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c2013., General, Acorn Press Call No: QWF Fic Ell Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Novel takes us back to the early 1970s on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island, where a hilarious and colourful cast of Lorne Elliott characters are engaged in uproarious political, financial, musical, amorous, and ecological shenanigans. Our young hero, Christian, is an eloquently wry and precocious university drop-out, who has never savoured the wonders of women or alcohol. A budding naturalist raised in central Canada, he arrives on PEI for a summer job in the newly-established Barrisway National Park, and sets up camp on the beach. There, he becomes enmeshed in the struggles of the boisterous MacAkrin siblings to remain in their park-enclosed home, rivalries and lustful longings at park headquarters, and the skullduggeries of an Island political campaign. Lorne Elliott gloriously conjures the mischief and zaniness, the lovable rascals and lamentable rogues, of Island life behind the tourist posters. He deftly evokes the kindness and camaraderie of Islanders, and the Island's high-spirited revelry. Beach Reading transforms the Land of Anne and Avonlea into the land of Wallace MacAkrin, the Barley Boys, and Barrisway. "Come play on our Island," as the tourist slogan says, and you'll be laughing with bittersweet delight for days.
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-- Break down.c2012., G. P. Putnam's sons Call No: MYS Fic Par Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago's most influential families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile media campaign against a senatorial candidate or a wealthy patriarch's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.
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2008., McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Bow Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Joanne Kilbourn Volume: 11
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2016., Adult, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYS Fic San Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation--no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. 'Should be fun!' he says, and it kind of is--until they find they have a shadow: an armed man intent on killing the governor... and anyone who gets in the way."--From publisher.
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c2010., Adult, Emblem Call No: Fic Fal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Get ready for the most exciting local race ever to hit a Canadian federal election! In one lane we have the incumbent Angus McLintock, the crusty old engineering Prof. who won the seat by a fluke and who has since shaken up Ottawa politics with his outspoken integrity. Lined up against him is "Flamethrower" Fox, the Conservative who practically invented low-road politics, and two others. And along for the ride - reluctantly - is Angus's Executive Assistant, Daniel Addison. For Daniel (supported by the lovely Lindsay) the campaign involves triumphs, disasters, home-baked cookie missiles, canvassing by hovercraft, and a thrilling election that catches the world's attention. It even brings the visiting U.S. President and First Lady to Angus's riverside door. All this - and chess, and love, and sub-zero male nudity - not to mention a collapsing bridge that shakes government and puts Angus in the spotlight. Hold on for the ride!"--Back cover.
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2015., Adult, Macmillan Audio Call No: CD Fic Arc Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Harry arrives in New York, his publisher Harold Guinzberg tells him he has been elected as the next president of English PEN, which will give him the opportunity to launch a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who is languishing in a Russian Gulag in Siberia. His crime: writing the book Uncle Joe, which gives an insight into what it was like to work for Josef Stalin.
![Mightier than the sword [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT76978.JPG "Mightier than the sword [CD]")
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1998., Knopf : Distributed by Random House Call No: Fic Pat Edition: 1st trade ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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-- Presidential novelc2011., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: Fic Ano Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "O. The truth only fiction can tell. This is a novel about aspiration and delusion, set during the presidential election of 2012 and written by an anonymous author who has spent years observing politics and the fraught relationship between public image and sefl-regard. The novel includes revealing and insightful portraits of many prominent figures in the political world - some invented and some real. As a work of speculative fiction about ways in which the battle for the presidency will be fought in 2012, the details in O will ultimately be overtaken by events. But no chronicle is more likely to convey the interior lives of the people in the midst of that campaign - the issues they confront, the compromises they will make, the lengths to which they will go for victory. O is a novel for anyone who wants to understand what our leaders are really thinking. It proves in dramatic terms that, sometimes only fiction can reveal the truth."--Inside cover.
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2003, c2002., Warner Books Call No: MYS Fic Wes Edition: Warner Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2007., Henry Holt and Co. Call No: Fic Pat Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view
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Ã2017., General, Crown Call No: Bio C641l Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. No explanation of the defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Hillary's campaign - -the candidate herself. Political writers Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes have reconstructed the key decisions and unseized opportunities, the well-intentioned misfires and the hidden thorns that turned a winnable contest into a devastating loss. Drawing on their knowledge of Hillary from their biography HRC, they offer an object lesson in how Hillary herself made victory an uphill battle, how her difficulty articulating a vision irreparably hobbled her impact with voters, and how the campaign failed to internalize the lessons of populist fury from the hard-fought primary against Bernie Sanders. Moving blow-by-blow from the campaign's difficult birth through the bewildering terror of election night, the unforgettable story and the urgent lessons both political and personal, filled with revelations that will change the way readers understand just what happened to America on November 8, 2016"--Provided by publisher.
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2016., Adult, Picador Call No: Fic Hou Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a near-future France, Francois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession--the ideas and works of the novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans--has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalist society where consumerism has become the new religion, Fran³cois is spiritually barren, but seeking to fill the vacuum of his existence. And he is not alone. As the 2022 Presidential election approaches, two candidates emerge as favorites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and Muhammed Ben Abbes of the nascent Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the mainstream parties, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged and, for Francois, life is set on a new course.
