despotism

Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town's creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get them killed. But Ethan has discovered the astonishing secret of what lies beyond the electrified fence that surrounds Wayward Pines and protects it from the terrifying world beyond.

Alan Sheriff, a writer living in a country ruled by a tyrannical dictator is ordered to ghost write an autobiographical novel about the tyrant that will undermine support for sanctions in the West or else he and his family will suffer dire consequences.

Duke Edmund Talbot has been assigned a mission to go to the Southern Isles to convince residents there to side with Freedom Colation in the battles against the fascist dictators of New Destiny.

Chekhov's last play, written in 1904, tells the story of an aristocratic Russian family that struggles to maintain their status in a changing world as they are faced with the prospect of selling the family estate to a land developer in order to pay off their debts.

A bloody act of violence inspires Arcturus Mengsk of the Koprulu sector to follow in his father's footsteps--Angus Mengsk--and lead a rebellion against the corrupt Terran Confederacy.

Fleeing across icy mountains from a pack of terrifying dog-men sent to hunt them down, four teenagers escape from their prison-like boarding schools to take up the fight against the tyrannical government that murdered their parents fifteen years earlier.

In the year 2250, the Council controls the world's fresh water sources. To keep the peace they have, through years of indoctrination, weeded out all emotion--or so they thought. Luca is the son of the Deliverer--who will one day himself have to travel underground and negotiate with the Rat Men for fresh water--and he seems to have retained his emotions. Which makes him dangerous in the eyes of the Council.

An investigation of financial, political, and media power in the United States, looking at what the author sees as a complete transfer of control in the first decade of the twenty-first century from a democracy to the self-interested elite.

Examines issues spanning 150 years in Russian and Soviet history, analyzing questions and presenting excerpts from sources on ideologies and regimes, political parties, repression and terror, agriculture and industry, the social classes, war, and other topics.