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Assigned to one of Iraq’s worst hot spots, the marines of Joker One spend seven months fighting enemies among 350,000 Iraqi civilians and facing urgent life-and-death decisions on a daily basis.

Crews from two different vessels are shipwrecked on opposite ends of the same subantarctic island, with drastically different results. The Grafton’s crew survives and even builds a boat to launch a rescue team, while the 19 survivors of the Invercauld quibble among themselves, dwindle in number, and resort to cannibalism.

Grann sets out to solve a mystery by following in the footsteps of British explorer Percy Fawcett, whose Amazon expedition disappeared in 1925 while searching for the ancient city of El Dorado.

Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison—to freedom in South Korea.

Documents the shared effort of the Harvard anthropologist author and her young daughter to climb all 48 of New Hampshire’s mountains higher than 4,000 feet.

The story of Louie Zamperini, an Olympic runner turned Army Air Corps bombardier, who crashed during a routine search mission over the Pacific and survived 47 days on a life raft, only to be captured by the Japanese and placed in a POW camp where his journey was just beginning.

Follows the author on the world’s longest mountain-bike race, beginning in Banff, Alberta, and ending 2,800 miles later at the Mexico-U.S. border – a race which is both exhilaratingly thrilling and exhaustingly difficult.

Crushed by a bus while bicycling, New York City firefighter Matt Long was transformed from an elite athlete to a man that might never walk again. Despite a gloomy prognosis, five months in the hospital and 40 operations, he never takes his mind off the goal: finishing the NYC marathon again.

The leader, and only survivor, of a team of U.S. Navy SEALs sent to northern Afghanistan to capture a well-known al Qaeda leader chronicles the events of the battle that killed his teammates and offers insight into the training of this elite group of warriors.

Offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party’s westward-bound wagon train and their unimaginable ordeal – trapped for the winter in the brutal Sierra Nevada Mountains with 81 people, little food, and only primitive shelter.

One of eight passengers on board Flight 248 when it crashed into the woods of Cape Cod, Sabbag examines the details of the crash nearly 30 years later and breaks down the emotions, coincidence, and facts behind the catastrophic event.

A deep-sea fishing trip with friends takes a tragic turn when a storm hits and the inexperienced boaters make a fatal mistake.

Leaving everything behind to sail around the world in a 55-foot catamaran, a suburban California family of six hits a reef off a South Pacific island and must fight to survive.

A man-eating Siberian tiger is on the prowl outside a remote Russian village and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold.

Chronicles the dramatic story of the December 2004 rescue of a Malaysian cargo ship that ran aground on Alaska’s Aleutian Islands during a brutal storm, an effort further complicated by the crash of a Jayhawk rescue helicopter.

Describes the 1945 odyssey of three plane crash survivors in New Guinea who endured a harrowing journey through the jungle, their encounter with a primitive tribe who had never seen white people, and their eventual rescue by paratroopers.