New Nonfiction
Dance of Death by Dale Hudson
true crime
Simple Courage: A true story of peril on the sea by Frank Delaney
In late December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly forty metric tons of cargo, the freighter S.S. Flying Enterprise steamed westward from Europe toward America. A few days into the voyage, she hit the eye of a ferocious storm. Force 12 winds tossed men about like playthings and turned drops of freezing Atlantic foam into icy missiles. When, in the space of twenty-eight hours, the ship was slammed by two rogue waves- solid walls of water more than sixty feet high- the impacts cracked the decks and hull almost down to the waterline, threw the vessel over on her side, and thrust all on board into terror.