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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

Joe Simpson

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War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival

Sheri Fink

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Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and her Courageous Crew

Alex Kershaw

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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

Dean King

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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II

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The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

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We Were the Lucky Ones

Georgia Hunter

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Cujo

Stephen King

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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Nathaniel Philbrick

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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

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A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

Adam Makos

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Survival Stories

The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story

Dave Pelzer

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Flight to Heaven

Dale Black

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Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World War II

Marisabina Russo

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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

Hans J. Massaquoi

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The Zanzibar Chest

Aidan Hartley

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Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy

Rhoda Blumberg

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Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea

Frank Delaney

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The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals

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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War

Anita Lobel

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A Thousand Shall Fall: The Electrifying Story of a Soldier and His Family Who Dared to Practice Their Faith in Hitler's Germany

Susi Hasel Mundy

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Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy

Lene Gammelgaard

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Last Man Out

James E. Parker Jr.

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War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

Andrew Carroll

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How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

Slavenka Drakulić

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Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II

Darlene Deibler Rose

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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

Piers Paul Read

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To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander

Georg von Trapp

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The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome

Jim Carrier

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The Devil's Highway: A True Story

Luis Alberto Urrea

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I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011

Lauren Tarshis

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We Die Alone

David Howarth

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Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue

Bob Drury

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Titanic: An Illustrated History

Don Lynch

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Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Brotherhood and Sacrifice

Adam Makos

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

Daniel James Brown

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Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park

Lee H. Whittlesey

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Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop

Carol Shaben

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Архипелаг ГУЛаг 1918-1956. Опыт художественного исследования III-IV [Arhipelag GULag]

Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn

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The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue

Casey Sherman

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And the Sea Will Tell

Vincent Bugliosi

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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk

Jennifer Niven

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Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope

Whitney Cerak

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Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan

Malcolm MacPherson

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The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won

Gerald M. Stern

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The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wilderness

Jon Billman

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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution

Helen Zia

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Lost in the Pacific: Not a Drop to Drink

Tod Olson

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Hurricane Katrina Rescue

Kate Messner

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Memoir

A Brother's Journey

Richard B. Pelzer

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Life and Death in Shanghai

Nien Cheng

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Journey To Topaz: A Story Of The Japanese-American Evacuation

Yoshiko Uchida

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Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards

Katelan Janke

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Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland

Amanda Berry

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The Girl in the Green Sweater

Daniel Paisner

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Last Dog on the Hill: The Extraordinary Life of Lou

Steve Duno

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Wave

Sonali Deraniyagala

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Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love

Larry Levin

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Granite Mountain

Brendan McDonough

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When Hell Was in Session

Brandt Ed

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Gertruda's Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II

Ram Oren

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She Is Mine: A War Orphans' Incredible Journey of Survival

Stephanie Fast

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Cured

Bethany Wiggins

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The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible

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Never Fall Down

Patricia McCormick

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Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home

Laura Ling

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The Polygamist's Daughter

Anna LeBaron

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Through the Valley of the Kwai

Ernest Gordon

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Life After Darkness: Finding Healing and Happiness After the Cleveland Kidnappings

Michelle Knight

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Survival

Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

Elizabeth M. Norman

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The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die

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Polar: the Titanic Bear

Daisy Corning Stone Spedden

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The Year We Disappeared: A Father - Daughter Memoir

John Busby

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Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

Nick Heil

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The Fallout

S.A. Bodeen

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I Have a Bad Feeling About This

Jeff Strand

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Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas

Spike Walker

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Quarantine: The Saints

Lex Thomas

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Evil Beside Her

Kathryn Casey

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Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters

James M. Tabor

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Feedback

Robison Wells

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Teen & Young Adult

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The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi

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The Watch That Ends the Night

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Everybody Sees the Ants

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World War II

Unbroken: An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive

Laura Hillenbrand

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The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45

Stephen E. Ambrose

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The Tuscan Child

Rhys Bowen

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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

Antony Beevor

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Our Darkest Night

Jennifer Robson

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We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers

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Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang

Richard H. O'Kane

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The Miracle of Dunkirk

Walter Lord

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The Taster

V.S. Alexander

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Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster

Richard F. Newcomb

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German Boy: A Child in War

Wolfgang W.E. Samuel

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The Forgotten Highlander

Alistair Urquhart

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Blood Red Snow : The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front

Günter K. Koschorrek

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Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued

Peter Sís

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The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Side

Damien Lewis

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Air Raid Search and Rescue

Marcus Sutter

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Eight Survived: The Harrowing Story of the USS Flier and the Only Downed World War II Submariners to Survive and Evade Capture

Douglas Campbell

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Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House authorized graphic biography

Sid Jacobson

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Commonalities of Books on Survival Stories: - Many books are based on true stories and actual events. - The majority of the stories involve life-threatening situations where survival is not guaranteed. - Historical events such as World War II and the Holocaust are common themes. - Natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes feature in some stories. - Adventures in extreme environments like mountains, oceans, and space are also prevalent. - Some books focus on the psychological aspect of survival and how individuals cope with trauma and adversity.

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