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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Indiana

Struggling to live a normal life a decade after escaping her kidnappers, Reeve LeClaire agrees to help her therapist throughout the rehabilitation of another rescued abductee only to discover that the girl is still being pursued by a ruthless predator.

The Edge of Normal

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#nonfiction #hardcover #intense #gripping #survivor ##lucky

South Carolina

The timeless, fearless, #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from the author of The Lovely Bones—a powerful account of her sexual assault at the age of eighteen and the harrowing trial that followed. In a memoir hailed for its searing candor, as well as its wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What ultimately propels this chronicle of sexual assault and its aftermath is Sebold’s indomitable spirit, as she fights to secure her rapist’s arrest and conviction and comes to terms with a relationship to the world that has forever changed. With over a million copies in print, Lucky has touched the lives of a generation of readers. Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims and imparts a wisdom profoundly hard-won: “You save yourself or you remain unsaved,” and her story remains as urgent as it was when it was first published more than twenty years ago.

Lucky

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#hardcover #nonfiction #memoir #truecrime #kidnapping #survivor 

Michigan

A Memoir

The woman abducted at age 11 by a man and woman who subsequently held her hostage and sexually abused her for 18 years discusses her life.

A Stolen Life

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i highly recommend this book, im even reading the second book because it truly moved me that much. this is one of the scariest kidnapping survivors stories ever, so sad, i couldn’t put this book down. book jacket is in “excellent” condition but the actual book is in brand new condition! #hardcover #autobiography #nonfiction #memoir #biography #kidnapping #popular #survivor #recommend #kidnap

Illinois

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

From international bestseller Stephen King, a high-concept, ingenious and terrifying story about the mayhem unleashed when a pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into homicidal maniacs. There’s a reason cell rhymes with hell. On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. He’s just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable him to support his family by making art instead of teaching it. He’s already picked up a small (but expensive!) gift for his long-suffering wife, and he knows just what he’ll get for his boy Johnny. Why not a little treat for himself? Clay’s feeling good about the future. That changes in a hurry. The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone’s cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization’s darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...and then begins to evolve. There’s really no escaping this nightmare. But for Clay, an arrow points home to Maine, and as he and his fellow refugees make their harrowing journey north they begin to see crude signs confirming their direction. A promise, perhaps. Or a threat... There are 193 million cell phones in the United States alone. Who doesn’t have one? Stephen King’s utterly gripping, gory, and fascinating novel doesn’t just ask the question “Can you hear me now?” It answers it with a vengeance.

Cell

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Utah

small handwriting on first page of the book. slight cuts (all pictured above) #hardcover #afterthecrash #michaelbussi #novel #popular #neverread #prixmaisondelapresse #planecrash #survivor #mystery 

A Novel

"Wonderfully ingenious and altogether satisfying."---Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

Just after midnight on December 23, 1980, a night flight bound for Paris plummets toward the Swiss Alps, crashing into a snowy mountainside. Within seconds flames engulf the plane, which is filled with holiday travelers. Of the 169 passengers, all but one perish.

The sole survivor is a three-month-old girl--thrown from the airliner before fire consumes the cabin. But two infants were on board. Is "the Miracle Child of Mont Terri" Lyse-Rose or Emilie? The families of both girls step forward to claim the child. Dogged by bad luck, the Vitrals live a simple life, selling snacks from a van on the beaches of northern France. In contrast, the de Carvilles, who amassed a fortune in the oil business, are powerful-and dangerous.

Eighteen years later, a private detective tasked with solving the mystery of the girl known as "Lylie" is on the verge of giving up. As he contemplates taking his own life, Crédule Grand-Duc suddenly discovers a secret hidden in plain view. Will he live to tell it?

Meanwhile, Lylie, now a beautiful university student, entrusts a secret notebook into the hands of Marc, the brooding young man who loves her, and then vanishes. After Marc reads the notebook's contents, he embarks on a frantic search for Lylie.

But he is not the only one looking for her.

After the Crash

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#paperback #grandmother #holocaust #survivor #bonding #strength #friendship

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Missing Girls

#hardcover #forgiveness #crime #survivor #deadmanwalking #abducted #nonfiction #debbiemorris 

Kansas

Only One Woman Can Tell the Entire Story

Details the personal struggle of Debbie Morris, a victim of kidnapping, rape, torture, and attempted murder, and her journey towards forgiveness of her abductor, Robert Willie.

Forgiving the Dead Man Walking

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#paperback #genocide #faith #forgiveness #running #runner #memoir #survivor #africa

California

A Runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness





Gilbert Tuhabonye is a survivor. More than ten years ago, he lay buried under a pile of burning bodies. The centuries-old battle between Hutu and Tutsi tribes had come to Gilbert's school. Fueled by hatred, the Hutus forced more than a hundred Tutsi children and teachers into a small room and used machetes to beat most of them to death. The unfortunate ones who survived the beating were doused with gasoline and set on fire. After hiding under burning bodies for over eight hours, Gilbert heard a voice inside saying, "You will be all right; you will survive." He knows it was God speaking to him. Gilbert was the lone survivor of the genocide, and thanks his enduring faith in God for his survival.

Today, having forgiven his enemies and moved forward with his life, he is a world-class athlete, running coach and celebrity in his new hometown of Austin, Texas. The road to this point has been a tough one, but Gilbert uses his survival instincts to spur him on to the goal of qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Summer Games. THIS VOICE IN MY HEART will portray not only the horrific event itself, but will be a catalyst for people to understand real forgiveness and the gift of faith in God.

This Voice in My Heart

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Virginia

The author describes his twenty month ordeal in the Nazi death camp.

Survival in Auschwitz

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#paperback #novel #henryVIII #CatherinePaar #clever #Tudor #survivor

Minnesota

Courageous, romantic, intelligent: Catherine Parr became the sixth wife of Henry VIII and her story, as Carolly Erickson recreates it, is riveting drama

The Last Wife of Henry VIII

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#paperback #johnson #survivor #avalanche #middle grades

New York

A high-stakes adventure series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and Hatchet. Twelve-year-old twins Ashley and Ryan are skiing with their parents in Wyoming's Grand Teton Mountains where there is a ground-shaking rumble. Unstable snow rushes downhill and buries them in icy white. It will take all of their knowledge and grit to survive.

     With seventeen years of hands-on experience and training in remote areas, survival expert Terry Lynn Johnson (Ice Dogs; Sled Dog School) creates on-the-edge-of-your-seat storytelling featuring the real skills that kids need to survive a disaster. This page-turner with illustrations includes survival tips from the National Avalanche Center and U.S. Forest Service. You could have a better chance of surviving a real-life avalanche after reading this book!

     Stay calm. Stay smart. Survive. 

Avalanche!

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Louisiana

After her renowned plastic surgeon husband is accused of murder, expectant mother Jane Killian, in an attempt to prove his innocence, discovers that this brutal crime is linked to an accident that left her near death seventeen years ago. Reprint.

See Jane Die

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#hardcover #nonfiction #truecrime #survivor #memoir #cleveland #kidnapping

Ohio

A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: a Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

Michelle Knight, the first of the three women abducted by notorious Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro, recounts the full story of her years in captivity, her escape, and the powerful inner strength and capacity for hope that has helped her rebuild her life.

Finding Me

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#hardcover #fiction #scientology #surviving #survivor 

Vermont

Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

"The outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality television star offers up a no-holds-barred memoir, including an ... insider account of her tumultuous and heart-wrenching thirty-year-plus association with the Church of Scientology"--Dust jacket flap.

Troublemaker

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#christianbook #elizabethsmart #nonfiction #survivor #hardcover 

Oregon

Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up

In her fearless memoir, My Story, Elizabeth Smart related, for the first time, the horrific experiences she went through as a fourteen-year-old girl, when she was abducted from her home and held captive for nine months. Since then, she's travelled the world as the president of the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, sharing her story in the hopes of helping others along the way.Over and over, Elizabeth hears the same question from women who've gone through horrible experiences: How do you find the hope to go on? In this powerful book, she seeks out others who have overcome adversity to help find the answers. Through conversations with victims of violence, disease, war, and the loss of loved ones, Elizabeth explores the meaning and power of hope to heal our lives.Through discussions with well-known figures like Anne Romney and Diane Von Furstenburg, spiritual leaders like Archbishop John C. Wester and Elder Richard Hinckley, and her own parents, Ed and Lois Smart, Elizabeth gives readers the tools they need to take control and embrace life.

Where There's Hope

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Jennifer Stympler has nothing left to lose. The love of her life has asked her to move out, her mother is dead after a senseless car accident and her father is building a new family with no room in it for her. So she takes a bottle of tequila to the beach, mixes with Xanax and waits for an oblivion that never comes. Even her suicide is a failure. In her grandmother's care, Jenny learns to trust and hope again, inspired by the older woman's tales of tragedy and heroism during the Nazi occupation of Poland.

All That Matters

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#paperback #romance #fiction #military #survivor #amnesia #regret #secondChances #mayaBanks #theDarkestHour A KGI Novel. Steamy read about a military family that loses one of their own & gets her back. 

When he receives a note indicating that his wife Rachel, who he thought was dead, is alive and in trouble, ex-Navy SEAL Ethan Kelly sets off on a dangerous mission to rescue her, braving a jungle and a deadly drug cartel.

The Darkest Hour

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Nevada

In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit-as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes"); as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction. In a narrative by turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: "You save yourself or you remain unsaved."

My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*



WITH A FOREWORD BY SIR BEN KINGSLEY



A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz.



"I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and a half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf."



Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp, while her father was transported to Dachau.



During six months of incarceration in Birkenau, Tova witnessed atrocities that she could never forget, and experienced numerous escapes from death. She is one of a handful of Jews to have entered a gas chamber and lived to tell the tale.



As Nazi killing squads roamed Birkenau before abandoning the camp in January 1945, Tova and her mother hid among corpses. After being liberated by the Russians they made their way back to their hometown in Poland. Eventually Tova's father tracked them down and the family was reunited.



In The Daughter of Auschwitz, Tova immortalizes what she saw, to keep the story of the Holocaust alive, at a time when it's in danger of fading from memory. She has used those memories that have shaped her life to honour the victims. Written with award-winning former war reporter Malcolm Brabant, this is an extremely important book. Brabant's meticulous research has helped Tova recall her experiences in searing detail. Together they have painstakingly recreated Tova's extraordinary story about the world's worst ever crime.

The Daughter of Auschwitz

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Florida

Robbie's last-minute flight to the Midway Atoll proves to be a nightmare when the plane goes down in shark-infested waters, but the real terror begins when the co-pilot Max pulls her onto the raft.

The Raft

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This book tells the story of Grace, a young girl who grew up in a very conservative and restricting house. She leaves home in the middle of the night and lives with her aunt where she adapts to this “new” life. Grace has to deal with being different and wearing “weird” clothes, but she makes friends along the way and finds herself becoming attached to Jackson, the popular boy. #paperback #comingofage #fiction #freedom #physicalabuse #survivor #iamfree

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

I belong. I am me. Don't judge. Just see. Let me live. Don't hold me back. I'm not fragile. I won't crack. Just because, You think you know. You've cast me out. And kept me low. Please don't hurt me. Let me be. For the first time, I am free... A standalone novel about one girl's fight for freedom and one boy's chance to stand out.

I Am Free

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Georgia

"I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison." At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect.

Carla Norton

The Edge of Normal

Alice Sebold

Lucky

Jaycee Dugard

A Stolen Life

Jaycee Dugard

A Stolen Life

Stephen King

Cell

Jaycee Dugard

A Stolen Life

Michel Bussi

After the Crash

Lois Metzger

Missing Girls

Debbie Morris; Gregg Lewis

Forgiving the Dead Man Walking

Gilbert Tuhabonye; Gary Brozek

This Voice in My Heart

Primo Levi

Survival in Auschwitz

Carolly Erickson

The Last Wife of Henry VIII

Terry Lynn Johnson; Jani Orban (Illustrator)

Avalanche!

Erica Spindler

See Jane Die

Michelle Knight; Michelle Burford (As told to)

Finding Me

Leah Remini; Rebecca Paley

Troublemaker

Elizabeth Smart

Where There's Hope

Jan Goldstein

All That Matters

Maya Banks

The Darkest Hour

Alice Sebold

Lucky

Tova Friedman; Malcolm Brabant; Ben Kingsley (Foreword by)

The Daughter of Auschwitz

S. A. Bodeen

The Raft

Regina Bartley

I Am Free

Lucy Grealy

Autobiography of a Face