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The legendary story of the Iron Door Mine, which features a lost treasure somewhere in the Santa Catalina Mountains, was made ...

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1 ATMOSPHERE (Ballantine, $30). By Taylor Jenkins Reid. A scientist joins a 1980s NASA training program intending to become ...

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