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Winner of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario's 2016 Young Authors Award Winner of the 2017 Louise de Kiriline Award for Nonfiction The age of exploration is not over. When Adam Shoalts ventured into the largest unexplored wilderness on the planet, he hoped to set foot where no one had ever gone...

The mind and body are often talked about as separate entities, but it’s only when they work in harmony with one another that one can truly push oneself to the highest heights. In his new book, Ant Middleton lays out and explains the principles that he lives by to best keep his mindset and body as strong as they can possibly be.

Aos 24 anos, Tamara Klink tornou-se a pessoa mais jovem do Brasil a cruzar o Atlântico sozinha. Nós descreve os triunfos e percalços dessa expedição. Em 2021, em plena pandemia, a navegadora Tamara Klink partiu da França com o objetivo de chegar até a costa brasileira pelo mar. Nessa...

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What if the biggest risk in life isn’t taking chances–but letting fear stop you from taking them at all? At twenty-one, Dean Klinkenberg was accepted into a study-abroad program in Grenoble, France—and backed out. The fear won. He spent one more winter in Wisconsin instead of a semester at the foot of the Alps, and he never forgot which one he'd chosen. Better Safe Than Sorry? is the story of the years since then when he's spent choosing differently.

When you are successful, it is easy to take your health for granted—until life suddenly changes direction and everything you once depended on begins to disappear. Broken in London is the true story of one man's journey from financial success to financial breakdown as chronic pain, depression and anxiety slowly change every part of his life.

Talking to the Tumor is a moving memoir about a daughter who faced her father’s terminal cancer diagnosis with open eyes and, through prayer, was led to AI, genetic research, and deeper faith to help him fight for more time. After a sudden fall leads to her father’s lung cancer diagnosis, Jennifer is thrust into a world of scans, treatment failures, medical jargon, and impossible decisions.

"Help! What Do I Do Now?" by Marilyn Fay Bennett, published in 1976, is a practical guide aimed at helping individuals navigate life’s confusing, unexpected moments. With a warm, down-to-earth tone, the book offers advice on everyday problems and practical solutions—from handling personal challenges to making quick decisions. It's a book that reflects the spirit of self-reliance in the 1970s, encouraging listeners to keep calm and find clarity when life throws curveballs.

At fifteen, doctors told him he wouldn't live to see twenty-five. He had nine more years of rock bottom left to find.This is not fiction.It is the true story of one man's twenty-six-year descent into addiction, crime, and self-destruction, and the extraordinary journey back.At fifteen, curiosity...

The surgeon left a 3mm needle tip inside him. Under oath, he called it "nothing but a "blur" on an MRI" You've trusted a doctor before. You'll trust one again. Andy Hageman did too right up until an operating table at the University of New Mexico Hospital changed his life forever.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Ninth Floor by Cristina M. Alexescu is a raw, honest, and unexpectedly funny memoir about survival, reinvention and finding yourself when life refuses to go according to plan. After leaving behind a difficult relationship in the UK, Cristina returns to...

I grew up in a big polygamist family, the 23rd of 46 children. My father had six wives and our very existence was a secret. We lived in the middle of Salt Lake City in a big white house on Fifth East, with neighbors to the north and south of us and yet we remained utterly hidden. Homeschooled and cut off rom the world, that secrecy was a breeding ground for abuse. While my father was gone to work during the day, his third wife, Mother Kay, sat at the head of the family, controlling the other mothers and abusing the children.

In Everyone Has a Story: The Inheritance, this powerful and deeply personal memoir takes listeners on an unforgettable journey through identity, resilience, and truth. From the discipline and structure of military life to the devastating reality of medical trauma, this story reveals what happens when trust is shattered and how strength is rebuilt in the aftermath. Through moments of pain, reflection, and courage, the author confronts not only personal battles but larger truths that affect countless others. This is more than a memoir. It’s a voice for the unheard. A stand against injustice.

Everyone knows about Sir Ernest Shackleton or Amelia Earhart, but there are many adventurers whose accomplishments rival those of the most celebrated explorers, yet most people have never heard of them. This new account tells the true but little-known stories of five men and four women who once made world headlines but have virtually disappeared from the historical record.

Some journeys begin with a single step. Theirs began with a click! Two middle-aged divorcees connect online, never expecting that a spontaneous getaway would set the course for a timeless love story spanning fifteen years and 63 national parks. What started as whimsy became a mission, one that carried them across mountains and deserts, forests and canyons, through laughter, tears, and every shade of life in between.

The Darkness My Father Brought: A Memoir of Silence, Betrayal and Reclaiming Joy traces one woman’s journey from a life of childhood sexual trauma to a life restored. She did this by being brave enough to remember the pain of her past and then reshaping that into a new life of hope and joy. For years, Cathy Beck kept “those kinds of things—the things you don’t talk about”—buried beneath the façade of a “normal” childhood. Raised in what appeared to be a happy family in the 1950s and ’60s, Cathy lived with secrets and a fear no child should have to carry. But secrets do not disappear.

Was passiert, wenn ein Engländer, ausgestattet mit einer großen Portion britischen Humors, sein Herz und die Zügel in die Hand nimmt und sich mit einem französischen Esel auf heiliges spanisches Terrain begibt? Genau, der Esel ist störrisch, der Weg nach Santiago de Compostela lang, und Tim Moore findet in seinem Pilgerführer aus dem 12. Jahrhundert auch nicht immer die passenden Tipps. Dafür findet er etwas anderes: den Weg in sein eigenes Herz.

Meet Lata Kare, The 67-Year-Old Grandmother Who Runs Marathons Wearing A...

The definitive book on Sandy Irvine and the mystery of his and Mallory’s disappearance on Everest in June 1924. The fate of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, who were last seen disappearing into the clouds as they headed for the summit of Mount Everest on 8 June 1924, still grips the...

'A brilliant, original read' - Daily Mail 'Totally absorbing, this is a story that will keep you gripped' - Janice Hadlow, author of The Other Bennet Sister The case is unexceptional, that is what I know. A house full of stuff left behind by a dead woman, abandoned at the last . . . When trauma...