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Shortly after the Conservatives win a majority government in the 2011 federal election, the prime minister discovers a secret weapon in his caucus—Jisbella Lyth, a single mother with a limited understanding of her role as an MP. Using her ignorance to his advantage, the PM hatches a plan to have Jisbella front and centre in a campaign of misdirection and distraction. Humorous and clever, Proud explores the corrosive nature of the politics of division.

Spanning two decades, Smallwood’s story is anchored and propelled by one of Johnston’s most memorable creations: the fictitious Sheilagh Fielding, a caustic newspaper columnist whose own battles with the past and alcohol addiction find full vent and expression in her tireless dogging of Smallwood’s climb to power. At its heart, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is the story of a man whose career is buoyed and sometimes sunk by his unresolved feelings for a woman he never allowed himself to love.

It’s December 1979 and Clark’s minority Progressive Conservative government is under threat of dissolution before it has a chance to accomplish anything — even pass a budget. But Clark is young and idealistic, resolute on making his mark in office. When he steals a moment at his desk to make a crucial decision, his colleagues, including Brian Mulroney and Pierre Trudeau, take the opportunity to steer him in different directions.

When Clementine Kaye, Beecher White's first childhood crush, shows up at the National Archives asking for his help, Beecher tries to impress her by showing her the secret vault of the President of the United States. After they accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact, Beecher and Clementine find themselves suddenly entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder.

When John Byrne is arrested in a case of mistaken identity, he is picked up by Thomas Hayes. Hayes, a special ops commander, claims his team has been wrongly accused of terrorism. Byrne must decide where his allegiances lie--or he and the whole country will face the consequences.

Only two Americans escape a Benghazi-style attack on a newly opened US embassy in Somalia: Brooke Grant, the young commander of the Marine Corps Embassy Guards, and CIA Station Chief Gunter Connor. To survive, they must avoid detection by outwitting the treacherous Islamic radical christened "the Osama bin Laden" of Africa.

St. Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for a shock. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act: the seizure of Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan.

A terrorist crashes an explosive-packed rental truck into Major Brooke Grant's Washington, DC, wedding, detonating the deadliest bomb ever exploded in the capital on what should have been the happiest day of her life and killing a US president. Saved by a last-minute fluke, Brooke seeks revenge against the master terrorist responsible.

Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young people who leave the impoverished provinces for the city in search of better prospects and camaraderie.