political fiction

Twenty-six-year-old Sammy Joyce, health care analyst for a U.S. senator, falls for the speechwriter for a rival senator she cannot stand and finds herself stumbling through love, Capitol Hill politics, and the campaign for president.

In a northern English town, disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind must reexamine his utilitarian worldview when his daughter's upbringing and loveless marriage lead her to a crisis. Includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and Dickens's working notes for the novel.

The final installment in the author's six-volume series of historical novels about the American past in which he chronicles life in the nation's capital through the stories of James Burden Day, a politically ambitious senator; Clay Overbury, a young congressional aide; and Blaise Sandford, a newspaper tycoon.

Jimmy Foley, a New York detective on loan to the Intelligence Analysis Center, and Susan Connor, head of the organization's special projects unit, rush to find the source of a series of escalating terrorist attacks on U.S. and global technology networks that are threatening to cripple the world.

Larkin, abducted from her parents as a child and raised by members of the Church of Christian America, comes to suspect that Lauren Olamina, leader of the cult Earthseed, is her biological mother.

Relates the experiences of a variety of characters struggling in nineteenth-century industrial England.

Washington, D.C., scientist Frank Vanderwal, having survived a killer storm caused by global warming, prepares to face an even worse disaster when the melting of the polar ice caps shuts down the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, which promises to throw the world into another Ice Age.

A political satire in which farm animals stage a rebellion against their master but soon find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

Willie Stark, a well-intentioned, idealistic, back-country lawyer is unable to resist greed for power and lust for politics during his rise and fall as an American demagogue.

Sinclair portrays the oil industry of the 1920s through the eyes of Bunny, the son of a genial independent oil developer.