title: Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
author:  Rachel Slade 
description: &#8220;For sheer drama on the water, it&#8217;s hard to beat the tragedy recounted in Rachel Slade&#8217;s&#160;<em>Into the Raging Sea</em>. . . . a fast-moving cinematic adventure. But for all of the drama, the worst scares are in the epilogue. This sinking was no simple accident.&#8221; (<strong>Janet Maslin, <em>New York Times</em></strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;A powerful and affecting story, beautifully handled by Slade, a journalist who clearly knows ships and the sea.&#8221; (<strong>Douglas Preston, <em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;Riveting.&#8221; (<strong>Sam Sifton, <em>New York Times</em> &#8220;Tastes of Summer&#8221;</strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;A sea disaster tale unlike any other . . . an exciting, terrifying, and deeply sad story.&#8221; (<strong>Gilbert Cruz, <em>New York Times Book Review</em> &#8220;New &#38; Noteworthy&#8221;</strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;Harrowing, moving...a taut adventure tale...The depth of research and reporting, and Slade&#8217;s skill at pacing and selecting the telling details produce a richly detailed narrative, tense and sad and true.&#8221; (<strong><em>Boston Globe</em></strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;In addition to a gripping narrative of a cargo ship&#8217;s tragic voyage into the eye of a hurricane, Slade explains the fascinating world of commercial shipping and the essential&#8212;but often hidden&#8212;role it plays in our economy.&#8221; (<strong>NPR, &#8220;Best Books of 2018&#8221;</strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;More than the story of how a ship was overcome by a storm, <em>Into The Raging Sea</em> is an allegory for what it means to be a part of the nation&#8217;s largely invisible working and middle class.&#8221; (<strong><em>Longreads</em></strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;Riveting.&#8221; (<strong><em>Entertainment Weekly</em>, &#8220;Complete Father&#8217;s Day Book Gift Guide&#8221;</strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;With skillful narrative prose and sensitivity, Slade takes readers on the final voyage of the <em>El Faro . . . </em>provid[ing] a haunting intimacy to this maritime disaster.&#8221; (<strong><em>Booklist</em></strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;Intimate, eerie, and gripping.&#8221; (<strong><em>Outside</em>, &#8220;Best Summer Books&#8221;</strong>)
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  A.M. Dellamonica is at it again! The thrilling adventures of Gale Feliachild
  and Captain Parrish continue in a series of prequel stories that offers to
  take us deeper into the fascinating world of Stormwrack.
  
  
  When the crew of the Nightjar find a merman of the fleet wounded and stranded
  in the ocean, Gale’s sister, Beatrice, is forced to take a back seat while
  Gale and Parrish work to find out who would assault a member of the nation of
  Tallon’s intelligence service. They soon discover a plot that could shake the
  foundations of the fleet and Beatrice might be the key to preventing a
  catastrophic disaster.
  
  
  
  
  
  _Nightjar_ was four leagues out from the nearest land when one of her riggers
  spotted the merman. A weakly thrashing glimmer of silver scale on the choppy,
  sunlit sea, he had flaxen hair, blue glazed ey