"The Open Road of Love" is a captivating love story that unfolds on the unpredictable roads of life. Avi, a free-spirited musician, and Aradhana, an ambitious career woman, meet by fate's design. Their journeys converge, transitioning from city lights to tranquil countryside nights. Avi, guided by the rhythm of his heart, embraces the symphony of spontaneity, while Aradhana's meticulously planned world finds adventure in unexpected places. Through the melody of Avi's guitar and the serendipity of chance encounters, their hearts harmonize. Music becomes their universal language, narrating unspoken emotions. They face challenges, distance, and dreams, but their love persists, evolving like a beautiful composition. The narrative beautifully weaves their contrasting yet complementary stories—urban vibrancy versus rural serenity. With each chapter, the book strikes chords of love, spontaneity, and the harmony of two souls dancing to life's unpredictable tune. Ultimately, their love story echoes the sentiment that sometimes, the most beautiful melodies are composed in the unplanned interludes of life.

A year out of high school in the early 1950s, New Jersey mechanic Buddy Palumbo falls in love with two things at once: race car driving with its speed and adventure, and his boss' niece, Miss Julie Finzio

A Smithsonian Best History Book of the Year Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award Winner of the Order of the Coif Award Winner of the Sidney M. Edelstein Prize Winner of the David J. Langum Sr. Prize in American Legal History Winner of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize “From traffic stops to parking tickets, Seo traces the history of cars alongside the history of crime and discovers that the two are inextricably linked.” —Smithsonian When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars. Sarah Seo reveals how the rise of the automobile led us to accept—and expect—pervasive police power, a radical transformation with far-reaching consequences. Before the twentieth century, most Americans rarely came into contact with police officers. But in a society dependent on cars, everyone—law-breaking and law-abiding alike—is subject to discretionary policing. Seo challenges prevailing interpretations of the Warren Court’s due process revolution and argues that the Supreme Court’s efforts to protect Americans did more to accommodate than limit police intervention. Policing the Open Road shows how the new procedures sanctioned discrimination by officers, and ultimately undermined the nation’s commitment to equal protection before the law. “With insights ranging from the joy of the open road to the indignities—and worse—of ‘driving while black,’ Sarah Seo makes the case that the ‘law of the car’ has eroded our rights to privacy and equal justice...Absorbing and so essential.” —Paul Butler, author of Chokehold “A fascinating examination of how the automobile reconfigured American life, not just in terms of suburbanization and infrastructure but with regard to deeply ingrained notions of freedom and personal identity.” —Hua Hsu, New Yorker

More than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrate real and metaphorical journeys. Poems by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others.