DescriptionNando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he awoke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, had crashed somewhere deep in the Andes. Many were dead or dying. Those who remained were stranded on a lifeless glacier with no supplies and no means of summoning help. Struggling to endure freezing temperatures, forced to eat human flesh to avoid starvation, Nando resolved that he must get home or die trying. Thirty years after the disaster was made famous by Piers Paul Read in the international best seller Alive, Nando finally tells his own story.
Description"I love you. All is forgiven. -Dad" When an advice columnist is given a note written just before a fatal airliner crash, her search for the intended recipient carries her on a journey of faith, hope, and forgiveness. Angela Hunt's award-winning novels are compelling combinations of tightly woven suspense and touching drama. In The Note, a stray scrap of paper jolts a woman from her carefully ordered life.
DescriptionFourteen-year-old Graham Sinclair was born with huge, strange hands, the wrong hands. He was also born with a secret. The only time he ever told someone his secret, it got him into big trouble. So he won't be telling anyone ever again. But then there's the plane crash. And the baby. And the e-mail out of the blue: Congratulations on a brave act. I know how brave it was because I saw what you did. I saw everything you did. Do you understand? You know how to contact me. If you choose not to, I will be forced to come and find you. I need to understand what I saw. One way or the other. Could answering this e-mail be an amazing opportunity, or the biggest mistake of his life? In Nigel Richardson's suspenseful and magical debut novel, Graham finds his life suddenly, thrillingly complicated, and his secret harder and harder to conceal.
DescriptionIn August 1995, twenty-six passengers and a crew of three board a commuter plane in Atlanta headed for Gulfport, Mississippi. Shortly after takeoff they hear an explosion, and some see a mangled engine lodged against the wing. From that moment, nine minut…
DescriptionAfter her plane crashes, a 17-year-old girl spends 11 days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference? Examining such stories of miraculous endurance and tragic death, Deep Survival takes us from the tops of snowy mountains and the depths of oceans to the workings of the brain that control our behavior. Through close analysis of case studies, Laurence Gonzales describes the essence of a survivor and offers 12 "Rules of Survival". In the end, he finds, it is what's in your heart, not what's in your pack, that separates the living from the dead. This audiobook will change the way we understand ourselves and the great outdoors.
DescriptionA catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves 330 dead, no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter. A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Jo…
