True stories of heroism, endurance and survival Books

In a startlingly truthful account, Mukunde Gustave "Gus" Mukurarinda shares his personal survival story of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the aftermath, and more. As a boy, Gus survived one of the most tragic and horrific events in...

In this raw and unflinching memoir, LLM lays bare a childhood forged in the crucible of poverty, abuse, and resilience in 1950s and 1960s America. Born into a welfare family with eleven siblings, she navigates a world of hand-me-down shame, emotional...

God's Got Me: Finding Joy in Adversity is a powerful, transparent memoir and devotional guide for women who have silently carried the weight of rejection, invisibility, and brokenness. In this deeply personal narrative, Eugenia J. S. Cawley courageously...

Jinju Shin recounts a story about a Korean girl Nami growing up in the 1960s and immigrating from Korea to America with her family. Through her journey, you can experience her struggles of adapting to the new American culture while unable to leave behind...

The writing is clever and impressive... A mesmerizing, nightmarish story that has, for once, a happy ending. -Kirkus ReviewsIn the heart of Nazi-occupied Paris, one Jewish family is protected by their working-class community.It's 1937, the eve of...

Women Caught in the Crossfire documents the experiences of one woman among many who were thrust into the hardships of civil war in South Sudan during the violent struggle for independence from 1983 to 2011. It explores the question: What becomes of a...

¿Estar dormida durante 2 semanas seguidas? ¡Qué maravilla! Pero estando en un coma es muy diferentes, a pesar de la idea general que existe entre muchos profesionales todavía. Durante un coma inducido, muchos pacientes pasan por episodios de delirium que...

Surviving Myself--The Making of a Middleweight is a coming-of-age memoir about a sensitive little sweetheart who throws a dynamite left hook--a punch that catapults him into Madison Square Garden to fight for a Golden Gloves title.It is also about my...

Over a million people lost their lives in Auschwitz II - Birkenau. At the height of the selections, the murders would peak at 10,000 a day. Surviving this hell would take more than prayer, more than luck...it was going to take a will to live, a desire to...

One Step Beyond: One Man's Extraordinary Story of Survival is a tale of adventure, courage, and triumph, but most importantly, it is an inspiring story about embracing life after a horrific accident.Warren Macdonald, a fit and experienced hiker, set out...

Undaunted A Memoir is a harrowing story of unimaginable loss, horrible abuse, and unspeakable tragedy. For a young orphaned Vietnamese girl, living in a war torn country, growing up is the hardest journey. She flees an army of demons, ghostly...

Stories of HOPE Australia is  a compilation of inspirational stories. These stories are by everyday people who have been through some of the most challenging times life can throw and have shown extraordinary strength and resilience to come out the...

Being asleep for two weeks straight? What a blast! But a coma is nothing like that, besides the general belief even among many medical professionals. During an induced coma, many patients experience anything from beauty to terror to their worst...

A personal depiction of life in Poland set against the Nazi and Soviet takeovers of Europe and their cataclysmic aftermaths. It is the compelling memoir of Alexander Kimel, taking him from a shtetl in the Polish Ukraine to a Nazi ghetto to liberation. It...

Mildred May Robinson suffered from undiagnosed, untreated mental illness after her birth mother did something horrible to her when she was an infant. Rescued and loved by her adoptive family, Mildred lived an idyllic childhood until she married at...

My name is Sharol Mason. My autobiography will walk you through my life from infancy to retirement. Due to COVID-19 and retiring simultaneously, time was on my side. I will give updates on COVID-19 as it affected our and many others' lives during the...

By Sled Dog For Byrd, first published in 1931, is an exciting account of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1928-30. Author John O'Brien was a member of the geological party led by Laurence Gould, and took part in a grueling 1,600 mile dog-sled journey...

When John had a splitting headache and couldn't catch his breath a few days before Christmas 2020, he never imagined the intense health issues he'd endure through COVID-19 and beyond.The impact of COVID-19 remains far-reaching, even years after the...

BECAUSE EVEN SHADOWS SHINE WITH DISTINCTION DESPITE THE DARKNESS!Shadow: a dark shape produced by coming between rays of light; it is something hovering close to oppression, sadness, and gloom; an inseparable companion who follows and observes someone...

This Holocaust memoir began with an album of photographs, one of the few family possessions that survived WWII. After his mother's death the album passed on to Paul Davidovits, who became keenly aware that he was now the only person alive who...

One small man, one giant mountain: a Sherpa's quest to create a better future, one perilous step at a time.Every success story begins with a single step in the right direction. Pem Dorjee Sherpa's journey began with a determination to break the cycle of...

***LARGE FONT EDITION LAUNCHING IN SEPTEMBER!***"Em is a testament to what is possible to accomplish in life after brain injury."Victoria Katomski  Director of Rehabilitation  Centre for Neuro Skills®★ ★ ★ ★ ★Discover the Power of Resilience...

Teresa Benitez-an engineer, doctor, and professor-had three abortions between 2004 and 2022. Although she was against abortion until 2004, her first pregnancy awakened her deepest fears: was she good enough to raise a family? Or would her unresolved...

Run To The Fire is the exhilarating true story of the incredible life of Rick Collins. A Vietnam veteran whose body was maimed by battle, Rick returned home to extreme tragedy and loss. An unlikely superhero, he blazed a standard of...

Simeon Johnson's life has been transformed from a myopic life resonated to a vanguard of change life! Born in Jamaica, the youngest of thirteen children, SIMEON JOHNSON overcame much hardship. As a young child, he witnessed his mother's death; as a...

In "Dancing My Journey," Nikki Stein, a 40-plus-year-old mother of four, unravels the poignant tapestry of her life, exposing the traumasthat have tested her mental resilience. This intimate narrative invites readers into Nikki's world as she faces...

Josée's story has put the reality of life out there.  "You wake up in the morning with a normal life, and in the afternoon, gunshots make you leave everything you had behind," said Josée. Her story tells how you can still fight for your...

"I was a skinny Black kid from the projects, but I was determined to transition from a poor, nappy-headed boy into a princess even prettier than my mother." The Boy of Hearts is a deeply touching autobiography detailing the experience of a young child...

The Keng Khanh Concentration Camp of 1975 in Laos contains political and historical knowledge telling of a remarkable life journey.It is the author's true story of how he survived the perilous and eventful years during and after the Vietnam War. Themes...

Joe and Vera Bailey and their four daughters got caught up in a vicious and deadly civil war in Liberia in 1990. Their daughters were fifteen, twelve, ten, and two. At that time in Liberia, Charles Taylor was trying to take over the brutal regime of...

"You'll be dead or in prison by the time you're eighteen."Born into a family of addicts and abusers, Nick Darland knows what it's like to be stuck inside chaos. Physical and psychological trauma fill his childhood. He self-medicates with alcohol and...

Forget everything you think you know about psychedelics. They're not punchlines. They're not party favors for aging hippies. Instead, as Alex Abraham discovered, they are an innovative approach that can help heal trauma and chronic pain.Trauma and...

The late, great Betty White once said:"Butterflies are like women. We may look pretty and delicate, but we can fly through a hurricane."The butterfly symbolizes resurrection or rebirth. What starts out as a squirmy, wormy looking caterpillar, transforms...

SY's story is one of living on an emotional roller coaster and cycles of abuse for many years that, in her memory, began at age five. Her experiences would be growing up with five siblings and a strong sense of community made up of uncles, aunts,...

This book is based on true events about how the government superseded the State of California, not only by trying to convict me of legally growing marijuana under the guidelines of the State of California, Prop 215, but by lying to do so.This is a story...

About the Book -This is the author's heart wrecking battles of failures, losses, defeat and near-death experiences and how she painstakingly survived it. Overcoming them inspired her to share her story. Trapped in her aspirations to help create an...

'Die Engelking Briefe' enthält Briefe von und über Ferdinand Friedrich Engelking 1810-1885. Sie erzählen eine eigene Geschichte über die Schwierigkeiten und den Überlebenskampf des Texas-Pioniers. Er schaffte es trotz der harten Bedingungen nach der...

On June 15, 2007, Staff Sergeant Jeff Smart shot himself in the head in his backyard. The end of his life was eerily similar to that of a character in his favorite war movie, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. This is a son's memoir of rediscovering a...

The Author exposes and records America's curious sordid activities coast to coast that are well "Beneath the Hype". Over the last 30 years she has traveled through what most would consider "Dangerous Doors". She is the testimony of a "Survivor" and has...

Larry Kaniut, famous for his Alaska Bear Tales, brings you another book filled with exploits to keep you on the edge of your seat. Based on extensive research and interviews with survivors, Some Bears Kill will thrill and chill any lover of real-life...

SUICIDE TANGO is a novel about love and suicide.Tripsy South is a super-smart and thinking seventeen-year-old girl with a hyperkinetic knowledge of suicide in teens, especially girls. She “suffers” from a laundry list of maladies, including...

'I'm sorry mum, but we have exhausted all medical options to fight your son's cancer and it is so rare that we don't have the answers. I know you have been considering an overseas clinic, is there something I can assist with?'Jennifer tells the raw and...