David Bryant

Fun and learning come together in North Carolina's Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the flora, fauna, and natural history of that fascinating place where land meets sea. Each page includes a full-color illustration and breezy, fact-filled commentary on coastal wildlife from fifty-foot-long northern right whales to single-cell plankton, from shy red wolves to overbearingly sociable sand gnats....

Through one last crime, pirate Captain Flint brings menace to a governor's niece, a Royal Navy captain... and himself. A kidnapping, sea battles, disease and mutiny mean they must all Tread Carefully on the Sea.

When the biggest army ever raised by Rome is, annihilated in battle, seven people's lives are upturned. Their fates intertwine as they face the dangers of war and the wilderness. Based on real events and rich in historical fact, The Dust of Cannae explores the fears, hopes, passions, and failings of its characters against the backdrop of Rome's own struggle to survive.