Town Government

One of the nation's most acclaimed journalists, the New York Times' Mark Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, controversial--and often hysterical--look at Washington's incestuous "media industrial complex."...

With a master spy and the U. S. government after him, former CIA assassin Oliver Stone is America's most wanted man—but escaping D.C. won't protect him from a lethal world of political corruption in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is...

Eamonn McCann’s account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto - first published in 1974 - quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule. The author was at the center of events in Derry which first brought Northern Ireland to world attention. He witnessed the gradual transformation of the civil rights movement from a mild campaign for “British Democracy” to an all-out military assault on the British state. This book describes the people involved in the war and gives an account of the springs of the "Catholic" opposition.

"Simultaneously hilarious, poignant, and deeply unsettling." ―The New Republic A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take...

New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American demagogue possible. This program is read by the author. The story of Donald Trump’s rise to power is the...

Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first nonfiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment that occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters.

After surviving the attack that killed several members of his family. Billy Duke returns to the woods to exact revenge.

Black Pine survived the forest. Now something is hunting beneath the town. A year after the last attack, Cal and Nora are trying to rebuild their lives while Black Pine struggles to recover. Then Main Street collapses and exposes a hidden tunnel system running beneath the town. Inside waits a new breed of monster. Hairless. Blind. Pale from generations underground. The Hollow Apes move through sewers, mines and drainage pipes, tracking every vibration above them. They crawl beneath bedrooms. They click through household plumbing. And when they kill, they drag the bodies underground. An old ...

In the idyllic town of Autumn Creek, the annual Harvest Festival is a celebration of life. But as the leaves turn gold, a secret as old as the mountains awakens. Two people have vanished, and a prize steer has been ritualistically slaughtered, its entrails arranged in a perfect, horrifying spiral . The idyllic mask is slipping, and the town’s folklore is about to become its eulogy. They sent a weapon to handle it. Rebuilt from the wreckage of a past massacre, Commander Quinn Mallory is more monster than woman, her body a fusion of scarred flesh and cutting-edge prosthetics . She and her ...

This is the story of a local government manager who got hired by a small mountain town in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in his first city manager job. The job got complicated from the first day and developed into more and more complexity.

In these thrilling stories, Mitchum investigates three dangerous cases -- and learns that chasing the truth means going to the point of no return.Hidden: After being rejected from the Navy SEALs, Mitchum becomes his small town's unofficial private eye. But his investigation skills are put to the...

Killing Hope A Southern Crime Thriller of murder, Aviation Secrets, and Government Conspiracy featuring Special Agent Dani York When a deadly storm hits rural Tennessee, a private plane is pulled from the depths of Tick Springs Lake. At first glance, it appears to be a tragic aviation accident but quickly turns into a chilling homicide investigation. TBI Special Agent Dani York, a decorated Marine turned homicide investigator, is assigned the case. The local sheriff is overwhelmed. The FAA wants answers. Politicians want it buried, and the media smells blood. As Dani digs deeper, she ...

For the short-haul logging crews working the treacherous, ice-slicked switchbacks of the New Mexico high country, the rules of survival are practical: trust your brakes, respect the torque of a forty-ton Kenworth, and get the timber down the mountain before the winter drafts lock the pass. It’s hard, gritty, predictable work. Until the daylight starts to bend. It begins with anomalies that defy the laws of physics—a strange, pressurized silence that kills the CB radios, dashboard clocks that spin wildly through the decades, and ancient, unheated stones that burn through solid cardboard....

Delaney has never been easy to explain. Elise Navarro is used to translating complicated places into clean, fundable plans—but from the moment she arrives in the coastal town, she realizes Delaney does not intend to be simplified. Tori Tudor knows exactly what outsiders miss. A deeply rooted local with no patience for careless progress, she understands the harbor’s hidden rhythms, informal systems, and the quiet work that keeps the town alive. Elise is here to help shape Delaney’s next chapter. Tori is determined to make sure that future does not erase what already holds. As the two ...

The fourth book in a new arc in the New York Times bestselling Amelia Bedelia chapter book series featuring young Amelia Bedelia and her friends! This chapter book is an excellent choice for children who are ready to read independently, and is terrific for building vocabulary. Amelia Bedelia +...

In the small town of Ashbrook, the last night of October is sacred. But when a mysterious government alert freezes the clock at 11:59 PM, the town is plunged into a single, repeating, impossible moment. The decorations are still up, but the people are vanishing, leaving only empty costumes behind—perfect, three-dimensional silhouettes of ash. Sheriff Keener and historian Ellen Rourke discover the town isn't just haunted. It’s contained. Trapped in a terrifying temporal sink, they are at the mercy of an ancient entity that has come to 'collect' on a forgotten offering. As the military ...

The river has always been part of Echo Falls. This year, it might destroy it. Spring arrives early in the mountains, and with it comes a warning from federal engineers. Snowpack levels are the highest recorded in fifty years. If the thaw comes too fast, the river that runs through Echo Falls could flood the entire valley. To most people, it looks like a natural disaster waiting to happen. To investigative journalist Rowan Vale, it looks like a plan. After exposing the sports manipulation scandal that rocked the town, Rowan hoped the worst was over. But strange survey markers begin appearing...

A journalist dies asking the wrong questions. A new president hides a blood-soaked secret. And one disgraced soldier won't let it go. Ben Gabriel's life is unraveling. Dishonorably discharged from British Special Forces. Fired from South African military intelligence. His girlfriend vanished without explanation. He's drinking too much, sleeping too little, and running out of reasons to care. Then a journalist is murdered in Cape Town harbor—a man who'd been investigating the president-elect's dark past. Gabriel knows what the authorities won't admit: this wasn't random violence. Someone ...

A government pamphlet that makes sense. Naturally, it has to be stopped. When seventy-year-old archivist Margaret Booker discovers a slim, forgotten manual in the basement of the National Archives, she does what she’s done for forty-seven years: she preserves it. She scans it. She emails it to her granddaughter. Within forty-eight hours, the Manual of Common Sense has been downloaded four million times, quoted in city council meetings, and flagged as a threat to institutional stability by agencies whose names nobody can remember. In a small town in Kansas, a mayor reads the Manual and ...

From the author of Pura Bulpre Honor Book The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez comes an exciting new historical novel with an extra-terrestrial twist. From Pura Belpré Honoree and Edgar Award Winner Adrianna Cuevas comes an out-of-this-world middle-grade adventure—based on true historical events...