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• A Marriage at Sea

  a True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

  Elmhirst, Sophie

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  The electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits.

• The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

  a Story of Survival

  Sebba, Anne

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  In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a band that would play in all weathers marching music to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cave

  a Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria

  Ballour, Amani,

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  This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Syria.

• Against All Odds

  a True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II

  Kershaw, Alex,

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  This is the harrowing tale of four Medal of Honor recipients. Through Alex Kershaw we learn the stories of these men. Tapping into personal interviews and a wealth of primary source material, Alex Kershaw has delivered his most gripping account yet…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• N-4 Down

  the Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia

  Piesing, Mark

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  Truly, a hidden gem, just like Umberto Nobile’s journal, which the author finds in a secondhand bookstore, titled With the Italia to the North Pole.

• Into the Forest

  a Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

  Frankel, Rebecca,

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  Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest.

• Memoirs of a Kamikaze

  a World War II Pilot's Story of Survival, Honor and Reconciliation

  Odachi, Kazuo,

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  This book offers a new perspective on these infamous suicide pilots. It is not a chronicle of war, nor is it a collection of research papers compiled by scholars. It is a transcript of Odachi's words.

• Tap Code

  the Epic Survival Tale of a Vietnam POW and the Secret Code That Changed Everything : a True Story

  Harris, Carlyle (Colonel),

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  It was Carlyle “Smitty” Harris that taught the Tap Code an old, long-unused World War II method of communication--to many POWs. In turn, they taught others, and it quickly became a way for POWs to communicate without their captors' knowledge. It was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Speck in the Sea

  a Story of Survival and Rescue

  Aldridge, John,

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  This story begins in the dead of night, on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was thrown off the back of the Anna Mary while his fishing partner, Anthony Sosinski, slept below. As desperate hours ticked by, Sosinski, the families, the local fishing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 438 Days

  An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

  Franklin, Jonathan, 1964-

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  The miraculous account of the Salvador Alvarenga who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks, and had to adapt to stay alive.

• The Revenant

  a Novel of Revenge

  Punke, Michael

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  This is the fictional account of Hugh Glass. He was on an expedition and was attacked by a bear. Glass was close to death, two men that were assigned to stay with him until he passed away, left him to die alone. They left him with nothing. He does…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 81 Days Below Zero

  the Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness

  Murphy, Brian, 1959-

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  Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Better Friend

  One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII

  Weintraub, Robert

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  This is a story of Royal Air Force technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met in an internment camp during WWII. Their story of an unbreakable bond forged in the worst circumstance is one of the great undiscovered sagas of World…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alone on the Ice

  the Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

  Roberts, David, 1943-2021

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  The downloable audiobook version of the incredible tale of Douglas Mawson, and his survival in the Antarctic.

• All Standing : the True Story of Hunger, Rebellion, and Survival Aboard the Jeanie Johnston

  Miles, Kathryn, 1974-

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  The story of an infant born at sea highlights the efforts of crew people and passengers to secure the survival of Irish citizens fleeing from the potato famine through acts of heroism and human decency.

• Miracles on the Water

  the Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-boat Attack

  Nagorski, Tom, 1962-

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  Based on eyewitness accounts, a chronicle of survival at sea describes the German submarine attack on the passenger liner S.S. City of Benares, a ship carrying ninety children from war-ravaged Britain to the safety of Canada.

• The Great Deluge

  Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

  Brinkley, Douglas

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  In The Great Deluge Brinkley has the Katrina survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina. The Great Deluge investigates the failure of government at every level and breaks important new stories.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ada Blackjack

  a True Story of Survival in the Atlantic

  Niven, Jennifer

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  This is the amazing story of a young Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack and her four male companions who try to colonize a remote, desolate island. Her four associates die. The book then becomes a story of her struggle to survive, and her return to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mawson's Will

  the Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written

  Bickel, Lennard

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  Douglas Mawson survived weeks in Antarctica alone. Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; the loss of his companion, dogs, supplies, and even the skin on his hands and feet. But despite…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Into Thin Air

  a Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

  Krakauer, Jon

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  In this story the author describes his spring 1996 trek to Mt. Everest, a disastrous expedition that claimed the lives of eight climbers and explains why he survived.