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Everyman's library volume 148
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English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-five years before Barack Obama was elected President, the question of race and the possibility of bridging racial and ethnic barriers was put to a test in an overlooked and untold story in American politics: The 1973 election of Tom Bradley, the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city with an overwhelmingly white majority. Tom Bradley’s extraordinary multi-racial coalition redefined Los Angeles, transformed the national dialogue...
6) Weiner
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's disastrous 2013 mayoral campaign.
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Paradise is rocked by the mayor's untimely death in the latest novel starring police chief Jesse Stone"--
The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in a shallow grave on a property on the lake. It's ostensibly suicide, but Jesse's has his doubts... especially because the piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious and dodgy land deal. Two powerful moguls are fighting...
8) Blindside
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Series
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 12
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The mayor of New York has a daughter who's missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who's in prison. The two strike a deal. Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett a discreet investigator with family worries of his own. Just one father helping another. The detective leaps into the case, and sources lead him to a homicide in the Bronx. The victim has ties to a sophisticated hacking...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"United at Christmas by new life Threatened by an old enemy Neil Colton and Mayor Elise Willis loved and lost each other long ago...but desire and danger soon reunite them this holiday season. In the aftermath of an attack on both their lives, Elise reveals that -- thanks to one reckless night -- she's pregnant with Neil's baby. Nothing will prevent the lawyer from protecting the woman he loves and the child he's always wanted...Even if it means losing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The right kind of hero The Bull Rider's Son by New York Times Bestselling Author Cathy McDavid Cassidy Beckett has a secret she's kept for six years: the identity of her son's father. It doesn't take the Easy Money Arena's new bull manager, Shane Westcott, long to figure out Cassidy's son is his nephew. Shane knows how important a father is to a child. He also knows the men in Cassidy's life have let her down before. Can Shane convince Cassidy to...
12) River's Edge
Author
Series
Cape Refuge volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The man Lisa Jackson loved most may have betrayed her. Another used deception to manipulate her. But did one of them kill her? Ben Jackson is sure to defeat Jonathan Cleary in Cape Refuge's mayoral race, until his wife turns up missing the day before a major debate. Suspecting foul play, Police Chief Cade launches an island-wide search. But it takes a psychic's "vision" to point police to the riverside -- and Lisa's body. The evidence implicating...
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"If she elects to marry him, will her vote deliver happiness? He asked a simple question. But will she answer yes...or no? It's too much, too soon. When wealthy contractor Steven Fortune proposes to Ellie Hernandez, the beautiful and principled mayor of Rambling Rose, Texas, no one is more surprised than Ellie herself. Until recently, Steven was practically her enemy! But his offer of a marriage of convenience arrives when the secretly pregnant mayor...
14) Irresistible
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A Democratic strategist assists a retired veteran run for mayor in a small, conservative Midwest town.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"They're wrong for each other, but the chemistry is undeniable. It's not personal It's business. Sort of... But it's just one date -- a wish fulfillment -- for philanthropist and single mom Eva DeLongpre's charity and a PR opportunity for Mayor Joe Aguirre's reelection. Giving in to their mutual attraction was just a spontaneous, delicious one-off. But as the election turns ugly, Joe is forced to declare his intentions for Eva. When the votes are...
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English
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"A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal. Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. First elected in 2011, Buttigieg left a successful business career to move...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In a tiny village in Italy, the self-appointed mayor (and vacuum cleaner repairman) Signor Speranza will do anything he can to save his beloved town. When he learns that the water is going to be cut off in sixty days unless he can come up with some quick cash, he tries to boost tourism by spreading a harmless rumor that major movie star Dante Rinaldi is planning to film a movie in the village. The plan works a little too well, and soon everyone wants...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Randolph's account of Bloomberg's life and time reads almost like a novel, a quintessentially American story. She explains the "machine" he invented that gave and continues to give instant access to an infinite amount of information to bankers and investors on how, what, and where to invest, and how it changed the financial universe. Randolph recounts one day not long ago when the Bloomberg machine briefly blipped and the whole world's financial marketplace...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins celebrates her beloved Blessings series with a heartwarming novel set in Henry Adams, Kansas. If you haven't yet gotten your hands on [this] author's work, you should do so immediately.-Shondaland Citizens of Henry Adams, Kansas, know there's never a dull moment in their small town ... Trent July has been the mayor of this historic town for the past four years, but now he's ready to let...
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