Zbirka: Resnične zgodbe o junaštvu, vzdržljivosti in preživetju
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Art of Risk(2024) HARRIS, RICHARDDiving doctor on the Thai Cave Rescue (now a Netflix series) and former joint Australian of the Year explores the stories of other people who regularly risk their lives and what we can learn from their expertise.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Give Me Everything You Have(2014) LASDUN, JAMESA true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author’s strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled ‘verbal terrorist’, who began trying, in her words, to ‘ruin him’.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Long Walk Home(2014) TEBBUTT, JUDITHAnd there, in the early hours of 11 September, tragedy struck them. Judith was torn away from David by a band of armed pirates, dragged over sea and land to a village in the arid heart of lawless Somalia, and there held hostage in a squalid room,Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Titanic Voices(2013) HOLMAN, HANNAHPaperback edition of Amberley's bestselling title of 2012. Collects together unabridged, all the major substantial first-hand accounts of the sinking of the Titanic.Vezava: Mehka30,84 € -
Sweating the Metal(2012) DUNCAN, ALEXThe action packed true story of the Chinook helicopter force in Afghanistan.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Fly By Wire(2010) LANGEWIESCHE, WILLIAMFrom the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can resist bird attacks, through the creation of the A320 in France, to the political and social forces that have sought to minimize the impact of revolutionary fly-by-wireVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Once an Addict(2007) WOODWARD, BARRY,CHAMBERLAIN, ANDREWBarry Woodward grew up in Greater Manchester, England. At the age of 16, he left school and was drawn into the drug scene experimenting with cannabis, amphetamine and LSD. Miraculously his life turned around following a sequence of supernatural encountersVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Philomena(2013) SIXSMITH, MARTINPhilomena is now a major film starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, directed by Stephen Frears.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Mad House(2012) LONG, MARTHAMartha returns and when she comes face to face with the evil, psychotic Jackser, she can no longer suppress the nightmares of her childhood. A suicide attempt sees her admitted to the 'mad house', where a hunger strike takes her even nearer to death.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Sold(2010) MUHSEN, ZANA,CROFTS, ANDREWA moving and harrowing story of British girl forced into marriage in Yemen.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Shamed(2013) KAUR ATHWAL, SARBJITEventually, with immense bravery, she became the first person within a murderer’s family ever to go into open court in an honour killing trial as the Prosecution’s key witness, and the first to waive her anonymity in such a trial.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Fiva(2012) STAINFORTH, GORDONIn the summer of 1969, as Apollo 11 was blasting off to the moon, two teenage twin brothers, with only three years' mountaineering experience, set off to climb one of the highest rock faces in Europe. This title offers a true account from Gordon StainfortVezava: Mehka15,37 € -
For the Love of a Son(2011) SASSON, JEANFrom the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman. She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Perfect Storm(2006) JUNGER, SEBASTIANThe worst storm in history seem from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes(2008) LONG, MARTHABorn a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start. As her mother moves from man to man, and more children follow, they live hand-to-mouth in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and fVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Day to Die For(2013) RATCLIFFE, GRAHAMOn the night of 10-11 May 1996, eight climbers perished in what remains the worst disaster in Everest's history. Graham Ratcliffe, the first British climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest twice, was a first-hand witness, having spent the night on EvVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Just a Little Run Around the World(2009) SWALE POPE, ROSIEAfter her husband died of cancer, 57-year-old Rosie set off to run around the world, raising money in memory of the man she loved. Followed by wolves, knocked down by a bus, confronted by bears, chased by a naked man with a gun and stranded with severe frVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Mapmaker's Wife(2005) WHITAKER, ROBERTAn 18th-century adventure - a true story of love, murder and survival...Vezava: Mehka21,02 €
