True stories of heroism, endurance and survival Books

Little Erzsebet Kertesz was just a child when she and her family of eight were uprooted from their tiny village home in Eastern Transylvania. The onset of World War II would force the family to relocate, suffering through times of fear, poverty, and...

After a happy childhood, growing up and attending school in Croatia and Australia, everything changed for high school student Tihana Babic in 2003 when, after four years of mysterious symptoms, she was diagnosed with a brain tumour.Since then, her...

Predators’ Paradise is a raw, honest account of Glen’s life. He was born into violence and addiction. His mother was addicted to drugs and alcohol and had mental health issues as well as a propensity to violence with her husband and children...

Trapped. Married to a psychopath. Can she escape to a better life? Navigating a marriage with a psychopath is not only unpredictable but also, at times, dangerous. Add the Vietnam War, two children-one born with disabilities-plus the usual pitfalls...

THE TRUE-LIFE STORY OF ONE WOMAN'S STRUGGLE TO OVERCOME THE PERILS OF PATRIARCHY, INTERWOVEN WITH A CRITICAL LOOK AT SOCIETY'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS WOMEN AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS. Wasilat Amoke grew up in Nigeria in the 1950s at a time when the prevailing...

Abandoned by her mother, Angel was sent to a village in a developing country in West Africa with very unfavorable conditions to live. She had a difficult time growing up. While trying to process her mother's attitude, her country was plunged into a...

LEADERSHIP LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE PEOPLE OF NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA, IN THE AFTERMATH OF 9/11: DURING TIMES OF ADVERSITY, CHANGE REQUIRES RESILIENCEElias Kanaris offers an insider's view of what happened on 9/11 when the plane he was flying on was...

In the Land of Canaan remarkably captures both the horrors and warmth of a child's ability to survive being terrorized and sexually abused. Yet still, she finds glimmers of hope in her dark world. Francine takes a riveting look at a family deep in the...

In 1981, at the age of eighteen, John N. Huffington was found guilty of a double homicide in Harford County, Maryland. He was given two death sentences plus 21 years in what became known as the Memorial Day Murders. Maintaining his innocence from...

Karamojo Safari, first published in 1949, is a classic story of elephant hunting, safaris, native life, and the wilds of Uganda and Kenya in the late 1800s, at a time when the region (then known as "Karamojo") was completely unknown to the outside world...

This book is about my journey of healing from generational trauma and the relationship I wish I had with my mother. It includes letters written to my mother after her death and her profound impact on my healing. The story reveals my mother's battle with...

"Ik heb NIET wat ze zeiden dat ik HAD" is gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal over Julian.Een gezonde jongen die door de leugens en manipulatie van zijn moeder in een inrichting voor verstandelijk gehandicapten belandt.Het verhaal onthult de duistere...

A True Story of Childhood TraumaCan I Come Home Now?In this moving and painful memoir of growing up from age five to adulthood, the author paints a sad and all too familiar story of early sexual abuse from men whom she should have been able to trust that...

La scia della guerra lascia segni che non sempre appaiono drammatici dall'esterno.All'interno, infuria una tempesta di traumi. Consumata dall'oscurità e dalla depressione all'indomani della guerra, la storia di Ewa Reid-Hammer è il viaggio di...

¡La guía de supervivencia que puede salvar tu vida en una situación de emergencia!Descubre cómo ser el mejor superviviente durante una inundación, un incendio, en plena naturaleza... aprende a conseguir agua potable en cualquier entorno, trata heridas o...

Step into the powerful and introspective world of Mathias I. Brookes in Lucky Men; Unluckily Me, a poignant collection of poems that delves deep into the impact of certain men on her life-men who have shaped her journey through acts both unforgivable and...

Step into the unfiltered world of a young woman in love with the wrong man. Through raw and brutally honest entries, this anonymous diary explores the depths of immeasurable grief and heartbreak, while illuminating the transformative power of self-love...

Emerich is my name. I am now an old man, shaped by the experiences that a diverse and rich life has given me. "Emerich Roth's crime was that he was a Jew. Therefore, he ended up in the Nazi extermination camp. But he escaped both Hitler and death.With...

Heidi's story is extraordinary. Imagine being 540 miles from land, with nothing but water in sight, and then experiencing every pilot's worst nightmare - a complete engine failure. Heidi's fixed-gear Cessna bounced off the ocean's surface, flipped onto...

Ride along with Stu as he goes from one adventure to another. Wild parties, big surf, crazy stuff and smuggling marijuana. Based in Coronado CA in the seventies, stories about hitting the beach with loads on pot and outwitting the cops. Stories...

How I battled the Devil for my soul! The story is based on a family and marriage of (24) years torn apart by lies, deception, and the evil of infidelity. It depicts a woman of remarkable courage who fought for her survival through it all, despite all the...

A young Bosnian-Jewish boy escapes transport to a WWII death camp, joining Tito's Partisans to fight the Nazi and Axis powers, and faces what no child should ever have to.This biographical fiction based on the early adolescence of Moris Albahari dives...

About the Book -God forbid when someone in the family gets diagnosed with a chronic or fatal illness, the entire family comes together for a few days. The entire load of the patient's care will go on one of the family members who will spend the most...

Have you ever wanted to give up? I have. You can overcome insurmountable odds and create a life you love. I did. Just don't quit. As if surviving years of childhood abuse and narrowly escaping a cult and my mother's insanity wasn't enough, I ended...

A ship lost. No survivors. A grim recovery mission begins, pushing a team of commercial divers well beyond their comfort zone. Braving treacherous conditions, saturation diver Nico van Heerden single-handedly combs the cramped, debris-strewn,...

During World War II, approximately 10,000 Moldovan Jews were imprisoned in the Obodovka ghetto, located in the Romanian-occupied part of Ukraine. Unlike the areas under German control where Jews faced systematic extermination, survival rates were...

Even the most agonizing character in this nonfiction narrative manages to discover their innate, yet forgotten, instinctual ability to stay calm.As Hurricane Charley churns closer and closer to the razor-loop surrounded, heavily-guarded, isolated...

On a hot, New England summer day in 2014, tragedy befell author Lindsey Rogers-Seitz and her family when her husband inadvertently left their fifteen-month-old son, Benjamin, in the back seat of their car all day where he then passed away from the heat...

Amid 150,000 people, the author re-meets an old schoolmate at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Dedication in Washington, DC, and what unfolds is a love story between two unlikely people; Mike, a veteran of 173rd Airborne Brigade and Ranger medic / LRRP,...

Breaking doesn't mean you're broken.  In a pedestrian crosswalk on a quiet tree-lined street, Naseem is hit and then run over three times. Onlookers yell for the driver to stop as she hears her fate in her husband's screams. Is he is watching...

This story, based on real people and events, is set in the first half of the twentieth century, primarily in the rough and ready regions of Texas and Indian Territory (Oklahoma). The central character is Carlos Benson, an appealing, ambitious, and...

Imagine sleeping on the streets, then becoming the king of Venice. According to Michael Ruark, that can happen with a creative, honest, positive, and fearless attitude.This memoir is a raw documentation of Ruark's experience in Venice, California, in the...

Sierra was always an exceptional child. She was the child every parent hoped for. From the time she was two, she already knew she wanted to be the next Jenny Finch. She started T-ball at four years old on the pitcher's mound, and that is where she played...

"I went up on the Star of Alaska in 1918." It was 1965 and an old timer was spinning a tale for 18-year-old Joe Upton. Of sailing up from San Francisco to Alaska's remote and austere Bristol Bay aboard a square-rigged ship loaded with Chinese cannery...

Hi, readers. I am Tony "the Tiger" Green. I have written this book, Pick Up Your Own Damn Crutch, for several reasons. It helps me work out mentally, the trials I have been through, allowing me to put in perspective regarding my life. There have been...

Unwanted, unloved, and overlooked. If you're feeling this way thinking you're the only one, I promise you're not alone. This is my story from my perspective. This is my test, and my testimony. If I can make it through the darkest times of my life, with...

All her life, Anita Bramer was looking for answers. After the death of her father at age ten, she struggled to understand the difficult emotions associated with grief. This devastating loss created a ripple effect on the rest of her life, as she faced...

For fans of Breaking Bad and Narcos, a searingly honest and unforgettable memoir that challenges women to rethink everything they know about survival, resilience, and finding their voice.At twenty-one, Brenda Coffee surrendered herself to...