A book written without political or religious bias helps readers prepare for the worst, providing information on producing and conserving drinkable water, generating emergency power, creating and maintaining emergency food supplies and much more.

New York Times Bestseller

The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest).

“An inspirational and empowering read.”—Shailene Woodley

Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue

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Using her wits and skills as a hunter to get by, the author describes her solo ten-thousand-mile trek across the Gobi Desert where she encountered mafiosos, drug dealers, thieves on horseback, temperature extremes, dehydration, and illness.

Draws on extensive research to document the 1990s disaster mission during which two members of a five-man diving team were killed while completing construction on a 10-mile tunnel at the end of Boston's Deer Island waste treatment plant.

"Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days...

Describes the rescue operation of twelve boys and their soccer coach who were trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand for three weeks, with accounts of their time in the cave and the events of the dramatic rescue plan that saved them.