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A mayoral candidate's brother is released from prison twenty-five years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case.

“Charming, swoony, and utterly unputdownable. I LOVE this book!” —LYNN PAINTER, New York Times bestselling author of Better Than the Movies A laugh-out-loud rom-com about learning to embrace living outside your comfort zone. As a shy school librarian, Alexis Stone is comfortable keeping out of the spotlight. But when she’s dumped for being too meek—in bed!—she decides she needs to change. And what better way to kick-start her new more...

A teacher describes how she ran for public office with her sixth grade class managing her campaign as part of a hands-on civics lesson in democracy, in an account that examines the follies of America's two-party political system.

Shares insider perspectives into the female candidates who fought back and won crucial elections in 2018, including Abigail Spanberger, Catalina Cruz, Anna Eskamani, and London Lamar.

When prominent senatorial contender Warren Burkett is wrongly arrested for a setup that threatens his career, he hires Jack MacTaggart to identify the responsible party and his actual agenda.

Robert Davenport, New York City's youngest mayor, makes a bid for the governor's seat against an incumbent with an estranged wild-child daughter, the city's premier event planner who's approached by Robert to organize the party of the season.

As the American presidential campaign season begins, veteran journalist Jack Sharpe uncovers dark money and foreign influence at work, earning him the enmity of powerful forces that will put the people he loves in harm's way.

Can someone heist the majority of the House of Representatives with no one noticing? That's the electoral coup that turns America upside down in The people's house...until one man notices. Youngstown reporter Jack Sharpe stumbles across an odd election result in the Ohio Congressional district he covers. The story takes him far beyond his corner of Ohio as he discovers an international plot--one that strikes at the heart of American democracy by taking...

Strategist Shrum gives us an epic and personal story of the struggle for power in America during the past four decades. He vividly recounts the personalities and forces that shaped the outcome of the closest and most important elections of our time. We are there in the back rooms, on the planes, and in the motorcades with George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, John Kerry, John Edwards, and Bill and Hillary Clinton. Shrum reveals the...