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They fled through shadows, their hearts heavy with unspoken fears. Three sisters—bound by blood and an unyielding love—forced to abandon their once vibrant lives in Saigon as North Vietnam’s relentless advance shattered everything they knew. What had once been jasminescented evenings, and laughter became a landscape of smoke, chaos, and survival. Their escape through warravaged Cambodia was a journey carved from terror and fragile hope. Under a watchful sky, they dodged patrols, scavenged for scraps, and moved in silence as the rumble of artillery swallowed their whispers.

Im August 1897 bricht der belgische Kommandant Adrien de Gerlache auf, um die Antarktis zu erobern. Bereits auf dem Weg gen Süden gibt es zahlreiche Rückschläge: Stürme, Beinahe-Meutereien, Strandungen. Als der nach Ruhm strebende de Gerlache schließlich vor der Wahl steht, geschlagen nach Hause zurückzukehren oder kurz vor Wintereinbruch tiefer ins Eis zu fahren, entscheidet er sich für Letzteres – mit fatalen Folgen. Die Belgica bleibt im Packeis stecken.

In seinem neuen Abenteuer erklimmt er die Säulen des Meeres, von der Felsnadel im französischen Étretat bis zum Totem Pole in Tasmanien, von den Färöer-Inseln bis zum Kap Hoorn begibt er sich auf eine Reise um die Welt, um jene Felspfeiler zu besteigen, die wie steinerne Mahnmale vor den Küsten in den Himmel ragen. An den Schnittpunkten von Meer, Wind, Sonne und Stille sucht Tesson nicht nur die Herausforderung des Aufstiegs zu entlegenen, vom Menschen unberührten Orten.

Lucie Azema livre un témoignage rare et précieux sur le quotidien en Iran, ses luttes, espoirs et traditions – loin des clichés et des regards occidentaux. Grâce à son expérience de vie à Téhéran, elle éclaire la richesse, la complexité et les paradoxes d’un pays souvent...

Brought to you by Penguin. Guy’s been pushing himself to the outer limits, as usual. There's no medals, no big ceremony at the end of it all. He's just driven by putting himself through the misery. And coming out smiling. In search of suffering, Guy went to Colombia for the TV job, where he...

When life threatens to collapse, you can still choose your comeback. For most of my life, I’ve dealt in chaos. I was a retail turnaround specialist, and I knew how to bring order to the mayhem and fix anything that was broken. Except, as it turned out, my own sense of invincibility. For years, I lived with the quiet knowledge that cancer ran in my family like an inherited storm—my sister, my mother, and my grandmother were taken by the disease. I spent a decade fortifying my body and hoping against all odds that I wouldn’t have to battle the tempest.

"I changed the details to save my skin. I kept the truth to save yours." From the outside, Danielle Hart had it all: the successful career, the handsome husband, the beautiful children, and the home on the ocean. They were the couple everyone envied—the 7 Habits of Highly Successful People come to life. But behind the filtered photos and the dinner parties, a rot was spreading.

Bei meinem Buch geht es um das hautnahe Erleben eines Terroranschlags in einem Restaurant. Meine Flugbegleiter-Kollegen und ich sind gerade beim gemütlichen Abendessen in einem indischen Restaurant in Bombay. Plötzlich fallen Schüsse. In höchster Anspannung liegen wir unter einem Tisch verschanzt und müssen von dort alles mit anschauen: "...

He had a physical condition he believed would disqualify him. He grew up amid what he calls “the family burning flames of alcohol.” And the airline cockpit he dreamed of seemed impossibly far away. None of it changed the one thing Russ Roberts knew from childhood: he would be a pilot. In this candid memoir, Roberts tells how a boy’s steadfast love of airplanes carried him through a turbulent childhood and eventually taught him to chart his own course.

Looking out across the rooftops of Hamilton City to the distant Kaimai Ranges and Maungatautari Mountain on New Year's Day 2017, Campbell Forlong had no idea that instead of just ticking off these two running challenges from his bucket list, something bigger was about to happen in his 52nd year. After he'd completed three random marathon runs on consecutive weekends, his brother Paul phoned. "I see you've run three marathons in three weeks–you planning to run 52 marathons in 52 weeks?" he asked, half joking. It was all the invitation Campbell needed.

What Would You Do with a Yellow Envelope? In this captivating memoir, Kim Dinan takes readers on an extraordinary expedition that all began with a mysterious gift: a simple yellow envelope containing three life-altering rules. Fueling her with curiosity and courage, Kim and her partner set out...

In 2012, Jason Millsaps, a worship pastor and father of two, could barely swim 37 yards without gasping for air. Thirteen years later, he stood on the starting line of the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, one of the most demanding endurance events on earth. From 37 Yards to Kona is the raw, honest story of transformation from energy drink addiction and rock-bottom fitness to becoming a 16-time IRONMAN finisher, including the World Championship.

Dopo aver ispirato i celebri film "Alive. Sopravvissuti" e "La società della neve", la storia vera di quella drammatica odissea viene finalmente raccontata in prima persona da Eduardo Strauch Urioste, uno dei sedici sopravvissuti al disastro aereo del 1972. Un velivolo con a bordo quarantacinque persone precipita nel cuore selvaggio della Cordigliera delle Ande. Inizia così una lotta estrema per la sopravvivenza: settantadue giorni su un ghiacciaio a quasi quattromila metri, senza cibo né riparo, tra valanghe, freddo implacabile e scelte indicibili come nutrirsi dei cadaveri dei compagni.

You can survive something and still not know how to live afterward. Hurting Before Healing explores the fragile space between surviving trauma and learning how to heal. As Cassidy faces grief, addiction, identity, and the ghost of a love she can’t replace, she begins to realize that healing isn’t about forgetting the past. It’s about learning how to carry it—and choosing to stay.

In After the Storms: From Red Dirt to Redemption, S.E. Cunningham provides a powerful memoir of resilience, tracing his journey from a childhood of poverty and family struggle in Oklahoma to his experiences as a 19D Cavalry Scout and law enforcement officer. As the youngest of eight children, Cunningham describes himself as the "caboose" of a family shaped by his mother’s unshakable faith and his father’s battle with alcoholism. A central, formative event in the book is the 1979 Lawton tornado, which leveled his family home and taught him the "weight of loss".

What happens when the heart stops beating? What is death? In this gripping, true story Kevin Mohatt describes his death—and how returning to life forever changed the meaning of fear, faith, and purpose. Written with raw honesty and vivid detail, it explores the moment of leaving the body and his encounter with divine presence. What was seen there challenges everything we think we know about death. Filled with indescribable peace, brilliant light, and a love beyond human language, this near-death experience offers profound insight into the soul’s survival and the purpose of life on Earth.

On September 11, 1984, five young American sailors were seized at gunpoint by the Soviet Union in the north Bering Sea and taken captive to Siberia. This is the story of what happened. The audiobook is two stories in one: Alaskan high seas adventure combined with the Christian testimony of five young American sailors who take a stand for their faith amidst intense interrogation by high-ranking officers in the Soviet military.

What if burnout is not a breaking point, but a signal? In Drained to Driven, John C. Morley shares a powerful and personal journey from exhaustion and overextension to clarity, control, and intentional living. After pushing himself to keep going through stress, responsibility, and constant demands, a life-altering injury forced him to stop and reevaluate everything.

In this graphic and yet surprisingly funny account of her and others’ extraordinary careers, Lankford unveils a world in which park rangers struggle to maintain their idealism in the face of death, disillusionment, and the loss of a comrade killed while holding that thin green line between protecting the park from the people, the people from the park, and the people from each other. Ranger Confidential is the story behind the scenery of the nation’s crown jewels—Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Great Smokies, Denali.

Lydia a tout juste 4 ans lorsqu'elle découvre pour la première fois la secte de Raël. C'est sa mère, fervente adepte, qui l'a embarquée avec elle dans ce qui va devenir la vie de la fillette pour les vingt années suivantes. Pour Lydia c'est la descente aux enfers : alors qu'elle n'a que 13 ans, l'un des responsables de la secte la viole en lui disant qu'il la prépare pour Raël lui-même. Un peu plus tard, elle devient la « préférée » du gourou. Elle sera son esclave qui le sert, fait le ménage et se soumet sexuellement à toutes ses volontés.