On the night of August 6–7, 1943, six American destroyers steamed into Vella Gulf two hundred miles northwest of Guadalcanal and laid an ambush for the Japanese destroyers that nightly ferried reinforcements into the Solomon Islands. Within thirty-five minutes, three enemy ships were on their way to the bottom of the gulf, a fourth limped away, and the U.S. Navy’s tin cans scored what was hailed as “an attack that every destroyer sailor dreams about,” “a little classic of naval warfare,” “...

An extraordinary family saga spanning more than 75 years, from the aftermath of the Second World War to modern BritainLondon, 1946. Hope Kiffin and her childhood friend Eunice have left Antigua for a new life in Britain. But when Hope makes the painful decision to send her baby daughter home in Eunice's care, a moment at Tilbury Docks changes all their lives for ever.The baby disappears. Overcome with guilt, Eunice abandons her old identity and becomes Fait...

Two dogs dance the day away in this charming Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read with rhyming, repetitive text by bestselling and Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor–winning author-illustrator Michael Rex.Step by step, spin by spin, a grown-up pooch shows a young pup how to dance. They slide and glide, shimmy and hop. Can the pup keep up with all the new fancy steps and become a dancing doggy with this own smooth moves?

Rex Brasher: Painter of Birds: A Biography Imagine devoting your entire life to a single, all-consuming passion so fierce and unrelenting that it reshapes everything around you, demanding sacrifice, solitude, and an almost supernatural dedication to beauty. That was the life of Rex Brasher, an American artist whose obsession with painting birds drove him deep into forests and marshes, across mountain ridges and coastal shores, through poverty and obscurity, until he had produced one of the...

Something is hunting along the Smoke River…Riders are vanishing. Ranch hands are found torn to pieces. Horses come back wild-eyed from the desert with saddles ripped and reins trailing.Some folks swear it's a wolf.Others say it walks like a man.When seasoned gunfighter Clay Ransom rides into the Smoke River country, he finds a valley gripped by fear and silence. Ranchers lock their doors before dark, and no one dares ride the trails at night.But Rans...

The river was the only way through.And someone was waiting on the other side.They thought it would be a hard crossing—cold water, bad footing, and a long ride behind them.They were wrong.Because Paradise Pass doesn't forgive mistakes.When the lead rider hits the water, he's already watching the ridgeline. Watching for movement. Watching for the kind of trouble that doesn't show itself until it's too late.Then the first shot comes.Now ...

Something is hunting along the Smoke River…Riders are vanishing. Ranch hands are found torn to pieces. Horses come back wild-eyed from the desert with saddles ripped and reins trailing.Some folks swear it's a wolf.Others say it walks like a man.When seasoned gunfighter Clay Ransom rides into the Smoke River country, he finds a valley gripped by fear and silence. Ranchers lock their doors before dark, and no one dares ride the trails at night.But Rans...

The river was the only way through.And someone was waiting on the other side.They thought it would be a hard crossing—cold water, bad footing, and a long ride behind them.They were wrong.Because Paradise Pass doesn't forgive mistakes.When the lead rider hits the water, he's already watching the ridgeline. Watching for movement. Watching for the kind of trouble that doesn't show itself until it's too late.Then the first shot comes.Now ...

The river was the only way through.And someone was waiting on the other side.They thought it would be a hard crossing—cold water, bad footing, and a long ride behind them.They were wrong.Because Paradise Pass doesn't forgive mistakes.When the lead rider hits the water, he's already watching the ridgeline. Watching for movement. Watching for the kind of trouble that doesn't show itself until it's too late.Then the first shot comes.Now ...

Something is hunting along the Smoke River…Riders are vanishing. Ranch hands are found torn to pieces. Horses come back wild-eyed from the desert with saddles ripped and reins trailing.Some folks swear it's a wolf.Others say it walks like a man.When seasoned gunfighter Clay Ransom rides into the Smoke River country, he finds a valley gripped by fear and silence. Ranchers lock their doors before dark, and no one dares ride the trails at night.But Rans...

Something is hunting along the Smoke River…Riders are vanishing. Ranch hands are found torn to pieces. Horses come back wild-eyed from the desert with saddles ripped and reins trailing.Some folks swear it's a wolf.Others say it walks like a man.When seasoned gunfighter Clay Ransom rides into the Smoke River country, he finds a valley gripped by fear and silence. Ranchers lock their doors before dark, and no one dares ride the trails at night.But Rans...

The river was the only way through.And someone was waiting on the other side.They thought it would be a hard crossing—cold water, bad footing, and a long ride behind them.They were wrong.Because Paradise Pass doesn't forgive mistakes.When the lead rider hits the water, he's already watching the ridgeline. Watching for movement. Watching for the kind of trouble that doesn't show itself until it's too late.Then the first shot comes.Now th...