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Beyond the Deep: The Deadly Descent into the World's Most Treacherous Cave

The Huautla in Mexico is the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere, possibly the world. Shafts reach skyscraper-depths, caverns are stadium-sized, and sudden floods can drown divers in an instant. Wi…
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Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with a…
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The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest

***NPR Books We Love selection***

“If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make it The Third Pole. . . . A riveting adventure.”— Outside

Shivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyo…
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The Lost City of the Monkey God

A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.

Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés…
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Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Siberian Gulag along with other captive Poles, Finns, Ukranians, C…
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Annapurna: A Woman's Place

In August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalaya to make history as the first Americans—and the first women—to scale the treacherous slopes of Annapurna I, the world’s tenth hi…
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As…
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Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

Little Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan's battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, and part Into Thin Air, Grennan's remarka…
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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)

This work is divided into two autonomous books.

The first book, The State, represents a radically new political system of society, one which is the most democratic system ever possible! This is a compl…
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Jack and Jill

When best friends, Jack and Jill, tumble off their sled, their injuries cause them to be bedridden for many months. Their parents fill their days with the joys of Christmas preparations, a theatrical …
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While the Gods Were Sleeping

Love and marriage brought American anthropologist Elizabeth Enslin to a world she never planned to make her a life among Brahman in-laws in a remote village in the plains of Nepal. As she faced the ch…
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Grandma Gatewood Hikes the Appalachian Trail: A Picture Book Biography

Critically acclaimed artist Jennifer Thermes’s picture book Grandma Gatewood Hikes the Appalachian Trail is a true inspiring story told with “beautiful illustrations and an emphasis on the value of na…
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The Hired Girl

Today Miss Chandler gave me this beautiful book. I vow that I will never forget her kindness to me, and I will use this book as she told me to—that I will write in it with truth and refinement…But who…
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The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that…
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Her Secret Son

How far would you go to protect the ones you love…when they may not be yours to protect?

When Josh’s longtime partner, Grace, dies in a tragic accident, he is left with a mess of grief—and full custody…
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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard.

Liz Murray was born to lo…
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Yak Girl: Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region of Nepal

This unusual memoir immerses the reader in the fascinating story of a spirited girl in a remote, undeveloped region of Nepal near the border of Tibet, a place made known to the world in Peter Matthies…
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader

"Peopled with the kinds of characters most novelists only dream of" ( Christian Science Monitor ), this classic account of American frontier living captures the rambunctious spirit of a pioneer who se…
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The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World

For the first 5,000 copies of The Blue Sweater purchased, a $15 donation per book will be made to Acumen Fund, a nonprofit that invests in transformative businesses to solve the problems of poverty.

Th…
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God's Double Agent: The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom

Tens of millions of Christians live in China today, many of them leading double lives or in hiding from a government that relentlessly persecutes them. Bob Fu, whom the Wall Street Journal called "The…
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