass laws that violate our rights, those laws and decisions are illegitimate, morally and legally according to our founding documents. We are under no obligation to comply. If we are to reclaim our liberty we must take non-compliance beyond the individual. In recent years we have seen both the left and the right utilize this tactic; Sanctuary Cities and Second Amendment Sanctuaries. But ALL our rights are under attack so we need a comprehensive approach. We need Constitutional Sanctuaries, places where the violation of our rights and the looting of our property is resisted within an 'inferior' body politic-cities, counties, even states. "Hashticharot's Revolution" is the sequel to "And Hashticharot Smiled" and follows five poker buddies in central Virginia who become part of a revolution to restore freedom. Through their actions and conversations they provide the rationale, motivation and practical implementation of a Constitutional Sanctuary. It is also an extrapolation of current events and trends to the near future and the characters provide plenty of insights into their negative effects on liberty. If you have been frustrated with our slide into tyranny, a slide that has become a plummet, if you have voted and marched and protested the abolition of our fundamental rights to no apparent effect, Hashticharot's Revolution provides a blueprint for actually restoring the liberty that is our birthright as Americans and human beings.
The Book No One is Writing
Either the incumbent Bond President Abel Abraham or his Crack challenger CD Dizzy will be president in 24hrs. In this timeframe, each man engages in and remembers a bunch of situations that lucidly reveal their quality of character and the nature of the political party they belong too. Here is a satirical take on America that will encourage readers to think deeply about what kind of people and policies will achieve a healthy government and a free society. By the end of this brief book, the answer will be obviously clear. America's future depends on the right choice, so read this book to find out who that is. My main interests align with creative endeavors. I'm a college graduate who prefers educating himself out of class.
Back to Bukhara
"Back to Bukhara" (in 335 pages) is the story of Malika, a young and curious Tajik woman. She is seeking peace and solitude in the Netherlands when a letter from a friend takes her back to Bukhara, her hometown in Uzbekistan. The story behind the letter and the friend who wrote it involves a long-lost manuscript and her quest to find it results in a confrontation with the country's national security guards. Although she does not succeed in finding this document, she returns with another, much more important book written by a local writer, her old history teacher, who has suffered interrogation in his land many times for his writings. His book is about a murderous Emir of Bukhara, one who was responsible for executing peaceful messengers from outside the region, as well as brutally murdering many of his wives. Shahzoda Nazarova Samarqandi is a Tajik award winning writer, who writes in Tajik/Persian language and this is her an English debut novel edited by David Maytum.
Operation Navajo
2022 Kirkus Review Editor's Choice--"Great Indie Books Worth Discovering" "The novel offers intriguing surprises. A smart, fast-paced thriller."--Kirkus Reviews"Whoever controls the flow of the money supply, irrespective of whether it is fiat or gold currency, is the one to fear."Amid the dissension and turmoil of the launch of gold-backed currency, the Federal Reserve Chairman, Frank Littleton, receives a cryptic warning of a plot inside the Federal Reserve to assassinate him.He contacts the one person he can trust, the head of the elite FBI Tracker unit, Scott Fleming. A clandestine meeting in the middle of the night leaves Fleming holding a political time bomb. How can he stop the assassination of the 2nd most powerful man in the federal government when he's been sworn to secrecy?A mysterious message sent to the Tracker office adds to the impasse. No one can decipher it.Written in a decades-old code used by the Navajo Code Talkers in World War II, is it a message from the dead?When a Tracker agent joins forces with an Interpol agent to infiltrate the inner sanctum of the Federal Reserve, the agents become the killer's target.Can they survive to stop the assassination and prevent a global financial cataclysm?
The Allegations
DC Attorney and TV News commentator Elaine Bower-Camden is waiting for the call of her life., from the Attorney General of the United States nominating her for a federal judgeship appointment. But when she answers the phone, it's a reporter asking "what do you have to say about April McFarland's allegations against your husband?" In an instant the best day of her life turns into a nightmare, especially for a woman whose legal career is defined by championing the rights of women. Fearful that her judicial appointment could be jeopardized by accusations that Ted committed sexual assault, Elaine cuts herself off completely from him. For Elaine there is only one path forward -- to believe the victim, unequivocally. But when disturbing patterns begin to emerge between Ted's accuser, an anonymous DC gossip blogger, and the wife of a Senator involved in his own gender discrimination lawsuit, Elaine has to follow the truth. What she ultimately discovers cements Starr Sanders as a master of the unexpected ending.
Gotcha!
"...my favorite kind of satire; wonderfully observed and bitingly funny. It cuts so close to the bone, you'll think you're a staffer on the campaign. It's the perfect tonic to help you through these insane times." -Rob Reiner, actor, director, producerNine-time Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Ed. Weinberger, known for his work on such legendary comedies as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, and The Cosby Show, imagines an alternate Trump 2020 presidential campaign in this hilarious new novel.In GOTCHA! Weinberger creates a chaotic world inhabited by America's 45th President where cheating at golf is taken for granted; Fox anchors are valued advisors; and hydroxychloroquine is promoted as a COVID-19 cure.Spanning the critical period from March 5, 2020 to January 24, 2021, GOTCHA! takes readers into Trump's private world as he meets with his re-election committee, has a hush-hush dinner with Laura Ingraham, makes an angry early-morning call to Don, Jr., and asks Melania whether his bullet-proof vest makes him look fat. Trump tries to rush through a COVID-19 vaccine; attempts to build rapport with African Americans; and even gets away with shooting a protester on Fifth Avenue-an incident applauded by the NRA. With an entertaining mix of fiction and satire, this provocative novel looks into the corrupt, three-ring-circus that is Washington in the new normal.
Blind Justice
Scott Carmichael is an inexperienced, divorced, white southern lawyer who finds himself in Washington, D.C. in 1977 defending an educated black man from California accused of raping a white woman. Scott is extremely averse to handling a rape case, especially one involving a black man on the heels of racial tension and race riots in America. But the pressure from a friend and fellow attorney who is close friends with the accused's family forces him to agree to take on the case.Scott soon discovers evidence which points to the innocence of his client. But when the United States Attorney decides to proceed with the case, Scott learns that "presumed innocent" did not apply to his client. "What did they know that he did not know?" Will Scott's inexperience cost his client his freedom, and Scott his career?
Operation Navajo
2022 Kirkus Review Editor's Choice--"Great Indie Books Worth Discovering" "The novel offers intriguing surprises. A smart, fast-paced thriller."--Kirkus Reviews"Whoever controls the flow of the money supply, irrespective of whether it is fiat or gold currency, is the one to fear."Amid the dissension and turmoil of the launch of gold-backed currency, the Federal Reserve Chairman, Frank Littleton, receives a cryptic warning of a plot inside the Federal Reserve to assassinate him.He contacts the one person he can trust, the head of the elite FBI Tracker unit, Scott Fleming.A clandestine meeting in the middle of the night leaves Fleming holding a political time bomb. How can he stop the assassination of the 2nd most powerful man in the federal government when he's been sworn to secrecy?A mysterious message sent to the Tracker office adds to the impasse. No one can decipher it.Written in a decades-old code used by the Navajo Code Talkers in World War II, is it a message from the dead?When a Tracker agent joins forces with an Interpol agent to infiltrate the inner sanctum of the Federal Reserve, the agents become the killer's target. Can they survive to stop the assassination and prevent a global financial cataclysm?
Sanguine Dawn
Sanguine Dawn dives you into the depth of burning national and international issues. This book beautifully highlights theproblem related to science & technology, global warming, climate change, nuclear weapons, terrorism, tribal affair, corruption and various social & political issues. Appropriate solutions of the problems are also provided in this book. While reading this book reader can feel the glimpse of India and Indian culture.
Darko
If there ever was a time when our world needed healing, that time would be now. "Darko" is a perfect parable for the times. Written by author Kenny G. Down with a great deal of experience, wisdom, and love, you'll be swept away by the incredible progression of events and the characters who inhabit this world. "Darko" is a bright beam of light that is certain to make the reader think long and hard about our own attitudes and beliefs. It will give you a renewed feeling of hope and a desire for real change. In "Darko: The Sacred Heart of Johanee Darko" we embark on a parable for our troubled, divisive times through the story of the coming of a savior for the world. In his third book, Down uses the device of a narrator named King Martin (or simply I King as he is later referred to) to introduce us to the infant Johanee Darko, a child who seemingly has been born full of purity and light and with the intention of curing society of its ills. Johanee is growing up in the Desire neighborhood of New Orleans, an area troubled by prostitution, addiction, alcoholism, and crime. Desire is also plagued by broken families, absentee mothers, and missing fathers.Yet this messianic infant, Johanee Darko, appears devoid of the corruptions which are visited upon others. She is the essence of love and innocence and as we follow her life, we see the influence she has on others. Unaware of the presence of such vast societal evils that appear to be tearing humanity apart, Johanee is something of a miracle in her preciousness of heart and soul. In addition to this purity of mind and purpose, I King describes Johanee's experiences as she grows up and is visited by the voices of Mary, Saint Margaret, and the Archangel Michael. It is not long before it is clear that Johanee may be the true savior who can heal our world from its inequities and the pain that comes from the feelings of division and otherness. Johanee creates the Sacred Hearted Movement and sets out to spread her message of love and trust in others. This is an epic tale of spirit and faith that will both inform and illuminate. As we see Johanee's mission and her encounters with others, we see the coming of a female messiah who may very well be the last and best hope to save the world. Johanee is a modern-day Joan of Arc, a saintly figure who has the ability to address the complex issues that are threatening to destroy humanity.
Devious Measures
Politics is a pitched battle whose first casualty is the truth.Journalist Tierra Campos and FBI Special Agent Victoria Larsen team up again in the sequel to the multiple award-winning thriller Justifiable Deceit.In the turbulent wakes of uncertain career trajectories, the two women risk their futures to foil one of the most dastardly plots in American political history. The race is on to uncover the truth, and the stakes couldn't be higher: fail, and the American people will lose all confidence in the electoral process. As the clock winds down to the New Hampshire primary, will the conspiracy unravel, or will the nation succumb to the mastermind's Devious Measures?Devious Measures is the second novel in a five-book serial drama. Readers are encouraged to begin the journey with Justifiable Deceit and enjoy the Tierra Campos Thrillers in the order they were written.Election rigging. Hacking. Ruthless campaign tactics. Is it fiction or today's reality?Election-year politics is an ugly game that gets dirtier every two years. When the campaign of a rising candidate is targeted with intimidation, arson, and cyberattacks, attention immediately turns to his chief opponent in the primaries as the instigator: Senator Alicia Standish.Drawn to inconsistencies in the suicide of a political mega-donor a month earlier, FBI Special Agent Victoria Larsen finds herself trapped in a quagmire of internal politics. With no other place to turn when the state becomes a political battlefield, she enlists the help of journalist Tierra Campos to track down a series of leads that could provide answers. Little does she know that Tierra has her own problems.Since unraveling the conspiracy behind the Brockhampton massacre, Tierra has become a media superstar. Her imminent departure from the online news organization Front Burner has created a rift with her editor that has become impossible to bridge. Forced to operate outside of their normal channels, Tierra and Victoria must put all the pieces together to catch the conspirators manipulating America's first primary. As assumptions lead to shocking conclusions, they must make a bold move before the presidential race is altered forever.Devious Measures is a fast-paced political suspense thriller with twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the final chapter. Buy it now!The Tierra Campos Thrillers (in order): Justifiable DeceitDevious MeasuresVital TargetsRevealed SecretsDecisive Endgame
A Door in the Earth
From the bestselling author of The Submission: A young Afghan-American woman is trapped between her ideals and the complicated truth in this "penetrating" (O, Oprah Magazine), "stealthily suspenseful," (Booklist, starred review), "breathtaking and achingly nuanced" (Kirkus, starred review) novel. Parveen Shams, a college senior in search of a calling, feels pulled between her charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown. When she discovers a bestselling book called Mother Afghanistan, a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane that has become a bible for American engagement in the country, she is inspired. Galvanized by Crane's experience, Parveen travels to a remote village in the land of her birth to join the work of his charitable foundation. When she arrives, however, Crane's maternity clinic, while grandly equipped, is mostly unstaffed. The villagers do not exhibit the gratitude she expected to receive. And Crane's memoir appears to be littered with mistakes, or outright fabrications. As the reasons for Parveen's pilgrimage crumble beneath her, the U.S. military, also drawn by Crane's book, turns up to pave the solde road to the village, bringing the war in their wake. When a fatal ambush occurs, Parveen must decide whether her loyalties lie with the villagers or the soldiers -- and she must determine her own relationship to the truth. Amy Waldman, who reported from Afghanistan for the New York Times after 9/11, has created a taut, propulsive novel about power, perspective, and idealism, brushing aside the dust of America's longest-standing war to reveal the complicated truths beneath. A Door in the Earth is the rarest of books, one that helps us understand living history through poignant characters and unforgettable storytelling.
March 1917
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to publish Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic work March 1917, Node III, Book 1, of The Red Wheel.The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyn's magnum opus about the Russian Revolution. Solzhenitsyn tells this story in the form of a meticulously researched historical novel, supplemented by newspaper headlines of the day, fragments of street action, cinematic screenplay, and historical overview. The first two nodes--August 1914 and November 1916--focus on Russia's crises and recovery, on revolutionary terrorism and its suppression, on the missed opportunity of Pyotr Stolypin's reforms, and how the surge of patriotism in August 1914 soured as Russia bled in World War I.March 1917--the third node--tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of events. The action of book 1 (of four) of March 1917 is set during March 8-12. The absorbing narrative tells the stories of more than fifty characters during the days when the Russian Empire begins to crumble. Bread riots in the capital, Petrograd, go unchecked at first, and the police are beaten and killed by mobs. Efforts to put down the violence using the army trigger a mutiny in the numerous reserve regiments housed in the city, who kill their officers and rampage. The anti-Tsarist bourgeois opposition, horrified by the violence, scrambles to declare that it is provisionally taking power, while socialists immediately create a Soviet alternative to undermine it. Meanwhile, Emperor Nikolai II is away at military headquarters and his wife Aleksandra is isolated outside Petrograd, caring for their sick children. Suddenly, the viability of the Russian state itself is called into question.The Red Wheel has been compared to Tolstoy's War and Peace, for each work aims to narrate the story of an era in a way that elevates its universal significance. In much the same way as Homer's Iliad became the representative account of the Greek world and therefore the basis for Greek civilization, these historical epics perform a parallel role for our modern world.
Make Our Country YUUUGE Again
Witty, hard-hitting political satire about the shocking, almost unbelievable shenanigans since Tunnald "Tunny" Drump was elected Grand Poobah of Cameria in 2016. An insightful chronicle of life in the Beige Palace-utter incompetence, disastrous policies, and increasingly erratic behavior-from the insider perspective of Press Secretary Laira Succupy Ganders. Comic relief and aspirational thinking for readers who have had to put up with so much for so long.
In Our Bones
Powerful and unapologetic journey of one woman as democracy fails and authoritarianism takes holdLauren's happy childhood on a farm in Minnesota is shattered after an assault during her teen years, and she retreats into her own world as America falls apart. Hers was the last generation to grow up before the economic collapse that followed the Corona pandemic. Amidst roiling climate chaos, the government has been taken over by extremists, incompetents, and con-men who tear the country apart while clinging to power. Lauren is swept up in the madness when she falls for the wrong man. She's looking for love and safety, but Bryan becomes distant and abusive as he obsesses over White Sharia and deepens his ties to the racist patriot militia group. Lauren worries about the safety of her sister and nephew, who is mixed-race. Will Lauren escape from Bryan and keep her nephew safe from danger? In a world where values are tested and morality is unsettlingly murky, Lauren must break free from the constraints in her mind to protect her family.
Four Pistols
Three old friends embark on a retirement adventure that brings them face to face with conspirators from the JFK assassination. A seemingly harmless quest to find rare guns for a retired gun collector from Wyoming turns into more than anyone anticipated. The adventure takes the friends from Ohio to Washington, D.C., and Buffalo, Wyoming, and inadvertently puts them and their families into grave danger from different individuals and organizations intent on protecting the historical legacies of the original conspirators. The gun collector becomes integral in trying to protect the three friends from the machinations that he set in motion by hiring them. Murder and political intrigue are plentiful within the conspiracy, and no one involved can consider themselves safe.
Candidate Spectrum
When the real-world superhero Spectrum grows frustrated with the limited ways he can help people using his superpowers, he decides he can do more good as a politician and runs for office. Having devoted his life to helping others, Spectrum won't settle for a typical political career. After winning the Missouri governorship, he launches a 2020 presidential bid dedicated to fixing a country that Americans have consistently said is on the wrong track. But as he develops proposals for issues from a growing wealth gap to paralyzing partisanship, he realizes that America's real troubles are deeper: a loss of individual agency, an increasing quantification of life that undermines morality and erodes our humanity. Meanwhile, his campaign is beset by problems. He never imagined how difficult it would be to run for president as an atheist immigrant from a destroyed planet who is honest and serious about the issues. Further, his campaign must overcome him ditching campaign events to rescue people in Bangladesh from a typhoon, and the public's fear of an alien takeover after a scientist offers to restart his race by cloning him. Will Spectrum win a mandate to restore America to its place as a pioneer among nations, or lose and watch it slide further into dissonance and mediocrity?
1900 or, The Last President
From the author who told us about Baron Trump, comes another tale, this one lamenting the Democrat Party's "socialist" platform of 1896, and warning that the election of "Bryan" would be the last election for president, as the country would dissolve within a single four year term. Hence the title of the book "1900" or, "The Last President." But, just who is the "last president" according to Lockwood? Is it Bryan, or the man with a "a gleam of devilish joy" in his eyes? Might it be the Baron Trump (or is it, Barron Trump) of his previous books? Might the passage of time reveal all?
