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"Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping ... readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas." – Booklist. A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way. When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across the Atlantic, despite having only sailed a dinghy before. His only companion? His plucky pet hen, Monique.

In this classic adventure story, the diaries of two men—a scientist and a mountaineer—reveal their distinct struggles in the unforgiving wilds of the northern landscape. Four months alone in the remote windswept wilderness, adventurer and ecologist Hamilton Mack Laing spends his days deeply immersed in observing the natural world of the Chitina River valley. He endures dust storms, befriends a family of ravens, and fearlessly tracks elusive bears. At the same time, Fred Lambart documents the gruelling expedition to the summit of Mount Logan, the highest peak in Canada.

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier. "An ideal pairing of talent and material... Engrossing... A deft and ambitious storyteller." — Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review. In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings.

A "devilishly fun" (New York Times Book Review) account of a deadly serious business: the undercover spies and the tactics they developed to survive the Cold War in Moscow, from legendary former-CIA operatives. Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War. Soviets kept files on all foreigners, studied their patterns, and tapped their phones. Intelligence work was effectively impossible. The Soviet threat loomed larger than ever.

National bestseller. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait—the bestselling author of River of the Gods brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. “A rich, dramatic tale that ranges from the personal to the literally earth-shaking.”—The New York Times. The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world.

National Bestseller • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." — Entertainment Weekly • McCandless had given

A New York Times bestseller. Chosen as a best book of the year by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London. Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography. “Excellent…This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down.” — The New York Times Book Review. "A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people — and a little resistance." — NPR.

Les Mémoires de J. Casanova de Seingalt (ou Giacomo Casanova, 1725-1798), écrits par lui-même, sont l'ancienne édition des Mémoires de l'aventurier vénitien Casanova. Écrits en français entre 1789 et 1798, ils sont publiés à titre posthume et édités par Jean Laforgue autour de 1825 dans une version qui pourtant n'échappera pas à la censure : en 1834, l'ouvrage est mis à l'Index des livres interdits avec toutes les œuvres de Casanova avant de reparaître en 1880 par l'entremise de l'éditeur Garnier.

Niagara is rich with fascinating stories, from daredevils to heroics.

From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.