True stories of heroism, endurance and survival

Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier.

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Pearl Zane Grey was best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts, but he also wrote two hunting books, six children's books, three baseball books, and eight fishing books.

A Girl and Five Brave Horses is the story of Sonora Carver and was the basis for the movie Wild Hearts Can't be Broken.

Here is one of the few slave narratives written by a women.

The Rough Riders was the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry.

A Girl and Five Brave Horses is the story of Sonora Carver and was the basis for the movie Wild Hearts Can't be Broken.

When Geraldine Gerry Largay (AT trail name, Inchworm) first went missing on the Appalachian Trail in remote western Maine in 2013, the people of Maine were wrought with concern.

Flight for Life is the heart-stopping account of one of the most gripping rescue missions in African history.

It was a horrific car crash.

The Rough Riders was the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry.

Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth President of the United States.

Mary Prince was the first woman slave to write of her experience.

Truth spoke about abolition, women's rights, prison reform, and preached to the Legislature against capital punishment.

The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, is a first-hand account of Turner's confessions published by a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, in 1831

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ILP JOHN CREASEY FIRST NOVEL DAGGER AWARD 'I'll be following Bailey Seybolt the way I follow Tana French' Kate Brody'Twisty and compelling' Tracy SierraEveryone has heard the rumours.

In 1910, hoping that the study of penguin eggs would provide an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles, a group of explorers left Cardiff by boat on Robert Falcon Scotts expedition to Antarctica.

The incredible stories of twenty-two lone survivors of maritime disasters are presented in this collection of war and peacetime incidents.

This collection of survival stories recounts the harrowing true experiences of people across the globe who faced certain death-and survived.

This is a self-healing book about behavioral therapy.

When Geraldine Gerry Largay (AT trail name, Inchworm) first went missing on the Appalachian Trail in remote western Maine in 2013, the people of Maine were wrought with concern.

A resistance fighter's "e;remarkable"e; memoir of her imprisonment at the infamous Nazi concentration camp (The New Yorker).

'Thrilling.

"If you can dream it, it can happen.

In December 2004, an aging black Labrador retriever on the first hunting trip of her long, good life spooked at the sound of gunshot and was lost amid the frigid rice fields of the Texas coastal prairie.

A memoir exploring a young woman's troubled childhood, her bond with her older brother, and the toll of drugs and alcohol on their lives.

Lightning strikes, lotteries, and Lourdes-miracles really do happen.

Lightning strikes, lotteries, and Lourdes-miracles really do happen.

During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty's name struck terror into the hearts of U.

Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human experience.

'Life is too short to waste time on second-class ambitions.

'The Chaos Machine is an essential book for our times' - Ezra KleinThe Chaos Machine is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media.

Bestselling author Bear Grylls has survived a free-fall parachute accident that left him with a broken back, possibly unable to walk again; falling down a mountain in the Rockies, severing a finger in the Vietnam jungle, a broken shoulder in Antarctica.

You know how he died.

'Enthralling' Daily MailIn 1998, Francoise Malby-Anthony founded a game reserve with her late husband, dedicating their lives to the protection of these beautiful, troubled animals.

The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, with a foreword by King Charles III, as Prince of Wales.

'Deserves to be an instant classic.

Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the 'happiest man on earth'.

The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.

Making It is a memoir about beating the odds and turning things around even when it all seems hopeless.

Moving, honest and inspiring - this is a nurse's true story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis.

'An extraordinary story that deals with the urgent issues of our era .

'A lyrical, fascinating, important book.

The Book of Tea describes all aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony and explains how its rituals blend seamlessly with traditional Japanese life.

How do you offer safety to a child consistently let down by others?

How do you provide stability to a child rejected by her own family?

From the challenges of travelling when blind to becoming a parent for the first time, Kika & Me is the moving, heart-warming and inspirational story of Dr Amit Patel's sight-loss journey and how one guide dog changed his world.

'The Book Collectors of Daraya celebrates the political and therapeutic power of the written word .

Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later.

How do you begin to create a home for a runaway child?