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  • Wavewalker (Hardback)
    Suzanne Heywood
    'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten y...
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  • README.txt (Hardback)
    Chelsea Manning
    In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analy...
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  • Salamati (Hardback)
    Hamed Allahyari, Dani Valent
    A heartwarming story of resilience, homesickness and good...
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  • Jaco Van Gass
    Jaco van Gass was 23 when he was hit by a grenade in Afgh...
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  • Endurance (Hardback)
    Levison Wood
    An anthology of the best writing on endurance, survival, ...
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  • Snow Widows (Hardback)
    Katherine MacInnes
    'An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry ...
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  • North to Paradise (Hardback)
    Ousman Umar, Kevin Gerry ...
    Ousman Umar is a shaman's son born in a small village in ...
  • Nick Wallis
    This is the story of how hundreds of innocent subpostmast...
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  • Life Lessons From the Amazon (Paperback / softback)
    Pip Stewart
    With the help of guides from the Wai Wai indigenous commu...
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  • Lily's Promise (Hardback)
    Lily Ebert, Dov Forman
    The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz...
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  • The Long Silence (Hardback)
    Paul Stickler
    Valerie Storie, the survivor of the infamous A6 Murder, w...
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  • Adventureman: Running America (Paperback / softback)
    Jamie McDonald
    Jamie McDonald embarks on his greatest adventure yet: run...
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  • X Troop (Hardback)
    Leah Garrett
    'Gripping...
  • SAS: Sea King Down (Hardback)
    Mark Aston, Stuart Tootal
    'BRILLIANT.
  • The Book of Hope (Hardback)
    Jonny Benjamin, Britt Pfl...
    A life-affirming and diverse anthology compiled by activi...
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  • Limitless (Paperback / softback)
    Mimi Anderson, Lucy Waterlow
    At the age of 55, record-breaking ultrarunner Mimi wanted...
  • Worth (Paperback / softback)
    Bharti Dhir
    As a baby, Bharti Dhir was abandoned at a roadside in the...
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  • Becoming Bulletproof (Paperback / softback)
    Evy Poumpouras
    Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and ...
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