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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
When she's fired from her job at an upscale law firm for voicing her stance against the testing of cosmetics on animals, Elle heads to Capitol Hill to fight for her cause before Congress. Once there, she runs into plenty of adversity and red-tape and can't seem to find anyone who will listen to her proposals. She meets and befriends an elderly bellman who's been around long enough to know the ins and outs of the political machine. With his help, Elle...
3) The betrayed
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two Washington, DC police detectives take on the power elite and unravel the secrets behind a brutal murder"--Provided by the publisher.
6) Sacred sins
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Tess Court, called upon to create a psychological profile of a killer who strangles his victims with a priest's white silk amice, is teamed with skeptical Detective Ben Paris who could not care less about the murderer's psyche, but does find the beautiful doctor intriguing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, at the U.S. Capitol Building to deliver a lecture, is drawn into a desperate search through the hidden tunnels and temples of Washington, D.C., when his mentor Peter Solomon, a prominent Mason and philanthropist, is kidnapped and the only clue to Solomon's whereabouts lies in an ancient invitation to a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.
10) The walker
Publisher
Distributed by Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Washington, D.C. Carter Page is a popular socialite who serves as confidant, companion and card partner to the wives of the most powerful men in America. When Carter's dearest friend finds herself on the brink of a scandal, he covers for her, Suddenly, he finds himself the chief suspect in a criminal investigation and this well-connected man-about-town becomes an outcast, hounded by the police and forced to hunt down the true culprit in order to clear...
13) Term limits
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
14) The capitol game
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wall Street banker Jack Wiley stumbles across a substance that when applied to a vehicle gives the equivalent of thirty inches of solid steel, and enlists the help of the Capitol Group to take over the small company that developed it.
15) Washington, D.C
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Publisher
History Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
During the Gilded Age, Dupont Circle was Washington's undisputed center of wealth, power and status. Over twenty years, it evolved from small farms and an overrun city cemetery to a community of grand homes for society's elite. Residents included future president William Taft, inventor Alexander Graham Bell, newspaper publisher Cissy Patterson and many more. From the intimate dinners and receptions of the Cave Dwellers to the lavish balls of Mary...
18) Edge: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
Kessler, a Washington, D.C. police officer, becomes the target of a lifter who will stop at nothing to get the information needed from Kessler, and as the FBI and the rest of Kessler's department scramble to protect him and his family, Corte, the personal security agent assigned to the case, risks everything to track the lifter and bring him to justice.
19) Roses are red
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a series of bank robberies in Washington, DC, theives have been laying out precise demands, which, if not followed, cause the employees and their families to be killed. Detective Alex Cross accepts the case, and ends up confronting mysterious criminal The Mastermind.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"See to it, Blackwood," says the Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, and Blackie Ryan, the Cardinal's auxiliary bishop, doesn't exactly jump (he never jumps), rather he moseys down to Washington, D.C., where one of his friends, Jack Patrick McGurn, called "Machine Gun McGurn" by the media, has surprisingly just been elected president and needs his help.
Blackie's first confrontation is with Washington bureaucracy; the powers that be don't want to give...
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