Survival

Coming up to her sixtieth birthday, Kate Figes found herself turning to the larger questions of family, love and life's meaning. It is like this author to examine different stages in writing, and her books - from new motherhood and adolescence to...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIETTE BINOCHE AND ANTONIO BANDERASTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST'Riveting ...The best book I've read all year.' Ann Patchett'An astonishing tale of...

The shocking story of how exceptionally violent abuse turned one girl to desperate self-harm before turning her life around.Growing up, Sophie carried a terrible secret. She was her father's slave, in the most horrific ways imaginable. At just a few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312253646Author Warren FellowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Published to glowing reviews, The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys tells the riveting story of a nine-man American bomber crew after they were forced to bail out over Germany in August, 1944. Quickly taken prisoner by a mob of angry farmers,...

The incredible story of a breathtaking rescue in the frenzied final hours of the US evacuation of Afghanistan — and how a brave Afghan mother and a compassionate American officer engineered a daring escape. When the US began its withdrawal from...

If your mom is dead, is she still your mom? At twenty-five-nearly two decades after losing her mother to breast cancer as a little girl-an accident on a downtown street unleashes startling emotional reactions in Peg Conway, and this question starts to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784529413Author Bina BriggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 226gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493276475Author Martin BodekFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957547459Author Claire JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Book Writing FoundersPublisher Book Writing FoundersWeight(grams) 680g

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Colin O'Brady's awe-inspiring memoir spans his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident to his gripping 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica. Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839012327Author Nigel ElyFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm

'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The Times'A truly astonishing story, meticulously and brilliantly told' Philippe Sands, author of The RatlineRESISTANCE,...

Deborah Binner suffered the heartbreak of losing a child to cancer and within two years, her beloved husband to assisted suicide after a MND diagnosis. In Yet Here I Am, she describes how she managed to pick herself up from the depths of despair and...

The incredible true story of a place where animals heal and children learn to hope'When I started The Gentle Barn, some viewed it as a hobby or an obsession, some as an act of selfless devotion. To all of those people, I want to say, You don't understand...

A unique and gloriously nostalgic account of one eventful year in the fire service for readers who loved books such as CALL THE MIDWIFE and TRUST ME, I'M A VET and the brand new ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL.Nothing about the county fire service was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493231719Author Wendy HoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 366gDimensions(mm)...

The Grosvenor was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, but she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa. An astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely, but the castaways...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734509502Author Peter LionFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint TFE PublishingPublisher TFE PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This is the incredible true story of Ferzanna Riley, a Pakistani Muslim who could not be broken, despite an abusive family and their brutal efforts to enslave her. Her violent childhood, during which she was beaten on an almost daily basis, transformed...

THE LONG-AWAITED, MOVING MEMOIR OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR HANNAH PICK-GOSLAR.'Heartbreaking and life-affirming' - Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice'An extraordinary story of love, loss and the power of friendship in the darkest time.' - Jack...

Surviving the war against yourself is the true story of a couple's journey through mental illness and its devastating impact on their life. In a brutally honest account of fear, pain, love and hope, Tom shares what it was like for him to suffer mental...

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger space shuttle disaster based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research - this is riveting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016532Author Gerda Weissmann KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941810323Author Jean Overton FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Suluk Press, Omega PublicationsPublisher Suluk Press, Omega...

'Her life and her death remain a beacon to all who love liberty' NELSON MANDELAAn unforgettable account of defiance against political terror by one of South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid activists.'In prison you see only the moves of the enemy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501199851Author Francoise FrenkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

'IF YOU CAN TAKE IT, YOU CAN MAKE IT'Louis Zamperini lived one of the most amazing lives imaginable. As a young boy he was a troublemaker but his will to succeed drove him on to become an Olympian at the 1936 Games. With the outbreak of war, Louis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027343379Author Aurora MardiganianFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher E-ArtnowWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645749700Author Alice PerleFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Blue Borage PublishingPublisher Blue Borage PublishingWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

Jimmy Holland was born into a family suffering at the hands of their drunk and abusive father. At the age of just two weeks, he was placed into care. The beginning of a life lived in a constantly changing environment of homes, authorities and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913166694Author John GuiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 582Imprint Heddon PublishingPublisher Heddon Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408641Author Kathryn HeymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions

Cry Salty Tears is the tale of a mother's survival and eventual triumph over almost unbelievable domestic hardship. Not only did Dinah O'Dowd face the harsh and unforgiving elements of her background - an upbringing in poverty-stricken 50s Dublin,...

'This is an urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. Delphine Minoui has crafted a book that champions books and the individuals who risk everything to preserve them.' Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book In 2012 the rebel suburb...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Royal Society of Literature Award 1996 and Best of the Bestsellers 1998 and Pulitzer Prize Biography Category 1997.Book InformationISBN 9780684874357Author Frank...

'Absorbing . . . testaments such as Janina Bauman's are important and should never be allowed to fade away. The drama of Anne Frank is rightly always before us but the equally vital stories of those who suffered but survived need to be listened to with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984897695Author Jon KrakauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

'I took hold of the fence and pressed my face into the wire, asking myself what I had done to be made a prisoner?'On the Indonesian island of Java, eight-year-old Lise enjoys a happy childhood, thousands of miles away from the war raging in Europe. Then,...

Great explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possible. Valuable lessons are waiting to be learned from the feats attained by the most revered names in...