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If he had been just another married man, and she a beautiful woman— it would have been just a passionate affair. But he was the president. Will this dangerous liaison change the course of history? Matthew Underwood—former anchorman and now U.S. President—is dangerously indifferent to his job until he meets the female head of the tiny country of Lampang. After they fall in love, Underwood becomes mired in Lampang's internal politics—and a nosy reporter, not to mention the jealous First Lady, threaten everything.

On a state visit to Moscow, Billie Bradford, the beautiful and brilliant wife of the President of the United States, is abducted by the Soviets and replaced by Vera Vazilova, a superbly trained Russian undercover agent and actress who is the First Lady's physical double. The impostor's mission - to induce the President to reveal a U.S. secret that will drastically tip the world balance toward Russia. But one false move - whether before TV cameras or in the White House bedroom - can destroy the entire masquerade.

A momentous archeological discovery, the greatest of all time - and the immediate effect it has on the varied group of men and women whose lives are intimately touched and altered by it - is at the heart of this exciting novel. In the ruins of the ancient Roman seaport of Ostia Antica, an Italian archeologist has discovered a first-century papyrus, its faded Aramaic text revealing a new gospel written by James, younger brother of Jesus, the original source of the four gospels of the New Testament.

This is a fast-paced, carefully documented, and rich biography of Barnum, the greatest showman of all time, the American from Bethel, Connecticut, whose eccentricities and oblique, cynical approach to humanity transformed entertainment into a big, incredibly profitable business. As bachelor, husband (twice), father, and grandfather, Barnum comes to life in Mr. Wallace's crowded audiobook, an exceedingly interesting and human man. Here, too, are New York City in all its 19th century color, the London of Queen Victoria, and the Paris of Napoleon III.

Edward Armstead has lived much of his life in the shadow of his famous media lord father. When his father dies, he leaves a will that makes it nearly impossible for Edward to keep the thign he wants most - The New York Record - his father's flagship newspaper. Edward's determination to exceed his father drives him to embark on two obssesive quiests - to make the New York Reporter the number one nerwspaper in the city - and the the world - and to make his father's young mistress his own.

Four men obsessed with actress Sharon Fields meet in a bar one night and are soon planning her abduction. She is raped by three of the men and then forced to write a plea for ransom to her movie studio. She manges to communicate her location in the note and in the rescue, the three rapists are killed. The fourth man escapes and is soon planning a new fan club for another actress.

Based on the Kinsey reports, in which Dr. Alfred Kinsey conducted interviews with thousands of men and women on their sexual habits, Irving Wallace's blockbuster novel The Chapman Report concerns the interviewing of a number of society ladies from a community in California known only as "The Briars". These interviews, intended to extract data for a book on the sexual habits of married women, lead the listener on a trail through the lives and loves of several very different women, and the men in their lives.

They came into the world as one - inseparably tied together at their chests - yet they were two. They became world celebrities, American citizens, married two native-born Southern sisters, and between them fathered 21 children, while acquiring respectable status as landowners, famers, slave owners, and pillars of their local community. "They" were the famous, the first, the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng.

Eminent Oxford don Sir Harrison Ashcroft, on the verge of proving that Hitler did not die in the bunker, is murdered in Berlin. His daughter, Emily, continues this quest. Her life is endangered but she has new and unexpected protectors: Rex Foster, researching the vainglory of Nazi architecture; Nicholas Kirvov, curator of a Soviet art museum; and Tovah Levine, Mossad agent. The four prove a tough match for a coterie of neo-Nazis conspiring to perpetuate Hitler's image and obscure the details of his death.

The secret. Every man and woman dreamed of it. Now it's within reach...and they'll do anything to possess it. The screen goddess. The contessa. The wily priest. The American public-relations man looking for a cause. And his lover who may die for it. They are all caught between life's wildest dream...and death.

Irving Wallace herein presents the stories of “some Americans who dared to be different” - crackpots, perhaps, all of them, but also exceedingly diverting people to meet, know, and watch as they pursue their peculiar activities.

Novelist Andrew Craig has not been sober in a very long time. After losing his wife in an auto accident he believes to have been his own fault, he turned to the bottle, and to his sister-in-law, Leah, who acts as his caretaker and live-in nurse. Then, when he is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for his novel, The Perfect State, a historical jab at communism, he heads for Stockholm, hoping to find a reason to live, and to write. The other laureates have their own problems....

The time is 1964. The place is the Cabinet Room of the White House. An unexpected accident and the law of succession have just made Douglass Dilman the first black President of the United States. This is the theme of what was surely one of the most provocative novels of the 1960s. It takes the reader into the storm center of the presidency, where Dilman, until now an almost unknown senator, must bear the weight of three burdens: his office, his race, and his private life.

If you were in a position of authority and these five came to you at the life-and-death Summit Conference in Paris with the incredible details of The Plot, would you believe any one of them?

This beginner's guide will teach you everything you need to know about speaking French in a conversational way, and is structured in such a way that you will be able to learn it quickly and effectively. It is divided into chapters based on themes, such as "asking for directions", "family", "means of transport", and so on, and you will be able to learn all that is necessary for the practical use of the French language and to easily return to the section you will need if you have forgotten something or to practice extras on a certain subject.

One of the last novels by international best seller Irving Wallace. The villain in this book is none other than the infamous H. H. Holmes...a historical suspense novel based in Chicago near the time of the World's Fair.... Welcome to the Everleigh club - the world's most sumptuous bordello. Minna and Aida Everleigh - proprietors of the famous “house of pleasure” on Chicago's Levee. Karen - the mayor's elegant, gorgeous secretary who is playing a dangerous masquerade. Cathleen - the Evereighs' socialite niece, a sweet Southern girl soon to learn all about becoming a woman.

In his most powerful and provocative novel to date, master storyteller Irving Wallace turns his incomparable talents to the world of sex therapy. Erotically charged, compassionate, and suspenseful, The Celestial Bed explores the way people make love in postsexual-revolution America. Dr. Arnold Freeberg is a courageous, pioneering sex therapist whose dedication to his patients and the principles of his profession prompt him to step outside the law and utilize the most effective tool of all in combating sexual dysfunctions - sex surrogates.