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  • 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

    • ASIN: 1501116304
    • ISBN: 1501116304
    • Brand: Atria Books
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    Declared “the best survival book in a decade” by Outside Magazine, 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.On November 17, 2012, two men left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. That night, a violent storm ambushed t... [Read More]

  • Courage and Grace: A Jewish Family's Holocaust True Survival Story During WW2 (World War II Memoir)

    • ASIN: B07SJ5VQPS

    If their secret is discoveredThey will not survive…While the Holocaust rages, two very young brothers, Joseph and Yitzhak, adopt false Christian identities and hide in the Aryan side of Polish cities and countryside.Their lives, as well as the lives of their parents, swing wildly between the terror of being apprehended by the cruel regime and col... [Read More]

  • Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Historical Nonfiction Bestseller, True Story Book of Survival)

    • ASIN: 1452140030
    • ISBN: 1452140030
    • Brand: Chronicle
    • Size: N/A
    • Manufacturer: Chronicle Books

    A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller! — What happened that night on Dead Mountain?The mystery of Dead Mountain: In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the mountain climbing incident—unexplained violent... [Read More]

  • The Best Survival Stories Ever Told (Best Stories Ever Told)

    • ASIN: 1616084553
    • ISBN: 1616084553
    • Manufacturer: Skyhorse

    This collection of classic tales comprises over thirty accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters, and journals. They span the years from 1800 to the end of the twentieth century, in a period which can be termed the modern age of exploration. Among the writers are:Ernest ShackletonDouglas MawsonSalomon AndréeSebastian... [Read More]

  • Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

    • ASIN: B001DA9J4O
    • Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

    Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. In 1864 Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck... [Read More]

  • Surviving The Forest: A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story of a Jewish Holocaust Survivor

    • ASIN: B07NDYGQ45

    Five shots on Saturday morning changed their fate …She was a beautiful and happy young woman who lived a fairytale life. Shurka, her beloved husband and their two small children lived in a pretty house in a village in Poland, surrounded by a little garden with lilies. This was their life and nothing could harm it, or so they thought…WWII broke ... [Read More]

  • Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival

    • ASIN: 0545543649
    • ISBN: 0545543649
    • Brand: Arthur A Levine Books
    • Manufacturer: Arthur A. Levine Books

    Jaap Sitters was only eight years old when his mother cut the yellow stars off his clothes and sent him, alone, on a fifteen-mile walk to hide with relatives. It was a terrifying night, one he would never forget. Before the end of the war, he would hide in secret rooms and behind walls. He would suffer from hunger, sickness, and the looming threat ... [Read More]

  • 3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement, and Escape

    • ASIN: 0425244288
    • ISBN: 0425244288
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    On March 2, 1998, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped, and found herself locked in a house that would be her home for the next eight years. She was starved, beaten, treated as a slave, and forced to work for her deranged captor. But she never forgot who she was-and she never gave up hope of returning to the world. This is her story.... [Read More]

  • Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival

    • UPC: 884755741667
    • ASIN: 0977171906
    • ISBN: 0977171906
    • Manufacturer: Boomerang New Media

    What begins as a dream adventure for four amicable, if hastily met, muchileros (backpackers) quickly becomes a struggle for survival as they unravel under the duress of the jungle. They are an odd mix to be sure: Marcus, the Swiss mystic; Karl, the shady Austrian geologist; Kevin, the well-intentioned American photographer; and Yossi, the Israeli a... [Read More]

  • Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

    • ASIN: B004CJN7TG
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Random House Audio

    Number-one New York Times best seller The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption.  On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slic... [Read More]

  • The Hospital: The FREE Short Story: The First Mountain Man Story

    • ASIN: B00IRI1SNU
    • Manufacturer: Podium Publishing

    "Mountain Man" Augustus Berry is a survivor in undead suburbia. He scavenges what he can from what's left over. He is very careful in what he does and where he goes, taking no chances, no unnecessary risks, and weighing every choice...until he decides to visit the hospital at the edge of town, and experiences terror the likes he's never encountered... [Read More]

  • Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

    • ASIN: 0897333764
    • ISBN: 9780897333764
    • Brand: Academy Chicago Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Academy Chicago Publishers

    Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It w... [Read More]

  • Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

    • ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
    • Manufacturer: Harper

    The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life.Eastern Europe, 1944: Thre... [Read More]

  • Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival

    • ASIN: 0061728616
    • ISBN: 0061728616
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    In the classic vein of The Diary of Anne Frank—a heart-wrenching and inspiring story of a life lived in fear and cramped quarters—Clara’s War is a true story of the Holocaust.Cara Kramer was a typical Polish-Jewish teenager from a small town at the outbreak of the Second World War. When the Germans invaded, Clara's family was taken in by the ... [Read More]

  • Educated: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 0399590501
    • Brand: Manning
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

    • ASIN: 0393347788
    • ISBN: 0393347788
    • Brand: W W Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    "Gripping and superb. This book will steal the night from you." ―Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep SurvivalOn January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling ov... [Read More]

  • Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man

    • ASIN: 1501135945
    • ISBN: 1501135945
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • A Story of Survival (Holding Their Own Book 1)

    • ASIN: B0066QVI6M
    • Manufacturer: Kemah Bay Marketing LLC

  • Into the Abyss: An Extraordinary True Story

    • ASIN: 1455501964
    • ISBN: 1455501964
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to.On an icy night in October 1984, a commuter plane carrying nine passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern Alberta, killing six people. Four survived: the rookie pilot, a prominent politician, a cop, and the criminal he was esc... [Read More]

  • Where the Crawdads Sing

    • ASIN: B078GD3DRG
    • Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

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