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1) Woman of god
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English
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"St. Peter's Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new Pope has been chosen. Is it possible that the new Pope is a woman? The world is watching as historic crowds gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new Pope, one who promises to be unlike any other in the Church's history. Some followers are ecstatic, but the leading candidate has made a legion of powerful enemies. From a difficult childhood with drug addled parents, to a career as a doctor...
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“The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—Salon
It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.
Written during the Great Depression,...
It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.
Written during the Great Depression,...
3) Mary 4 mayor
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
What begins for eighteen-year-old Mary Parson as a retaliation against her father, the mayor of their small town who abandoned his family after suffering a midlife crisis, turns into a full-scale war as Mary becomes the lone challenger to his re-election. In the end, armed with truth, love and faith, she must work to not only save her town but her family as well.
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Tommy Carmellini novels volume 8
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English
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"After one of the most contentious and divisive elections in American history, Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini race to solve the mystery of a potentially rigged election before Americans' full faith and credit in our democracy, sovereignty, and rule of law become completely undone"--
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Disney Press, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Minnie is running for President of the Adventure Club and she's enlisted all her friends to help with her campaign. Get out the vote and learn fun election facts in this Level 2 reader that comes with stickers and a quiz at the end of the book.
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Humanix Books
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English
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Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America -- and the world. Conservative commentator Horowitz presents a White House battle plan to halt the Democrats' march to extinguish the values conservatives hold dear. He details President Trump's likely moves, and explores the opportunities he will have to reshape the American...
7) Nosotros
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
It follows a group of five friends during the weekend of the Spanish presidential election in December 2015, probably the most important election in Spain's recent history due to the crisis of old institutions and the phenomenal rise of new political parties to transform the political system. Maria, Suko, Sarah, Seda, and Felipe are in their 30's. They are part of a fragile generation, the first one in many decades to live in worse conditions than...
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Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A local plumber is plunged into the national spotlight when he takes on the former President of the United States, who can't believe he's running against a man who installed his toilets. To make matters worse, the ex-president is trying to steal the election -- and the affection of the handyman's girlfriend. Whoever wins, one thing's for sure, this town is not small enough for both of them.
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English
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INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER: A gripping first-hand account of the January 6th, 2021, insurrection from inside the halls of Congress, from origins to aftermath, as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution—by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it.
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican...
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican...
10) Power failure
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Jake Ross novels volume 3
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English
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As Senator Frank Tomlinson and his science advisor Dr. Jake Ross continue their complex political maneuvers, a future powered by solar satellite transmission seems tantalizingly within reach.
11) Peril
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa cover the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden presidency.
The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history. But as #1 internationally bestselling author Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa reveal for the first time, it was far more than just a domestic political crisis. Woodward and Costa...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat with a quarter-billion-dollar war chest, and a hostile media and Washington establishment to become president of the United States--and an extremely successful president. Trump alone saw a political opportunity in...
13) City so real
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Academy Award nominated filmmaker Steve James' fascinating and complex portrait of contemporary Chicago delivers a deep, multifaceted look into the soul of a quintessentially American city, set against the backdrop of its history-making 2019 mayoral election, and the tumultuous 2020 summer of COVID-19 and social upheaval following the police killing of George Floyd.
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English
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"From the New York Times's Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers comes a long-overdue exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world's largest law firms, following the narrative arc of Jones Day, the firm that represented the Trump campaign and much of the Fortune 500, as a powerful encapsulation of the changes that have swept the legal industry in recent decades"--
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PBS
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English
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For two years, special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election dominated news headlines and rocked Washington D.C. Drawing on in-depth interviews with senior law enforcement officials, Trump insiders, attorneys, authors and journalists, FRONTLINE offers an inside look into the investigation that President Donald Trump has continually deemed a 'witch hunt.'
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"'Promise me, Dad,' Beau had told his father. 'Give me your word that no matter what happens, you're going to be all right.' Joe Biden gave him his word. Promise Me, Dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden's extraordinary life and career. Vice President Biden traveled more than a hundred thousand miles that year, across the world, dealing with crises in Ukraine, Central America, and Iraq....
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When Bernie Sanders began his race for the presidency, it was considered by the political establishment and the media to be a "fringe" campaign, something not to be taken seriously. After all, he was just an independent senator from a small state with little name recognition. His campaign had no money, no political organization, and it was taking on the entire Democratic Party establishment. By the time Sanders's campaign came to a close, however,...
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