Political thriller of global conflict

After Iraq there is a lull, and then the opening stages of the Third World War. Hundreds die in the Indian parliament in Delhi, the president of Pakistan is assassinated, and a U.S. military base is hit by a North Korean missile.

America and Britain discover chilling links between the attacks, but U.S. President Jim West wants to avoid another war. No one is yet aware that the war is already unstoppable. Detail by authentic detail, Humphrey Hawksley chillingly captures the unthinkable—a world speeding towards its own destruction.

The Third World War tells the story of what happens when an American president tries to make peace with those who only want catastrophe. Every attempt at conciliation leads to more conflict. One by one, the powers that America once counted as allies become enemies, and the comfortable lives of citizens in modern societies verge of physical and emotional collapse.

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Have you heard of Dyson?

Over the last 20 years, Michael Eric Dyson has become one of America's most visible - and quotable - public intellectuals. Whether in his sixteen books, or in countless newspapers, television and radio appearances, or on stages, podiums, and pulpits across the world, Dyson has spun an enchanting web of words that has caught the attention of the masses and elites alike. He has weighed in on a myriad array of topics - from faith to fatherhood, and from race to sex, as well as sports, manhood, gender, music, leadership, politics, language, love, justice, literature, suffering, death, hope, relationships and much, much more.

Can You Hear Me Now?, offers a sampling of Dyson's sharp wit, profound thought, and edifying eloquence on the enduring problems of humanity, from love to justice, and the latest topics of the day, including race and the presidency. It is both revealing and relevant, and at once thoughtful provoking and uplifting.

Can You Hear Me Now? is available today for only $3.68.

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Thriller cheap - but may be re-priced very soon!

Brian McGilloway, an Irish author, thrilling novel Bleed a River Deep is priced now for $4.92 - if you follow the link on this post. Amazon is also showing this book as a pre-order for $11.99. If you want this book, buy it today for $4.92 before it is gone.

When a controversial American senator is attacked during the opening of a Donegal gold mine, Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is blamed for a lapse in security. The shooting of an illegal immigrant in Belfast the same day leads Devlin to a vicious people-smuggling ring operating in the city.

Then Leon Bradley, the young environmentalist who attacked the senator, is found murdered near the site of the mine. Devlin questions the group of itinerant travellers who have gathered around a nearby river hoping to strike gold themselves, and soon is becomes clear to Devlin that the mine is a front for something far more sinister. Bleed a River Deep is a labyrinthine tale of big business, the new Europe, and the dispossessed. Politics, industry and the criminal underworld collide in Mr. McGilloway's most accomplished, most gripping, and most sophisticated novel yet.

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SuperCheap Free! From the Cato Institute, The Cult of the Presidency

SuperCheap Free! You may download The Cult of the Presidency by Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute, free to your Kindle from the Cato Institute website.

Description:
Americans have increasingly expanded presidential power over recent decades by expecting the president to provide solutions for all national problems, prosperity for all, and protection from harm. Healy demonstrates how the president’s role needs to return to its properly defined constitutional limits, with its powers held in check by Congress and the courts.

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Just above the book cover you can hold your mouse over Download for Kindle and other e-book readers and clear instructions will appear for downloading to your Kindle. You can also download a .pdf file, if you prefer.

NOTE: The e-book is available through Amazon for $9.60.

A great hoax during the 1970s

Howard Hughes is one of those famous guys who has been surrounded by mystic for all of his life. When his biography written by Clifford Irving was published, controversy arose over its validity immediately.

Hoax is an amazing story about Mr. Irving who defied and hoodwinked the literary establishment and the Howard Hughes hierarchy. He even enraged Richard Nixon's White House with his publication.

Written in first person, you will learn all that Mr. Irving did to be almost successful in his hoax. The book Hoax is available today for Kindle for only $3.21.

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He's always got an opinion

A lucid deconstruction of the politics and public figures shaping the social, financial, and military disasters of our times. This selection of Michael Kinsley's trenchant editorial writing in Slate (and elsewhere) since 1995 covers the end of the Clinton era (Monica, impeachment, etc.) and two terms of George W. Bush (9/11, the War on Terror, Iraq, etc.).

During this time Kinsley left Washington for Seattle and founded Slate, was opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times, underwent brain surgery for Parkinson's disease, and had other adventures that are reflected here. Although mostly about politics, there are articles and essays about other things, such as the future of newspapers, the existence of God, and why power women love Law and Order.

This is the work of a writer at the top of his form. Kinsley's wit is a weapon that any talk-show host or elected blowhard should envy and fear, and the reader will cherish his sense of humor, which enlivens even the toughest subject matter.

Kinsley has also included two personal columns about his Parkinson's disease and brain surgery. Please Don't Assume Calm is available today for only $2.14.

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The hottest politician from Alaska

She's the hottest woman in politics and she doesn't hold an office and isn't running for one. She's Sarah Palin and she's from Alaska.

Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe have written a book about Sarah's life before she became a superstar.

In Sarah from Alaska, they draw on exclusive interviews with former McCain/Palin staffers, top political minds, friends and foes in Alaska to tell the remarkable behind-the-scenes story of Palin's 2008 campaign.

They highlight Palin's key endeavors, in her new role as America's new superstar governor, to apply the lessons of her triumphs and missteps to build a vibrant political future.

Today you can purchase Sarah from Alaska for only $1.91. SuperCheap!

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Left, right, center?

Remember the two things you never talk about when visiting the in-laws? Politics and religion. Everyone has an opinion and the differences rise to the top.

Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, political science professors from Yale and Berkeley, have political opinions and wrote a book about them in 2005.

Here's a synopsis of the book:
The Republicans who run American government today have defied the normal laws of political gravity. They have ruled with the slimmest of majorities and yet have transformed the nation’s governing priorities. They have strayed dramatically from the moderate middle of public opinion and yet have faced little public backlash. Again and again, they have sided with the affluent and ideologically extreme while paying little heed to the broad majority of Americans. And much more often than not, they have come out on top. This book shows why—and why this troubling state of affairs can and must be changed.

Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy is available today for the cheap, cheap price of $1.31. I'm thinking now that the Republicans are no longer the majority of anything, this book could still be relevant if you just change the party affiliation and names.

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Candid memoir of time in the Bush White House

Ron Christie, black and conservative, worked for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Christie has written his memoir in a candid and positive manner to give insight into the Bush presidency from his perspective.

Today, the book Black in the White House is available for $2.61.

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Bill and Hillary - good for a laugh

You just can't make this kind of stuff up! Julia Goran has compiled some of the best quotes by Bill and Hillary Clinton. You will either be scratching your head thinking, "This guy was a Rhodes scholar?" or you will be shaking your head thinking, "Huh?"

But whatever you think, the book, Clintonisms: The Amusing, Confusing, and Even Suspect Musing, of Billary, is cheap today for only $3.76.

Notice, the book graphic is on the left side of the blog entry. You might even say it is left leaning.

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Frauds, Liars, and Losers - Oh, My!

No one would ever call Jack Cafferty (or me, either) bashful. Jack just happens to be on CNN's Situation Room and has a much bigger audience than I do. He's written a book about the political scene in recent years and he is telling you just what he thinks - with no apologies.

Cafferty's book, It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America, is $2.57 today. If you don't have an opinion, you can adopt Cafferty's.

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