The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disasters Strike and Why by Amanda Ripley

http://www.amazon.com/The-Unthinkabl.../dp/0307352900

Some of you who have been through life altering events will recognize many of the things that happen to others and yourself when the unthinkable happens. Life just isn't like the movies and many of the stories related in this book give you an insight into who survives and who didn't.

I am about half way through Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

http://www.amazon.com/Winter-King-He.../dp/1439191573

At the end of the War of the Roses (the real life Game of Thrones) the Tudor dynasty begins at Bosworth Field with the downfall of Richard III and rise of Henry VII. I find the involvement of Italian bankers, the Kings lawyers, and lots of people who would take the crown if they could to be a fascinating period of English history. All of the soap operas and fictional tragedies found today on television could not hold a candle to the real history of the first Tudor King of England.