Author Lists

Overcoming Adversity

If you like reading books about overcoming adversity, you might also enjoy these biographies:

• Halima Bashir - Tears of the desert: one woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur (923.6 BAS)
• Jeff Bell - Rewind, replay, repeat: a memoir of obsessive compulsive disorder (926.1 BEL)
• Cola Bilkuei - Cola's journey: from Sudanese child soldier to Australian refugee (362.87 BIL)
• Josh Cannon - Silent scream (362.76 CAN)
• Brian Corrigan - In harm's way: a high-risk plan, my subsequent capture and time in a Lebanese prison (356.167 COR)
• John Devane - Nobody heard me cry (362.76 DEV)
• Dana Fowley - How could she? (362.76 FOW)
• Cathy Glass - Cut: the true story of an abandoned, abused little girl who was desperate to be part of a family (362.76 GLA)
• Siobhan Kilfeather - Siobhan's miracle by Derek Jameson (362.196)
• Najaf Mazari - The rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif (325.21 MAZ)
• Moritz Nachstern - Counterfeiter: how a Norwegian Jew survived the Holocaust (940.548743 NAC)
• Cory Friedman - Torn apart by James Patterson (618.9283 PAT)
• Stacey Patton - That mean old yesterday: an abused girl's fight for survival (362.76 PAT)
• Michael Seed - Nobody's child (362.76 SEE)
• Ingrid Lester- To the bitter end: a mother's memoir of her daughter's murder by Ligita Sternbergs (362.8292 STE)
• Don Tate - The war within (920.71 TAT)
• Jill Bolte Taylor - My stroke of insight: a brain scientist's personal journey (362.19681 TAY)
• Mary Turner Thomson - The bigamist: the true story of a husband's ultimate betrayal (364.183 THO)
• Michael Whelan - The other country: a father's journey with autism (618.9285882 WHE)
• Margaret Wilcox - Gone: a mother's 14 year search for her abducted daughter (362.8297 WIL)

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