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Hyeonseo Lee escaped North Korea at seventeen, beginning a dangerous journey through China while evading capture.
The Girl with Seven Names
Biographies & Memoirs
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Hyeonseo Lee escaped North Korea at seventeen, beginning a dangerous journey through China while evading capture. Over twelve years, she fought to reunite with her family and lead them to freedom, all while navigating the ruthless grip of one of the world’s most brutal regimes. Her story is one of courage, survival, and hope.
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Growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was taught her country was the best in the world. But living near the border with China, she caught glimpses of a different reality. As famine ravaged the nation in the 1990s, Hyeonseo began to question everything she’d been told.
At seventeen, she made the dangerous decision to escape. What she didn’t anticipate was a twelve-year journey filled with fear, danger, and a relentless fight to reunite with her family.
As the oppressive regime looms over every step of her path to freedom, Hyeonseo must outwit those determined to return her to North Korea. Can she lead her family to safety, or will the forces of one of the world's most ruthless dictatorships prevail?
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Good for readers who want memoirs about survival, resilience, and hard-won hope.
The Happiest Man on Earth
Biographies & Memoirs
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A New York Times bestseller, The Happiest Man on Earth shares Eddie Jaku’s life as a Holocaust survivor and his promise to honor those lost by choosing gratitude, tolerance, and kindness, with a 4.8-star rating from more than 29,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want memoirs about survival, resilience, and hard-won hope.
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A New York Times Bestseller
In this uplifting Holocaust survivor memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life.
Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Eddie was beaten by SS thugs, arrested, and sent to a concentration camp with thousands of other Jews across Germany. Every day of the next seven years of his life, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors in Buchenwald, Auschwitz, and finally on a forced death march during the Third Reich’s final days. The Nazis took everything from Eddie—his family, his friends, and his country. But they did not break his spirit.
Against unbelievable odds, Eddie found the will to survive. Overwhelming grateful, he made a promise: he would smile every day in thanks for the precious gift he was given and to honor the six million Jews murdered by Hitler. Today, at 100 years of age, despite all he suffered, Eddie calls himself the “happiest man on earth.” In his remarkable memoir, this born storyteller shares his wisdom and reflects on how he has led his best possible life, talking warmly and openly about the power of gratitude, tolerance, and kindness. Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. With The Happiest Man on Earth, Eddie shows us how.
Filled with his insights on friendship, family, health, ethics, love, and hatred, and the simple beliefs that have shaped him, this inspirational story offers timeless lessons for readers of all ages, especially for young people today.
This unforgettable memoir of hope reveals:
- A True Story of Resilience: Follow Eddie Jaku’s journey from a German teenager through the horrors of Buchenwald and Auschwitz to a 100-year-old man who calls himself the happiest on Earth.
- Finding Happiness: Discover the promise Eddie made to smile every day, and learn his profound wisdom on the power of gratitude, tolerance, and kindness against unbelievable odds.
- WWII History: Witness the terror of Kristallnacht and the inhumanity of the Nazi death camps through the eyes of a survivor dedicated to honoring the six million Jews who were lost.
- Lessons on Gratitude: Learn from a man who lost everything how the simple choice to be grateful can transform unimaginable suffering into a life of joy and purpose.
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In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men close to her—each life cut short by the harsh realities of poverty and racism.
Men We Reaped
Biographies & Memoirs
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In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men close to her—each life cut short by the harsh realities of poverty and racism. In this powerful memoir, she reflects on their deaths, her own survival, and the deep-rooted issues that shaped their fates, offering a raw and intimate portrait of life in rural Mississippi.
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In just five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men close to her—victims of drugs, accidents, suicide, and the cruel realities of life in poverty. These tragedies led her to ask a painful question: why? Growing up in rural Mississippi, Ward realized their deaths were tied to the systemic racism and economic hardship they faced every day.
As the only one in her family to escape through education, Ward writes with a deep understanding of the struggles her community faces. In this heartbreaking memoir, she confronts the loss of her brother and friends, examining the pressures on Black men and the women left behind to hold families together.
How does one survive the unbearable weight of loss and still find the strength to tell the story?
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