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62) Fox and the box
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A fox sets out across the sea in a floating box on a grand adventure full of endless possibilities.
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"In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon. Written seven years before The Town and The City officially...
77) Close-hauled
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Sim Greene has twenty years in the US Navy as a Master-at-Arms and is hoping for officer training to boost his career. A devout bachelor, he lives on a sailboat, surfs when he likes, and loves a woman who is way out of his league. Assigned to investigate the death of a retired navy lieutenant, Sim finds himself tangled in something much larger and far darker than a simple murder. Soon, the things he loves and the people he cares about are all at risk....
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"A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories--American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty. Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener; Melville reveals...