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When Illinois senator Lyle Simmons returns from a political fundraiser to find his wife murdered, Detective Charles Chang is assigned to the investigation, in a case that draws him into the dangerous world of political lobbyists with whom the senator has a close relationship.
63) Run
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Run (John Lewis) volume 1
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling, graphic novel series March comes the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the Civil Rights Movement. For John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement as he knew it ended with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, but his struggle in the following years echo many of the same questions of civil rights and equality that are being asked today. The movement...
64) Patsy Mink
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How did Patsy Mink become a member of Congress? Readers will learn all about this great Asian American politician and the significant events in her life in this juvenile biography.
65) Red letter days
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Berkley
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2020.
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384 pages ; 21 cm
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"A striking novel from the acclaimed author of Radio Girls about two daring women who escape McCarthy-era Hollywood for London, where they find creative freedom and fight the injustices of the Red Scare. Nineteen-fifties America is bright and full of promise, and Phoebe Adler, a New Yorker brimming with talent and ambition, is forging her way as the rarest of things: a female television writer in Hollywood. But fears of a growing Red Menace cloud...
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"A simple mix up throws one innocent man into the crosshairs of sinister government secrets and ruthless political ambitions in New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder's timely, electrifying new thriller. Michael Tanner is on his way home from a business trip when he accidentally picks up the wrong MacBook in an airport security line. He doesn't notice the mix-up until he arrives home in Boston, but by then it's too late. Tanner's curiosity...
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Simon & Schuster
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2020.
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1 volume : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm
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"More so than almost anyone outside of McCain's immediate family, Mark Salter had unparalleled access to and served to influence the Senator's thoughts and actions, cowriting seven books with him and acting as a valued confidant. Now, in The Luckiest Man, Salter draws on the storied facets of McCain's early biography as well as the later-in-life political philosophy for which the nation knew and loved him, delivering an intimate and comprehensive...
69) Living history
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Simon & Schuster
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c2003
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xi, 562 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
70) 14 women
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Universal
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[2008]
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1 DVD (70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A look at the 14 women of the 109th United States Congress, their struggle to reach that unprecedented number, and how they dealt with trying to balance family life and their jobs.
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2020.
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"From the moment Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat a ten-term incumbent in the primary election for New York's 14th, her journey to the national, if not world, stage, was fast-tracked. AOC investigates her symbolic and personal significance for so many, fromher willingness to use her imperfect bi-lingualism, to the threat she poses by governing like a man, to the long history of Puerto Rican activism that she joins."--
72) Weiner
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IFC Films
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[2016]
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1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's disastrous 2013 mayoral campaign.
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Penguin Workshop
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[2021]
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49 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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Profiles Kamala Harris, U.S. senator and the first woman to be elected vice president of the United States, detailing the actions she has taken to achieve success in politics.
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In 1996, Walter Capps won a seat in US House of Representatives. Less than a year later, he suffered a massive heart attack at Dulles Airport and died in his wife's arms. Lois Capps, a retired school nurse, decided just a few days later to run for her husband's seat. She won that election and went on to serve eight more terms in Congress, representing the central coast of California and advocating progressive causes. In Keeping Faith in Congress,...
76) Shirley Chisholm
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Simon Spotlight
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2020.
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47 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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"A ready-to-read level 3 biography of Shirley Chisholm, who, in 1972 became the first African-American woman to enter the Democratic presidential race in the United States"--
80) House secrets
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Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 4
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2009
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xi, 371 p. ; 24 cm.
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When Joe DeMarco is asked by the Speaker of the House to probe the apparent accidental death of a reporter who was trailing presidential hopeful Senator Paul Morelli, dirty secrets and divided loyalties threaten his investigation.
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