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At the dawn of America's love affair with the automobile, cars and trucks leaving the nation's largest city were unceremoniously dumped out of the western end of the Holland Tunnel onto local roads wending their way through the New Jersey Meadowlands. Jersey City mayor Frank Hague, dictator of the Hudson County political machine and a national political player, was a prime mover behind the building of the country's first "superhighway", designed to connect the hub of New York City to the USA.

Just as things at work are slowing down for PI Emma Djan, an old friend of her boss’s asks for help locating his missing daughter. According to her father, Ngozi had a bright future ahead of her when she became secretive and withdrawn. Suddenly, all she wanted to do was be with her handsome new beau, Femi, instead of attending law school in the fall. So when she disappears from her parents’ house in Nigeria the middle of a summer night, they immediately suspect Femi was behind it and have reason to believe the pair has fled to Accra.

Twenty-eight-year-old Carrie Thompson-Sherman has the life she always wanted: her PhD, a prestigious fellowship, and an amazing husband. Her charmed life begins to unravel as a jealous colleague puts her fellowship in jeopardy and a hideous secret Ray carried home from Afghanistan comes to light. Hanging on by a single thread, a disastrous accident puts both her husband and her sister's lives at risk. Heartbroken, Carrie will be faced with the most devastating choice of her life. A choice that will change everything.

In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury "floating university", populated by some of America's best and brightest scientists and writers, including the anti-capitalist eco-prophet, John Muir. Armed with Dramamine and an industrial-strength mosquito net, Mark Adams sets out to retrace the 1899 expedition. Using the state's intricate public ferry system, the Alaska Marine Highway System, Adams travels 3,000 miles.

In the final book in the acclaimed Lithia Trilogy, Kat has new losses to mourn but also new reasons to live. On the brink of new beginnings, she is back together with Roman, their relationship deepening more and more, even as she wonders whether she may still harbor feelings for Alex. Yet, Kat finds it difficult to focus on such things as college and romance, with terror still haunting the hills of Lithia and threatening the entire town.

Now that Old Dark has escaped into Magic Hope City, all hell has broken loose. Everyone fears the dragon lord, and everyone wants him dead. An old friend from the past helps Dark prepare for his rise to power and glory again. But there is always a price to pay for revenge. And Dark is ready to pay whatever it takes. In this third and final book of the epic fantasy series The Last Dragon Lord, the world is about to find out why the ancients called him Dark the Wicked.

Episode 113: Andrea Kremer Pomaranski, Mama, Wife, 50K National Champ & #2 US All-Time, Masters Record Holder in the Mile & 50, and 3x Olympic Trials Qualifier with a 2:31 Marathon PR from last January, Joins The Show To Chat All Things Training, Including must know for the Upcoming Boston Marathon this month!Andrea has achieved goals that I aspire to achieve; not only that but she's done it 3x! Age is just a number; regardless of what life throws your way, never stop chasing your goals or reaching for the stars. They are within reach if you don't limit yourself. Believe, show up, and put in ...