Women Survival Stories

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.

Cancer Heroes is a collection of stories of hope, healing, and profound transformation. Nine women share brave and intimate accounts of their unique cancer experiences, from the shock of diagnosis and anxiety of cancer treatment to the fear of recurrence and the pain of loss. You will find messages of hope and healing from a community of voices of those who have experienced the worst cancer has to offer and, in the process, found inner strength they didn’t know they had.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 Janet Linton was six years old, seen but not heard for several years of sexual abuse, she suffered and her family disowned her from the age of 13 after until today. She is now 34, living with the family secret for 21 years on why she left home at a young age?

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.