True tales of adventure and survival

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I escaped a Chinese internment camp / Fahmida Azim ; Anthony Del Col ; Josh Adams. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: microfiche ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : New Friday, a Lev Gleason imprint, [2023]Copyright date: copyright 2023
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Where the world ends / Geraldine McCaughrean. by
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Fiction ; Audience: Adolescent;
Publication details: New York : Flatiron Books, 2019
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The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder / David Grann. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Doubleday, 2023
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Adrift : seventy-six days lost at sea / Steven Callahan ; illustrations by the author. by
Edition: 1st Mariner Bks. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002
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The impossible first : from fire to ice--crossing Antarctica alone / Colin O'Brady. by
Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Scribner, 2021; �2020
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  • Impossible 1st
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Deadliest sea : the untold story behind the greatest rescue in Coast Guard history / Kalee Thompson. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York, NY : William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers, c2010
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Disguised : a teenage girl's survival in World War II Japanese prison camps / Rita la Fontaine de Clercq Zubli. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Middletown, Conn. : Southfarm Press, Publisher c2001
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Touching the void / Joe Simpson ; with a foreword by Chris Bonington. by
Edition: 1st Perennial ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [New York] : Perennial, 2004
Other title:
  • True story of one man's miraculous survival.
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Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption / Laura Hillenbrand. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House, c2010
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Man's search for meaning / Viktor E. Frankl ; part one translated by Ilse Lasch ; foreword by Harold S. Kushner ; afterword by William J. Winslade. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Language: English Original language: German
Publication details: Boston : Beacon Press, c2006
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Ring of fire : an Indonesian odyssey / Lawrence Blair with Lorne Blair. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Singapore : Editions Didier Millet, 2010
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Fatal voyage : the sinking of the USS Indianapolis / Dan Kurzman ; foreword by Harlan M. Twible. by
Edition: 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Broadway Books, 2001
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Helmet for my pillow : from Parris Island to the Pacific : a young Marine's stirring account of combat in World War II / Robert Leckie. by
Edition: Bantam Books trade pbk. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Bantam Books, 2010
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In harm's way : the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the extraordinary story of its survivors / Doug Stanton by
Edition: 1st ed
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : H. Holt, 2001
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Over the edge of the world : Magellan's terrifying circumnavigation of the globe / Laurence Bergreen by
Edition: 1st ed
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Morrow, c2003
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Undaunted courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West / [by] Stephen E. Ambrose. by
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Publication details: New York : Simon, 1996
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Lost in Shangri-la : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II / Mitchell Zuckoff. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : HarperCollins, c2011
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  • True story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II.
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Shadow divers : the true adventure of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the last mysteries of World War II / Robert Kurson. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House, c2004
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Ghost Soldiers./ The forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission. Hampton Sides. by Series:
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Material type: Text Text
Publication details: New York; Random House, Inc.; ; 2001
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Fatal Storm: the inside story of the tragic Sidney-Hobart Race./ Rob Mundle. by Series:
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Material type: Text Text
Publication details: New York: McGraw Hill: ; 1998
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