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Between myself and them: stories of disability and difference
By Ed Krause Carol, Carol Krause. 2005
Gutsy, frank, provocative and even confrontational, the 23 contributors to this first-person anthology trace the myriad feelings and experiences that…
go along with growing up disabled across different genders, cultures, classes, and sexualities. Some descriptions of sex. 2005.Bent hope: a street journal
By Tim Huff. 2008
Bent Hope was born out of Tim Huff's unique and extensive twenty-year ministry among homeless and street-involved youth and adults…
in Toronto. These gripping true-life stories surface quietly from unforgiving corridors of fear, hurt and uncertainty that unexpectedly and supernaturally transform into fascinating places of intimacy and godly anticipation. c2008.Farthest north: The Quest For The North Pole
By Clive Holland. 1994
The story of man's attempt to reach the North Pole is told using excerpts from sailors' journals, ships' log and…
other primary sources combined with the author's narrative. The adventurers' successes, failures, and the challenges they faced are recounted in these testimonies which cover over 400 years worth of adventure. 1994.Keep on standing
By Darlene Polachic. 2002
The 1989 student massacre in Lubumbashi, Zaire under the brutal rule of dictator/president Mobutu Sese Seko was almost the end…
for brothers Michel, Fabian and Aliston Lwamba. Escaping with only their lives, that day was a grim and deadly reality marking the beginning of an incredible saga that changed their lives forever. During the chaos, the Lwambas were separated from each other, living in refugee camps for over five years, and leaving many of their relatives for dead. They survived violence, disease, depression and starvation before they met God and found in Him both the reason and the will to keep on standing. 2002.Jungle islands: my South Sea adventure (Adventure Travel Books)
By Maria Coffey, Debora Pearson. 2000
Join Maria on her kayaking trip though the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. She paddles to remote villages…
which haven't seem outsiders in years, visits the Skull Island burial ground, confronts a ferocious crocodile, sleeps in a leaf hut, and explores the jungle. Learn what it's like to visit a coral reef 'garden', where the bathrooms are in the jungle, and what kids love about life in the Solomons. Grades 3-6. 2000.Journeys of the great explorers: Columbus to Cook (The modern scholar)
By Glyndwr Williams. 2004
In this course, University of London history professor Glyndwr Williams will discuss one of the most dramatic periods in world…
history, the age of Europe's discovery of the world from Columbus and da Gama in the late fifteenth century to the voyages of James Cook in the eighteenth century. 2004.Joni
By Joni Eareckson Tada, Joe Musser. 1978
At the age of 17 the author was the victim of a diving accident that left her totally paralysed from…
the shoulders down. Here she tells her story of her fight against quadriplegia and depression. 1978.Jonathan Edwards, the great awakener: The Great Awakener (Hereos of the faith ; #5)
By Helen Kooiman Hosier. 1999
Known mostly for his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Jonathan Edwards was a man of towering…
intellect, responsible in large part for America's first "Great Awakening." 1999.Island of the blue foxes: disaster and triumph on Bering's great voyage to Alaska
By Stephen R Bown. 2017
The Great Northern Expedition was the most ambitious and well-financed scientific expedition in history, lasting nearly ten years and spanning…
three continents. Conceived by Peter the Great in the 1730s and led by Danish mariner Vitus Bering, the enterprise involved a cavalcade of nearly three thousand scientists, secretaries, interpreters, artists, surveyors, naval officers, mariners, soldiers and labourers, all of whom had to be brought across five thousand miles of roadless forests, swamps and tundra, along with tools, supplies, libraries and scientific implements--as well as the clavichord belonging to Bering's wife, Anna. Scientific objectives included investigating flora, fauna and minerals as well as outlandish rumours about the Siberian peoples. After the expedition reached the eastern coast of Asia, Bering oversaw the construction of two ships, the St. Peter and St. Paul, and sailed for America with one hundred and fifty men. The voyage was plagued by ill fortune--a supply ship failed to arrive, officers quarrelled and the ships were separated in a storm. While St. Paul reached Alaska and reported back to Russia, Bering's ship, St. Peter, was wrecked on a desolate island in the Aleutian Chain inhabited by feral foxes. A true-life adventure story of personal and cultural animosities, unimaginable Gothic horrors and ingenuity in the face of adversity. Winner of the 2018 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction. 2017.Buried
By Ken Wylie. 2014
A survivor's account of the avalanche that struck the Selkirk Range of British Columbia on January 20, 2003, burying 13…
members of two guided backcountry skiing groups, and killing seven. 2014. Uniform title: Canadian electronic library.I'm walking as straight as I can: transcending disability in Hollywood and beyond
By Geri Jewell, Ted Nichelson. 2011
Born with cerebral palsy, Jewell inspired a generation when she became the first person with a disability to appear in…
a recurring role on prime-time television. The book's title refers to both Jewell's sexuality and her struggle growing up with cerebral palsy. Describes her experiences from her traumatic birth in Buffalo, New York, to her rise to stardom as a stand-up comic to becoming a television star, as well as her downward spiral, tax problems, drug addiction, and marriage. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. 2011.Into the ice: the story of Arctic exploration
By Lynn Curlee. 1998
Describes the history of human exploration of the ice cap surrounding the North Pole. At first the Inuit people were…
the only people in this Arctic region. Then, over the centuries, various explorers came to kill animals and to try to locate the exact North Pole. Grades 3-6. 1998.I will love you forever: a true story about finding life, hope, and healing while caring for hospice babies
By Cori Salchert, Marianne Hering. 2018
In a sun scorched land: an African experience compiled from letters home
By Leona Lane. 2009
Yielding to the yearning for Africa, Leona and Cyril Lane left the comfort of family and friends in the Canadian…
North and took up the challenge of a volunteer assignment with C.PP.S. Mission Projects in Central Tanzania. It was not an easy time for them. They often felt isolated and unappreciated, suffered from Malaria and various, often violent stomach ailments, were tormented by mosquitoes, driver ants and flies, and faced injury every time they drove on the horrendous roads. Yet, in spite of those difficulties, it was, for them, one of life's most affirming experiences. 2009.In the shadow of memory (American lives)
By Floyd Skloot. 2003
In December 1988, the author was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain. The resulting damage left him totally…
disabled and utterly changed. This book is a candid memoir of living with a brain and a mind that have suddenly been shattered - an intimate picture of what it is like to find oneself possessed of a ravaged memory, unstable balance, and wholesale changes in both cognitive and emotional powers. 2003.In the heart of the sea: the epic true story that inspired Moby Dick
By Nathaniel Philbrick. 2000
The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century which was the inspiration…
for Herman Melville's classic novel "Moby Dick". The author uses a hitherto unknown diary of one of the survivors discovered in an attic in Connecticut in 1998 to tell the tale. 2000.Ice ghosts: the epic hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
By Paul Watson. 2017
Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845--whose two ships and crew of 129…
were lost to the Arctic ice--with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014. Watson tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew of the HMS Erebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered, the reasons they were forced to abandon ship hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of Western civilization, and the decades of searching that turned up only rumours of cannibalism and a few scattered papers and bones--until a combination of faith in Inuit lore and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages. Bestseller. 2017.I'm Eve
By Chris Costner Sizemore, Elen Sain Pittillo. 1977
I survived true stories: nature attacks! (I survived. #2)
By Lauren Tarshis. 2015
True stories of real kids up against terrible forces of nature. From the 14-year-old lone survivor of the shark attacks…
of 1916, to the 9-year-old who survived the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, here are four unforgettable survivors who managed to beat the odds. Grades 3-6. 2015.Ice wreck
By Lucille Recht Penner. 2001
Describes the true story of British explorer Shackleton's attempted 1914 expedition to Antarctica. When the ship was caught in the…
frozen sea, he and his crew experienced an eighteen-month ordeal, during which they camped on ice floes and lived on an island. Grades 2-4. 2001.