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2014., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Coe Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A woman around her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: a solid and stable marriage, a loving husband, sweet and well-behaved children and a job as a journalist she can't complain about. However, she can no longer bear the necessary effort to fake happiness when all she feels in life is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters an ex-boyfriend from her adolescence. Jacob is now a successful politician and, during an interview, he ends up arousing something in her she hadn't felt for a long time: passion..." --wikipedia.com.
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2014., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Call No: Fic Bez Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: These incandescent pages give us one momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the West Bank settlements, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior. He and the fierce young Leora flee the scandal for Yalta, where he comes face to face with the former friend who denounced him to the KGB almost forty years earlier. In a mere 24 hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed.
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c2010., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Hew Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Nic Costa Volume: 8Summary Note: "Twenty years ago, a mysterious group called the Butteri committed a series of bizarre crimes evoking the lost race of the Etruscans, and leaving in their wake a several bodies, a cryptic message, and a kidnapped child. Now, the leaders of the G8 are descending on Rome for a summit at the Quirinale Palace. But when a politician is found ritually murdered, seemingly by a strange young man dressed as the Etruscan blue demon, detective Nic Costa suspects that the old case was never really solved. The Butteri have returned - and are planning to unleash a devastating sequence of attacks on the city. Officially sidelined from the investigation but encouraged by the wily old Italian President, Dario Sordi, Costa and his team start to dig deeper into the past. There are still too many questions left unanswered - and much more to the history of the Butteri than anyone wants to admit."--Inside jacket flap.
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-- Colours of all the cattle.[2018]., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: SC BLK MYS Fic McC Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. Volume: 19Summary Note: When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the City Council, Mma Ramotswe is at first unsure. But when she learns about the proposed construction of the flashy Big Fun Hotel next to a graveyard, she allows herself to be persuaded. Her opponent is none other than Violet Sephotho, who is in the pocket of the hotel developers. Although Violet is intent on using every trick in the book to secure her election, Mma Ramotswe refuses to promise anything beyond what she can deliver--hence her slogan: "I can't promise anything--but I shall do my best." To everyone's surprise, she wins. As it turns out, politics does not agree with Mma Ramotswe. Though everyone is supportive, she eventually resigns. She thinks there will be a new election, but she discovers that the rules state that in such an event, the runner-up automatically takes the seat. Violet is triumphant, and sure that she will get the Big Fun Hotel planning application through without a hitch. But Mma Makutsi and Mma Potokwane are not about to make it easy for her. Through it all, Mma Ramotswe uses her good humour and generosity of spirit to help the community navigate divisive issues, and proves that honesty and compassion will always carry the day.
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2001., General, DreamWorks Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Contender Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "'The most controversial movie in years,' claims Joel Siegel of Good Morning America. Power comes at a stunning price, in this electrifying thriller that features riveting performances by an all-star cast. The vice president is dead, and as the president (Jeff Bridges) makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival (Gary Oldman). When Senator Laine Hanson (Joan Allen) is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agendas explode into a battle for power. Critics rave that The Contender is 'the most important American film in years...a remarkably powerful and provocative thriller,' (Jeff Craig, Sixty Second Preview)."--Container.
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2006., Adult, Headline Call No: Fic Dob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ginny is the young wife of an opposition MP, Dominic Edge, and is entirely content with her life in the constituency home. So when she over-hears gossip of her husband's affair, it is a shattering blow. For some women such things seem part of the Westminster game, but Ginny is no ordinary woman. She decides that there is only one way to stop being a perpetual victim of the system, and that is to become its master. Ginny will not be satisfied until she is the wife of the Prime Minister. And so begins a voyage of personal discovery for Ginny that will change her from devoted mother and housewife to ultimate manipulator. Driven by the intuition and determination of a wronged woman, she takes ruthless advantage of the ineptitude of men. Ministers, editors, churchmen and even the Monarch fall victim to her wiles. Yet in the pitiless world of politics, one man's success can only be achieved by the ruination of many others, and Ginny will discover there is a high price to pay for pushing her husband to the very top.
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[2013]., General, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic House of C Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: House of cards Volume: 1Summary Note: Season one of the Netflix original series House of Cards. Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
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[2014]., [Publisher not identified] Call No: DVD Fic House of C Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: House of cards Volume: 2Summary Note: Frank prepares for his promotion to Vice President. Doug tries to erase all leads leading him back to him and Frank. Claire fights back against Gillian. Zoe considers working with Frank again.
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[2015]., Adult, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic House of C 3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: House of cards Volume: 3Summary Note: Ruthless congressman Francis Underwood trades secrets for political access with an ambitious journalist in his quest to become the next president of the United States.
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-- House of cards.By Willimon, Beau Spacey, Kevin Wright, Robin, 1966- Kelly, Michael, 1969- Scott, Campbell Clarkson, Patricia Sparks, Paul, 1971- Cecil, Derek, 1973- Campbell, Neve, 1973- McElligott, Dominique McGiver, Boris, 1962- Jackson, Korey Atkinson, Jayne Feore, Colm, 1958- Young, Damian Martinez, James Kinnaman, Joel, 1979- Dobbs, Michael, 1948- Trigger Street Productions[2017]., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic House of C 5 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: House of cards Volume: 5Summary Note: In the midst of the presidential election, tensions mount in the White House as Frank and Claire continue to navigate their political careers and redefine their relationships, particularly with each other.
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2013., Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic House of C Tri Edition: Special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Based on Michael Dobbs' best-selling novel about a man who schemes and backstabs his way to the top until he is standing on a pile of broken promises, betrayals, and the bodies of those who oppose him.
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[2020]., Adult, Random House Call No: Fic Sit Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise. Life magazine covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she's attending Yale Law School, and she's on the forefront of student activism and the women's rights movement. Then she meets a fellow law student named Bill Clinton. A charismatic Southerner, Bill is already laying the groundwork for his political career. In each other, Hillary and Bill find a profound intellectual, emotional, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced. In the real world, Hillary followed Bill back to Arkansas, and he proposed several times. Although she turned him down more than once, she eventually accepted and became Hillary Clinton. But in Curtis Sittenfeld's powerfully imagined tour de force of fiction, Hillary follows a different path. Listening to her doubts about the prospective marriage, she endures a devastating break-up and leaves Arkansas. Over the next four decades, she blazes her own trail--one that unfolds in public as well as in private, that crosses paths again (and again) with Bill Clinton, that raises questions about the trade-offs all of us must make to build a life. Brilliantly weaving actual historical events into a riveting fictional tale, Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute story for our times. In exploring the loneliness, moral ambivalence, and iron determination that characterize the quest for political power, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world still mostly run by men, Rodham is a singular and unforgettable novel"--