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Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI by The RNLI
RRP: £14.99£9.53She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending a lifeboat out.' 'The RNLI?' I said, surprised. 'They do that?' ... -
Freedom by Sebastian Junger 9780008421816 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£4.07A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears witness to a hard-won and an uncertain new world, framed in vital and brilliant... -
Freedom by Sebastian Junger 9780008421816
RRP: £12.99£9.09A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears witness to a hard-won and an uncertain new world, framed in vital and brilliant... -
Cancer and Pisces: One man's story of his unique survival of cancer, interwoven with the joy and succour of fishing by Mick May
RRP: £14.99£9.36In 2013, Mick May was diagnosed with the fatal asbestos-linked cancer, mesothelioma, whose average medical life expectancy is 10 months. Seven years later he is flourishing, full of joie de vivre, with a long life-expectancy ahead of him. His case... -
The Chief Witness: escape from China's modern-day concentration camps by Sayragul Sauytbay
RRP: £16.99£11.58A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes - and the story of one woman's fight to survive. I will never forget the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me to do something for them. They are innocent. I have... -
A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer
RRP: £10.99£7.40The concluding volume of Dave Pelzer's million-copy bestselling memoir.'I don't blame others for my problems. I stand on my own. And one day, you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself.' These words were eighteen-year-old Dave Pelzer's declaration... -
Too Hurt to Stay: The True Story of a Troubled Boy's Desperate Search for a Loving Home by Casey Watson 9780007436620
RRP: £8.99£6.45The fourth title from Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Eight-year-old Spencer takes himself to social services and demands to be taken into care. It's a desperate act, a cry for help, but his parent's reaction - good riddance -... -
The Philosophy of an Explorer: 16 Life-lessons from Surviving the Extreme by Erling Kagge
RRP: £8.99£5.92'Erling Kagge transforms and consoles us' Alain de Botton ____________________________Surviving extreme conditions can teach us to lead a fulfilled life. No one knows this better than Erling Kagge, who was the first man in history to reach all of the... -
The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness by James Campbell
£11.28Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve out a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. In The Final Frontiersman, Heimo's cousin James Campbell chronicles Korth's amazing life and adventures, creating a... -
Naked and Marooned: One Man. One Island. One Epic Survival Story by Ed Stafford 9780753555057 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.30Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Stronger Together: How We're Living While Fighting by Anne Nolan
RRP: £16.99£11.27"It's okay to be scared, to feel lonely... we'll get through it, because we have to.''For more than 40 years Linda and Anne have performed side by side on stage as members of iconic Irish girl group The Nolans. But in 2020 the sisters sat next to each... -
Close to the Wind: An Extraordinary Story of Triumph Over Adversity by Pete Goss
RRP: £10.99£7.40Pete Goss became a national and international hero when he rescued French yachtsman Raphael Dinelli as his boat sank beneath him in the round-the-world single-handed sailing race, the Vendee Globe, on Christmas Day 1996. In doing so Pete scuppered his... -
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes
RRP: £12.99£8.56"A beautiful, wise book. It deals with the some of the grimmest aspects of human experience, but it is also one of the most genuinely up-lifting works I have read in years. Emma Brockes' superb, clear-eyed narration is an object lesson for any aspiring... -
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Collins Classics) by Olaudah Equiano 9780008619954
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. But is not the slave trade entirely a war with the heart of man? ... -
A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival by Judith Tebbutt
RRP: £10.99£7.32This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation and near-starvation at the hands of Somali... -
Mauled: Life's Lessons Learned from a Grizzly Bear Attack by Crosbie Cotton
RRP: £17.99£12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771604833Author Jeremy EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books -
Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education by Sola Mahfouz 9780857528803
RRP: £16.99£12.28'I began to grow up the day my mother warned me to stop laughing''Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future.' BILL GATESAt age eleven, Sola Mahfouz was told she... -
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
RRP: £14.99£9.80NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time' GUARDIAN 'Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still... -
Unwanted by Suz Evasdaughter 9781912624966
RRP: £7.99£7.11A true story of resilience, survival and achievement, and a heartbreaking tale of a father's complicity in his own family's disintegration.In Yorkshire in the 1950s, Suz Evasdaughter, aged just 5, is moved to a children's home with her brothers... -
A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar
RRP: £14.99£12.55'To read this book is to understand Afghanistan as it exists today. This haunting memoir traces the unimaginable odyssey of one family whose world has collapsed . . . Poetic, powerful, and unforgettable.' - Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and... -
Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby by Vera Brittain
RRP: £12.99£8.60WRITTEN WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARK BOSTRIDGE In her bestselling first volume of autobiography, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonising years of the First World War, lamenting the destruction of a generation which for... -
What Makes Us Stronger by Freya Lewis
RRP: £14.99£11.22The Manchester Arena attack nearly destroyed her. Love and courage saved her. Freya Lewis was just three metres away from the terrorist who detonated the bomb at the Manchester arena on the night of 22nd May 2017. Her best friend Nell was tragically... -
Undercover Jihadi Bride: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks by Anna Erelle 9780008139582
RRP: £9.99£6.64Previously published as 'In the Skin of a Jihadist' Twenty-year-old 'Melodie', a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an ISIS brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her every hour, urges her to marry... -
My Heroes: Extraordinary Courage, Exceptional People by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: £10.99£6.47In MY HEROES the 'world's greatest living explorer' (Guinness Book of Records), writes about the people who have inspired him - from explorers to policemen, families to freedom fighters. Wherever in the world Ranulph gives one of his lectures or... -
All My Mother's Secrets: A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn Apart by Beezy Marsh
RRP: £7.99£5.94THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Beautifully-penned story on the harshness of life and how hope survives' - Sun'Absorbing . . . Marsh writes with a novelistic flair' - Daily Mail From the grimy streets of Acton and Notting Hill to the bright lights of the... -
Ocean Crossing Wayfarer: To Iceland and Norway in a 16ft Open Dinghy by Frank Dye
RRP: £15.99£12.46This classic sea story recounts Frank Dye's intrepid voyages in his open 16ft Wayfarer dinghy to Iceland and Norway, which must rank among the most hazardous sea adventures of our time. Encountering the whole gamut of weather, such is Frank Dye's... -
The Dive: The untold story of the world's deepest submarine rescue by Stephen McGinty
RRP: £9.99£6.52The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13. They were out of their depth, out of breath, and out of time. It was 1973. Two men were trapped in a crippled submarine... -
Between the Devil and the Deep: One Man's Battle to Beat the Bends by Mark Cowan
RRP: £25.00£17.19'One of the best accounts ever written of deep-water diving and its staggering, haunting dangers' Robert Kurson, New York Times bestselling author of Shadow DiversDeep underwater lurks a mysterious man-made illness. It has gone by many names over the... -
Light in the Dark: The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust by Robert Marshall
RRP: £10.99£7.00An extraordinary true story of survival and courage through the Holocaust.Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews... -
The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler's War Machine by Oren Schneider 9789493276529
RRP: £16.95£10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493276529Author Oren SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm)... -
American Cops by James Patterson
RRP: £20.00£14.29For these men and women, it isn't just a job. It's a calling.PROTECTThey are our eyes. Our ears. Our protectors. Those who wear a badge, doing their best to help people.SERVEThese cops serve their communities. They serve their country. They're in the... -
A Mother's Courage: How I survived the Holocaust - a remarkable story of bravery, kindness and hope by Malka Levine 9781035025008
RRP: £20.00£13.10'A deeply humane memoir of immense power - there is nothing more affecting than a first-hand experience finely told' - PHILIPPE SANDS'A fabulous memoir . . . a testament to [Malka's] skill and determination' - DAME MAUREEN LIPMANA Mother's Courage is... -
The Girl and the Ghosts: The True Story of a Haunted Little Girl and the Foster Carer Who Rescued Her from the Past by Angela Hart
RRP: £7.99£5.94The Girl and the Ghosts is the third book from well-loved foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Angela Hart.'So, is it a girl or a boy, and how old?' Jonathan asked as soon as we were alone in the shop.My husband knew from the animated look on... -
I Had to Survive: How a plane crash in the Andes helped me to save lives by Dr. Roberto Canessa
RRP: £10.99£7.40On 12 October 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the 'Old Christians' rugby team (and many of their friends and family members) crashed into the Andes mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the... -
Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean by Brett Archibald 9781472139368
RRP: £10.99£7.40'That's what happened, I think, struggling to stay afloat as the ocean pummels me from all sides. I must have blacked out -- exhausted, dehydrated, even a little delirious -- and hit the water.And no one saw it happen.''When I heard Brett had fallen... -
The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui
RRP: £9.99£7.27'The Book Collectors of Daraya celebrates the political and therapeutic power of the written word . . . defiant and cautiously optimistic' Financial Times'[An] incredible chronicle . . . The book tells the kind of story that often gets buried beneath... -
Fly By Wire: The Geese, The Glide, The 'Miracle' on the Hudson by William Langewiesche
RRP: £12.99£9.09On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines. Over the next three minutes, the plane's pilot Chelsey "Sully"... -
Sweating the Metal: Flying under Fire. A Chinook Pilot's Blistering Account of Life, Death and Dust in Afghanistan by Alex Duncan
RRP: £10.99£7.40With bullets flying, wounded soldiers scream out in pain as the Chinook comes in to land in one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan. At the machine's controls is one man and if he doesn't stay calm then everyone could die. That man is Flt Lt Alex... -
Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought by Lily Bailey
RRP: £14.99£9.36'Extremely compelling' - THE GUARDIAN 'It's a fascinating read... Buy the book! Buy the book!' - JO GOOD, BBC RADIO LONDON 'Searing... funny, eloquent and honest' - PSYCHOLOGIES 'Remarkable... I hope this book finds a wide readership' - WASHINGTON... -
Burned Alive by Souad
RRP: £9.99£7.11When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her...