title: Unbroken: An Extraordinary True Story of Courage and Survival
author:  Laura Hillenbrand 
description: Product Description
  The new book from the author of the bestselling and much-loved Seabiscuit.
  
  On a May afternoon in 1943, a bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, who struggled to a life raft and pulled himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.
  
  The lieutenants name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, hed been an incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channelled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and adrift into the unknown.
  
  Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humour; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.
  
  The long-awaited new book from Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken is a gripping account of human endurance and the resilience of one remarkable individual.
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  Karen Robards
  
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  When divorced Chicago anchorwoman Lynn Nelson, 35, signs on to chaperone high
  school students on a horseback riding vacation in the Utah mountains, she
  views it as an opportunity to bond with her increasingly estranged teenage
  daughter, Rory. In the prolific Robards's latest romantic tall tale (after
  Hunter's Moon), what Lynn doesn't count on, besides the bruising reality of
  actually riding horses, is finding love and stumbling on a plot to blow up the
  world. When Lynn meets hunky outfitter Jess, both immediately feel a strong
  antipathy that teeters perilously close to attraction. Matters take a
  melodramatic turn when an accident separates Lynn, Jess and Rory from their
  group and they happen upon a presumably deserted mining camp where they find
  themselves plunged into a nightmare. Confronted with a scene of mass murder,
  pursued by deadly religious cultists, they must depend on one another in order
  to su