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Adult Fiction - Political Fiction
Updated May 19, 2023
Milwaukee County Federated Library System
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The president is missing : a novel
Clinton, Bill
Paper Book
Don't miss the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from the world's bestselling author, James Patterson: an "undeniably gripping ride through the hidden passageways of power and politics" that "moves like Air Force One" (Michael Connelly). The...
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Billy Lynn's long halftime walk
Fountain, Ben.
Paper Book
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award "Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous." --New York Times Book Review From the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of the critically acclaimed short story collection,...
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Zero history
Gibson, William
Paper Book
The iconic visionary returns with his first new novel since the New York Times bestseller Spook Country. Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of your own... When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry's face...
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The city always wins
Hamilton, Omar Robert
Paper Book
Named as one of the Best Books of 2017 by The Boston Globe and The Arts Desk We've been doing the same thing for hundreds of years. Marching, fighting, chanting, dying, changing, winning, losing . This time will be different. This time the future can still be made...
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Imperium : a novel of ancient Rome
Harris, Robert
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fatherland and Pompeii comes an epic blockbuster about the violent, treacherous world of Roman politics and the struggle for supreme power.
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You are one of them
Holt, Elliott.
Paper Book
"A hugely absorbing first novel from a writer with a fluid, vivid style and a rare knack for balancing the pleasure of entertainment with the deeper gratification of insight. More, please.” —Maggie Shipstead, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) ...
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The Standard Grand
Nicorvo, Jay Baron
Paper Book
**One of theBrooklynRail's Best Books of 2017** "Nicorvo is a bracingly original writer and a joy to read." --Dennis Lehane "A desperate masterpiece of a debut" that tells a huge-hearted American saga--of love, violence, war, conspiracy and...
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Between summer's longing and winter's end : the story of a crime
Persson, Leif G. W.
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A young man falls to his death from a window in a student dorm in Stockholm, his loose shoe striking and killing the little dog being taken for his evening walk by an old man. It seems to be a mundane suicide--at least that's what the police choose to think. But the young man is American, not...
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The Ezekiel option
Rosenberg, Joel C.
Paper Book
New York Times best-selling author Joel Rosenberg brings readers this thrilling new novel. When Russia's richest oil baron is killed, Moscow suddenly teeters on the verge of political chaos. Tehran races to complete its nuclear arsenal. Washington finds herself dangerously divided from her...
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To die in spring
Rothmann, Ralf
Paper Book
The lunacy of the final months of World War II, as experienced by a young German soldier Distant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son--the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel--is curious about Walter's experiences during...
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The diplomat's daughter : a novel
Tanabe, Karin
Paper Book
The author of the "thought-provoking" (starred, Library Journal) novel The Gilded Years crafts a captivating tale of three young people divided by the horrors of World War II and their journeys back to one another. As fighting on the Pacific front crescendos, Karin Tanabe paints a stunning portrait...
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Code of conduct : a thriller
Thor, Brad
Paper Book
"Thor tops himself again and again." -BookReporter.com "Feels like the TV show 24 on the page." -The Associated Press #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor presents his greatest thriller ever-an action-packed literary tour de...
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Spoils : a novel
Van Reet, Brian
Paper Book
It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already-simmering insurgency intent on making Iraq the next graveyard of...
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We eat our own : a novel
Wilson, Kea
Paper Book
An ambitious debut novel by an original young writer, We Eat Our Own blurs the lines between life and art with the story of a film director's unthinkable experiment in the Amazon. When a nameless, struggling actor in 1970s New York gets the call that an enigmatic director wants...
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D.C. dead
Woods, Stuart.
Paper Book
After a shocking loss, Stone Barrington is at loose ends, unsure if he wants to stay in New York and continue his work as a partner at Woodman & Weld. It comes as a welcome relief when he's summoned to Washington, D.C., by President Will Lee. The president has a special operation that calls for...
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Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist : a novel
Yapa, Sunil
Paper Book
Grief-stricken after his mother's death and three years of wandering the world, Victor is longing for a family and a sense of purpose. He believes he's found both when he returns home to Seattle only to be swept up in a massive protest. With young, biracial Victor on one side of the barricades...
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