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Books > Fiction > True stories > Endurance & survival
A tiny puppy, neglected and abused, and the foster carer determined
to heal her. When tiny puppy Princess is dumped at the doors of the
Barby Keel Animal Sanctuary by her owners, the brown and white
boxer is suffering from horrendous injuries resulting from a car
accident. Having been operated on by an incompetent vet, her front
leg has been amputated in a botched surgery, leaving her weak and
barely able to stand. With gentle love and care, Barby and her team
at the Sanctuary work hard to give this brave little dog a second
lease of life. Playful and loving, despite her difficult start in
life, Princess is desperate for a forever family to call her own.
But Barby is heartbroken as she watches Princess get rejected over
and over again by potential owners who are put off by her terrible
injury. Will Princess ever find someone to love her?
In this riveting first-person account, former Olympian and
professional hockey player Eric LeMarque tells a harrowing tale of
survival-of how, with only a lightweight jacket and thin wool hat,
he survived eight days stranded in the frozen wilderness after a
snowboarding trip gone horribly wrong. Known by his National Guard
rescuers as "the Miracle Man," Eric recounts his rise to success
and fame as a hockey player and Olympian, his long and painful fall
due to crystal meth addiction, and his unbelievable ordeal in the
wilderness. In the end, a man whose life had been based on
athleticism would lose both his legs to frostbite and had to learn
to walk-and snowboard-again with prosthetics. He realized that he
couldn't come to terms with his drug addiction or learn to walk
again by himself. He had to depend on God for his strength. Now an
inspirational speaker committed to raising awareness for the
dangers of drugs and crystal meth, Eric, in 6 Below, confronts the
ultimate test of survival: what it takes to find your way out of
darkness, and-after so many lies-to tell the truth and, by the
grace and guidance of God, begin to live again.
Twelve year old Danielle has been excluded from a special school and her former foster family can no longer cope. She arrives as an emergency placement at the home of foster carer Angela, who soon suspects that there is more to the young girl's disruptive behaviour than meets the eye. Can Angela's specialist training unlock the horrors of Danielle's past and help her start a brave new life?
The Girl With Two Lives is the fourth book from well loved foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Angela Hart. Another true story from the experienced and bestselling foster carer – sharing the tale of one of the many children she has fostered over the years. A story of the difference that quiet care, a watchful eye and sympathetic ear can make to those children whose upbringing has been less fortunate than others.
In the depths of Antarctic winter, hundreds of miles from land or rescue, a small fishing boat is swallowed by waves as high as houses.
The captain is fatally slow to act, and then paralyzed by fear. The officers flee for their lives. Only the actions of Matt Lewis, a 23-year-old British marine biologist and one of the most inexperienced men aboard, will save the lives of the South African crew.
Lewis is the last man off the sinking boat, and leads the escape onto three life rafts. There the battle for survival begins.
The inspirational true story of one man overcoming enormous odds
including sexual abuse from his alcoholic mother to choose his own
path in life and become a truly exceptional human being.
From the age of four David Thomas was sexually abused by his
alcoholic mother and subsequently physically abused by his aged
stepfather. By the age of 16 he had committed multiple burglaries,
assaulted a police officer with an iron bar, attempted suicide,
received a criminal conviction from a juvenile court, and been
expelled from school.
He left home as soon as he could and joined the fire service at
20. At the age of 27 he bought a book on memory. Within 8 months he
had come fourth in the World Memory Championships and went on to
develop one of the most powerful memories in history, even breaking
an 18-year-old Guinness Book of Records memory record by reciting
the mathematical formula Pi (3.1459) to 22,500 digits from
memory.
In 1999 he was reunited with his mother after 4 years apart but
tragically, a year later he found her dead at home after she had
died of an alcohol induced heart attack.
David's shocking and moving story is one of abuse, alcoholism,
courage, determination, forgiveness, love and how everyone can
choose their own path through life irrespective of their
upbringing, background or perceptions about what they think is
possible. David is an incredible example of how this can
happen."
Drift back in history to a time when the rivermen still plied their
trade throughout the northern rivers of British Coumbia.
Crooked River Rats tells the tales of the men and women who
traveled the river highways living and working in the wilderness.
Generations of trappers, hunters, big game guides and prospectors
depended on the riverboats for their supplies. Using brute strength
and strong will, these river pioneers endured much hardship as they
opened up the northern bush. Here are their stories.
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