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Eve Cooper, occasional sleuth and the daughter of a newly elected president, investigates the death of the White House head usher while performing her first daughter duties, watching her younger brother, and focusing on a career in photojournalism.

In a May 1900 magazine article Theodore Roosevelt wrote, "What we have a right to expect of the American boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American man." Certainly this was a noble sentiment from a man who had every reason to believe that he was an exemplar of the "good American man." The president's first son and namesake would not turn thirteen until September of that year. Imagine life as Theodore Roosevelt Jr. A lesser man would have...

"In the chaotic aftermath of 9/11, Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts and her lover, first daughter Blair Powell, must contend with recrimination from within the government and danger from without as they struggle to uncover those who betrayed the nation and nearly claimed Blair's life. The hunt is a very personal quest for Cam, who fears that another strike on Blair is imminent. Her search takes her deep into the shadow world of counter-intelligence...

Samantha Mackenzie is a sheltered young woman who has everything she could possibly wish for and lives in a beautiful white house. The White House, that is. Samantha just wants a normal college experience away from the influence of her parents. Only trouble is, her dad is the President of the United States. Nothing will stop her, so, under Secret Service surveillance and the nonstop glare of the media, Samantha meets and falls for a handsome college...

Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood by their father's side when he took the same oath. They spent their college years watched over by Secret Service agents and became fodder for the tabloids, with teenage mistakes making national headlines. But the tabloids didn't tell the whole story. In SISTERS FIRST,...

A dual portrait of JFK, Jr. and Caroline Kennedy draws on personal interviews to discuss such topics as the assassination attempt on Jackie Kennedy while she was giving birth, Caroline's reclusive lifestyle, and the unsettling results of John's and his wife's autopsies.

A descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings chronicles the relationship between Jefferson and his slave and the life of their son, Thomas Woodson, and discusses the Woodson family's efforts to uncover the truth about the different branches of their family tree.

In the suburbs of Maryland, the firm of Hendley and Associates meanders its way through financial transactions-but its true purpose is to identify and locate terrorist threats, and then deal with them in whatever manner necessary

"From the seed of historical truth that is the death of President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son Willie, George Saunders spins a story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm ... Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state--called, in the Tibetan tradition,...