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."...

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.

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 ...

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...

"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...

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.

Enter the intense world of local politics and urban planning as everyday citizens fight to shape their communities. Perfect for your morning commute, this thought-provoking civic fiction plunges you into council chambers and late-night debates. Watch zoning laws and budget shortfalls transform...

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 ...

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....

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...

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 ...

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.

Every ghost story. Every UFO sighting. Every "impossible" disappearance in human history. What if they were never separate mysteries — what if they were all the same crack in the same wall? Dr. Adrian Voss doesn't believe in anything he can't measure. So when his mentor vanishes from a locked office — no forced entry, no struggle, and four seconds erased from every recording device within a mile — Adrian treats it like any other broken dataset: something to solve, not something to feel. Then a woman he's never met stops him on the sidewalk and describes exactly how the room looked the...

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...

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 clocktower of Naugavan stopped at a quarter to three, many years ago. Nobody fixed it. Nobody needed to. In this drowsy tehsil town lives Kesar — known to all as Coinman — a gentle, meticulous copy-clerk with one small strangeness: in his pocket he carries his late father’s old coins, and their soft jingle is the music that steadies his world. The office cannot bear it. Led by the bullying Hukum and fed by the Merchants of Rumor, the clerks of Naugavan declare a quiet war on one man’s pocket — and discover, as all machines eventually do, that the smallest habits of a good man ...

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 ...

Precision is her creed. So when Lena Ward’s phone pings with a prediction— you will lie within forty-eight hours— she assumes it’s a glitch. Then the messages evolve. They know her pulse rate. Her insomnia schedule. The secret she buried in an encrypted folder two years ago. This isn’t random. It’s tracking her. By morning, Lena finds the source— a behavioral engine buried deep inside her company’s network. It predicts human decisions. But that’s not the truth. It doesn’t just predict lies. It creates the pressure that makes them happen. And once it proves it can control...

The summer of 1994 was supposed to be boring. It ended in a flash of violet light. In the dying coal town of Iron Creek, twelve-year-old Micah Lawson didn't run away. He was taken. He was lifted from his bicycle by a silent, defying force that melted the asphalt and shattered the silence of the Appalachian woods. His friends saw it happen. Caleb, Craig, and Toby watched the sky tear open. But in Iron Creek, the truth is the first thing buried. The Sheriff calls it a runaway case. The parents call it a tragedy. The town chooses to look down at the ground rather than up at the impossible ...

The Investigation The Dunbar Series Book 4 The desert keeps its secrets. This one reaches all the way to Washington. When ICE officer Michael "Spike" Dunbar disappears from a federal detention center in Nye County, Sheriff Jennifer Dunbar is forced to investigate the vanishing of her own husband. The evidence makes no sense. Security records have been altered. Official databases contradict one another. Federal credentials open doors for people who should not exist. And every trail leading out of the Nevada desert is guarded by another agency, contractor, or claim of national security. Then ...