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Before the Industrial Revolution, everyone lived within short walking distance of their workplace. However, all of this has now changed and many people commute large distances to work, often taking around one hour in each direction. We are now used to being stuck in traffic, crammed onto a train, rushing for connecting trains and searching for parking spaces close to the station or our workplace. Commuters explores both the history and present practice...
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"The Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago is a map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood dream guide that divides Chi-Town into sixty mapped neighborhoods from Gold Coast and Lincoln Park to Wrigleyville and Lakeview. Designed to lighten the load of already street-savvy locals, commuters, business travelers, and yes, tourists too, every map is dotted with user-friendly NFT icons that plot the nearest essential services and entertainment locations, while...
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"Monreith, Massachusetts, was once a small community of whalers and farmers. These days it's a well-to-do town filled with commuters drawn to its rugged coastline and country roads. A peaceful, predictable place--until popular restaurateur Laurel Thibodeau is found brutally murdered in her own home. Suspicion naturally falls on Laurel's husband, Simon, who had gambling debts that only her life insurance policy could fix. But there are other rumors...
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Moonshine Cove Publishing
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2021
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Terrorists had Chicago's Ogilvie Transportation Center and its 10,000 commuters seconds away from annihilation. Their credibility established, the perps spare Ogilvie but threaten even more devastating consequences unless the FBI kills William T. Knoble, a local attorney with no known criminal ties. On a timeline and desperate to understand why an obscure, small-time lawyer is the subject of a terrorist demand, the FBI turns to Ben Siebert, a former...
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