Fiction - Political

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis has been hailed as one of Latin America's greatest writers, a progenitor of modernism and a masterful ironist known for his inspired critiques of nineteenth-century Brazil. Memorial de Ayres is his final novel, released just two months before his...

The surprising, poignant Kennedy story you don't know, with the enigmatic Bobby Kennedy at its heart Bobby Kennedy was never meant to matter. The seventh of nine children, he's long been overlooked by his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., who governs his children with...

The surprising, poignant Kennedy story you don't know, with the enigmatic Bobby Kennedy at its heart Bobby Kennedy was never meant to matter. The seventh of nine children, he's long been overlooked by his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., who governs his children with...

In a failing city, a government program incentivizes couples to "conjoin"--surgically attach themselves to one another--promising a flourishing economy, ecological revitalization, and personal fulfillment. A student writing her dissertation on the program's history begins to suffer from insomnia. As her world unravels and under...

From Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner The Color Purple, comes Meridian, "a classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement" (Ms.). Meridian Hill is a young woman at an Atlanta college attempting to find her place...

With his lover imprisoned in a Russian gulag, the Gray Man will stop at nothing to free her in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A winter sunrise over the great plains of Russia is no cause for celebration....

With his lover imprisoned in a Russian gulag, the Gray Man will stop at nothing to free her in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A winter sunrise over the great plains of Russia is no cause for celebration....

With his lover imprisoned in a Russian gulag, the Gray Man will stop at nothing to free her in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A winter sunrise over the great plains of Russia is no cause for celebration....

Professional liar Miller Cane is making a killing traveling around the country running therapy groups for survivors of mass shootings-and business is booming. But just as his latest con is unfolding, he's interrupted by a call from Lizzie, the woman he loves. It seems...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Mark Greaney, the New York Times bestselling author of Gunmetal Gray and a coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, comes a high-stakes thriller featuring the world's most dangerous assassin: the Gray Man. Court Gentry's flight on a...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Mark Greaney, the New York Times bestselling author of Gunmetal Gray and a coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, comes a high-stakes thriller featuring the world's most dangerous assassin: the Gray Man. Court Gentry's flight on a...

One of President Obama's Favorite Books of the Year A New York Times Notable Book One of the Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of the Year "Missionaries is a courageous book: It doesn't shy away, as so much fiction does, from the real...

UFO: Fact or Fiction? MO41, The Bombshell Before Roswell" by Paul Blake Smith, might well be the most exciting, shocking, and impactful event - and now book subject - not just in American history, but all of human history. Did three extraterrestrials really crash-land...

National Bestseller Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates PrizeA Powell's Best Book of 2023A TIME Best Book of 2023A Vulture Best Book of 2023 "A masterpiece of misdirection." ―Geraldine Brooks "Mobility is a truly gripping coming-of-age story about navigating a world of corporate...

Set in the High Atlas in pre-modern Morocco, Moon and Henna Tree chronicles the rise and fall of a local potentate, Hmmu. Not content with the territory left to him upon his father's death, Hmmu, under the influence of his scheming advisor, Ibn al-Zara,...

CIA officers Sia and Max enter Russia under commercial cover to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London law firm that conceals the wealth of the superrich. Max's family business in Mexico--a CIA front since the 1960s--is a farm that breeds high-end...

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author, a hilarious, sharply drawn send-up of local politics - A novel about a dark-horse candidate who risks his personal happiness for a career in the Texas House of...

The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters and Canary Girls unveils the private lives of President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, through the eyes of the First Lady's most trusted confidante and friend in this compelling historical novel....

Two special agents investigate the mysterious death of an FBI agent, only to find themselves caught in a web of incriminating Bureau secrets, in this sixth book in Margaret Truman's nationally bestselling Capital Crimes series. "Part mystery, part conspiracy-melodrama, and part gothicky romance: one...

Petrograd, 1916. As Russia is swept up in the maelstrom of war, Oswald Rayner, a bookish Oxford graduate, is sent by British Intelligence to Petrograd.His mission is to curb Rasputin's influence and eliminate the man himself if needed. But Oswald soon realizes that his...