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Saltwater Fella: An Inspiring True Story of Success Against All Odds
Years later, when I found my mother, I asked, 'Why did you let me go?' My mother told me, in a very soft voice, 'My son, you were going to...
Waiting for the Monsoon
By the New York Times 's legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep wisdom, and finding true happiness amid the unlikeliest...
A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and
This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to...
Papillon (1960s A Series)
A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure - a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Condemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charriere (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to...
Resolute: How We Humans Keep Finding Ways to Beat the Toughest Odds
An Instant New York Times Bestseller The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Saved tells the remarkable story of his harrowing recovery after surviving a deadly Russian missile...
Lucky
'What a story and what an inspirational human. Ed is a total legend.' Joe Wicks 'A life-affirming story ... inspirational' Tim Peake The Sunday Times Bestseller Now a major motion...
In My Dreams I Dance: A story of prejudice, perseverance and pushing
The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike, updated for 2024 Left partially paralysed below the rib cage by polio, Anne Wafula Strike was forced to flee...
Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant...
Surviving White Island: An inspiring memoir of physical and mental
Surviving the unsurvivable. Healing from the unhealable. This is an inspiring memoir of physical and mental recovery, from someone who lived through the Whakaari White Island volcanic eruption. "I heard...
The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a...
Ellen Savage and the Heroes of AHS Centaur: from the bestselling
The extraordinary true story of courage under fire and survival during one of the deadliest wartime attacks on Australia - the sinking of the hospital ship, the Centaur - and...
Great Australian Volunteer Surf Life Saving Stories
After I'd got him out of harm's way, I dived back in yet again and swam out past the surf-break, out to where the other two lads were floundering. Then,...
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Music, Survival and Hope
One man, his piano and their miraculous survival. 'Extraordinary' Baroness Julia Neuberger 'Powerful and gruelling ... an almost unimaginable story of horror and survival' Mail on Sunday 'Stunning. A beautiful...
Lighting the Fuse: Stories from Britain's first female bomb disposal
Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it. In this extraordinary memoir, Lucy Lewis reveals the hidden world of bomb...
The Escape from Kabul: A True Story of Sisterhood and Defiance
Combining moment-by-moment drama with an emotional story of friendship and bravery, The Escape from Kabul is also a searing insight into the captive fate of women in Afghanistan. In the...
Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbruck: The Nazi's
From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist...
Men of Salt: Crossing The Sahara On The Caravan Of White Gold
Salt was once worth its weight in gold, and treks to mine salt slabs from the heart of the Sahara desert are still made as they were throughout centuries-on a...
The Escape from Kabul: A True Story of Sisterhood and Defiance
Combining moment-by-moment drama with an emotional story of friendship and bravery, The Escape from Kabul is also a searing insight into the captive fate of women in Afghanistan. In the...
Beyond Impossible: From Reluctant Runner to Guinness World Record
When Mimi first started jogging on a treadmill as an unfit 36-year-old mother-of-three, she never imagined she would go on to become a World-Record-breaking ultrarunner. After coming to terms with...
An Island to Oneself: Six Years Alone on a Desert Island
A South Seas classic since 1966, this is the story of one New Zealander brave enough to do what we have all now and then dreamed of doing - live...
Inside the Cartel: How an Undercover FBI Agent Smuggled Cocaine,
"Truth is always stranger than fiction... A stunning, riveting and extraordinary real-life story of life in the shadows." #1 International Bestselling Author Don Winslow The gripping true story, that reads...
The Kelly Hunters QBD Edition
The desperate manhunt to bring down Australia's most notorious outlaw When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp...
How to Be Bold: The Surprising Science of Everyday Courage
A USA Today Bestseller "I love this book. How to Be Bold is a practical road map filled with real-life stories that will inspire you and help you find courage...
Lebanese Cuisine: Past and Present
**Winner of the Gourmand Cookbook Award** Lebanon offers a unique variety of fragrant and refined dishes, enriched over centuries by new flavours and spices brought by traders from across the...
The Bells of Nagasaki
A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of one of the most infamous events in history- the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. 'A book that everyone should read' The Times A harrowing, heart-rending...
Inside the Cartel: How an Undercover FBI Agent Smuggled Cocaine,
"Truth is always stranger than fiction... A stunning, riveting and extraordinary real-life story of life in the shadows." #1 International Bestselling Author Don Winslow The gripping true story, that reads...
The Great Divide
'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST ' One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE SEFTON 'I didn't want it to end' SARA...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 'Gripping ... remarkably wide-ranging' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of...
Across Mountains, Land and Sea: One Boy's Extraordinary Journey
The extraordinary true story of hope, courage and survival and one boy's journey across the world to find safety When Mir was thirteen, he was forced to flee his village...
Across Mountains, Land and Sea: One Boy's Extraordinary Journey
The extraordinary true story of hope, courage and survival and one boy's journey across the world to find safety When Mir was thirteen, he was forced to flee his village...
Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World's Greatest
It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly...
Fire
Forest fires, terrorism, war: thrilling adventure writing, as the bestselling author of THE PERFECT STORM brings his talents for exhilaration to new and overawing life-threatening situations. The millions of readers...
How to Be Bold: The Surprising Science of Everyday Courage
A USA Today Bestseller "I love this book. How to Be Bold is a practical road map filled with real-life stories that will inspire you and help you find courage...
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster by New York Times-bestselling author Adam Higginbotham, based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting - a...
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the
THE NEW BOOK THE TRAITORS CIRCLE COMING SOON FROM JONATHAN FREEDLAND SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE, RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE, WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR AND LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE...
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was...
A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and
This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to...
Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant...
Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant...
Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
An Amazon Best Memoir of the Month One of Elle Magazine's Best Books of 2017 Goodreads Best of the Month Daily Beast, "Books I Can't Live Without" Good Housekeeping, Best...
I Will Come Back for You: The undercover Jewish commando who helped
'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe 'A remarkable book' - The Telegraph A gripping account of hidden identity, military courage, and...
The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience
She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your question," her father urged, nudging her forward. She smiled shyly and said, "You're my hero....
The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB
The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man - Vasili Mitrokhin - turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the...
Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbruck: The Nazi's
From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist...
The Stars Will Still Be There: What my daughter taught me about love,
'Heartbreaking and inspiring in equal measure. A must-read.' Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester 'Nicola is a beautiful human being and her story is full of the joys and sorrows...