Whenever my life needs a little kick back to the right side of perspective, I pick up a couple books that always make me feel better:
**Donbas - Jacques Sandalesque ** - the story of a 15 yr old boy captured by the Russians in WW2 in Rumania and sent to work in a Soviet coal mine in the Donbas region (Siberia, I think) and his survival and escape.
**Night - Elie Weisel ** - tale of a jewish boy surviving a variety of Death Camps in WW2. This boy went on to win the Nobel Prize for peace in the 80’s.