Michael Punke

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

A Novel of Revenge

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass

The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier. Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.

The Revenant

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Usborne Books

True Stories of Survival

#hardcover #believable #drama #deformity #exploitation #survival #civilwar #conjoined-twins

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

An intriguing fictional biography of Chang and Eng, the first Siamese twins in recorded history, describes how these two men transcended their physical abnormality to live lives of remarkable grace, suffering, and love. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.

God's Fool

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Michigan

NUM8ERS & 1NF1N1TY Series (Books 1&3) 

Gavin De Becker

True fear is a gift. Unwarranted fear is a curse. Learn how to tell the difference.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

Explains how to use the power of intuition to identify and avoid danger, and shares advice on restraining orders and self-defense tactics

The Gift of Fear

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Just a tear in the corner and small tears not too bad but a wonderful book for reading on personal time. Great arthor and great vivid stories of the Ol West.

California

Milo Talon knew the land, and the good men from the bad. He had ridden the Outlaw Trail and could find out things others couldn't, and that's why a rich man named Jefferson Henry hired Milo to hunt down a missing girl. But from the moment Milo began his search he knew something wasn't right. Three people had already died, an innocent woman was on the run, and a once sleepy town was getting crowded with killers and hired guns. Suddenly Milo Talon realized that there were still things he had to learn--to beat out a breed who kept secrets, told lies, and forced an honest man to learn the truth behind the barrel of a gun. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Milo Talon

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Rebecca Deng

Ginger Kolbaba

Many stories have been told about the famous Lost Boys, but now for the first time, a Lost Girl shares her hauntingly beautiful and inspiring story. One of the first unaccompanied refugee children to enter the United States in 2000, after South Sudan's second civil war took the lives of most of her family, Rebecca's story begins in the late 1980s when, at the age of four, her village was attacked and she had to escape. WHAT THEY MEANT FOR EVIL is the account of that unimaginable journey. With the candor and purity of a child, Rebecca recalls how she endured fleeing from gunfire, suffering through hunger and strength-sapping illnesses, dodging life-threatening predators-lions, snakes, crocodiles, and soldiers alike-that dogged her footsteps, and grappling with a war that stole her childhood. Her story is a lyrical, captivating portrait of a child hurled into wartime, and how through divine intervention, she came to America and found a new life full of joy, hope, and redemption.

What They Meant for Evil (Signed) How a Lost Girl of Sudan Found Healing, Peace, and Purpose in the Midst of Suffering

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Excellent condition no highlights or folded pages.  

A guide for urban, suburban , rural and wilderness environments 

How To Survive Anywhere 2nd Edition 

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Mitchell Zuckoff

Florida

An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II

Drawing on intensive research and a firsthand account of the dangerous 2012 expedition, this thrilling true story of survival, which moves between World War II and today, follows the survivors of a U.S. cargo plane crash in 1942 and their 148 days spent fighting for their lives during a brutal Arctic winter. (This book was previously featured in Forecast). 200,000 first printing.

Frozen in Time

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After the country’s borders have receded behind a salt line - a ring of scorched dragon protects its citizens from deadly disease carrying ticks - a group of adrenaline junkies pay a fortune to tour what’s left of nature, no longer held captive by their society’s common fear.                            Lured outside the Salt Line by promises of skies full of stars and true autumn foliage, the group - a pop star and his girlfriend, Edie ; the tech giant, Wes; and Marta, the wife of a wealthy businessman - find themselves at the mercy of deadly ticks… and at the center of a murderous plot.                                                                       They become captives in Ruby City, a community made up of outer-zone survivors determined to protect their hardscrabble existence. As hostages outside the zones, Edie, Wes and Marta find that their pasts - and futures - are interwoven in surprising ways, and may be key to their survival. Alliances and friendships shift and change, and they must decide how far they are willing to go to get the the right side of the salt line.
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Mississippi

The Salt Line

*Disclaimer* there as been some highlighting in the book.
on a luxury cruise liner, he'll rake in the tips and be able to help
his mom and sister out with the bills. How bad can it be? Bikinis,
free food, maybe even a girl or two every cruise has different
passengers, after all.
But Shy's only days out at sea when the Big One hits--an
earthquake more massive than any ever recorded.
And that's just the first disaster. Suddenly it's a fight to survive
for those left living… #fiction #adventure #paperback #ya #survival #sci-fi #mystery #teen #dystopia #thriller

Illinois

The living

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Alicia Partnoy

Julia Alvarez

Tales of Disappearance and Survival

One of Argentina's 30,000 'disappeared', Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Smuggled out and published anonymously, The Little School is Partnoy's memoir of her disappearance and imprisonment.

The Little School

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#paperback #proof #survival #northkorea #sungjulee

Maine

The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

Every Falling Star

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Margaret Elizabeth Murie

Texas

Third Edition

Roger Tory Peterson's unique identification system explains exactly what features to look for to tell one species from another. In each Peterson Field Guide, an author with expertise in the subject and an experienced artist work closely with the editors to ensure that both text and illustrations are accurate. This edition includes 100 color photographs of tracks and signs, more than 1,000 line drawings, and nomenclature for all the mammals of North America. The text includes descriptions of habits, habitats, tracks, signs, and ranges, and is filled with wonderful natural history stories. Olaus J. Murie, one of America's leading mammalogists, has completed fieldwork throughout the United States and Canada, from Labrador to the Aleutian Islands, with special concentration in the Northwest. He wrote The Elk of North America and many articles on natural history. Mark Elbroch is the author of several tracking guides,including two award-winning books, Mammal Tracks and Sign: A Guide to North American Species and, with Eleanor Marks, Bird Tracks and Sign: A Guide to North American Species. He has contributed to numerous North American research projects, from monitoring bears to capturing cougars to inventorying carnivores in dry tropical forests. 

 

Peterson Field Guide to Animal Tracks

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#paperback #blackauthor #blackstories #fiction #diversity #survival #struggle #bloomsburybooks 

New Jersey

Powerful . . . full of impossible hope . . . Jackson's prose has a spoken-word cadence, the language flying off the page with percussive energy. -The New York Times Book Review

The Residue Years

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#paperback #youngadult #juvenilefiction #survival #endoftheworld #h20 #dystopian #fiction 

.27 is a number Ruby hates. It's a number that marks the percentage of the population that has survived. It's a number that means she's one of the "lucky" few still standing. And it's a number that says her father is probably dead. Against all odds, Ruby has survived the catastrophic onset of the killer rain. Two weeks after the radio started broadcasting the warning, "It's in the rain. It's fatal and there's no cure," the drinkable water is running out. Ruby's left with two options: persevere on her own, or embark on a treacherous journey across the country to find her father-if he's even still alive.

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Kentucky

#historicalfiction #wwii #warhistoricalfiction #ww2 #survival #love #humanity #inspiredbyrealevents

Georgia

A WWII Novel

In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews, but has never given much thought to what goes on behind the walls that contain her Jewish neighbors. She knows all too well about German brutality--and that they're the reason she must conceal her real identity. But in befriending Sara, a nurse who shares her apartment floor, Elzbieta makes a discovery that propels her into a dangerous world of deception and heroism. Using Sara's credentials to smuggle children out of the ghetto brings Elzbieta face-to-face with the reality of the war behind its walls and to the plight of the Gorka family, who must make the impossible decision to give up their newborn daughter or watch her starve. For Roman Gorka, this final injustice stirs him to rebellion with a zeal not even his newfound love for Elzbieta can suppress. But his recklessness brings unwanted attention to Sara's cause, unwittingly putting Elzbieta and her family in harm's way until one violent act threatens to destroy their chance at freedom forever. Inspired by the real-life heroine who saved thousands of Jewish children during WWII, The Warsaw Orphan follows Elzbieta and Roman's perilous attempt to reclaim the love and life they once knew. From Nazi occupation to the threat of a communist regime, Kelly Rimmer has penned her most meticulously researched and emotionally compelling novel to date.

The Warsaw Orphan

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W. Johnstone

The First Mountain Man

In the bloody aftermath of a wagon ambush, a suspect flees, a woman disappears, and a mountain man searches for truth, justice, and revenge. They call him Preacher . . .

JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. STOP BY AND SAY HOWDY.

Preacher is no hired killer. When a wagon train is brutally ambushed on the Sante Fe Trail though, he can't say no to the St. Louis businessman willing to pay him for justice. It's not the stolen gold that's convinced Preacher to take the job And it's not the missing body of one of the wagon train's crew, a prime suspect who may have plotted the ambush and taken off with the gold. No, it's the suspect's lovely fiance, Alita Montez. She believes her boyfriend is innocent--and has run off to find him. Preacher can't abide the idea of a young woman alone on the Sante Fe Trail. If the Comanche don't get her, the coyotes will. And Preacher can't have that. But to save the girl and get the gold, the legendary mountain man will have to forge a path that's as twisted as a nest of rattlers, face off with trigger-happy kidnappers, backstabbers, and bounty-hunters--and match wits with Bigfoot Wallace, the biggest baddest frontiersman of them all . . .

Preachers Carnage

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Nancy Werlin

read once, minor damagw from being in backpack

Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother. By the author of The Killer's Cousin. Jr Lib Guild. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.

The Rules of Survival

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Decent condition, only flaws seem to be a crease on front cover, a folded page, and some ink. Shouldn’t affect reading of book.

Refugee

Lisa Wingate

Arizona

A Novel

THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT--A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller For readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a "thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true-life scandal."* Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents--but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility's cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty. Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family's long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption. Based on one of America's most notorious real-life scandals--in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country--Lisa Wingate's riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong. *Library Journal Publishers Weekly's #3 Longest-Running Bestseller of 2017 * Winner of the Southern Book Prize * If All Arkansas Read the Same Book Selection "A [story] of a family lost and found . . . a poignant, engrossing tale about sibling love and the toll of secrets."--People "Sure to be one of the most compelling books you pick up this year. . . . Wingate is a master-storyteller, and you'll find yourself pulled along as she reveals the wake of terror and heartache that is Georgia Tann's legacy."--Parade

Before We Were Yours

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Jean Craighead George

Washington

A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

My Side of the Mountain

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Alan Gratz

Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy livng in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.

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