• 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

  • 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

  • Tears of the Silenced: An Amish True Crime Memoir of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Brutal Betrayal, and Ultimate Survival

    Surviving Severe Child Abuse, Sexual Assault and Leaving the Amish ChurchA gripping story that takes you on the journey of a child abuse and sexual assault survivor turned activist. Photo Gallery in the back of the book.True story of child abuse. When Misty Griffin was six years old, her family started to live and dress like the Amish. Misty and her sister were kept as slaves on a mountain ranch and subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse, and extreme physical violence. Their step-father kept a loaded rifle by the door to make sure the young girls were too terrified to try to esc... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B07FTQDN38
    • ASIN: B07FTQDN38
    • Manufacturer: Mango

  • 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

  • The Forgotten Child: The powerful true story of a boy abandoned as a baby and left to die

    Based on a true story, The Forgotten Child is a heart-breaking memoir of an abandoned newborn baby left to die, his tempestuous upbringing, and how he came through the other side.It’s a freezing winter’s night in 1954. A baby boy, a few hours old, is left by his mother, wrapped in nothing but two sheets of newspaper and hidden amongst the undergrowth by a canal bank. An hour later, a late-shift postman is walking wearily home when he hears a faint cry. He finds the newspaper parcel and discovers the newborn, white-cold and whimpering, inside.After being rushed to hospital and against all o... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B07GTSK164
    • ASIN: B07GTSK164
    • Manufacturer: HarperElement

  • 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

  • Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

    Regina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope. Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves faced with the challenges of the foster-care system and intermittent homelessness in the shadows of Manhattan and the Hamptons. A true-life rags-to-riches story, Etched in Sand chronicles Regina’s rising above her past, while fighting to keep her ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B009NG18Z8
    • ASIN: B009NG18Z8
    • Brand: William Morrow Paperbacks
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

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

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

    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 more than thirty accounts of true-life adventure taken from historical memoirs, letters, and journals. They span the modern age of exploration, through the nineteenth century, and to the end of the twentieth. Among the writers included are:   Ernest ShackletonDouglas MawsonSalomon AndréeSebastian SnowEd DrummondEdmund HillaryMaurice HerzogLewis and ClarkThor HeyerdahlTheodore RooseveltJacques-Yves CousteauSven HedinNorbert CasteretJim CorbettChar... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00CKXW2SS
    • ASIN: B00CKXW2SS
    • Manufacturer: Skyhorse Publishing

  • 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

  • Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

    A masterpiece of historical adventure, Skeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hellish two-month journey through the perilous heart of the Sahara.The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub--and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffled sailors for centuries. In August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Cape Bojador and lost, althoug... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0316159352
    • ASIN: 0316159352
    • ISBN: 0316159352
    • Brand: King, Dean
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

  • The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure

    The dead of an Arctic winter. Whaling ships full of men, stranded in ice. Follow three rescuers in a race against time — and all odds — in this heartpounding true adventure.In 1897, whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative. And in that particular year, winter blasted early, bringing storms and ice packs that caught eight American whale ships and three hundred sailors off guard. Their ships locked in ice, with no means of escape, the whalers had limited provisions on board, and little hope of surviving until warmer temperatures arrived many mont... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0763670936
    • ASIN: 0763670936
    • ISBN: 0763670936
    • Manufacturer: Candlewick

  • Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival

    from Newbery award winning author Kirby Larson comes a remarkable true story of the devotion, friendship, and survival of two pets left behind in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In the tradition of Owen and Mzee, this beautiful picture book is a testament to the spirit that defined post-Katrina rescue missions. During Hurricane Katrina, evacuating New Orleans residents were forced to leave their pets behind. Bobbi the dog was initially chained to keep her safe, but after her owners failed to return, she had to break free. For months, Bobbi wandered the city's ravaged streets-dragging her chain ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0802797547
    • ASIN: 0802797547
    • ISBN: 0802797547
    • Brand: Walker Childrens
    • Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

  • Educated: A Memoir


    • ASIN: B072BLVM83
    • ASIN: B072BLVM83
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea

    New available in paperback, a true-life adventure story with everything: page-turning suspense, remarkable acts of courage, wrenching despair, and a triumphant, life-affirming ending.Red Sky in Mourning is the story of Tami Oldham Ashcraft's 41-day journey to safety, which she survived through fortitude and sheer strength of character. Interspersed with flashbacks to her romance with her doomed fiancé Richard, this survival story offers an inspiring reminder that even in our darkest moments we are never truly alone.

    • ASIN: 0786886765
    • UPC: 884570920049
    • ASIN: 0786886765
    • ISBN: 0786886765
    • Brand: Brand: Hyperion
    • Manufacturer: Hachette Books

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

    Draws on interviews with Salvador Alvarenga and those who aided in his rescue and recovery to chronicle his fourteen months alone and adrift at sea, during which he imagined a method of survival that kept

    • UPC: 45434483
    • Rating: 3.857

  • Adrift [movie Tie-In] : A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea

    Reprint, with an updated afterword. Originally published as: Red sky in mourning: a true story of love, loss, and survival at sea. New York: Hyperion,

    • UPC: 666652663

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

    The author attempts to unravel the mystery behind a group of nine hikers whose baffling deaths in the Russina Ural Mountains has led to decades of speculation on what happened to

    • UPC: 36956912
    • Rating: 4.125

  • American Wolf : A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves.

    • UPC: 419122902
    • Rating: 4.364

  • Red Sky in Mourning : A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea

    Now available in paperback, this is a true-life adventure story with everything--page-turning suspense, remarkable acts of courage, wrenching despair, and a life-affirming ending, as a woman travels alone at sea. 8 page photo

    • UPC: 29270093
    • Rating: 2.0

  • The Tiger : A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

    In December 1997, a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren't

    • UPC: 15404001
    • Rating: 4.44

  • They Cage the Animals at Night : The True Story of an Abandoned Child's Struggle for Emotional Survival

    Left by his incapacitated mother at a Catholic orphanage in Brooklyn, Burch describes his unhappy life as a foster child, experiences as a runaway, struggle for survival, growth of self-reliance, and triumph over

    • UPC: 440844
    • Rating: 3.4

  • Touching the Void : The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

    The author relates his nearly fatal adventures mountaineering in the Andes, adventures that included a fall into a crevice, broken limbs, and return to

    • UPC: 2436951
    • Model: 103090
    • Rating: 4.103

  • A Storm Too Soon (Young Readers Edition) : A Remarkable True Survival Story in 80 Foot Seas

    A spellbinding tale of maritime disaster, survival, and an absolutely daring rescue from Michael J. Tougias, the author of The Finest Hours, which is now a major motion picture. When a forty-seven-foot sailboat disappears in

    • UPC: 55258526
    • Rating: 4.5

  • The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900

    In this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC's Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history--a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, heroism, and resilience that is full

    • UPC: 50092861
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Survival Against the Odds: TRUE-LIFE SURVIVAL STORIES FROM THE WORLD'S BEST-REA

    • UPC: 333040636392
    • Category: Nonfiction
    • Price: 7 USD

  • Survival Against the Odds: TRUE-LIFE SURVIVAL STORIES FROM THE WORLDS BEST-REA

    • UPC: 302665751016
    • Category: Nonfiction
    • Price: 4 USD

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