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The immense ark-ship Odyssey and its ten thousand hibernating settlers have left behind a dying Earth—journeying for fifty years to the nearest star and its lone habitable planet, Proxima-b. This new home for humanity is perpetually bombarded by deadly solar flares on its dayside, while the icy wasteland on its opposite hemisphere freezes in endless darkness. When the battered Odyssey arrives, its crew discovers the automated radiation shield has failed. Something appears to have damaged or perhaps even sabotaged their technology on a world where humans have yet to set foot.

Maya Carson poured years of work, love, and savings into the Beach House she shared with Julian Barrett. She paid all the bills, invested everything in the renovation, painted every wall, sanded the floors and trim, rebuilt the gardens, and imagined the family they might one day have. But when the relationship shatters, Maya faces a brutal truth: she was never married, and her name was never on the title. In the eyes of the Barrett family, she owns nothing.

American cities are distinct from almost all others in the degree to which freeways and freeway travel dominate urban landscapes. In The Drive for Dollars, Brian D. Taylor, Eric A. Morris, and Jeffrey R. Brown tell the largely misunderstood story of how freeways became the centerpiece of US urban transportation systems, and the crucial, though usually overlooked, role of fiscal politics in bringing freeways about.