Women Survival Stories

Clean and Wholesome Romance Novella He went to the bush looking for solitude. That's when his life got complicated. Graham, a former building contractor, has escaped to the Alaskan Bush after a messy divorce. He builds a single room cabin and takes up the Bush life near a native village. He's learning that surviving in the wild is a lot harder than it looks. He's desperately working to get enough wood cut and split before winter comes when his friend, an Athabaskan elder named Ravensong, brings Graham some mail that will change his life forever. The pressures in Graham's predicament keep ...

Car-En, a ringstation anthropologist on her first Earth field assignment, observes a Viking-like village in the Harz mountains. As Car-En secretly observes the Happdal villagers, she begins to see them as more than research subjects (especially Esper, a handsome bowhunter). When Esper’s sister is taken by an otherwordly sword-wielding white-haired man, she can no longer stand by as a passive witness. Knowing the decision might end her career, she cuts off communication with her advisor and pursues the abductor into the mountains.

Description (HTML): DOZ Chronicles – Ruki: An African Woman’s Story of Struggle, Redemption, and Love! DOZ Chronicles – Ruki is a heartfelt and moving story that takes you deep into the life of a woman determined to change her fate. Based on real-life events and told from a deeply personal perspective by Eturuvie Erebor, this book is more than just a narrative; it’s a raw and honest portrayal of the challenges faced by many African women in today’s world. Ruki is a poor child at birth, and she soon finds herself fighting to survive. She relocates to Lagos, where she finds herself ...

When Trina Moyles was five years old, her father, a wildlife biologist known in Peace River as "the bear guy," brought home an orphaned black bear cub for a night before sending it to the Calgary Zoo. This brief but unforgettable encounter spurred Trina’s lifelong fascination with Ursus americanus—the most populous bear on the northern landscape, often considered a hindrance to human society.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, Kate Randsom is plunged into a battle of her own making.Pregnant and abandoned by the man who swore to marry her, disowned by her remaining family and shunned by the community where she has lived her whole life, Kate must find a way to deal with the repercussions of her own actions. Can she build a new life on the ashes of the old.....or will she lose everything she values?

'My life is free, random and spontaneous. This in itself creates enormous energy and clarity in body and mind.' (Miriam Lancewood). Miriam Lancewood is a young Dutch woman living a primitive, nomadic life in the heart of the mountains with her New Zealand husband. She lives simply in a tent or hut and survives by hunting wild animals, foraging edible plants and using minimal supplies. For the last six years she has lived this way, through all seasons, often cold, hungry and isolated in the bush.

This is a collection of short stories about contemporary women living and working in the western United States. They each face challenges - poverty, violence, grief, discrimination - and handle them in their own way, but usually with a spirit of grit and determination. Three of these stories have never before been published, and one was a 2021 finalist in The LAURA Short Story contest for members of Women Writing the West.

Love in Hatfield: The Story Of Kgomotso By AS Davids Kgomotso, a bright and disciplined young woman from Hammanskraal, arrives in Pretoria full of dreams and ambition. She’s the first in her family to attend university, determined to become a chartered accountant and make her parents proud. But nothing could prepare her for the seductive chaos of life in Hatfield, where freedom, fast money, and false love walk the same streets. Navigating the temptations of blessers, the pressure of dating apps, academic stress, and painful betrayals, Kgomotso’s journey is one of survival, self-...

A celebration of living with HIV/AIDS for over thirty years, Jeannine Fosca vulnerably reflects on her life, and with a rawness, reveals moments that provided her with opportunities for self-acceptance and growth. Whether feeling and appreciating the sensations of existence in her world, making choices that led down a path of lessons, or forging forward in faith of the joys life offers, her story is as an ordinary and extraordinary one. Immerse yourself in her story and feel compassion for others and allow that compassion to flow and embrace you too. How does your own story resonate with ...

Historia o odwadze, żeglarstwie bez GPS-a i kobietach na morzu. „Samotne oceany” to pełna zdumiewających spostrzeżeń biografia Krystyny Chojnowskiej-Liskiewicz–inżynier budowy statków, jachtowym kapitanie żeglugi wielkiej, pierwszej kobiecie na świecie, która samotnie opłynęła Ziemię.

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All Roads Lead Home, Shipwrecked off the 7th Continent unveils an entertaining behind-the-scenes look at Lisa's life, world travels, and heroic, death defying journey on and off of the Explorer.

On January 24, 1943, 230 women were placed in four cattle trucks on a train in Compiegne, in Northeastern France, and the doors bolted shut for the journey to Auschwitz. They were members of the French Resistance, ranging in age from teenagers to the elderly, women who before the war had been doctors, farmers' wives, secretaries, biochemists, schoolgirls. With immense courage they had taken up arms against a brutal occupying force; now their friendship would give them strength as they experienced unimaginable horrors.

What does it take to find courage in the midst of deprivation and devastation? Why are some people able to continue living with purpose, even when faced with loss and despair? How does our community turn challenge into triumph? And what can we learn from the exceptional women in our midst who have done just that? It might feel like we are living in unprecedented times, but ours is not the first generation to withstand upheaval as seismic as the COVID-19 pandemic has caused.

Forgiveness is beyond the power of the Siren. Magic and mystery fill the Siren’s Realm, but danger seeps into the cracks of her world. The Compère has arrived, bringing with him spectacle laced with brutality. In the face of unprecedented fear, the people of the Siren’s Realm need a champion to defend them. But Bertrand Wayland has fled the Siren’s Realm and the people who dwell there. The Siren does not take abandonment lightly. As the danger from the Compère grows, the Siren casts Maggie Trent from her realm and into a world of darkness where death lurks in every shadow. With her ...

A romantic suspense survival story - With a killer in their midst, who can they trust? On route to her new archaeological dig, Bernadette Ashford's dream job morphs into a nightmare after a message warns her life is in danger. A last-minute decision catapults her onto an ill-fated plane and separates her from her beloved sister. Now lost in the Amazon jungle with other survivors of the plane crash, they are being hunted by ruthless mercenaries. Desperate to locate her sister, Bernie joins forces with the one man she knows she shouldn't trust - Zane MacIntosh, a suspected artefacts smuggler,...

Run Rachel Run is a true story, not just based on a true story. Rachel Blum was 12 when the Nazis invaded her town. Over the next three years, she witnessed war, risked her life to smuggle food for her family, escaped liquidation, hid with a kind Polish couple whose son worked for the SS, was questioned if she was a Jew by an SS General, and engineered an incredibly dangerous scheme to overturn a moving trainload of 1,000 Nazi soldiers.