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Just in time for the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic, this graphic deluxe edition compiles firsthand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Lawrence Beesley, ... |
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The Captain's Extraordinary Account of How One of the World's Worst Air Disasters Was Averted
Author: Richard De Crespigny
In 2010, what began as a routine long-haul flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife-edge of becoming one of the world's worst ever air disaster. When a sudden mid-air explosion shattered engine no. 2 of the Qa ... |
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Stories from a Life Afloat
Author: Lindsay Wright
A salt-encrusted anthology of a writer in love with the sea, in the manner of Tessa Duder's bestselling sailing collections. The ideal gift for the sailor in the family, this book contains a selection of stories, and a n ... |
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Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle
Author: Marc Gonsalves & Tom Howes
On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors - Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell - crashed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they awoke covered in blood wi ... |
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Author: Anthony Hill
Young Bill is the true story of the suffering - and survival - of an underage prisoner-of-war during World War II. Bill Young, who is still alive, enlised in the army in July 1941 aged only 15, though he said he was 19. ... |
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A Nightmare Come True. A Mother's Courage. A Desperate Fight for Justice.
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Author: Ann Ming
In this incredible and moving memoir, a mother tells of her fight for justice to convict her daughter's murderer for a crime that he thought could never be punished. When her 22-year-old daughter, Julie, went missing in ... |
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Author: Henri Charriere
An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure on shark-infested seas. Condemned for a murder he did not commit, Henri ... |
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Author: Leigh Fondakowski
The saga of Jonestown didn't end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jungle. While only a handful of people present at the agricultural proje ... |
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Author: Tristan Jones
When Tristan Jones, who became one of the best known boat sailors and writers of our times, was discharged from the Navy, and told he was physically unfit for more seagoing, he got hold of a small craft, Creswell, which ... |
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One Town's Incredible Race to Save Two Abandoned Horses
Author: Birgit Stutz & Lawrence Scanlan
In December 2008, two abandoned pack horses, a young mare named Belle and an older gelding called Sundance, are spotted by snowmobilers in the remote mountains of the Canadian Rockies. Starving and exhausted, they've tra ... |
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The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade
Author: Sophie Hayes
He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at all...When everything seemed to be falling apart in Sophie's life, she was thankful for her friend Kas, who was always at the ... |
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Surviving a Foster Mother's Reign of Terror
Author: Christopher Spry
In April 2007, 62-year-old Eunice Spry was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the systematic wounding, cruelty and assault of the vulnerable children whose welfare had been entrusted to her. Her Gloucestershire home sho ... |
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Remembering the Long, Wet Summer of 2010-2011
Author: Matthew Condon
Fear, faith and hope are just three of the emotions felt by the people of Queensland during the long, wet summer of 2010-2011. The floods and cyclones of that wet season produced a natural disaster which will continue to ... |
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Magnificent Stories from Mighty Australians
Author: Sandy Thorne
Meet Ron Canlin, who one day began sculpting the sandstone walls of his opal mine. Ten years later, every drive and tunnel in Ron's claim is full of wonderful sculptures - the eighth wonder of the world. Or Peter Venable ... |
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Inside the Beaconsfield Mine Disaster
Author: Tony Wright, Todd Russell & Brant Webb
Bad Ground is the exclusive, authorised story of the 14-day entombment and rescue of Beaconsfield miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell and the fascinating aftermath. The blast and rock fall which occurred one kilometre und ... |
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32 Eye-witness Accounts of Adventure in the Antarctic
Author: Jon E. Lewis
This is the very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first ... |
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Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley, 10 January 2011
Author: Amanda Gearing
Of all the extraordinary stories to emerge from the catastrophic Queensland floods of January 2011, the most starkly tragic and dramatic were those that came out of Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley. An 'inland tsunami' h ... |
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Author: John Townsend
This is one of twelve new titles for 2002, from "Spirals", one of the most popular and successful series for reluctant readers. It features dynamic plots and storylines which encourage readers to pick them up again and a ... |
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Lauren Huxley and Her Family - from Tragedy to Triumph
Author: Lisa Davies
It was a shocking crime that made headlines around Australia. An innocent young woman, violently attacked in her family home by a total stranger and left to die. Beaten repeatedly and soaked with petrol as her home burne ... |
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Amazing Stories of Survival Against the Odds
Author: Rob Mundle
Hell on High Seas chronicles some of the most remarkable stories of survival and daring that the world's oceans have hosted over the past half century. Bizarre, unbelievable accounts of people who went missing and were g ... |
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