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"This is the story of things that should not happen to a person but sometimes do, and this time did." Come with Jackie, her mother, her family inside an intensive care unit where over four and a half months, and beyond, Jackie survived a major medical event, an emergency bilateral lung...

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.

What lengths would you go to to save a troubled little girl? A Sunday Times bestseller, Terrified is a deeply personal memoir from foster carer Angela Hart. It tells the emotionally devastating but ultimately uplifting true story of Vicky, a little girl who arrives on Angela's doorstep unwanted...

What happens when the little girl who needed saving grows up and realizes she has to become the woman who saves herself? I BECAME HER is a raw, deeply personal memoir of survival, loss, motherhood, HIV, and the long road back to self-worth. Jacklyn E Nusbaum takes readers through a childhood...

A dying warrior's last testament on the extraordinary power hidden in every human mind.They gave him two weeks. He gave them a legend.When terminal cancer returned to finish what it started, Bryan Silman, the grandfather who had already defeated death twice, did not go quietly. He sat down to...

Sie war Krankenschwester. In Deutschland nannten sie sie nur die Putzpolin. Als Ana mit einundvierzig in den Bus nach Westen steigt, hat sie einen Vertrag in der Tasche, ein Wörterbuch, das sie nicht brauchen wird, und eine Zahl im Kopf: wie viel sie schicken muss, damit das Dach hält, der...

For fans of Cheryl Strayed and Anthony Doerr, a lyrical adventure memoir tracing one woman’s Seven Summits quest while caring for her mother through ALS—a story of endurance, love, and the cost of coming home changed. “An incredible work of art.”—Alison Levine, New York Times...

The true story behind Season 3 of the TV series Tough Rides. After riding all the way around China and India, Ryan Pyle set out to explore the complexity and diversity of Brazil on a 14,000-kilometre, 60-day motorcycle circumnavigation of the country. The journey takes him from the beaches of...

"You'll help me kill Papa."Angel Cordero was ten years old when his brother asked. The pipe was already under the bed.Their father was a convicted murderer who drank and turned on the family. He beat their mother. He killed the animals his sons loved. He made fear so ordinary that two children...

A true story of a precious dog named Orelha, loved deeply into his last breath. As you read into this story, you will follow me and watch those who did such a horrible crime, abuse, murder, unimaginable things to a defenseless innocent animal of God. You will see Orelha stand and walk and try so...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Rules to Live By, New York Times bestselling author, National Geographic photographer, and Academy Award-winning filmmaker of Free Solo Jimmy Chin turns to ten icons who have helped him think more deeply about how we choose to live, how we endure, and, in...

The academic year must have been a difficult one as when the summer holidays arrived, secondary school teacher Andrew Sykes was happy to do as little as possible. Two years later, accompanied by his faithful companion Reggie (his bike) but only a rudimentary plan, Andrew set off for a trans-continental cycling adventure that would take him along the route of the Via Francigena and the Eurovelo 5 all the way from his home in southern England to Brindisi in the south of Italy.

En memoria de Rocky — un perrito inocente cuya vida fue arrebatada de la manera más cruel, justo frente a su dueña, sus pequeños hijos y todo un vecindario que miró, grabó y nunca olvidará. Este libro revela la verdad que muchos intentaron ocultar: la captura de Rocky, su tortura, su...

After three decades building a successful career in the music industry, Michael Rucker stepped away at sixty and began walking the Camino de Santiago.Under a Canopy of Grapes follows two pilgrimages across Spain and Portugal — and a longer journey through identity, recovery, grief, ambition...

Discover a life lived by instinct, curiosity, grit, and joy in Go Big: The Earnest Pursuit of Personal Growth by Kevin Ladd—a reflective, funny, and deeply human story about building a meaningful life one imperfect, audacious yes at a time. From a childhood in small-town Maine with a...

After having a heart attack at sixty-five, I decided to get fit because apparently my response to nearly dying was to make exhaustion a competitive sport. Eventually, I became fit enough—or mentally unstable enough—to compete in duathlons, bike fondos, and time-trial events.When I turned...

Life isn’t like a superhero movie. There isn’t a script, and while you don’t plan for bad things to happen, they happen anyway. Sometimes, they keep on happening without a break in the action, and if you look up in the sky, you may see a bird or a plane, but that’s it. In these times of...

On January 4th, 2004, the Mars rover Spirit landed on Mars. The first pictures sent back included the logo of a small company in Boulder, Colorado—Starsys Research—which had built 27 motors powering the rover and its instruments. Starsys was founded by Scott Tibbitts, an ex-ski bum/nuclear...

Reinhold Messner – der berühmteste Bergsteiger und Abenteurer unserer Zeit – und seine Frau Diane Messner schreiben in Lebenszeit übers Älterwerden und Jungsein, über Verlust und Glück, über große Expeditionen und die kleinen Abenteuer des Alltags. Entstanden ist ein Hörbuch über die Kostbarkeit unserer Lebenszeit – und darüber, wie man sie mit Offenheit, Mut und Neugier nutzen kann.

Secondary school teacher Andrew Sykes moves out of the classroom, climbs onto his bicycle and sets off along the route of the EuroVelo 8, from the southern tip of Greece to the Atlantic coast of Portugal. However, this is more than just a cycling tale of border crossings and big hills, as our would-be adventurer perspires his way through a hot and sticky mix of Mediterranean landscapes, life and culture. Join Andrew as he travels along the Med on a bike called Reggie: an inspirational and light-hearted travelogue for cyclists and non-cyclists alike.