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Vendor:Hbr Patel
Enemy Within: How Do They Rig an Election
Democracy relies on Election & Election relies on your opinions/votes. Do you think that your precious opinion is your own? If your answer is yes, then it's time to look around and inside this Novel. You rely on opinion of Celebrities to choose your...- $5.99
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Vendor:Diana Block
Clandestine Occupations: An Imaginary History
A radical activist, Luba Gold, makes the difficult decision to go underground to support the Puerto Rican independence movement. When Luba's collective is targeted by an FBI sting, she escapes with her baby but leaves behind a sensitive envelope that is being safeguarded by...- $16.95
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Vendor:Jeff Altabef
Fracture Point: A Gripping Suspense Thriller
An untrained spy and a rebel faction. A mysterious scarlet-haired jazz singer. Dangerous secrets guarded by a devious killer.What could possibly go wrong? Only everything.Tom's brilliant, but when it comes to people smarts, he's clueless. When his older brother disappears, Tom opens the door...- $14.95
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Vendor:Meja Mwangi
The Big Chiefs
Men would talk, as men do, about love and money and power and politics and, acting learned, they would try to outdo one another with their knowledge and their understanding of the political realities and the absurd policies, that bred hate and poverty and...- $13.45
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Vendor:Anthony Trollope
The Warden
In mid-19th century England, an era full of celebrated novelists, Anthony Trollope was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed of them all. Even today, his Chronicles of Barsetshire series is widely read, as are his other novels, many of which deal with...- $5.99
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Vendor:Mauricio F. Ochoa
Nueva Vida
Author: Mauricio F. OchoaISBN-10: 146203778XISBN-13: 9781462037780Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/10/2011Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.77d- $19.95
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Vendor:Daniel G. Zerfas
The Middleman
Author: Daniel G. ZerfasISBN-10: 1410760146ISBN-13: 9781410760142Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2003Pages: 412Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d- $30.45
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Vendor:Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
First published in 1905, 'The Jungle' was written by Upton Sinclair, an American writer, political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the...- $30.99
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Vendor:Jeferson Tenio
The Dark Side of Skin
Life under Brazil's brutal "cordial racism" comes painfully alive in this novel of fathers and sons.How do you become the protagonist of your own life? For Pedro, it means searching for himself in the objects his father left behind: the layers that make up...- $16.95
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Vendor:John Houle
The Siberian Candidate
For former political fixer Henry Mercucio, business has always been personal. Now at the helm of his father-in-law's legal empire, Henry is playing by a new set of rules--his own. With his candidate installed as mayor of Providence, he manages to gain an appointment...- $29.95
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Vendor:Jack London
The Strength Of The Strong
A collection of seven short stories, 'The Strength of the Strong' is London's marvellous composition. In these stories London highlighted the problems of the working classes and given a vivid picture of socialistic society. With various symbolic characters for government, industry, labour, religion etc.,...- $12.99
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Vendor:Hari Krishna Kaul
For Now, It Is Night: Stories
"An enthralling -- and welcome -- reclamation of Kaul's fiction. . . Kaul's work shimmers with questions of reality and illusion, home and exile." - The New York Times Book Review 17 lively short stories provide an irreverent examination of exile, drawn from the...- $22.00
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Vendor:Abby Woodland
The Raze
The government has taken control. There is no escape. You either join in or die trying. Author: Abby WoodlandISBN-10: 8223299836ISBN-13: 9798223299837Publisher: Abby WoodlandLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/08/2023Pages: 202Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d- $14.99
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Vendor:Mike Bennett
Rosehips in June
For the sake of freedom, a commando from the famed Devil's Brigade is called to bear one last burden: to take the mantle of The Warlock. Charged with the authority to use any means necessary to bring America back to glory, the Warlock brokers...- $24.95
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Vendor:Em Thompson
Krill
'Would you recognise Hitler in the digital age?'A disgraced businessman's chance encounter with an enigmatic stranger leads to a journey of political awakening and redemption.Set in a murky world of anarchist computer hackers, sinister secret societies, the Deepnet, quantum computing and ultimately a struggle...- $15.99
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Vendor:Eric Rickstad
Lilith
From the internationally bestselling author of I Am Not Who You Think I Am--a New York Times Thriller of the Year--comes Lilith, an incendiary powerhouse of a novel that strikes straight at the wounded heart of America.Mother. Hero. Villain. Killer. After her son, Lydan,...- $26.99
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Vendor:Robert Lockwood Mills
Investigating the Kennedy Assassination: Did Oswald ACT Alone?
For the first time in one place, the reader will see all the likely conspirators revealed. The Warren Commission and the FBI agreed that President John F. Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. Fifteen years later, the HouseCommittee on Assassinations...- $27.99
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Vendor:John Loranger
Stalinland
Stalinland, as the title suggests, is a fictional representation of an especially oppressive period of history during which any pretext suffices to destroy the lives of untold millions. It is the story of Mikhail Pavlovich Nekrasov, a writer who is condemned to die in...- $14.95
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Vendor:Anthony Grey
Saigon: An Epic Novel of Vietnam
An epic saga of love, blood, and destiny in twentieth-century Vietnam: "This superb novel could well be the War and Peace of our age" (San Francisco Chronicle). Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon--the capital of French colonial Cochin-China--as a young man on his father's hunting...- $31.99
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Vendor:Jon Pepper
Missy's Twitch
Heiress to an energy fortune built off fossil fuels, recent college graduate Missy Mayburn Crowe is stricken with overwhelming anxiety over what she fears is a looming "climate apocalypse" and her family's role in it. She develops an involuntary twitch, a conversion disorder that...- $14.95
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Vendor:Paul Lynch
Prophet Song: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A prophetic masterpiece." -- Ron Charles, Washington PostOn a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step....- $26.00
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Vendor:Amitava Kumar
A Time Outside This Time
A blistering novel about a writer's creative response to the daily onslaught of fake news, memory, and the ways in which truth gives over to fiction "An absorbing portrait of an inspired artist in the midst of our maddening cultural moment" --Ayad Akhtar, author...- $27.00
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Vendor:Gary Grossman
Red Deception: Volume 2
Intelligence experts and thriller authors concur: Red Deception is "A page-turner by authors who might as well sit on the National Security Council." When terrorists bomb bridges across the country and threaten the Hoover Dam, the vulnerability of America's infrastructure becomes a matter of...- $17.95
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Vendor:Allan Havis
Maddie Q
A young California woman, Maddie Crawford, falls headlong into the world of QAnon. Her beliefs take her to to the Capitol, attending the Stop the Steal Rally on January 6th, and later enmeshed in the violence that followed.Maddie returns to San Diego, imagining that...- $14.99
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Vendor:Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
The Dark Path to the River
A political thriller about strong-minded women and men, The Dark Path to the River tells a love story that moves between Wall Street and Africa.Author: Joanne Leedom-AckermanISBN-10: 1504030346ISBN-13: 9781504030342Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2016Pages: 402Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89d- $16.99
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Vendor:John Dos Passos
The Grand Design
John Dos Passos's literary response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, The Grand Design critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the author's frustration with federal overreach and the hollow rhetoric...- $15.99
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Vendor:Donald Catalano
Reformation
President Perry Douglas is beginning his nascent administration with a focus on achieving some significant social reforms. The House of Representatives has passed an anti-discrimination LGBTQ rights bill that promises to implement sweeping societal changes. Chief of Staff Clay Grover and his husband, Aaron...- $16.95
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Vendor:Steve Sohmer
Favorite Son
"Fast, characterful, intricate, surprising . . . Sohmer knows his way around television, politics, Washington and suspense fiction." --Los Angeles Times Book Review It begins with an assassination. A Nicaraguan freedom fighter is gunned down on live TV while being welcomed to the United...- $38.99
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Vendor:Jonathan Dee
Sugar Street
"This propulsive and furious book is as fun to read as it is relentless and unsparing. Deranged and faltering America, Jonathan Dee has your number." --Joshua Ferris, author of The Dinner PartyIn Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, Sugar Street, an unnamed male...- $17.00
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Vendor:Ismail Kadare
The Concert
China is somehow involved with the increasingly desperate situation in Albania, but no one knows the extent of its secret alliances, political levers, and economic control. Sk nder Bermema is sent to China on a fact-finding mission, and is confronted with the reality of...- $14.95
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Vendor:John Dos Passos
The Great Days
In this semi-autobiographical novel, an American named Roland Lancaster has a doomed affair with a younger woman, Elsa, in Cuba during World War II. The love story, in its happiest moments, parallels the idyllic life that author John Dos Passos had with his first...- $12.99
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Vendor:John Dos Passos
Number One
Tyler Spotswood, an alcoholic campaign manager, helps elect a corrupt Southern politician to the U.S. Senate. When his boss, Chuck Crawford aka "Number One," pins a scandal on Spotswood, Tyler is too drunk to blow the whistle. Number One draws many comparisons to Robert...- $11.99
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Vendor:W. T. Tyler
Rogue's March
A story of a coup d'etat in Central Africa, Rogue's March is about the men on all sides of the conflict, men caught up in events beyond their control or understanding. Author: W. T. TylerISBN-10: 1497697174ISBN-13: 9781497697171Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2015Pages:...- $16.99
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Vendor:W. T. Tyler
The Man Who Lost the War
Set in post-war Berlin, a disillusioned former CIA operative and a Russian spy cross paths in their search for an elusive double agent. Author: W. T. TylerISBN-10: 1497697166ISBN-13: 9781497697164Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2015Pages: 398Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.89d- $16.99
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The Ants of Gods
Set against a bloody Sudanese civil war, a disgraced American mercenary pilot and a missionary's widow find a love as rich and complicated as its milieu. Author: W. T. TylerISBN-10: 1497697158ISBN-13: 9781497697157Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2015Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.50h x...- $13.99
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Vendor:W. T. Tyler
The Shadow Cabinet
The first year of the Reagan administration finds all manners of scoundrels and supplicants scrounging for favors and position. Author: W. T. TylerISBN-10: 1497697182ISBN-13: 9781497697188Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2015Pages: 472Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.06d- $18.99
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Vendor:Malcolm Bradbury
Cuts
Looking to strike it rich with television gold, an English media tycoon enlists the help of an unassuming novelist to script his small-screen epic, to disastrous--and hilarious--effect The year is 1986, and the cuts imposed by Margaret Thatcher's government have trickled down to university...- $16.99
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Vendor:Leon Berger
The Kennedy Momentum
Cuba, 1962: The Cold War reaches its zenith with the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba threatening the United States. While JFK and his brother face deep divisions in trying to defuse the apocalyptic crisis, young CIA agent Philip Marsden is sent on...- $19.99
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Vendor:Leon Berger
The Kennedy Imperative
Berlin, 1961: In this exciting political thriller, factual events are interwoven in an exciting fictional plot. While the construction of the Berlin Wall challenges JFK with the first major crisis of his presidency, young CIA agent Philip Marsden is sent into East Berlin on...- $19.99
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Vendor:Samson Johnson
Believe America: How I tried to end mass shootings and accidentally started a cult
When Samson Johnson feels pushed over the edge from news reports of another U.S. mass shooting, he comes up with the bi-partisan 'Save Lives, Save Guns' plan. If shootings could be made non-lethal, killings would be stopped, the insurance companies would still profit and...- $17.95
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Vendor:Harry Gael Michaels
The State of The Republic: How the misadventures of U.S. policy since WWII have led to the quagmire of today's economic, social and political dis
The State of the Republic is an overview of significant political, social, and economic events since the end of WWII, along with a look at the criminal justice system, that has led up to the quagmire of disorder witnessed daily among our political leaders...- $23.99
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Vendor:Wojciech Zukrowski
Stone Tablets
"A novel of epic scope and ambition."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"A masterwork."--Wall Street JournalAn influential Polish classic celebrates 50 years--and its first English editionAs Stone Tablets opens, Istvan Terey, a poet and World War II veteran, is serving as cultural attaché with the Hungarian embassy...- $29.95
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Vendor:José Saramago
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Author: José SaramagoISBN-10: 0156996936ISBN-13: 9780156996938Publisher: Mariner BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/27/1992Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 02/03/1992- $16.99
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Vendor:Peter Cloutier
What We Were Making
A #1 Amazon Bestseller, Peter Cloutier's "What We Were Making" is a must-read for those who love ocean adventures, political thrillers, romance, or coming-of-age stories! When the lives of two expatriates intersect at the edge of civilization, opportunity, duty and deception collide. Jane is...- $25.95
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Vendor:Emma McLaughlin
First Affair
The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Nanny Diaries return with "a convincing portrait of a damaged young woman whose head is turned by the attentions of a dashing and powerful political figure....An utterly absorbing page-turner" (Booklist). I was twenty-two years old...- $16.00
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Crossed Stars
"Parker Johnson has written a clean, contemporary romance teeming with political and romantic tension"- BookLife "Crossed Stars is an impassioned historical romance novel reminiscent of a Jane Austen tale." - Literary TitanThe country of Stardade is a land rich in cobalt, but not in...- $9.99
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Love in the Balance
"Not only does [Love in the Balance] have love and excitement, but it has issues very close to all of us."--The Alabama Forum Gaiety"Marianne Martin is a wonderful storyteller and a graceful writer with a light, witty touch with language and a sensitivity to...- $14.95
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Vendor:Catherine Devore Johnson
The Panacea Project
A timely exploration of bodily autonomy set in a classic medical thriller Calla Hammond has always been a loner--a product of the foster system and avoided by others because of a skin condition. When doctors discover her immune system holds the key to curing...- $24.95
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The Last Pomegranate Tree
An extraordinary chronicle of war and an occult story of love between a father and his son from one of Iraq's most celebrated contemporary writers "Whenever he told lies, the birds would fly away. It had been that way since he was a child....- $24.00
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Meeks
No woman will have Ben without a proper bachelor's suit . . . and the tailor refuses to make him one. Back from war with a nameless enemy, Ben finds that his mother is dead and his family home has been reassigned by the...- $16.00
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Political Fiction Books
Political fiction books are a genre of literature that explore the intertwined worlds of politics and fiction. These books delve into political systems, ideologies, and the individuals who navigate the complex and often perilous landscapes of power and governance. From classic works to contemporary masterpieces, the genre has captivated readers for centuries. The political fiction genre can include a wide array of subgenres and styles. Some books focus on historical events and figures, offering a fictionalized account of real-life political events. Examples of this include "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren, which draws inspiration from the life of Louisiana governor Huey Long, and "Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel, which provides a fictional narrative of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII.
Other political fiction books create entirely fictional worlds that mirror our own, exploring political systems and power dynamics that resonate with real-world experiences. George Orwell's iconic dystopian novel "1984" portrays a totalitarian regime where Big Brother surveils and controls every aspect of citizens' lives. Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" presents a harrowing vision of a theocratic society that enforces oppressive laws against women.
Political fiction books can also take a satirical or allegorical approach, using humor or metaphorical storytelling to critique political systems and figures. An example of this is Joseph Heller's "Catch-22," a darkly comedic novel set during World War II that exposes the absurdities of bureaucracy and war. With the ability to both entertain and provoke thought, political fiction books have the power to shed light on the intricacies and consequences of political power. These works often examine themes such as corruption, propaganda, abuse of power, social inequality, and the struggle for justice. By presenting political dilemmas in a fictional context, authors can explore complex ideas and challenge readers' perspectives on the world around them.
Popular Political Fiction Book Authors
Political fiction books have captivated readers for centuries, providing insightful perspectives on the workings of governments, the nature of power, and the complex dynamics of politics. Several authors have risen to prominence for their exceptional contributions to this genre, crafting compelling narratives that explore political landscapes and provoke thought-provoking discussions. Here are some popular authors of political fiction books:
1. George Orwell: Orwell is perhaps one of the most renowned political fiction authors of all time. His novels, such as "Animal Farm" and "1984," have become iconic for their chilling portrayals of totalitarian regimes and dystopian societies. Orwell's works shed light on the dangers of oppression and the manipulation of power, leaving a lasting impact on readers across the globe.
2. Aldous Huxley: Huxley's novel "Brave New World" is a remarkable example of political fiction that presents a futuristic society governed by a rigid caste system and excessive control. Through his writing, Huxley delves into the ethical dilemmas posed by advanced technology, consumerism, and the suppression of individuality, offering a critical reflection on the consequences of an all-powerful state.
3. Margaret Atwood: Atwood's dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale" has gained immense popularity in recent years, especially due to its adaptation into a highly acclaimed television series. Set in a totalitarian society where women face subjugation and reproductive control, Atwood's powerful narrative explores themes of gender inequality, religious extremism, and the vulnerability of individual rights.
4. Sinclair Lewis: Known for his satirical writing, Sinclair Lewis tackles American politics in his novel "It Can't Happen Here." The book provides a cautionary tale, depicting the rise of a populist politician who gradually transforms the United States into an oppressive dictatorship. Lewis's work serves as a stark reminder of the potential dangers of democracy being eroded from within.
5. Kazuo Ishiguro: While primarily known for his Nobel Prize-winning novel "The Remains of the Day," Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go" also contains strong political undertones. Set in a seemingly idyllic English boarding school, the book tackles themes of human rights, ethics, and societal manipulation. Ishiguro artfully weaves these issues into a poignant and thought-provoking narrative.
At White Rain Book House, we understand the power of literature to challenge and inspire, and our political fiction collection is a testament to that. We believe that these books not only entertain but also serve as a reflection of our society, allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of political dynamics and the consequences of political choices.