True stories of heroism, endurance & survival books

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Like a Swallow: Looking Back at a Polish Childhood

Like a Swallow: Looking Back at a Polish Childhood

Author: Camic
ISBN: 9781955656214
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Nina Lewandowska Camic writes a compelling narrative about her childhood split between postwar Poland and New York...  Read More >>

Light in the Dark: The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust

Light in the Dark: The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust...

Author: Robert Marshall ,  Suzanne Toren
ISBN: 9798212299220
Format: Audio
$176.85

An extraordinary true story of survival and courage through the Holocaust. Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge...  Read More >>

Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life

Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me...

Author: Jay Blades
ISBN: 9781529059212
Format: Paperback
$21.99

A warm, nostalgic and inspirational memoir about finding success when the odds are stacked against you, from the...  Read More >>

Shantial's I Survied The Struggles

Shantial's I Survied The Struggles

Author: Shantial Dean
ISBN: 9781088033081
Format: Paperback
$31.68

In her new book, Shantial returns to express and recount the struggles she dealt with while homeless, the violent...  Read More >>

¡Aquí os quedáis!: ¡Me piro al Caribe a vivir!

¡Aquí os quedáis!: ¡Me piro al Caribe a vivir!

Author: David Menacho Salgado
ISBN: 9788418756702
Format: Paperback
$48.29

""¡Un día de estos hago las maletas y me voy a vivir al Caribe!"" ¿Alguna vez lo has pensado? ¡Nosotros lo hicimos!...  Read More >>

The Third Return

The Third Return

Author: Monica M Medina
ISBN: 9781950906680
Format: Paperback
$61.97

"""...nothing short of beautiful.""-- Nicole Munoz, Mental Health Advocate It is not the usual story told by a victim...  Read More >>

Climb with Charlie

Climb with Charlie

Author: Charlie Bird
ISBN: 9781785373688
Format: Hardback
$43.96

In 2021, veteran Irish journalist Charlie Bird  announced that he has Motor Neurone Disease. He decided to organise...  Read More >>

What I Wish I’d Known When I Was Young: The Art and Science of Growing Up

What I Wish I’d Known When I Was Young: The Art and...

Author: Rachel Sylvester ,  Alice Thomson
ISBN: 9780008497477
Format: Paperback
$34.99

‘A superb study … brilliant stories, hilarious observations and jaw dropping revelations about so many figures in...  Read More >>

The Dive: The Untold Story of the World’s Deepest Submarine Rescue

The Dive: The Untold Story of the World’s Deepest Submarine...

Author: Stephen McGinty
ISBN: 9780008410780
Format: Paperback
$22.99

The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13.  Read More >>

Women in the War

Women in the War

Author: Lucy Fisher
ISBN: 9780008456146
Format: Paperback
$19.99

‘An important contribution to our recent history’ ANDREW MARR ‘Absorbing and...  Read More >>

What I Wish I’d Known When I Was Young: The Art and Science of Growing Up

What I Wish I’d Known When I Was Young: The Art and...

Author: Rachel Sylvester ,  Alice Thomson
ISBN: 9780008497460
Format: Hardback
$45.00

‘A superb study … brilliant stories, hilarious observations and jaw dropping revelations about so many figures in...  Read More >>

Bowen: The Coming-of-Age Memoirs from a Unique City Block

Bowen: The Coming-of-Age Memoirs from a Unique City...

Author: Victor Freeman
ISBN: 9781662459917
Format: Paperback
$38.68

Bowen is a coming-of-age story from a unique city block on Staten Island, New York, filled with many gripping moments...  Read More >>

Mártires Cristianos Bajo El Nazismo

Mártires Cristianos Bajo El Nazismo

Author: Santiago Mata Alonso-Lasheras
ISBN: 9788417828677
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Es bien conocido el profundo odio que Hitler profesó a los judíos. Menos sabemos, sin embargo, sobre la aversión...  Read More >>

Where You'll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova

Where You'll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last...

Author: Ty Gagne ,  Lee Goettl
ISBN: 9798212255868
Format: Audio
$110.85

On Feb. 15, 2015, Kate Matrosova, an avid mountaineer, set off before sunrise for a traverse of the Northern Presidential...  Read More >>

Where You'll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova

Where You'll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last...

Author: Ty Gagne ,  Lee Goettl
ISBN: 9798212255851
Format: Audio
$97.65

On Feb. 15, 2015, Kate Matrosova, an avid mountaineer, set off before sunrise for a traverse of the Northern Presidential...  Read More >>

The Power in You: How to Accept your Past, Live in the Present and Shape a Positive Future

The Power in You: How to Accept your Past, Live in the...

Author: Henry Fraser
ISBN: 9781841883373
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Runaways

Runaways

Author: Shaimaa Khalil ,  Shelley Davidow
ISBN: 9781761150647
Format: Paperback
$49.14

Two women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both.​ ‘We don’t choose where we’re born. Geography ends...  Read More >>

Unknown: A Refugee's Story

Unknown: A Refugee's Story

Author: Akuch Kuol Anyieth
ISBN: 9781922458476
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting memoir of a young woman starting a new life in Australia under the...  Read More >>

Sabine's Odyssey: A Hidden Child and her Dutch Rescuers

Sabine's Odyssey: A Hidden Child and her Dutch Rescuers...

Author: Agnes Schipper
ISBN: 9789493231948
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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Unraveled, Time to Forgive, A True Ending to Murder

Unraveled, Time to Forgive, A True Ending to Murder...

Author: Lisa Lynn
ISBN: 9781734687385
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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Unraveled, Time to Forgive, A True Ending to Murder

Unraveled, Time to Forgive, A True Ending to Murder...

Author: Lisa Lynn
ISBN: 9781734687392
Format: Hardback
$65.97

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Big Waves & Wooden Benches: A True Story of Adventure and Resilience

Big Waves & Wooden Benches: A True Story of Adventure...

Author: Stephanie Wilson
ISBN: 9798985438925
Format: Hardback
$49.14

"What if you curated the perfect life, only to have it crumble? What if in that rubble, you begin to question everything?...  Read More >>

A Punk from East LA

A Punk from East LA

Author: Gabriel Gomez ,  Julio
ISBN: 9781662470110
Format: Paperback
$28.33

This is an autobiography of my father, Julio Gomez, who grew up in the rough streets of East Los Angeles, in a much...  Read More >>

The Journey from Hopeful to Hospice

The Journey from Hopeful to Hospice

Author: Monica Rachell
ISBN: 9798201963569
Format: Paperback
$33.61

A cancer diagnosis is nothing short of devastating for the person receiving it. When the patient is a preschooler...  Read More >>

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