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Vendor: Raymond E. Sullivan
Contentment: A Novel of New England's Birth
'I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder.as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the Earth." -John Adams, a fragmentary...- $14.95
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Vendor: Jack Casserly
The Triumph at Tiananmen Square
An American eyewitness account of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the behind-the-scenes upheaval that transformed China into the capitalist-communist nation that it is today.Author: Jack CasserlyISBN-10: 0595356095ISBN-13: 9780595356096Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/25/2005Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d- $18.95
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Vendor: Martin E. Cohen
The End of the American Presidency
It is mid 2010. The country has been swept by a MUTANT AIDS epidemic and is recovering from nuclear strikes. The political climate of our government is one wherein great efforts are being made to include all countries of the world under the protection...- $14.95
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Vendor: Al Craven
Slowly Dies the Rose
Author: Al CravenISBN-10: 0595238688ISBN-13: 9780595238682Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/17/2002Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.34h x 5.50w x 0.81d- $17.95
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Vendor: J. C. Arlington
The Stand In
Author: J. C. ArlingtonISBN-10: 0595157289ISBN-13: 9780595157280Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d- $18.95
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Vendor: Robert V. Baynes
The Day the Dollar Died
CAN AN ORDINARY FARMER SAVE HIS FAMILY FROM THE US GOVERNMENT?John is an ordinary farmer in the midwest. His life is pretty normal until the government creates a disaster that is beyond his control. His storybook life begins to be dismantled in a few...- $17.90
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Vendor: Patrick Bryan Taylor
Tyrant: Dividing America
The nation is divided, its citizens split into factions, a president demands unwavering support for himself. As the 2020 presidential election nears, the outcome is in doubt. An increasingly tyrannical president draws the nation closer to another civil war.Conrad Augustus, a retired U.S. Navy...- $14.99
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Vendor: Robert Trebor
The Haircut Who Would Be King
A farcical sendup of Donald Trump's rise to power and volatile partnership with Vladimir Putin...As a young boy, Donald Rump was less than precocious--a miserable student, prone to implacable tantrums, whose emotional intelligence ceased maturing at the age of 9. But the region of...- $14.95
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Vendor: Mark Twain
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
The Gilded Age: A Tale of TodaysynopsisJune 18-. Squire Hawkins sat upon the pyramid of large blocks, called the "stile," in front of his house, contemplating the morning.The locality was Obedstown, East Tennessee. You would not know that Obedstown stood on the top of...- $37.32
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Vendor: Demetrius Jefferson
Shades of Blue
"It's not socialism, if it's what the people want", said The President-Elect to endless cheers. "That makes it populism..."Author: Demetrius JeffersonISBN-10: 1665553707ISBN-13: 9781665553704Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/2022Pages: 134Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d- $23.99
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Vendor: Sutton E. Griggs
Unfettered
Unfettered: A Novel (1902) is a novel by Sutton E. Griggs. Sutton's third novel is a story of violence and forced migration that explores and critiques the politics of liberalism and assimilation in twentieth century America. Although Griggs' novels were largely forgotten by the...- $19.99
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Vendor: P. B. Obeng
Sovereign
A super-team struggling to keep the world in order. A techno-organic virus threatening to rewrite all of humanity.Captain Alicia Conrad isn't sure she's on the right side of the coming cyberwar. So as she leads her team of superhumans to Japan on their quest...- $17.00
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Vendor: Dave Milbrandt
Fool's Luck
What an unexpected delight. The concept is fresh and original, the writing solid, the story - well, I'm still smiling.Thomas Locke, Bestselling AuthorWhen high school teacher Myles Bradford wins the Powerball lottery, he decides to do something truly unexpected: run for President of the...- $26.99
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Vendor: George Meredith
Beauchamp's Career
After being injured during war, young naval officer Nevil Beauchamp is ordered to recover in Venice. With high ideals and big dreams, Nevil quickly falls in love with an energetic and intelligent young French woman named Renee de Croisnel. Though Nevil dreams of marrying...- $31.99
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Vendor: C. C. Pitts
Filling in the Blanks: A Father's Fight to Get His Children Back
Filling in the BlanksA Father's Fight to Get His Children BackC.C. PittsHaving lost his own childhood to an abusive mother and abusive foster parents, Jacob Johnson now finds himself fighting to protect his own children from the same fate. Despite exceptional effort, the anti-father...- $18.00
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Vendor: Putu Oka Sukanta
Spaces: Reflections on a Journey
Spaces is an invitation to reflect on the meaning of life, a healing balm on the wounds of civilization. (Galuh Wandita)Putu Oka Sukanta is one of many victims of the cruelty perpetrated by the New Order half a century ago. Yet of all the...- $21.00
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Vendor: Gene Conti
Satan's Gambit: Book Two The Forces of Darkness Unleashed A Novel
"A number of bombs . . . exploded, and several RPGs were fired at the massive electronic billboards in Times Square. There were] bodies lying all over the street and sidewalks . . . shards of glass and metal rained down from the billboards...- $20.99
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Vendor: Gene Conti
Satan's Gambit: Book One Battle Lines Are Drawn A Novel
"Under our new banner which now flies above us all, we will truly have freedom, equality, and fellowship among men and women ... Freedom of sexual partners, freedom of recreational pharmaceuticals. Everyone will be equal in all financial matters ... Tolerance and equality are...- $20.99
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Vendor: Charles Dudley Warner
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
June 18-. Squire Hawkins sat upon the pyramid of large blocks, called the "stile," in front of his house, contemplating the morning. The locality was Obedstown, East Tennessee. You would not know that Obedstown stood on the top of a mountain, for there was...- $12.99
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Vendor: Newt Gingrich
Duplicity
In "one of the best" political thrillers from two Washington insiders (Nelson DeMille, NYT bestselling author), America's leaders must hunt down a master terrorist in hiding and neutralize the threat of political betrayal. The greatest nightmare for the free world today would be an...- $15.99
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Vendor: John Irving
The Last Chairlift
John Irving's fifteenth novel is "powerfully cinematic" (The Washington Post) and "eminently readable" (The Boston Globe). The Last Chairlift is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at...- $79.99
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Vendor: Mark R. Adams
The Return Of Adam Marsh
Despite leaving Washington DC in the best shape in years, Adam Marsh is accused of treason only six months later. Will his political opponents live to regret this decision ? Marsh returns to our nation's capitol and the Deep State resorts to drastic measures...- $14.99
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Vendor: Christoph Paul
Great White House
Emergency. Red Level Emergency. If any American, government agent, or citizen receives this message, please share it with loved ones, other citizens, and any government official in your vicinity. Washington, DC was flooded by weather-modulated storms and infiltrated by genetically modified sharks. All of...- $9.95
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Vendor: Niyati Keni
Esperanza Street
I was eight when my father brought me to one of the big houses at the top of Esperanza Street and left me with Mary Morelos. 'I haven't the time to fix broken wings, ' she said. 'Does he have any trouble with discipline?'...- $15.95
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Vendor: E. M. Forster
A Passage to India
A Passage to India is set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924...- $22.99
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Vendor: Eleanor K. Gustafson
An Unpresentable Glory
"I trusted you, and some day, you may know just how much you hold in your hands." Linda Jensen leads a relatively quiet life in Westchester County, New York, as the owner of a highly-acclaimed garden. Inherited from her parents, the garden is her...- $16.99
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Vendor: Myrna Sokoloff
Hand of Fatima
It had been a year since the sealed casket of Holly's beloved husband Jake had been flown from the war zone to Dover Air Force Base with an honor guard. The American flag and the music didn't lessen the agony for her of Jake's...- $10.15
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Vendor: Rich Robinson
The Shadow Candidate
Jake Hanna is at the top of his game as a political consultant. His idealism sets him apart from his more jaded and compromised colleagues in the small universe of top advisors to our Nation's governing elite. Senator Bob McConnell, the seemingly perfect candidate,...- $16.95
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Vendor: Kent Killmer
Red House: Fiction. Perhaps.
Right-wing conservative and card-carrying member of the Silent Majority, Francis Scott Key is the shirttail relative of the national anthem's author. A former SEAL and current venture capitalist in Menlo Park, California, Scotty becomes involved with Ali Woo, a beautiful NSA agent. Scotty becomes...- $20.95
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Vendor: José Manuel Prieto
Rex
Now in paperback, Jos Manuel Prieto's Rex is a sexy, zany, and sophisticated literary game rife with allusions to Proust and Borges, set in a world of wealthy Russian expats and mafiosos who have settled in western Europe.J. is a young Cuban man who,...- $17.00
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Vendor: Iain M. Banks
Canal Dreams
'Banks once again demonstrates his extraordinary dark powers of imagination' Sunday Times Hisako Onada, world-famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are...- $14.95
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Vendor: Isaac Asimov
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation: Introduction by Michael Dirda
Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation trilogy--one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction--in a single hardcover volume. - Winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series. - THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION. It is the saga of the Galactic...- $32.00
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Vendor: Jon Cross
Being Woake
Meet Sebastian Woake: successful barrister, reluctant politician and a man struggling with political correctness.Newly elected onto the local district council, Woake's political career will lead him to contend with the challenges which are quangos, obnoxious Chinese delegations, rampaging bulls, pompous (and occasionally corrupt) councillors,...- $15.99
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Vendor: Akarsh Raker
God's Lonely Men
What goes on in the minds of men who shape our culture and society? Meet God's Lonely Men. An Artist. A Husband. A Serial Killer. A Soldier. A Prime Minister. For long, men have been entitled to matters that have either worsened or strengthened...- $11.99
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Vendor: Jagadish Mohanty
Battles of Our Own
Battles of Our Own (Nija Nija Panipatha) by Jagadish Mohanty (1951-2013), was published in 1990. It is set in the coal mining area of western Odisha, where the author worked all his life. The conflict between the coal mine administration and the trade union...- $17.95
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Vendor: Olivier Guez
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
An extraordinary novel about one of history's most reviled figures, written as an action-packed historical biography For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of...- $19.95
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Vendor: Richard Proctor
Jon Smith
It is the year 2020, and the world has become a place run by a socialist/corporatist government. The preceding ten years brought about large changes in America, and the world as laws were passed that enabled the government to take total control of people's...- $30.99
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Vendor: Arafat Nur
Blood Moon Over Aceh
When military violence destroys his childhood and his family, reluctant rebel Nazir and his peers rally against the greed-driven injustice. The setting is Alue Rambe, a rural village in Aceh, at the epicenter of one of the world's richest oil and gas fields. This...- $22.75
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Vendor: Peter Carey
Parrot and Olivier in America
Man Booker Prize FinalistNational Book Award FinalistTwo-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's latest feat of imagination is an irrepressible, audacious, and trenchantly funny novel set mostly in nineteenth-century America. Olivier--an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville--is an aristocrat born just after the French...- $20.00
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Vendor: Jess B. Nunnelee
Nothing but a Sheet of Glass: A Novel of the Yemeni Civil War
The year is 1994. North and South Yemen are engaged in a civil war. A number of expatriates employed by a company with operations in Yemen live in the area. Some live in the capitol city of Sana'a and others work at desert production...- $27.00
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Vendor: Gina Apostol
Bibliolepsy
Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought down a dictatorship Gina Apostol's debut novel, available for the first time in the...- $16.95
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Vendor: John Sheuring
The Palace in Spruce Pine: John Stourton Series
The story of John Stourton is real and absolute however what if you woke up one day and realized that you were in a different world, with the same name but a totally different direction. Your life has similarities but that changed one day...- $23.95
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Vendor: Noel Hynd
Judgment in Berlin: A Spy Story
'Judgment in Berlin' is the third book in Noel Hynd's Berlin series.It is 1948. World War Two is over, Hitler is dead. The Nuremberg trials have concluded. The Marshall Plan attempts to rebuild Europe, though Germany remains occupied by American, British, French, and Soviet...- $22.49
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Vendor: John M. Del Vecchio
Demise
AUTHOR'S PREFERRED EDITIONThis 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 avoided the draft.Their worlds begin to disintegrate...- $21.99
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A Tale of Two Cities
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What If They Knew
The Constitution cannot be changed. Or can it? And we're not talking about Amendments. T.R. Hendrick's book What If They Knew, takes an entertaining, fictional history look at a few of our forefather's thoughts on America today. This is no fireside chat of what...- $39.95
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Vendor: S. Fowler Wright
The Ordeal of Barata: A Political Fantasy
British Doctor Enrico Dalston travels to Central America, where he finds himself entangled in the longstanding political quarrel between the republics of Barata and Bioli. On the voyage to Bioli, he becomes enamored of the beautiful daughter of Bioli President Gomez--and then is arrested...- $14.99
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Vendor: Carlos Fuentes
The Eagle's Throne
Here is a true literary event-the long-awaited new novel by Carlos Fuentes, one of the world's great writers. By turns a tragedy and a farce, an acidic black comedy and an indictment of modern politics, The Eagle's Throne is a seriously entertaining and perceptive...- $18.00
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Vendor: Robert Ludlum
The Osterman Weekend
In Zurich . . . in Moscow . . . in Washington, D.C. . . . the machinery has already been set in motion. In a quiet suburb, an odd assortment of men and women gather for a momentous weekend. At stake is nothing...- $9.99
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Mercy Street
Ms. Haigh is an expertly nuanced storyteller long overdue for major attention. Her work is gripping, real, and totally immersive, akin to that of writers as different as Richard Price, Richard Ford, and Richard Russo.--Janet Maslin, New York TimesThe highly anticipated new novel by...- $46.99
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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.