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This compelling history examines the closing months of the vital campaign which ultimately determined the successful conclusion of the Pacific War for the Allies. But it had not been a smooth process. The campaign continued in fits and starts with both the US Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy making crucial errors. But as the pendulum of war swung, there was one distinct advantage to the Allies. This was the successful efforts by the United States Army Signals Intelligence Section and the Navy Communication Special Unit to monitor, intercept, decode and translate Japanese messages.

Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell. We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now...

Heather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

By the end of February 1944, thanks to hard-fought and costly American victories in the first and second naval battles of Guadalcanal, the battle of Empress Augusta Bay and the battle of Cape St George, the Japanese would no longer hold the materiel or skilled manpower advantage. From this point on, although the war was still a long way from being won, the American star was unquestionably on the ascendant, slowly, but surely, edging Japanese imperialism towards its sunset.

It's their usual Thursday girls' night in, and best friends Skye, Elena, and London are enjoying hanging out at Skye's house in New Mexico, eating junk food, drinking wine, and playing with Skye's little children, Carter and Abigail. Until the intruders arrive. Hearing the horrific screams from Elena and Skye, London hides the children, tiptoes out to see what has happened . . . and disappears. After Carter raises the alarm, Detective Alyssa Wyatt is called in to investigate a bloodbath that appears to have no motive, no evidence, and worse still—no sign of London.

Our Bedtime Stories are designed to let you drift off with no nagging feeling that you need to listen through to the end. Their purpose is to let you slowly fall into peaceful, restful sleep. With that in mind, we present actor Brian Cox—Golden Globe winner for his portrayal of media tycoon Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession—returning to his Scottish roots with these evocative tales from the Scottish Highlands.

By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe. At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of...

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold. It was a natural fit. Settlers from the East had for decades been pushing into the West, where the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and treatment of Native Americans cemented racial hierarchies....

A New York Times Bestseller A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author. “Magisterial.” –The...

It’s the holiday season and Caleb just got quite the Hannukah gift. The handsome scientist was able to buy his dream home: a brownstone with an apartment upstairs and a cozy mystery-themed bookshop downstairs. But when he moves in, he’s shocked to find that the bookshop is fully operational while its enigmatic owner has vanished. Caleb may be an expert in scientific research, but running a bookshop is entirely novel to him.

RUSSIAN BRIDE A Transgender Romance Novel Have you ever placed your search for true love in the hands of another, only to find they may have ulterior motives? Richard Dobson is a thirty-six-year-old straight-laced accountant living in Cincinnati, Ohio. Without ever having a girlfriend, the only female contact he has is with his mother and Amish niece, Britney. His only sexual experience was with a woman at an accounting conference five years ago. But he was too drunk to remember any of it. Still, his mother asks him when he will get married every Friday night at the family dinner. ...

Who knew making donuts and delicious pastries could be so dangerous. Join Coco and her crew as they solve deadly crimes while still whipping up scrumptious goodies. This box set includes the complete 6 book series including these books: A Drizzle of Murder Crepes and Crimes Pastries and Puzzles A Cape Caper Pound Cake Predator Chocolate Cadavers

Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Soloman Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal. Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic mind-set, the US Navy had to adapt on the fly in order to compete with the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy, whose ingenuity had fostered the creation of its Pacific empire.

Using forgeries and bogus identities, Matthew B. Cox - one of the most ingenious con men in history - bilked America’s biggest banks out of millions. Despite numerous encounters with bank security, state and federal authorities, Cox narrowly, and quite luckily, avoided capture for years. Eventually, he topped the U.S. Secret Service’s most wanted list, and led the U.S. Marshals, FBI, and the Secret Service on a three-year-chase, while jet-setting around the world with his attractive female accomplices.

The night her father offered her to the world's most powerful vampire to settle a debt, Lyra Hannigan's life turned to ash. Six years later, Don Valentin Moretti, ruler of New York and one of the legendary Five Blood, is bound by an ancient curse. Eira Cross has built a life as the supernatural underworld's bounty hunter, stitched together from secrets and sheer will. Valentin offers a bargain: help him find Lyra, and he'll give Eira freedom. But as the hunt deepens, desire ignites, the line between hunter and prey blurs, and the truth surges closer.

 Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific - Borneo, Sumatra, and Java - in their own blitzkrieg offensive. Allied losses in these early months after America's entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign.

Ever moved to a new city? Somehow, even the simple things seem hard. And there’s no shortage of people looking to exploit you. Hugh Brickman laid everything on the line and moved to New York City, hoping to make it on Broadway. Stemming from small-town Indiana, he is a triple threat but remains somewhat clueless in everything else. So, when Hugh finally lands the role of a lifetime, he suddenly needs to find a place to live. Immediately. Thankfully, a co-worker knows someone who knows someone. A sure recipe for disaster in a city where everyone has an ulterior motive. If you like ...

Willow Carruthers - British Oscar winner, style icon and mother of three - is facing a crisis: she’s broke, discovery of her partner’s infidelity has left her a single mother and, if the banks have their way, she’s about to be homeless.

A xenobiologist with a research grant and zero interest in dating. A seven-foot alien healer whose tail won't stop reaching for her. And a thirty-day cohabitation trial neither of them signed up for. Maisie Brennan flew across the galaxy to study Vraxian bonding physiology — not to experience it. But when a badly labeled intake form matches her with Chief Healer Daxen as her "compatible partner," she's stuck: leave the station and lose her entire PhD, or move in with the alien and call it research. She builds a pillow wall down the center of the bed. It lasts one night. Now they're ...

Mara Vale has built her life on procedure. As a rising analyst inside a gleaming civic bureaucracy, she believes that rules protect people, that standards create fairness, and that safety belongs to those who stay compliant. Then a high-sensitivity case breaks through her professional distance. Drawn into a rarefied world of influence, luxury, and quiet coercion, Mara begins to see how power really works: not through spectacle, but through curation, access, and quiet conditioning. As approval becomes a weapon and intimacy becomes leverage, the system she trusted starts asking for more than ...