Women Survival Stories

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    • A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
    • By: Jennifer Niven
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition.....

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    • Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
    • By: Alice Vincent
    • Narrated by: Fiona Hampton
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work....

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    • My Story of Love, Survival and Self-Discovery
    • By: Miriam Lancewood
    • Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Miriam Lancewood is a young Dutch woman living a primitive, nomadic life in the heart of the mountains with her New Zealand husband....

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    • The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival
    • By: Juliane Diller Koepcke, Ross Benjamin - translator
    • Narrated by: Judith Georgi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • She was 17 years old on a Christmas Eve flight 40 years ago to join her father for Christmas when the unimaginable happened. The Lockheed L-188A Electra, on the way from Lima to Pucallpa, flew directly into a thunderstorm.

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    • Child Abuse True Stories
    • By: Kat Ward
    • Narrated by: Bridget Thomas
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • When Kat Ward put down her pen after finishing the seventh book in her “KERI” series, she considered her mission complete.

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    • Groomed, trapped and abused. This is my true story of survival.
    • By: Sophie Crockett, Douglas Wight
    • Narrated by: Janine Cooper Marshall
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • ‘Asperger’s made me a prisoner in my own home. When I finally entered the real world, evil was waiting.’ A shocking true account of one girl’s harrowing journey to survival....

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    • Abducted by Traffickers. Sold as a Sex Slave. This Is My True Story.
    • By: Sarah Forsyth, Tim Tate
    • Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 19-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • Sarah Forsyth has spent most of her life in fear. After overcoming the hurt and heartbreak of a horrific childhood, Sarah managed to build a new life for herself as a nursery nurse. Then, one day, she spotted a newspaper advert for a job in a crèche in Amsterdam...

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    • The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
    • By: Melissa L. Sevigny
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Brave the Wild River is a spellbinding adventure of two women who risked their lives to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West....

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    • The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
    • By: Mary Mann Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin Creel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866-c.1936) was encouraged to record her experiences as a female pioneer. The result is the only known firsthand account....

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    • Unloved as a Girl, Abused as a Woman - the True Story of Ava’s Fight for Survival
    • By: Ava Thomas, Toni Maguire
    • Narrated by: Katy Sobey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Ava Thomas knew leaving was the right decision. Trapped and manipulated in her relationship, and after yet another violent beating whilst she was pregnant, Ava was helped to a women's refuge with her children....

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    • A True Story of War, Rape, Courage and Survival
    • By: Jean Sasson
    • Narrated by: Parisa Johnston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • This is the true story of Yasmeena, a bright and beautiful young Lebanese woman who was imprisoned in Kuwait during the first Gulf War....

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    • One Woman's Journey to Rebuild a Life Shattered by Violence: A True Story of Survival and Hope
    • By: Madeleine Black
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Black, Henrietta Meire
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Living in a state of shock and self-loathing, it took Madeleine years of struggle to confront the buried memories of the first attack against her at age 13 and begin to undo the damage it wrought, as men continued to take advantage of her fragility....

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    • An Inspiring, True Story of Courage and Determination
    • By: Annie Dodds
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 26-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • When her husband passed away after a long, trying illness, Annie Dodds was forced to sell almost everything to settle his estate. Homeless, with little money, she wondered if it might be time to pursue a decades-old dream of living a quiet, self-sufficient life alone, off-grid....

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    • The Personal Story of the Only White Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
    • By: Alexandra David-Neel
    • Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David-Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city....

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    • Stories from the Men and Women Who Built, Serviced and Flew Aircraft in WWII
    • By: Edward Smithies
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 14-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • When we remember the Second World War in the air, we think of fighter pilots and bomber crews....

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    • A True Story of Courage and Survival
    • By: Wendy Holden
    • Narrated by: Helen Langford
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 19-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • An unlikely friendship between two couples leads to one of the most remarkable acts of selfless sacrifice when the Nazis invade their country....

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    • A True Story of Survival
    • By: Annette Herfkens
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Vine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • On the morning of November 14, 1992, Annette Herfkens, a top Dutch banker, packed her luggage for a romantic getaway with her longtime fiancé....

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