survival

Green Beret Mykel Hawke provides strategies for survival, covering shelter, water, food, fire, tools, medicine, navigation, signaling, first aid, and psychology.

Louis Zamperini tells the story of his life after his plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean on May 27, 1943 and he was captured by the Japanese, discussing the torture he suffered as a prisoner of war for two years, his return home to a family that was told he was killed in action, his problems with drinking and despair, and his recovery with the help of love and faith.

"In Nazi-ruled Germany, twelve-year-old Joe flees to England after his father is arrested by the Gestapo and he is separated from his mother, but when he arrives in London, Joe is recruited by MI5 and given a deadly mission that will put him in the very center of Hitler's ruthless reign"--Provided by publisher.

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity. They are what's left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows must take humanity's revenge into her own hands. Alongside her brother's brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything she's known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined"--Provided by publisher.

When Aaron Kingston's BMX bike is badly damaged during a stunt, a local bike shop owner offers to fix the bike for free if Aaron will represent the shop at a local race; but when the race starts Aaron and his rival Castel find themselves transported to another dimension, in a race that nobody is supposed to survive--and they must cooperate because if they die this terrifying dimension will take over the earth.

"Three girls who arrive to an abandoned island must outwit and outlast the mysterious killer who awaits them there"--Provided by publisher.

"In 2199, 17-year-old Jessica Mathers wakes up on a desolate, post-extinction planet 14 light years from Earth and must make sense of the bloody destruction around her, as well as the questionable intentions of a familiar stranger"--Provided by publisher.

"Joan has just learned the truth: her family are monsters, with terrifying, hidden powers. And the cute boy at work isn't just a boy: he's a legendary monster slayer, who will do anything to destroy her family. To save herself and her family, Joan will have to do what she fears most: embrace her own monstrousness. Because in this story--she is not the hero"--Provided by publisher.

"A blackout and a blizzard leave seventeen-year-old Lottie and her new stepsister Jade trapped in an isolated ski cabin in Tahoe, where they are soon joined by a cute, fast-talking stranger named Alex, who claims to be lost and in need of shelter--but the girls realize Alex is not who he claims to be, and he has dangerous friends"--OCLC.

Follows six teenage wizards as they fight to make it home alive after a malfunctioning spell leaves them stranded in the wilderness.