Political

Animal Farm is George Orwell's great socio-political allegory set in a farmyard....

Big Brother is watching you.... 1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates....

As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love....

The movie adaptation of The Kite Runner has been nominated for a 2008 Academy Award.
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice.  If Davy had remembered to put on a coat. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street. If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt....

When Moslem fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous....

In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past 60 years - the secret world itself....

A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War....

When a former teammate of Chunk’s is killed in a shocking ambush, rumors begin to fly that the Lion of Ramadi, the infamous Iraq War sniper who racked up dozens of American kills, has returned with a mission to target American SEALs....

For the past 13 years, as England became an increasingly unhappy and fearful place, Prince Charles has been living quietly on a bleak council estate....

It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland....

There was a time when Cicero held Caesar’s life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure, and Cicero’s life is in ruins....

Tremendous in scope and breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, an electrifying moral defense of capitalism and free enterprise....

Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death....

The second volume in this superb trilogy from the author of The Farseer trilogy continues the dramatic tale of piracy, serpents, love and magic....

Our brains stay active for 10 minutes after our heart stops beating. For Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory.... 

To those who don’t really know her, Kate Henderson’s life must seem perfectly ordinary. But she is in fact a senior MI6 officer, who right now is nursing the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb....

When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory, a victory with profound implications...

Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize. The richly exotic story of the childhood the twins Esthappen and Rahel craft for themselves amongst India's vats of banana jam and mountains of peppercorns....

Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating ride. A bold, vivid chorus of animal voices calls out the dangerous absurdity of contemporary global politics, and helps us see our human world more clearly....

Set in Hong Kong in 1963, the action of Noble House spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double dealing....

Book two in the magnificent Empire Trilogy by best-selling authors Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts....

Edge of Eternity is a sweeping tale of the fight for individual freedom in a world gripped by the mightiest clash of superpowers anyone has ever known....

Presenting the full-cast BBC Radio adaptation of C. P. Snow's epic series about the English establishment across the 20th century....

It starts with a stolen kiss under an English sky, and it ends with a walk down the aisle. It starts with the President sending his best friend to woo me....

A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the 'spook who sat by the door', is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago blacks as 'Freedom Fighters' in this explosive, award-winning novel.

 Once in a Promised Land is the story of a couple, Jassim and Salwa, who left the deserts of their native Jordan for those of Arizona, each chasing their own dreams of opportunity and freedom. Although the two live far from Ground Zero, they cannot escape the nationwide fallout from 9/11.  

In 1893, financial panic imperils the settlement homesteaded by Abraham and Elizabeth Byers. Abraham, a preacher and self-proclaimed man of the people, rails against greed and corruption and launches Hiawatha Colony, a product-sharing community designed to support its members through self-sufficiency. But can this cooperative community withstand internal strife, the harsh wilds of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and the antagonism of the outside world? When discord rocks the community, Abraham must choose between dissolving the colony and compromising the ideals that elevated him.

Everywhere Sara Javed goes—online or outside—everyone is shouting about something. Couldn't they all just shut up? One day she takes her own advice. At first people don't understand her silence and are politely confused at best. But the last thing Sara could anticipate is becoming the figurehead of a global movement that splits society in two. The Silent Movement sparks outrage in its opposers. Global structures start to shift. And the lives of those closest to Sara—as well as strangers inspired by her act—begin to unravel.

When 17-year-old Mara’s best friend disappears from boarding school, she teams up with her classmates Ginny and Gretchen to find her. The trail leads to the royal palace. Mara finds late-blooming romance with a courtier who promises assistance, but turns to an aging spy for clues no others can provide. Gretchen, Ginny, and Mara race against time to stop a plot which endangers their friend and threatens to plunge their country into war.

Boston, 2017: When Hadi returns to his heavily pregnant partner Sama after a trip to Jordan to bury his father, he is stopped at border control—a hostile new immigration law has just been enacted—while she awaits him on the other side. Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they'd dreamed up together. But does that life exist any more, or was it only an illusion?

As US hegemony fails in the wake of an unprecedented economic crisis, wars erupt across the globe. Meanwhile, a small band of engineers and scientists work in secret on a mission to redirect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. 

Allie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Years of navigating her own and America’s cultural definitions of motherhood have left her a lapsed idealist. Lana Breban is a powerhouse lawyer, economist, and advocate for women’s rights with designs on elected office. She also has a son. Lana and her staff have decided she needs help softening her public image and that a memoir about her life as a mother will help. When Allie lands the job as Lana’s ghostwriter, it seems as if things will finally go Allie’s way. 

Lucy’s friend, Supreme Court Justice Iona Martin, is missing, her law clerk found dead in her chambers. The new POTUS has received a personal warning from Justice Martin, advising her to contact Lucy if anything happens. Lucy is ordered to Washington, DC, and when Armando reveals his former boyfriend is a Supreme Court law clerk, he is called upon to join her.

The 1968 Tet uprising plunges America deeper into the abyss of Vietnam. Martin Luther King is shot, and riots rage in 130 burning American cities. Students protesting the War take over American universities, and street battles in Paris nearly topple the French government. Senator Eugene McCarthy enters the Democratic presidential race against Lyndon Johnson, followed by Bobby Kennedy, who goes on to win the California Democratic primary.

Colonel Dan Blake's 18-year career in the British Army comes to an abrupt end when he fails a psychiatric evaluation when in line for the top job in counterterrorism at MI5. Finding himself unexpectedly unemployed, Blake travels to Moscow to visit his one real friend, Edwin Mallory, himself a high-achieving Cambridge peer 18 years into a high-flying career with MI6. In Mallory's Moscow circle, Blake meets oil billionaire Sheikh Mohammad al Hussein. The meeting leads to a job offer for Blake's unique skill set. 

In the not-too-distant future, a young spy named Elísabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her carefully controlled life. Elísabet's work is the lynchpin of her existence in the city; her friends and social life centre around the Special Unit. But recently Elísabet has found herself taking long solitary walks near the lake. One day, she sees two creatures emerging from the water, half-human, half-swan. She follows them through tangles of thickets into a strange new reality.

POTUS: A Political Fantasy is the story of a semi-reluctant hero acting for the people of the United States and the world, as well as the universe at large. The improbability of his election to the presidency is offset by the prodigious efforts he makes to accomplish a simple goal: the restoration of freedom for the people of the United States and the world at large, as well as establishing it for sentients in the Cosmos.

Alarming News in Crypto World is a story to both entertain and explain cryptocurrency. This story explores the cryptocurrency world using family dynamics. Franklin Perry, a journalist, finds cryptocurrency was initially invested in and then forgotten about by many. Franklin lives a very solitary business life. When he learns of his father Winston's early investment in cryptocurrency, he inherits his parent's Bitcoin investment and becomes a millionaire. This good fortune changes Franklin's approach to life. 

In Send Her Back and Other Stories, Munashe Kaseke offers an intimate, fresh telling of the immigrant experience of Black African women in the United States. Awash with the joys of exploring a new world as well as a myriad of challenges, her complicated female Zimbabwean protagonists navigate issues of identity and sexism in vibrant, indelible settings. Yet again, these are not only stories of navigating a tense US political climate, they are also marked by characters who rise to the top of their professional fields, seize the American dream, and travel the world in glee.