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1984

by George Orwell

George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision of "Negative Utopia" is timelier than ever-and its warnings more powerful.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim

With a will of steel, Polish immigrant Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel's daughter. She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future. But she wants more to be the first female president. Golden boy Richard Kane was born into a life of luxury. The scion of a banking magnate he is successful, handsome, and determined to carve his own path in the world-and to build a future... (more)

Last Jihad, The

by Joel C. Rosenberg

The book that started it all, The Last Jihad is the first of Joel C. Rosenberg's New York Times best-selling series, with 500,000 in print. The first page puts readers in the cockpit of a hijacked jet on a kamikaze mission into an American city--but it was written nine months before 9/11/01. As the plot unfolds, White House advisors Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy are under attack in Jerusalem as the U.S. goes to... (more)

Little Bee

by Chris Cleave

WE DON'T WANT TO TELL YOU TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS BOOK. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn't. And it's what happens afterward that is most important. Once you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone about it. When you... (more)

Farming of Bones

by Edwidge Danticat

From the bestselling author of Breath, Eyes, Memory , a passionate and profound novel of two lovers struggling against political violence The Farming of Bones begins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates the country from Haiti. Amabelle Desir, Haitian-born and a faithful maidservant to the Dominican family that took her in when she was orphaned, and her lover Sebastien, an... (more)

Camel Club: Book 4

Divine Justice

by David Baldacci

Following the instant # 1 New York Times bestseller Stone Cold, Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldacci's most surprising thriller yet . . . Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America . With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone's life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But his freedom comes at a steep price: The... (more)

The Lorax

by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

Illus. in full color. "The big, colorful pictures and the fun images, word plays and rhymes make this an amusing exposition of the ecology crisis."-- School Library Journal.

Empire Duet: Book 1

Empire

by Orson Scott Card

The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side, and militia foot-soldiers on the other, devastating the cities, and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who... (more)

Fahrenheit 451

A Novel

by Ray Bradbury

Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do....

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was first published in 1899 in serial form in London’s Blackwood’s Magazine. Loosely based on Conrad’s firsthand experience of rescuing a company agent from a remote station in the heart of the Congo, the novel is considered a literary bridge between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With its modern literary approach to questions such as the ambiguous nature of good and... (more)

My Year of Meats

by Ruth L. Ozeki

Veteran filmaker Ruth Ozeki's novel has been hailed as "one of the heartiest and yes, meatiest debuts in years" ( Glamour ). It tells the story of a year in the lives of two ordinary women on opposite ends of the earth, brought together by a convergence of extraordinary circumstances. Jane, a struggling filmmaker in New York, is given her big break--a chance to travel through the U.S. to produce a Japanese... (more)

The Sign

by Raymond Khoury

Another cutting-edge thriller set at the intersection of science, religion, and history from the bestselling author of The Last Templar New York Times bestselling author Raymond Khoury— whose debut novel, The Last Templar , has sold more than a million copies in the United States, and whose second, The Sanctuary , was also a major national bestseller—returns with The Sign . Like the first two, this new... (more)

The People's Choice: A Novel

by Jeff Greenfield

After the president-elect dies from a head injury, political wheeler and dealers debate and jockey for position as to whether the electoral votes pledged to the president-elect now need to go to his dimwit running mate. Reprint.

Anthills of the Savannah

by Chinua Achebe

Using the conflict between the city and tribal villages, the ravages of the great African drought, and Third World politics as a compelling backdrop, Achebe weaves a potent drama of modern Africa.

Seven Days in May

by Fletcher and Bailey, Charles W. II Knebel

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

by Mohsin Hamid

At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting . . . Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite "valuation" firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his infatuation with... (more)

The Ezekiel Option

by Joel C. Rosenberg

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 European allies. A new evil looms on the horizon. A dictator is rising in Russia. Iran is feverishly building nuclear weapons. A new axis of evil is emerging, led by Moscow and Tehran. And Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy,... (more)

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned - a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first... (more)

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

14.5 Million copies sold to date The classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature-now available as a Premium Edition with a stunning new cover and re-set, easy-to-read text.

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Tags: political fiction

by George Orwell

by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim

by Jeffrey Archer

by Joel C. Rosenberg

by Chris Cleave

by Edwidge Danticat

by David Baldacci

by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

by Orson Scott Card

A Novel

by Ray Bradbury

by Joseph Conrad

by Ruth L. Ozeki

by Raymond Khoury

by Jeff Greenfield

by Chinua Achebe

by Fletcher and Bailey, Charles W. II Knebel

by Mohsin Hamid

by Joel C. Rosenberg

by George Orwell

by William Golding