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Claire wasn’t looking for a different life. She already had one. Then a ticket showed up in her inbox. What followed wasn’t a plan. It wasn’t a fantasy. It was movement. Fast. Reckless. Undeniable. Las Vegas. Europe. A connection she couldn’t explain and couldn’t control. A life waiting back home. A choice she didn’t plan to make. This is not a story about what it all meant. It’s about what it felt like to live it. Just the moments as they happened,before the meaning settled. Based on a true story too wild to be fiction. The gamble wasn’t Vegas. It was him.

In 4 Wochen vom südlichsten Punkt bis hoch über den Polarkreis und weiter auf Vesteralen und Lofoten – das ist die Route von Guidos Radreise im Abenteuer NORWEGEN. Mit allen Winden und Wettern konfrontiert, erlebt er Norwegen im wahrsten Sinne hautnah. Guido überwindet Passtraßen und wird mit einzigartigen Bildern belohnt, er sitzt mit einer Familie eine helle Nacht zusammen am Fjord und beginnt, das Land zu verstehen.

From the moment he ran away from school before his 13th birthday, Frank Hurley carved a path as one of the greatest adventurers of all time. A visionary photographer and filmmaker, Hurley journeyed to the farthest corners of the earth, capturing images of people and places few had ever seen. Time and again he risked his life, in both peace and war, to take pictures that would astonish the world. Hurley traversed every continent. He made five perilous expeditions to Antarctica, sharing a hut with Douglas Mawson and a tent with Ernest Shackleton.

From the moment he ran away from school before his 13th birthday, Frank Hurley carved a path as one of the greatest adventurers of all time. A visionary photographer and filmmaker, Hurley journeyed to the farthest corners of the earth, capturing images of people and places few had ever seen. Time and again he risked his life, in both peace and war, to take pictures that would astonish the world. Hurley traversed every continent. He made five perilous expeditions to Antarctica, sharing a hut with Douglas Mawson and a tent with Ernest Shackleton.

"I felt like killing myself." That's the sentence Paula Axelrod couldn't say out loud, until a poster taped to a dormitory wall gave her somewhere to go. What followed was twenty years of therapy spent unpacking a childhood ruled by an alcoholic father, a mother's own eating disorder, and a family that made love feel dangerous. It's the story of a miscarriage, a lost sense of self, and the slow, unglamorous work of finding her way back, through psychoanalysis, through painting, and eventually into a forty-year marriage and a son adopted from Romania. This isn't a polished self help book.

Forget “How much money do you have?” Ask “What kind of life are you living?” You want more. You dream of accomplishments that mean far more to you than mere money in the bank—but aren’t sure where to start. Start here. Instead of chasing wealth as a measurement of success, Mike...

A tale as compelling as the search for Atlantis, Shangri La, and King Solomon’s Mines—the untold story of our obsession with finding Antarctica, including the people and riches we expected to find, and the explorers who risked their lives to conquer it. An idea so seductive that it gripped...

In 3 Wochen von Flensburg über die Inseln nach Kopenhagen, über Malmö und den südlichsten Punkt die schwedische Küste hinauf nach Stockholm und weiter bis Umeå. Mit der Fähre über den Bottnischen Meerbusen nach Vaasa und dann die Küste wieder hinunter bis zum Ziel Helsinki – das ist die Route von Guidos Radreise im Abenteuer SKANDINAVIEN. Dabei kommt er auf 120 Kilometer am Tag und wird durch einen heftigen Sturz auch im wahrsten Sinne hautnah berührt.

The inspiring and uplifting memoir of Bondi hero Ahmed Al Ahmed, a story of humanity, hope and courage. Includes an Author's Note read poignantly by the author, Ahmed Al Ahmed. On a typical Sydney summer afternoon, families gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the Jewish Festival of Lights...

In July of 1993 a particularly heavy monsoon drenched the foothills of the Himalayas, and extended even into the ‘rainshadow’ – the area beyond the lush hills and into the drier mountains. Roads collapsed into rivers, new lakes formed behind landslides, and people generally got wet! A little band of motor-bikers rode up into that weather and that wild country, and met with delays, discomforts, and… well... relationship troubles! This is the diary of the girlfriend of the ‘leader of the pack’, as she suffers, and bounces on the bike, and gasps for air at high altitudes...

What happens after everything ends? On a heavy Chicago afternoon in June, with the world locked away by COVID quarantines, Gunnar Branson stood alone outside a garage. He watched his wife, college-aged daughter, and two cats drive away. A thirty-year marriage ended as he stood in the alley. Dark thunderheads loomed overhead, alternating with bursts of hot sun. A light breeze fluttered the linden tree. Story over. But maybe not. There are answers to be found in the past. This is the story of a boy growing up in Alaska and an older man waking up to the best part of his life.

Khachadoorian is a compelling travel memoir and personal transformation story. During his senior year of high school, David loses his father then nearly his own life to a blood disease. Initially weighing nearly 400 pounds, but determined to claim his life, he embarks on a bicycle tour across Europe after high school graduation, that turns into so much more.

The Other Side of Perfect is a raw, inspiring memoir about confronting the darkness we never asked for—and finding the courage to break free and rewrite our own story. The perfect life. The perfect marriage. The perfect illusion. Venus Morris Griffin seemed to be living a fairy tale: married...

The inaugural winner of Alone Australia, Gina Chick tells the story of her extraordinary, indomitable life in one of the most powerful and moving memoirs you'll ever read. WINNER OF THE MATT RICHELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 INDIE BOOK AWARDS, BIOGRAPHY OF...

A jagged and luminous survivor's account and a defiant celebration of imperfection, Broken Girl is a powerful and poetic work of staggering loss and betrayal, love, and rage. Caroline Laner Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed. A year later, following...

One of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her familys imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope. "A deeply moving memoir, beautifully written and researched." Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2025 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST FOR THE 2026 BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK COMPETITION Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail CBC Spotify The Hill Times In this debut memoir from the bestselling author of...

“Sobering, unforgettable reading. This is a standout of its kind.” – Publishers Weekly “A riv­et­ing, deeply mov­ing mem­oir. The writ­ing is descrip­tive and dra­mat­ic, pre­serv­ing Lewkowicz’s deep emo­tions.” – Jewish Book Council This is the remarkable story of...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New Yorker The Globe and Mail The Guardian Winnipeg Free Press NPR Slate ...

True stories of death and desperation One survivor chooses loneliness. One chooses exile. One chooses oblivion. Some have violent tendencies, ruining lives indiscriminately. Some seal their own fate in slow motion; others do so in the blink of an eye. In The Survivors, award-winning true-crime...