Biography & Autobiography, Survival
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Nine Lives of Kaz
An extraordinary survival story of two Polish families’ deadly journey from Siberia to freedom, during World War II by Victoria Kiellerman
An extraordinary survival story of two families’ journey to freedom during World War II. When you hear about how Stalin tormented hundreds of thousands of people and the devastating stories throughout his overwhelming existence, you wonder how any ...
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Following the Telegraph Trail
A Trek of a Lifetime by Irene J. Huntley
Following the Telegraph Trail is a true story of an outdoor Canadian adventure. In the 1950s, a man in his prime, who was seeing his family responsibilities pile up, created an opportunity to act on a boyhood dream - to trek with simple equipment in ...
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I Shall Not Fail
Between Two Worlds by Maria Bandol
I Shall Not Fail: Between Two Worlds is an astonishingly detailed account of one woman’s determination to make a better life for herself and her children. This inspiring memoir chronicles Maria Bandol’s journey from the political and social ...
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The Long Way Home
by Justin Sand
When James decides to go after his sister who had mysteriously disappeared from a good foster home, he enters a world that he could only grasp through the movies he had seen. The long way home is a book about one young man’s journey through the ...
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Exile
by Waltraut Wiens
In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, thousands of women and children in West Prussia were forced to flee from their homes, driven into the Unknown by a relentless enemy. As hunger and bitter cold took the lives of their children, mothers ...
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Butter Side Up
How I Survived My Most Terrible Year and Created My Super Awesome Life by Jane Enright
How often have you heard someone say “I hate change’? That’s because most people do. The reality is life puts us all through change: a series of events some challenging, and many joyful—that shape our day-to-day experiences. Sometimes though, in ...
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Good Luck Frenchy
A Tale of RCMP Deception & Survival Through Thailand's Deadliest Prison by Alain Olivier
Being mistaken for someone else, being falsely depicted as an important international heroin importer and trafficker, and being made an unwilling accessory to murder aren’t everyday occurrences. Surely this is not how the police behave to get their ...
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