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1) Lost Lake
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On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, violence erupts at a Little League game -- and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet, gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable. In a cheap motel room in Washington, D.C., Vanessa Kohler -- ex-mental patient, supermarket tabloid reporter, and estranged daughter of a powerful general running for president -- views a news broadcast of the bizarre incident and believes...
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 9
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"It's a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a national security conference has just been held, bringing together the world's greatest minds to discuss the issues that are threatening the country. It's American politicking at its best. That's when all hell breaks loose." "When presidential candidate...
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America the beautiful novels volume 1
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Emily Benton has spent her entire life immersed in politics. Having been raised in the industry, she has the kinds of contacts that it takes most politicians decades to build. She knows that she can win the race for president of the United States, but only if she destroys her rival first, before he can find and use hidden ammunition on her. If Emily destroys him, the election will be hers. A groundbreaking novel about the intersection of politics,...
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A Newsmakers novel volume 2
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"How far would a candidate go to become President of the United States? In covering the presidential election campaign, star newsmaker Erica Sparks notices that favored candidate Senator Mike Ortiz seems dependent on his wife to an unnatural degree. Celeste Ortiz is a brilliant and glamorous billionaire who--along with her best friend and confidant Lily Lau--has engineered her husband's meteoric rise. The White House is within their reach. But the...
7) Locked on
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IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 33
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Jack Ryan, Sr. has made a momentous choice. He's running for President of the United States again and thus giving up a peaceful retirement to help his country in its darkest hour. But he doesn't anticipate the treachery of his opponent, who uses trumped up charges to attack one of Ryan's closest comrades, John Clark.Now, Clark is in a race against time and must travel the world, staying one step ahead of his adversaries, including a shadowy organization...
8) Tempting
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After three romantic flame-outs in a year and a restaurant career going nowhere, Dani Buchanan needs a fresh start. She goes looking for her biological father, but never expects to find a senator running for president. As his long-lost 'love child, ' Dani could seriously derail the election-- something his handsome campaign manager Alex Canfield isn't going to let happen. Dani isn't about to let Alex run her life, no matter how tempting she finds...
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Rosalie Curzon, a Washington call girl, is found bludgeoned to death in her apartment, where a detective discovers a hidden video camera. President Burton Pyle is running for reelection. Robert Colgate is expected to easily defeat Pyle, whose administration has been rife with corruption and scandal. Colgate, though, is not without cracks in his slick exterior. Rumors swirl about his failing marriage. Then the daughter of Colgate's closet friend is...
10) No safe place
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Kerry Kilcannon trilogy volume 1
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As Senator Kerry Kilcannon campaigns in the California presidential primary, he struggles to cope with memories of his older brother's assassination during his own run for the nomination twelve years before and becomes the target of a deranged anti-abortion activist on the ultimate mission.
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Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out, Jesse stumbles across a long-lost treasure, which could solve all her problems - if she can figure out how to keep it. The problem is, some very bad men are also looking for the treasure, and they know Jesse...
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"Carla Merino is hiding out in Lost Bay, Alaska, after a one-night stand with the wrong man...She'd taken a memento from the evening...a photograph from the man's wallet, of a younger version of himself and some very important military men. But she quickly realizes who the men are--including Gordon McKint, giant in the military contracting industry, who just happens to be running for president...When she finds out she's been tracked to Lost Bay, she...
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Hardy boys casefiles volume 103
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[1995]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Frank and Joe have to find who the terrorists are because their lives are in danger.
14) Stillwatch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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While working on a television series that will focus on a woman senator who is running for vice-president, journalist Pat Traymore discovers terrible secrets that threaten to destroy the candidate's reputation.
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2024.
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"Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone. But Penn's self-imposed exile comes to an abrupt end when a brawl at a Bienville music festival triggers a shooting--one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie. Before the stunned populace can process the tragedy, an arsonist begins torching antebellum plantation homes in Bienville. When an unknown...
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President's daughter series volume 1
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[2008]
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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Sixteen-year-old Meghan Powers' happy life in Massachusetts changes drastically when her mother, one of the most prestigious senators in the country, becomes the front-runner in the race for United States President.
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c2006
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When an al-Qaeda-style bomb attack on the motorcade of the Democratic presidential candidate, Georgia governor Josh Alexander, in Washington, D.C., a month before the November election kills the candidate's wife and several Secret Service agents, Rapp uses all the tools at his disposal to investigate the claim of the now discredited head of the protective detail that a mysterious figure in a red baseball cap set off the fatal bomb. Rapp soon finds...
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[2015]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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After her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Kate Quinn meets the father she did not know she had, joins his presidential campaign, falls for a rebellious boy, and when what she truly believes flies in the face of the campaign's talking points, Kate must decide what is best.
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