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"I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves."--Slavomir Rawicz In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk--a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. Their march--over... (more)

On The Rock - Twenty-Five Years in Alcatraz (The prison story of Alvin Karpis as told to Robert Livesey)Alvin Karpis

On The Rock - Twenty-Five Years in Alcatraz (The prison story of Alvin Karpis as told to Robert Livesey)

by Alvin Karpis

Papillon

by Henri Charriere

Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape . After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's... (more)

Banco the Further Adventures of Papillon

Banco the Further Adventures of Papillon

by Henri Charriere

Text: English, French (translation)

Devil in deerskins: My life with Grey OwlAnahareo

Devil in deerskins: My life with Grey Owl

by Anahareo

The Bronfman Dynasty; the Rothschilds of the New World

The Bronfman Dynasty; the Rothschilds of the New World

by Peter C. Newman

Hunter

by John A. Hunter

Find out how Hunter became a professional hunter and what he considered the most dangerous animals in Africa.

Logbook for Grace: Whaling brig Daisy, 1912-1913 (Time reading program special edition)

Logbook for Grace: Whaling brig Daisy, 1912-1913 (Time reading program special edition)

by Robert Cushman Murphy

Be True to Your School

by Bob Greene

Today, Bob Greene is a celebrated, nationally-syndicated columnist. In 1964, he was a seventeen-year-old Ohio high school kid. And he kept a diary. It's all here. The teenage girl who got away. The twenty-seven-year-old woman who didn't. The first beer. The first job. A series of bad haircuts. Friendship and betrayal, griping and groping, a daily account of one boy's struggle -- and all of our struggles -- to... (more)

Little Gloria

by GOLDSMITH BARBARA

Bush Pilot With a Briefcase: The Incredible Story of Aviation Pioneer Grant McConachieRonald A. Keith

Bush Pilot With a Briefcase: The Incredible Story of Aviation Pioneer Grant McConachie

by Ronald A. Keith

The Green Stick (Chronicles of Wasted Time)Malcolm Muggeridge

The Green Stick (Chronicles of Wasted Time)

by Malcolm Muggeridge

Daddy's GirlCharlotte Vale Allen

Daddy's Girl

by Charlotte Vale Allen

The Crime of Galileo

by Giorgio De Santillana

"In the gallery of what might be called the martyrs of thought, the image of Galileo recanting before the Italian Inquisition stirs the minds of educated modern men second only to the picture of Socrates drinking the Hemlock. That image of Galileo is out of focus . . . because it has been distorted by three centuries of rationalist prejudice and clerical polemics. To refocus it clearly, within the logic of its own... (more)

B...was for butter and enemy craftEvelyn M Richardson

by Russell Baker -

APPETITE FOR LIFE

by William Lindsay Gresham

JOHN PAUL JONESMORISON SAMUEL ELIOT

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The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

by Slavomir Rawicz

by Alvin Karpis

by Henri Charriere

by Henri Charriere

by Anahareo

by Peter C. Newman

by John A. Hunter

by Robert Cushman Murphy

by Bob Greene

by GOLDSMITH BARBARA

by Ronald A. Keith

by Malcolm Muggeridge

by Charlotte Vale Allen

by Giorgio De Santillana

by Evelyn M. Richardson

by Russell Baker -

by Paul Gerhardt Hiebert

by William Lindsay Gresham

by MORISON SAMUEL ELIOT