Alec Gillis
Author
Description
An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States.
In 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He blasted the callousness of a company worth "a billion dollars" that underpaid its workers while forcing them to engage in repetitive and sometimes dangerous assembly line labor. Eighty-three years later,...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A group of grad students set out on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming in the Bering Sea, when suddenly the ship's crew dredges up a thawed piece of Soviet space wreckage. Things get downright deadly when aggressively mutating organisms, who were locked in ice for three decades, surface from the wreckage and discover warmth from human companionship.
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Based on the publishing phenomenon, Percy Jackson and other young demigods continue to fight, but this time in the sea, to fulfill their destinies. To save their world, Percy and his friends must find the fabled and magical Golden Fleece. Embarking on a treacherous odyssey into the uncharted waters of the Sea of Monsters (known to humans as the Bermuda Triangle), they battle terrifying creatures, an army of zombies, and the ultimate Evil.