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Vendor: Ha Jin
A Song Everlasting
From the universally admired, National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Waiting--a timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country, as he works to find his way in the United States At the end of a U.S. tour with his state-supported...- $28.00
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Dewey Defeats Truman
A masterful retelling of a legend and famous headline of modern American history--Harry Truman's upset victory over Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election. Set in Dewey's hometown of Owosso, Michigan, this is the captivating story of a local love triangle that mirrors...- $16.00
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Chilltown: Jersey City - Hoboken: A Community Overwhelmed with Violence
The communities of Jersey City and Hoboken, New Jersey are plagued by continuous unrelenting city officials and those in power, as they play hardball with construction groups and subcontractors demanding they pay payments of money or some form of inducement if they wish to...- $11.99
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Vendor: Michelle Gallen
Factory Girls
From the author of the acclaimed Big Girl, Small Town, a darkly comic coming-of-age story about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland, while tensions rise both inside and outside the factory walls. It's the summer of...- $46.99
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Vendor: Ehnis
Come the Harpies
COME THE HARPIES is a timely, suspenseful story that imagines an America 50 years in the future based on what's happening around us right now. It offers strong romantic elements as its main characters weather the ups and downs of young love in the...- $22.99
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Vendor: Andre Alexis
Asylum
Alexis's long-awaited second novel follows his award-winning Childhood. Set in Ottawa during the Mulroney years, Asylum is Andr Alexis's sweeping, edged-in-satire, yet deeply serious tale of intertwined lives and fortunes, of politics and vain ambition, of the building of a magnificent prison, of human...- $17.95
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Eudaimonia
The year is 2112. To combat the infertility epidemic plaguing the world, the United States government has established the Department of Propagation--the last defense against the extinction of the human race. The agency oversees, facilitates, and monitors all activities related to procreation. Like many...- $18.99
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Vendor: Ayn Rand
Anthem
Ayn Rand published her book, Anthem, in 1946. In the included foreword she provided, she bemoaned "people who accept collectivism by moral default" despite there being ample evidence of the bloody consequences of that approach. "Those who refuse to see it now are neither...- $17.99
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Chapel Road
According to the author, Chapel Road is the book about the childhood of Ondine [. . .] about her brother Valeer-Traleer with his monstrous head wobbling through life this way and that. But the book is about a lot more than that. It is...- $17.95
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Vendor: Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
Do you want to read A Tale of Two Cities? If so then keep reading...Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. Doctor Manette was wrongly imprisoned in the...- $12.99
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Vendor: Alan Pilkington
American Serengeti: A novel of environmental conflict in the age of Trump
The future of America's last great wilderness becomes a battleground in this timely novel which pits Molly Marlowe, a dynamic and calculating energy expert against Joe Wardrop, a charismatic scientist and wildlife defender. Arguing their viewpoints before a Senate committee gives them national prominence....- $24.99
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Vendor: Erica Vital-Lazare
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (of the Diaspora)
In Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, early twentieth-century statesman of Black-American discourse W.E.B. Du Bois weaves autofiction with poetry, social essay, science fiction, and Afrofuturist storytelling that presages Butler, Due, Adjei-Brenyah, Shawl, and Jemisin. Three wise men gather as a Christ child of...- $26.00
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Vendor: Tom Carroll
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...- $19.99
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Vendor: Abdulrazak Gurnah
By the Sea
A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which two immigrants' conflicting stories about their common homeland reveal the buried truths that drove them from it On a late November afternoon, Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from his native Zanzibar....- $32.00
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Glory
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY VULTURE, BUZZFEED, AND OPRAH DAILY "Manifoldly clever...brilliant... 'Glory' is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny." --Violet Kupersmith, The New York...- $18.00
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Vendor: Gabriella Saab
Daughters of Victory
From the acclaimed author of The Last Checkmate comes a brilliant novel spanning from the Russian Revolution to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union and following two unforgettable women...their fates intertwined by ties of family and interrupted by the tragedy of war. Perfect...- $27.99
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Vendor: Dale Brown
Countdown to Midnight: A Nick Flynn Novel
In this sequel to Dale Brown's New York Times bestselling Arctic Storm Rising, former U.S. Air Force officer Nick Flynn is caught up in a shadow war against allied Russia and Iran--a duo wielding a terrifying new weapon.Nick Flynn is back in action, and...- $10.99
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Vendor: J. David Simons
An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful
The personal collides with the political in this literary tour-de-force. In the 1950s, an eminent British writer pens a novel questioning the ethics of the nuclear destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki--but soon he's trying to outrun his own past.Hakone, Japan, 2003. An eminent British...- $16.95
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Vendor: Mahasweta Devi
Bait: Four Stories
Unlike most of Mahasweta Devi's works, which focus on Bengali tribes and the rural dispossessed, the four stories collected in Bait are located in the urban and suburban criminal underworld, and form an unusual segment of Devi's oeuvre. The first story, "Fisherman," is about...- $17.00
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Vendor: Frederic C. Rich
Christian Nation
So ends the first chapter of this brilliantly readable counterfactual novel, reminding us that America's Christian fundamentalists have been consistently clear about their vision for a Christian Nation and dead serious about acquiring the political power to achieve it. When President McCain dies and...- $25.95
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Green Goddess
Can One Daring Woman Light the WayTo a New Era of Energy?Anxiety over a looming "climate crisis" gives enemies of the Crowe Power Company a reason-or an excuse-to attack chairperson Lindsey Harper Crowe and threaten to destroy her family enterprise. She must find or...- $14.95
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Vendor: Gabriella Saab
Daughters of Victory
From the acclaimed author of The Last Checkmate comes a brilliant novel spanning from the Russian Revolution to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union and following two unforgettable women...their fates intertwined by ties of family and interrupted by the tragedy of war. Perfect...- $41.99
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Vendor: Robert Baer
Blow the House Down
Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9/11. Veteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor. Though years of digging yield...- $16.00
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Vendor: Lewis M. Weinstein
Case Closed
Richard Lambert ... the former FBI lead investigator on the anthrax investigation, says the bureau has tried "to railroad the prosecution of Ivins" and that "a staggering amount of exculpatory evidence" regarding Dr. Ivins remains secret. Congressman Rush Holt ... There were no fingerprints,...- $21.95
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Vendor: Anthony McCarten
Going Zero
TWO HOURS TO VANISH.ONE CHANCE TO ESCAPE.ZERO ALTERNATIVES.Ten Americans have been carefully selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. FUSION can track anyone on earth. But does it work?For one contestant, an unassuming Boston librarian named Kaitlyn Day, the stakes are far...- $41.99
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Going Zero
TWO HOURS TO VANISH.ONE CHANCE TO ESCAPE.ZERO ALTERNATIVES.Ten Americans have been carefully selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. FUSION can track anyone on earth. But does it work?For one contestant, an unassuming Boston librarian named Kaitlyn Day, the stakes are far...- $46.99
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Vendor: Thomas Allen Rexroth
Animal Colony: A Cautionary Tale for Today
At the dawn of a killer colonial winter, starving and desperate to live, a brave band of Animals escape the tyranny of their human Masters. Led by a visionary stallion, they brave miles of wilderness and a treacherous river crossing to start a homeland...- $9.95
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Vendor: Edward Wilson
Darkling Spy
A gem of an espionage thriller. A mystery based spy novel that will hold the reader by the throat from beginning to end. Anyone familiar with the era will recognize the accuracy of Wilson's historical context and anyone seeking a thriller of page-turning brilliance...- $16.95
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Vendor: Ramsey Hanhan
Fugitive Dreams
Fugitive Dreams is a slightly fictionalized literary memoir illustrating a sweeping 50 years of life under occupation through personal stories. Born in Palestine 'on the "wrong" side of the border, ' Sameer finds his way to America to rebuild his life. His immigrant experience...- $18.95
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Vendor: Paul Lake
Cry Wolf: A Political Fable
Cry Wolf is an Animal Farm for the 21st century: a brilliant allegory of the political challenges we face in post-9/11 America. The farm animals' struggle to maintain their way of life against an influx of change is a powerful commentary on the importance...- $19.95
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Vendor: Marta Pacini
Conspiracy
In an alternative London, the Queen is forced to take matters into her own hands when a military threat arises during a power vacuum. Fringe politician Harold Stone and his tiny party are unexpectedly thrust into government, and must learn the ropes quickly. But...- $10.99
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Vendor: Hadassah Alderson
Faust in Love
The idea is that by electing Donald Trump, a certain segment of the population "sold its soul" for political power. However, this contract was made with the backdrop of structural problems in our society where people no longer agree about what America's key values...- $11.99
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Vendor: Susanna Ho
A Blissful Moment of Nothingness
It's a moment everyone dreads: that moment before death. But what if it's just an ordinary moment when nothing happens? What if it's no different from any other moment in life, when a dying person can't even tell what's coming? That moment could attract...- $19.00
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Vendor: Lars Saabye Christensen
Friendship: Echoes of the City II
Set in post-war Oslo and following on from Echoes of a City, by an author who understands the city like no other. "One of Norway's finest writers" GUARDIAN "Profoundly resonant" TLS In Kirkeveien, Oslo, in the year 1956, forty-year-old Maj is worn down by...- $17.99
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Vendor: Ward Just
American Romantic
"A master American novelist." --Vanity Fair "Ward Just is both a writer's writer and an astute tracker of human souls under duplicity and duress . . . American Romantic, his eighteenth, is one of his finest."--Gail Godwin, New York Times Book Review Harry Sanders...- $14.95
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Vendor: In Koli Jean Bofane
Congo Inc.: Bismarck's Testament
To the sound of machine gun fire and the smell of burning flesh, award-winning author In Koli Jean Bofane leads readers on a perilous, satirical journey through the civil conflict and political instability that have been the logical outcome of generations of rapacious multinational...- $20.00
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An American Tune
While reluctantly accompanying her husband and daughter to freshman orientation at Indiana University, Nora Quillen hears someone call her name, a name she has not heard in more than 25 years. Not even her husband knows that back in the '60s she was Jane...- $18.00
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Vendor: John M. Del Vecchio
Demise: A Novel of Race, Culture Wars, and Falling Darkness
Author's Preferred EditionFrom the best-selling author of The 13th ValleyThis is the story of two young men, one white, one black, who grew up in the 1960s, who were best friends-their high school's Salt 'n' Pepper running backs. One went to Vietnam, the other...- $37.99
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Vendor: Ad Ultman
Animal Town
"Animal Town: A Satirical Tale of Political Intrigue and Unity in a Furry Democracy"In the idyllic Animal Town, predators and prey coexist harmoniously in a democratic, capitalist society until a tragic incident shatters their utopia. AD Ultman's "Animal Town" unfolds a compelling narrative, reminiscent...- $16.99
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Vendor: Brandt Legg
CapWar EXPERIENCE
Power corrupts . . .Absolute power corrupts absolutely.Can power be used to end corruption? Click now to rejoin the campaign CapWar Experience, book two of the CapStone Conspiracy, delves deeper into the intrigue and uncovers treachery everywhere. The candidate is no longer running for...- $12.99
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Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories
These 50-word stories are based on "found" texts from mainstream news sources and other public sites. Jaffe sculpts them to reveal their inner core, all niceties stripped away. Now the true motives, fears and sins of our age are on display for all who...- $13.95
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Don Dimaio of La Plata
Arellano is that rare thing: an exceptional creative talent perfectly in tune with his own rapidly changing times.--Robert Coover In 2002, real-life mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, Vincent Buddy Cianci was convicted of extortion. This is the story of Don Pally Dimaio, mayor of...- $13.95
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American Foreign Policy
Thomas Ausa, an obscure but adequately credentialed professor of American International Relations, at the end of his career imagined he might best illustrate what he called the ""themes"" or ""frames"" or ""buzzwords"" of American foreign policy by telling a few stories about typical Americans...- $31.00
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Capitol Gains
RICHARD BREWSTER IS A FAST RISING WASHINGTON LOBBYIST in a large law firm with a bright future. But what if he wants to short-circuit the long climb to the top of the profession by creating a made-up client that has a phony problem? What...- $27.95
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Capitol Gains
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Down with the Poor!
'Through the poetic force of her writing, Sinha brings a broken world to burning point.' --Le Monde Over the course of a night in police custody, a young woman tries to understand the rage that led her to assault a refugee on the Paris...- $16.95
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Clans
In the fall of 1994, Jimmy Brett was doing very well for a Wisconsin boy: good looks, great job, house on a lake, and a hot car. However, his life would change dramatically when he bought an old racist book for a quarter at...- $24.95
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From the Streets to the Sanctuary: Tee's Life on the Streets, Vol. 1
Tee's life on the streets wasn't just any other lifestyle to be lived because he had to walk through a constant battle without his parents. Tee was led to a life of crime by one of his best friends in his neighborhood. Afterwards, Tee...- $12.99
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Another Round of Presidential Spirits
The sequel to Presidential Spirits. If you thought the story ended with the McFaddens leaving Washington on Marine One and Thomas Jefferson stranded in the White House Blue Room, you are sorely mistaken. That was merely the beginning of the story . . .In...- $22.99
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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.