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Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters
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Nick Schuyler, Jere Longman · 246 pages
A former college football star shares the story of his dramatic survival and rescue after a headline-making boating accident that left three of his friends dead, including two NFL players.
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
Steven Callahan · 255 pages
The Loss of the S.S. Titanic
Lawrence Beesley · 125 pages
The circumstances in which this book came to be written are as follows. Some five weeks after the survivors from the Titanic landed in New York, I was the guest at luncheon of Hon. Samuel J. Elder and Hon. Charles T. Gallagher, both well-known lawyers in Boston. After luncheon I was asked to relate to those present the experiences of the survivors in leaving the Titanic and reaching the Carpathia.
Fate Is the Hunter
Ernest K. Gann · 386 pages
Ernest K. Gann’s classic memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days of commercial aviation. In his inimitable style, Gann brings you right into the cockpit, recounting both the triumphs and terrors of pilots who flew when flying was anything but routine. Source http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fate-is-the-Hunter/Ernest-K-Gann/9780671636036
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand · 514 pages
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Se
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing · 282 pages
Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England, in August 1914. The ship became locked inside an island of ice, and was later crushed. This tale of survival by Shackleton and all 27 of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctice seas defined heroism.
Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums
Travis Barker · 416 pages
Still LoLo: A Spinning Propeller, a Horrific Accident, and a Family's Journey of Hope
Lauren Scruggs, Scruggs Family · 290 pages
Everything to Live For: The Inspirational Story of Turia Pitt
Turia Pitt · 336 pages
I Am the Central Park Jogger
Trisha Meili · 257 pages
The woman dubbed in the headlines "the Central Park Jogger," who was raped and brutally beaten in 1989 while jogging in New York's Central Park, recounts her assault and recovery and describes how the event changed her life.
Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence
Matthew Sanford · 288 pages
Matt Sanford's life and body were irrevocably changed at age 13 on a snowy lowa road. On that day, his family's car skidded off an overpass, killing Matt's father and sister and leaving him paralyzed from the chest down and confined to a wheelchair. His mother and brother escaped from the accident unharmed but were left to pick up the pieces of their decimated family. This pivotal event set Matt o
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
Valerian Albanov · 285 pages
I Knew Their Hearts: The Amazing True Story of Jeff Olsen's Journey Beyond the Veil to Learn the Silent Language of the Heart
Jeff Olsen, Lee Nelson
After being critically injured in a car accident that took the life of his wife and son, Jeff Olsen has some near-death experiences that help him cope with their loss.
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death
Maggie O'Farrell · 303 pages
An extraordinarily intimate memoir of the near death experiences that have made Maggie O'Farrell the woman and the writer she is today. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. This is a memoir with a difference: seventeen encounters with
Beyond the Bear: How I Learned to Live and Love Again after Being Blinded by a Bear
Dan Bigley, Debra McKinney · 218 pages
A 25-year-old backcountry wanderer, a man happiest exploring wild places with his dog, Dan Bigley woke up one midsummer morning to a day full of promise. Before it was over, after a stellar day of salmon fishing along Alaska's Kenai and Russian rivers, a grizzly came tearing around a corner in the trail. Dan barely had time for "bear charging" to register before it had him on the ground, altering
Last Man Down: The Fireman's Story
Richard Picciotto, Daniel Paisner · 236 pages
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King · 291 pages
"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever. Rarely has a book on writing been so clear, so useful, and so reveal
Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea
Linda Greenlaw · 256 pages
On the Edge
Richard Hammond, Mindy Hammond · 309 pages
Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life
James Blake · 288 pages
In 2004, James Blake's life was getting more perfect by the day. A rising tennis star, with each passing year his game seemed to improve. In 2002, he was named Sexiest Male Athlete by People, and along the way he continued to gain in the rankings and earn respect on the court. Each day seemed to offer a new milestone, a new achievement; he was leading a charmed life and loving every minute of the
Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
Jason Padgett, Maureen Ann Seaberg · 249 pages
"No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. Yet Padgett wasn't born this way. Twelve years ago, he had never made it past pre-algebra. But a viol
Left For Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
Beck Weathers, Stephen G. Michaud · 304 pages
I am neither churchly nor a particularly spiritual person, but I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling--quite literally a dead man walking--into camp and the shaky start of my return to life. On May 10, 1996, nine climbers perished in a blizzard high on Mount Everest, the single deadliest day ever on the peak. The following