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

    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 them as they were fishing eighty miles offshore. As gale force winds and ten-foot waves pummeled their small, open boat from all sides and nearly capsized them, captain Salvador Alvarenga and his crewmate cut away a two-mile-long fishing line and bega... [Read More]

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

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

    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 collaborators of the Reich, to their desperate need to continue living "freely" outside the ghetto walls.They undergo an agonizing five and a half years, mostly in constant fear that their false identities will be exposed and their lives ended."Courage ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B07SJ5VQPS
    • ASIN: B07SJ5VQPS

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

    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 injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over t... [Read More]

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

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

    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 SnowEd DrummondEdmund HillaryMaurice HerzogLewis and ClarkThor HeyerdahlTheodore RooseveltJacques CousteauSven HedinNorbert CasteretJim CorbettCharles A. LindberghThe Best Survival Stories Ever Told recounts stories of ordinary mortals who achieved... [Read More]

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

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

    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 on the southern end of the island. Utterly alone in a dense coastal forest, plagued by stinging blowflies and relentless rain, Captain Musgrave—rather than succumb to this dismal fate—inspires his men to take action. With barely more than their ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B001DA9J4O
    • ASIN: B001DA9J4O
    • Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

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

    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 out and though the happy family thought the Germans would never reach their idyllic village, they quickly understood they were wrong and their happiness came to a brutal end. The family had to flee their house and find shelter in a neighboring Ghetto... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B07NDYGQ45
    • ASIN: B07NDYGQ45

  • Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival

    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 of Nazi raids. But he would live.This is just one of the true stories told in Hidden Like Anne Frank, a collection of eye-opening first-person accounts that share the experience of going into hiding to escape the Holocaust. Some were just toddlers wh... [Read More]

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

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

    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.

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

  • Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival

    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 adventurer. Jungle is the incredible true story of Yossi Ghinsberg's triumph over the most adverse and frightening of circumstances. It is a tale of survival and human fortitude against the wildest backdrop on the planet.

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

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

    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 slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of th... [Read More]

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

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

    "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 before. A short story of approximately 9,500 words. The first story of the "Mountain Man" series. Contains language and graphic violence. If you enjoy this, check out the rest of the series.

    • ASIN: B00IRI1SNU
    • ASIN: B00IRI1SNU
    • Manufacturer: Podium Publishing

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

    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 was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book.

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

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

    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: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
    • ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
    • Manufacturer: Harper

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

    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 Becks, a Volksdeutsche (ethnically German) family from their town. Mrs. Beck worked as Clara's family's housekeeper. Mr. Beck was known to be an alcoholic, a womanizer, and a vocal anti-Semite. But on hearing that Jewish families were being led into ... [Read More]

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

  • Educated: A Memoir


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

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

    Relates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and

    • UPC: 32723258
    • Rating: 4.681

  • The Best Survival Stories Ever Told - eBook

    True tales of danger and adventure on land, sea, and air—from the Arctic to the Amazon rain forest. This collection of classic tales comprises over thirty accounts of true-life adventure taken from historical memoirs, letters, and

    • UPC: 728650119

  • The Choice : A Story of Survival

    Three friends drove across the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona after backcountry skiing in Colorado. They talked about their lives, and one said, "I really shouldn't be alive

    • UPC: 528243843

  • The Best of Outdoor Life : The Greatest Hunting, Fishing and Survival Stories...

    • UPC: 193356020896
    • Category: Nonfiction
    • Price: 4 USD

  • Adrenaline 2001 : The Year's Best Stories of Adventure and Survival

    • UPC: 223820582163
    • Category: Nonfiction
    • Price: 3 USD

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    • UPC: 352935288345
    • Category: Nonfiction
    • Price: 4 USD

  • Adrenaline 2001 Hardcover Book Year’s Best Stories Of Adventure And Survival

    • UPC: 273924959691
    • Category: Nonfiction
    • Price: 4 USD

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    • UPC: 193322500255
    • Category: Nonfiction
    • Price: 4 USD

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    • UPC: 223803541584
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    • UPC: 372930996790
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
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    • UPC: 143279822313
    • Category: Nonfiction
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    • UPC: 303447563562
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
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  • (064) Adrenaline 2001: Best Stories of Adventure & Survival Ed. Clint Willis PB

    • UPC: 163647165027
    • Category: School Textbooks & Study Guides
    • Price: 8 USD

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