True Life Survival

EACH OF THE BOOKS CONTAINS A FREE GUIDE Spiritual Insights Prayerful Thoughts Faith Insights Grace Notes What do you do when life shatters around you? When the phone call comes, the abuse begins, the diagnosis is given, or the family you love crumbles before your eyes? From Wounds to Worship is a powerful collection of real-life memoirs from ordinary people who walked through extraordinary pain—and found faith, grace, and resilience on the other side. Inside this bundle, you’ll discover: Grief Was Not the End — A love cut short by tragedy, and the journey of a heartbroken bride-to-be ...

First Prize Winner in Published NonFiction, WriterCon 2025. Finalist, 2025 Self-Publishing Review Book Awards The author graduates from an elite university and enters the submarine service in the mid-1980s when rhetoric between the US and USSR threatens to turn the Cold War hot. He encounters an unforgiving world where submarines hunt each other unseen and unheralded in the ocean depths and in which minor mistakes can result in catastrophe. On four classified missions to the Mediterranean Sea, the North Atlantic, the Barents Sea, and the North Pole, he gradually and painfully learns the ...

"This book is really riveting and I found myself grimacing, denying, experiencing shock and awe, nodding and finally understanding so much about her saga and attempts to protect her dying husband from one medical error after another. If you want a good read, pick up 108 Days." - Toni Brayer, MD. Following an explosive electrical accident, Curtis is admitted to one of America's top hospitals with a severe burn injury to 35% of his body. Recovery is soon derailed due to an error in the radiology department which he is not expected to survive. Deadly hospital acquired infections are prevalent ...

“My father is the kindest, gentlest soul I know. Nothing prepared me for the secret he kept for nearly 40 years.” Poland. There is a six-month gap in Adam Stern’s life. Six months during which he had to vanish from Warsaw, away from his wife and everything he knew, to protect them. To protect himself. To survive. Displaced and alone, Adam kept silent about what transpired over those six months, deep in the forests between Poland and Russia. But a chance meeting with another Holocaust survivor changes everything. Decades later, Adam finally reveals his full story to his son, Samson. A ...

What Is the Difference Between Having Empathy and Being an Empath? “Having empathy means our heart goes out to another person in joy or pain,” says Dr. Judith Orloff. “But for empaths, it goes much further. We actually feel others’ emotions, energy, and physical symptoms in our own...

TRUE CRIME! PTA president Kelli Peters had a normal, happy life in Orange County, California, where she volunteered at her daughter's school, carpooled, and took care of her family. When a school parent angrily accused Kelli of keeping her son waiting during the afterschool pick-up, it appeared to be a simple confrontation with an overprotective mother. Kelli soon learned, however, that she was the target of a twisted plot against her that involved drugs, lies, schemes, and a campaign to ruin her life. The vendetta led to reputations tarnished, careers lost, secret lives uncovered, two ...

“It made me laugh so hard I cried. Not quite pissing-pants funny, but definitely entertaining.” — MWW in Mn, Amazon reviewer “The best book I’ve ever read!” — Soto (which to be fair, doesn’t mean much. Soto is in the book and also hasn’t read very many books.) “I hope you do a second one. That was epic.” — Some guy named Chris (not in the book, and I assume Chris reads) “Meh, it was okay.” —some dude on Facebook (Can’t win ’em all, I guess.) No medals. No glory. Just a bunch of barely-functioning paratroopers stuck overseas during COVID, trying to survive ...

The American West was never just a man’s world. In The Forgotten Frontier, bestselling author Richard Fleischman uncovers the extraordinary lives of women who braved the harsh realities of the 19th-century American frontier. Through vivid, deeply researched storytelling, this powerful volume gives voice to the women who crossed mountains, deserts, and boundaries—both physical and social. From midwives who delivered babies on dirt floors to widows who defended their homes with rifles in hand, these women lived at the intersection of grit, grief, resilience, and resolve. Some followed ...

She was charming. She was ruthless. She was dangerous. This is the shocking true story of a narcissistic woman who destroyed the lives of five men—and her own daughter. What began as subtle manipulation escalated into betrayal, cruelty, and physical violence. Her victims never saw the danger until it was too late. Told with raw honesty, this powerful story reveals the chilling truth of narcissistic abuse. More than a memoir, it’s a true crime story of lies, control, and violence that reads like a psychological thriller—but it's all based on actual events. If you’ve ever wondered how...

In no less than seven concentration and extermination camps, the Polish-Jew Noach (Natan) Żelechower was imprisoned during World War II. His first wife and their daughter were transported from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka and perished there during the Great Deportation of the Warsaw Jews in the summer of 1942, and he was left alone to face the threat of Nazi persecution and death. With great resilience, fortitude, and the hope to be reunited with his wife and daughter, Noach was able to withstand and survive the hardships of the camp world, forced labor, and death marches. Throughout the...

She packed for three days. She survived twenty-three. On April 11, Maya Calloway rode her electric bike into one of the most remote wilderness areas in the Sierra Nevada with a simple plan: three days alone in the mountains before she turned thirty. A solo adventure. A bucket-list moment. A chance to test herself against real wilderness before the next chapter of her life began. The first storm arrived the next morning. Then the second. Then the third. Over the next twenty-three days, Maya would face thirteen consecutive snowstorms, one avalanche, a serious ankle injury, and forty miles of ...

In 14 Years a Prisoner, Léo Maruin delivers a gripping, unflinching memoir of survival inside Thailand’s most notorious prisons. From the suffocating cells of Pattaya to the feared Bangkok Hilton, he takes you deep into a hidden world of violence, corruption, and humanity at its rawest. Condemned to over fourteen years in a brutal foreign justice system, Léo survives amid filth, overcrowding, and despair—finding strength in instinct, music, and rare human connection. With searing honesty, dark humor, and chilling detail, he exposes the merciless machinery of a world few would dare to ...

Have you ever wondered what truly lies beyond the veil of this life? What if death is not an end, but a profound transformation? This book is not about speculation; it's about testimony. NDE - Near Death Experiences brings you an extraordinary collection of powerful, deeply personal accounts from people who have journeyed to the other side and returned. From a pragmatic engineer who became a being of pure light to a skeptical neurosurgeon whose own experience shattered his scientific worldview, these true stories offer a stunning glimpse into the afterlife. You will travel alongside ...

They had no rescue coming. No second chances. No margin for error. Poon Lim watched his ship go down in the South Atlantic with 54 men aboard. He was alone on a wooden raft for 133 days. Juliane Koepcke fell 10,000 feet from a disintegrating aircraft into the Amazon jungle — the sole survivor of 93 people aboard. José Salvador Alvarenga drifted 6,700 miles across the Pacific in an open fishing boat for 438 days. Beck Weathers was left for dead twice on the slopes of Everest and walked himself back to camp anyway. These are not stories of luck. They are stories of specific decisions, ...

Do you parTy? is a raw, unfiltered memoir of survival that rips the mask off methamphetamine addiction and lays bare the harrowing descent into darkness. Dianna Price, once a clean-cut commercial truck driver with no history of drug use, recounts how a single moment in the back of her semi changed everything. What begins as an unexpected encounter quickly spirals into years of chaos, trauma, and loss—marked by haunting hallucinations, dangerous liaisons, human trafficking, and near-death experiences. Her journey spans highways, hotel rooms, jail cells, and the brink of suicide, all while ...

A short, red-headed and red-faced man with a bold personality, Myles Standish is remembered for his soldierly defense of the Mayflower Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony. But he was just one participant in a legendary struggle for the colony’s survival in a harsh new world. Departing from Holland, the Pilgrims fought off hunger, disease, and terrifying weather to arrive on the northeast coast of North America.

When an Angel Intervenes is an inspirational work of fiction based on real events, exploring survival, faith, and the moments that quietly changed a life forever. In the United States, suicide claims thousands of lives each year. Behind every statistic is an individual story-a life shaped by pain, circumstance, and unanswered questions. No two stories are ever the same, and those left behind are often left wondering why. In 1986, at the age of sixteen, I survived a near fatal suicide attempt. When an Angel Intervenes is my story-told through fiction-and written for anyone who has struggled ...

They look like us. They act like us. Until they don't. We are taught to see our primate relatives as funny, intelligent, and even part of the family. But what happens when that illusion is shattered by brutal, unexpected violence? This gripping collection of meticulously researched, true accounts explores the terrifying moments when our closest animal cousins turn on us with shocking ferocity. Drawn from harrowing 911 calls, official reports, and eyewitness testimony, these twenty stories take you from suburban homes to exotic tourist traps, revealing a disturbing pattern of instinct and ...

This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was...

Kat Ward is a survivor — and this book is her testimony. Having overcome an abusive childhood — in which she was abused by family members, care staff and even celebrities — you would have thought that karma might have dealt her some kinder hands when it came to her adult life. Well, it didn't. After spending the majority of it simply trying to recover from her childhood, she was eventually forced to confront that monster which apparently awaits 1 in 3 of us at some point in our lives: cancer.