Narrative theme: Politics Books

Red, White, & Bruised is not just a poetry collection-it's a literary alarm bell.With searing verse and unflinching clarity, it rips through the myths of the American dream to expose the machinery beneath: generational poverty, political theater,...

God-Chosen Pigs by A.A. Castor is a dark, satirical allegorical novel that dismantles the myth of divine entitlement through the lens of a grotesque animal society. In a land where pigs walk upright, wear holy robes, and read from sacred scrolls, one...

Some people believe that truth is absolute. Others believe that truth is what you believe it to be. I believe that truth "is" and that the is-ness of truth remains absolute, no matter how it is interpreted. The interpretation of individuals or groups...

“What joys, what celebrations, and what tributes await the reader of Jose Hernandez Diaz’s Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man.”—Iliana Rocha, author of The Many Deaths of Inocencio RodriguezThis collection consists of odes to...

Saving Western democracy is a tall order if you can't save yourself. Jordy Young's best friend is killed at a protest. Revenge is on his mind, his girlfriend dumps him, lockdown isolates him, and social unrest leads him to a chance meeting with the...

Bryan Pierce, a wealthy venture capitalist, disappeared while glider flying over the Sierra Nevada. After three months of intensive searching, neither Pierce nor his sailplane was ever found. Officials concluded the pilot had encountered severe...

In Contradictions from an Uncertain Silence, Wheatfall takes poetic inspiration from The Darkened Temple by Mari L'Esperance. "To enter the story feels like drowning and drowning is the only way to get there." Humans navigate an empirical world embodying...

Iolanthe's wedding explores the intersections of duty, love, and personal longing as a man navigates unexpected emotional entanglements. A promise made to a deceased friend weighs heavily, intertwining lives in unforeseen ways and challenging the...

He that will not when he may Vol. II explores the tensions between tradition and change as a family confronts challenges to their established way of life. A noble household enjoys a refined existence until ideological differences disrupt their harmony...

EMMA'S life wasn't supposed to be like this. She was a high school valedictorian, then a Princeton grad, now an English professor-and so what if she's just an adjunct? But her marriage has blown up and she has to make a living somewhere, so she's...

Alexandra LaDuca is smart, tough, and cool under fire. But when she travels to Cairo to investigate a former mentor who was believed to be dead, Alex is caught in a bizarre game of double cross, and her life is more perilously on the line than ever.

Edited by Paz De Cuba and Paul S. Flores, this bilingual anthology in English and Spanish collects poetry featured in Cuba's first licensed poetry slam, registered with the World Poetry Slam Organization, the Àṣẹ Poetry Slam. English translation by Paul...

"Whether it's through her virtuoso, musical performances, her layered and lyrical song compositions, her stirring vocals that reflect her love and respect for ancient, global traditions, or the evocative storytelling in her fiction, Pan Morigan...

Lines of Desire mines the urgencies and paradoxes of contemporary Australian culture, from an agonistic self-interrogation of Asian-Australian identity to a skewering of the reductive categories of left and right in political debate. The poems are...

Heartbreaking and timely novel by Afghan-American author follows one man’s journey from New York to the clutches of the Taliban and into an unintentional polygamist union.“He is picking up the same bags with the same clothes Lisa packed and folded a year...

В сборник вошли рассказы иповести писателей из России иУкраины. Несмотря на название, Молчание овойне- очень мощное антивоенное высказывание, документ эпохи, один из первых опытов прозаического осмысления событий 2022-2023 годов. Вы почти ненайдёте вэтом...

Without Leave chronicles the stories of two alienated young people during 1967-70-David, who goes AWOL from the Navy where he'd hoped to find training and focus for his life but finds only boredom and disillusionment during deployment on an aircraft...

RogueOps deploy high tech specialists into the killing fields of international intrigue. Military assassins and snipers airlift across the globe on Hawke's Gulfstream jets, Sikorsky helicopters and PBY amphibians. Intercept teams set sail on his 214-foot...

It's not personal, he says. But that's a lie in a place where everything is personal, and a matter of life and death too.  This Human Season is award-winning Booker longlisted author Louise Dean's second novel set in Belfast, Ireland, during...

Australia is under attack from religous terrorists from Indonesia, the Prime Minister is the target. The terrorists are hell-bent on destruction including parliament house in Canberra, their attacks are unique and ruthless and third attack is successful...

A collection of concise and mostly short poems with recurring themes of our relationship with nature, the complexities of love and social justice. These poems are unpretentious in their direct and often unexpected imagery, with occasional threads of wry...

POIGNANT AND HEARTFELTTHE IDEAL NOVEL FOR A BOOK CLUBWhile wandering through the Second Chance Thrift Shop, 17-year-old Harper Warner comes across a diary tucked in a nightstand drawer. The original owner, Libby Carlson, had chronicled her "Summer of...

When military violence destroys his childhood and his family, reluctant rebel Nazir and his peers rally against the greed-driven injustice. The setting is Alue Rambe, a rural village in Aceh, at the epicenter of one of the world’s richest oil and...

Her husband is killed by the Taliban, now Rukhsaar is a widow with a ten-year-old child, Masih, in a land where the colour drains from faces when they hear, "It's a girl."Reminiscing about her past, Rukhsaar and her son wander the bazaars of Kabul,...

Robert E. Lee Elliott served twenty-five years in a large police department: supervising uniformed police, working in the detective and vice and narcotics bureaus, and analyzing crime scenes. Roadside Justice: And Why Some People Need a Good Ass-Kicking...

In Cuba, Castro has finally relinquished power. . . . now a mysterious exile (Che Guevara?) returns to finish the revolution.When a strange man appears in rural towns around Cuba quietly advocating a new kind of politics he calls "the True Republic,"...

New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin is back, this time with a powerful tale of murder that snakes its way through Washington, D.C.'s halls of power, leading straight to the White House and the most powerful office on earth.When private...

"This is seriously twisted and way too sophisticated for most people..... I think it should be read by ALL and called, (drum roll)..... A Florida Grass Root Philosophy and Punditry Guide" -David Bradford, EdD Did you ever wonder how our federal...

Title: first Person, Delusional Author: Graham Jackson Copyright: Graham Jackson First Published: 2021 ISBN: 978-1-4717-8579-5

'No one will invest in a business focussed on family violence - it's the opposite of sexy.'Lauren Brown, owner of Weeping Angels, smiled. 'Maybe to men.'Business is booming for Weeping Angels - an agency that helps victims of family violence obtain...

By 2039, the world population has reached a staggering eleven billion and crime is at its ultimate high. When six horrific massacres shock the world, a council of world leaders is born with the goal of adopting the death penalty worldwide. Herb and Janet...

An Evil Rises. The Last War Draws Near.Investigative journalist Bob Fullerby, leaders of the Back-to-Basics Club, and President Demnar Tarish of Domataland have one thing in common. They are searching for Leeha Ritsagin. She has what they want: the...

Never-Ending Youth is a 21st-century reminder of the groundbreaking work of Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Roberto Bolaños. It portrays the anxiety and exuberance of youth, the magnetism of home and culture in times of strife...

Internment meets The Marrow Thieves when journalist Noor Waddedar has to choose between peace or violence when their government funds a genocide.In the near future, à la Born in Flames, journalist Noor Waddedar reflects on the costs of a successful...

The Robin Hood Virus is a computer and cellphone virus that is totally undetectable. Weuse the Robin Hood Virus to infect thecomputers of hackers and large corporationswho are breaking the law. We donate the proceeds to well-deserving charities such...

Bem-vindo ao Brasil do século XXII! O país está subjugado por um sistema cruel e injusto. Todos os aspectos da sociedade são controlados: política, economia, cultura, etc. Uma elite corrupta e hipócrita dita as regras para todos e ninguém pode fazer nada...

In Qandahar, the destinies of the first woman President of the United States and a jihadist commander from Afghanistan intersect on one day in late March 2009.            Abu Mahmoud Rahman has...

This unusual fantasy novel is aimed at the heart of humankind's conscience. Using the words and thoughts of seven very different historic figures, it attempts to elbow the reader in their ribs in order to get them to rethink their priorities. The...

SEAT OF POWER is the first book of Intercept: A Jack Coyote Thriller, an explosive political thriller that spans the globe. If you like intrigue, conspiracies, espionage, and plenty of action, you'll want to follow the adventures of Jack Coyote as...

Treinta y cinco autores reunidos para descifrar un fenómeno que superó hace rato los límites de un movimiento partidario o de una plataforma política para convertirse, claramente, en una clave cultural, en una mitología local e irrepetible. En estas...

«... Le candidat, bien au courant de ce que l’on attendait de lui, entrait dans son rôle avec conscience. M. de Fèvres s’était emparé de M. Lavaut et tous deux arpentaient le territoire sans se mêler aux...

La Fin d’Illa, œuvre hors-classe, dérangeante et sans morale, raconte l’histoire de deux dictateurs sanguinaires (Rair et Limm) qui écrasent de leur puissance Illa, cité prospère, où les hommes vivent...

Assimilated Natives is an evocative collection of borderland poems that offers a poignant and introspective exploration into the complex identity of a third-plus generation Chicanx. Through the lens of poetry, the Gume Laurel III explores the...