political fiction

Pyotr and Stavrogin, leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell, train terrorists to participate in a plot to overthrow the tsar, destroy society, and seize power, but when the group is threatened with exposure, the recruits must decide how far they are willing to go to save themselves.

Presents a reprint of the Dickens' novel of a tale of thwarted love by the designs of Geoffrey Haredale and the villain Sir John Chester, and the heroism of Edward Chester in rescuing the innocent Emma.

From a chorus of . . . historical fiction writers, a . . . book inspired by the day tens of thousands of women marched for the right to vote on October, 23, 1915. Includes an introduction by Kristin Hannah and stories by Lisa Wingate, M.J. Rose, Steve Berry, Paula McLain, Katherine J. Chen, Christina Baker Kline, Jamie Ford, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Megan Chance, Alyson Richman, Chris Bohjalian, and Fiona Davis.

The story of American slavery and Uncle Tom, an African-American man who never lost his dignity under the most inhumane circumstances.

A republication of the 1880 novel in which society widow Mrs. Lightfoot Lee meets Senate member Silas Ratcliffe, and together the two discover how corrupt the government is in Washington during the 1870s.

In a small South American state, a silver mine owner, Charles Gould, puts a consignment of silver in the charge of a foreman. The foreman buries the silver and pretends that the boat in which he shipped it sank.

Sir James Manson, chairman/managing director of Manson Consolidated Mining Company Ltd., comes up with an elaborate plan to topple the government of the small African republic of Zangaro in an effort to secure the mining rights to a mountain containing billions of dollars worth of platinum.

Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the future political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the totalitarian regime that controls all human thought and action.

Senator "Buzz" Windrip, having used hot rhetoric, warm folksiness, and cold calculation to get into the White House, proceeds to bring in his own paramilitary storm troopers, seizes control of the government, and sets in motion his totalitarian program.

Presents Upton Sinclair's classic novel, which depicts the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young Lithuanian immigrant struggling in early-twentieth-century America, and includes a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, critical analyses, and other study tools.