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• That Dangerous Energy

  De León, Aya (Novelist),

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  Two-time International Latino Book Award-winning author Aya de León brings her unique blend of commercial fiction, timely social commentary, and sexy, page-turning storytelling in a novel of climate change in which the personal and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Election

  Perrotta, Tom, 1961-

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  A darkly hilarious novel about a high school election that brings out the worst in everyone.

• Devil Makes Three

  Fountain, Ben,

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  Devil Makes Three’s depiction of blood politics, the machinations of power, and a country in the midst of upheaval is urgently and insistently resonant. Haiti, 1991. When a violent coup d’état leads to the fall of President Jean-Bertrand…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Let's Not Do That Again

  a Novel

  Ginder, Grant,

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  Nancy Harrison is running for Senate, and she’s going to win, goddamnit. Not that that’s her slogan, although it could be. She’s said all the right things. Passed all the right legislation. Chapped her lips kissing babies. There’s just one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Watershed

  Everett, Percival,

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  Watershed is an excellent example of Percival Everett’s famed bitingly political narrative style. On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Quarterlife

  a Novel

  Rege, Devika,

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  Quarterlife is as sweeping as it is intimate. With grace and precision, Devika Rege lays bare the moral and psychological roots of political belief in a time of reckoning for democracies worldwide.

• The Minister Primarily

  a Novel

  Killens, John Oliver, 1916-1987,

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  Wanderlust has taken Jimmy Jay Leander Johnson on numerous adventures, from Mississippi to Washington D.C., Vietnam, London and eventually to Africa, to the fictitious Independent People’s Democratic Republic of Guanaya, where the young…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Freedom Is a Feast

  a Novel

  Puyana, Alejandro,

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  A multigenerational, Latin American saga of love and revolution in which a rebel who commits a youthful betrayal receives a late-life chance at redemption and a new life. In 1964, Stanislavo, a zealous young man devoted to his ideals,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Factory Girls

  a Novel

  Gallen, Michelle, 1975-

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  It’s the summer of 1994, and all smart-mouthed Maeve Murray wants are good final exam results so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. She hopes she will soon be in London…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Exit West

  a Novel

  Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-

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  In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mr. Texas

  Wright, Lawrence, 1947-

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  Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, to everyone’s headshaking amusement, he bought his own bull at an auction. But when a fire breaks…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Election

  a Novel

  Yang, Andrew, 1975-

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  The story focuses on two characters: Mikey Ricci, a political operative who has lost faith in the system, and Martha Kass, a journalist for the New York Times. In 2023, Ricci becomes the campaign manager of a third-party candidate who runs…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red Sky Mourning

  Carr, Jack (Joint pseudonym),

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  You think you know James Reece. Think again. A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbered. A Chinese submarine has gone rogue and is navigating towards the continental United States, putting its nuclear missiles within striking…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dead Man's Hand

  Taylor, Brad, 1965-

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  To finally end the war between their nations, a rogue band of Ukrainian partisans known as the Wolves teams up with members of Russia’s military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin. But Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 2054

  a Novel of the Next Civil War

  Ackerman, Elliot,

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  From the best selling author 2034 another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America’s violent partisan divide to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Collaborators

  a Novel

  Idov, Michael, 1976-

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  Combining realistic thrills with sophisticated spycraft and witty dialogue, The Collaborators delivers a gut-punch answer to the biggest geopolitical question of our time: how, exactly, did post-Soviet Russia turn down the wrong path?

• Disturbing the Bones

  Davis, Andrew, 1946-

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  A propulsive debut political thriller set in the aftermath of a global nuclear weapons crisis. Chicago detective Randall Jenkins has not been back home to the historic Civil Rights hotspot of Cairo, Illinois since the disappearance of his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One in the Chamber

  Peguero, Robin,

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  Iowa Farm boy Cameron Leann is new to Washington, D.C., joining a group of employees working for a powerful cohort of U.S. Senators known as The Gang of Six. All of Cam's new colleagues have one thing in common: they hate their bosses. …Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hometown Vendetta

  Abramson, Traci Hunter,

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  Marine Captain Luke Steele and FBI Special Agent Amberlyn McDowell must work together to unravel a deadly conspiracy before times runs out while also navigating their undercover fake relationship that is becoming all too real. When a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Demons Are Here

  a Novel

  Tapper, Jake,

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  It’s 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up—and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong. Now he's off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody…Read moreRead more of this annotation