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The Great Gatsby is known for the glitz and glamour of Gilded Age plutocrats, in The Last Green Light, the working people of Fitzgerald's novel get to tell their own, beautifully textured tale. Meet Jon Laine, a Midwesterner who captains one of the rumrunning boats that are the source of Gatsby's great wealth, enter a colorful netherworld of diner cooks, dump scavengers, secretaries, deckhands and car mechanics caught in the increasingly deadl...

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In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, "an exquisitely written and dramatic book…a literary page-turner" (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers)—the 2015 mysterious disappearance of the SS El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship that sank in the Bermuda Triangle, taking with it thirty-three lives.On October 1, 2015, the SS El Faro, a massive American cargo ship disappeared in Hurr...

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Dreams can set you free -- or imprison you forever.... The acclaimed author of The Shift and Contraband delivers a brilliant new novel set in an edgy future where nothing is more dangerous than a dream.... Slocum had it all: the perfect family, the perfect home, and the perfect job with X-Corp Multimedia -- a major producer of interactive virtual-reality entertainment. In a world divided between protected enclaves of luxury and blighted, decay...

Zero Decibels" is a passionate exploration of our need for true silence in an age of noise.

A gripping personal and scientific odyssey to discover how humans navigate landscape, life, emotions, memory and everything else. Navigation is the key human skill. It's something we do everywhere, whether feeling our way through a bedroom in the dark, or charting a ship's course. But how does navigation affect our brains, our memory, ourselves?

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