Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Story behind the Song
The Exclusive Personal Stories behind 101 of Your Favorite Songs
Ever wondered what inspired your favorite songs? What was going on in the songwriter's life at the time? Who those lyrics were really about? Did he really write the song on a napkin? Many of music's most famous names reveal the stories behind their best-known songs. Many of these exclusive stories are told for the first time. Photos and lyrics are included too. You will never listen to these songs the same way again. A great gift for anyone who loves music, any age.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Count Your Blessings
101 Stories of Gratitude, Fortitude, and Silver Linings
This follow-on book to Tough Times, Tough People continues Chicken Soup for the Soul’s focus on inspiration and hope in these difficult times. These inspirational stories remind us that each day holds something to be thankful for — whether it is having the sun shine or having food on the table. Power outages and storms, health scares and illnesses, job woes and financial insecurities, housing challenges and family worries test us all. But there is always a silver lining. The simple pleasures of family, home, health, and inexpensive good times are described. These stories of optimism, faith, and strength will make a great start to 2010.
Almost everyone thinks their own family is “dysfunctional” or at least has a dysfunctional member or two. These stories of wacky yet lovable relatives, holiday meltdowns, and funny foibles, along with more serious stories about abuse, controlling family members, and flare-ups, show readers that they aren’t alone. All in the Family is a quirky and fun holiday book, and a great bridal shower or wedding gift! Norman Rockwell’s famous “Freedom from Want” Thanksgiving family painting appears on the back cover and is lovingly parodied on the front, driving home the point that all our families, no matter how much we love them, are just a little dysfunctional!
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotional Stories for Women
Throughout time, women have shared their joys and sorrows, thoughts and feelings, experiences and life lessons with one another. The tradition continues in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotional Stories for Women with 101 stories of friendship, faith, and comfort that affirm God's unconditional love and His wisdom. Women will find encouragement, solace, and strength in these personal stories and prayers that cover everyday trials to tests of faith, to marriage and parenting, to service to others and self-esteem.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat
101 Stories about Life, Love, and Lessons
Cats have always been wonderful companions and playmates that brighten and enrich our lives but they are also amazing teachers. In this book, cat lovers, both lifelong and reluctant, share what they have learned from their furry companions. Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat will delight readers with humorous, heartwarming, and inspiring stories about lessons our feline friends and family members have taught us.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog
101 Stories about Life, Love, and Lessons
Dogs have always been considered companions and playmates that brighten and enrich our lives but they are also wonderful and amazing teachers. The lessons we learn from our canine friends come in all shapes and sizes, just like they do. In this book, dog lovers share what they have learned from our greatest heroes and healers. Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog will delight readers with humorous, heartwarming, and inspiring stories about lessons our canine friends and family members have taught us.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Extraordinary Teens
Personal Stories and Advice from Today’s Most Inspiring Youth
Extraordinary Teens will inspire young adults with its tales of teenagers achieving great success. This book includes personal stories from many well-known young professional athletes, business entrepreneurs, motivational speakers, actors, writers, and filmmakers. Every person shares his or her story along with priceless advice that will show you how you too, can achieve something extraordinary. Each story describes the specific turning points, challenges, and breakthroughs that shaped and motivated these individuals to accomplish incredible things. Learn from these individuals who are walking examples of possibility.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People
101 Stories about Overcoming the Economic Crisis and Other Challenges
Tough times won't last, but tough people will. Many people have lost money and many are losing their jobs, homes, or at least making cutbacks. Many others have faced life-changing natural disasters, such as hurricanes and fires, as well as health and family difficulties. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People is all about overcoming adversity, pulling together, making do with less, facing challenges, and finding new joys in a simpler life. The stories in this book will remind us that we are all going through tough times but we are tough people and we will survive.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Campus Chronicles
101 Real College Stories from Real College Students
College life can be fun, stressful, exciting, and educational in more ways than one. Campus Chronicles is a book for any current or prospective college student who wants to know what really goes on in the dorms and in the classroom. Story topics range from the academic, like studying abroad and picking majors, to partying and life choices. Read about other college students’ spring breaks, personal growth, relationships with family and significant others, Greek life, transferring schools, money woes, and alternative paths. Campus Chronicles is about growing up, making choices, learning lessons, and making the best of your last years as a student.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Golf Book
101 Great Stories from the Course and the Clubhouse
Golf is a sport of passion and obsession like none other, and who is better positioned to obtain the best stories from the golf industry than Golf Digest editor Max Adler and team. Chicken Soup and Golf Digest magazine have put together a great collection of personal stories that will inspire, amuse, and surprise golfers. Celebrity golfers, weekend golfers, beginners, and pros all share the best stories they’ve told at the 19th hole about good times on and off the course. Chicken Soup’s golf books have always been very successful -- with the addition of Golf Digest’s industry connections, this book should hit a hole in one.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Power Moms
101 Stories Celebrating the Power of Choice for Stay at Home and Work from Home Moms
Wendy Walker, author of Four Wives and The Queen of Suburbia, has become the go-to media expert on women leaving the workforce to raise their families and run their homes. This book contains 101 great stories from mothers who have made the choice to stay home, or work from home, while raising their families and becoming active members of their communities. Stories from grateful husbands and children are also a fun read. These multi-tasking, high-performing women have become today’s Power Moms. Every stay-at-home and work-from-home mom will view this book as having been written just for her. Perfect for book groups, it will also contain a reader guide.
101 Stories Celebrating Double Trouble and Multiple Blessing
This is Chicken Soup’s first book about the growing world of twins and multiples. Co-author Susan M. Heim, a well regarded expert on twins with several other books on the topic, has collected stories that highlight the special bond that twins share, the joys and challenges of raising multiples, the unique circumstances of their arrival, the double trouble that twins get into, the multiple blessings of being a twin or having them in the family, and adventures in raising triplets and quadruplets, too! Twins, parents of multiples, relatives of twins, or anyone interested in twins, triples, and more, will enjoy these inspirational, humorous, and touching stories.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book
101 Stories of Courage, Support, and Love
A support group you can hold in your hands, these intimate stories by cancer patients and their loved ones, medical professionals, clergy and friends, are a must-read for anyone affected by cancer. Writers share all their experiences -- from the initial diagnosis, to breaking the news to loved ones, to discussing the effect on home, school, and work. Stories also cover securing a medical team, living through an ever-changing self-image, the embarrassment of losing hair, and discovering a new spirituality. A bonus book -- a no-holds-barred memoir by cancer patient Elizabeth Bayer -- is bound into this volume, after the full-length Chicken Soup for the Soul book.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball
101 Great Hoop Stories from Players, Coaches and Fans
Chicken Soup for the Soul has a slam dunk with its first sports book in years, and its first on basketball, with the Orlando Magic’s very own Pat Williams, well know author and motivational speaker. Pat has drawn on his basketball industry connections to compile great stories from on and off the court. Fans will be inspired, surprised, and amused by inside stories from well-known coaches and players, fascinating looks behind the scenes, and anecdotes from the people who make it all possible -- the fans. Some interesting words of wisdom from Pat for athletes and anyone looking for motivation are included. A slam dunk for anyone interested in competitive sports.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christian Kids
Stories to Inspire, Amuse, and Warm the Hearts of Christian Kids and Their Parents
This is the first Chicken Soup book, with 101 great stories from Chicken Soup’s library, created specifically for Christian parents to read themselves or to share with their children. All of the selected stories are appropriate for children and are about raising Christian kids twelve and under. Christian parents will enjoy reading these heartfelt, inspiring, and often humorous stories about the ups and downs of daily life in today’s contemporary Christian families, written by other Christian parents.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christian Teen Talk
Christian Teens Share Their Stories of Support, Inspiration and Growing Up
Devout Christian teens care about their connection and relationship with God, but they are also experiencing all the ups and downs of teenage life. This book provides support to teens who care about their faith but are trying to navigate their teenage years. This book includes 101 heartfelt, true stories about love, compassion, loss, forgiveness, friends, school, and faith. It also covers tough issues such as self-destructive behavior, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and divorce.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: On Being a Parent
Inspirational, Humorous, and Heartwarming Stories about Parenthood
Parenting is the hardest and most rewarding job in the world. This upbeat and compelling new book includes the best selections on parenting from Chicken Soup’s rich history, with 101 stories carefully selected to appeal to both mothers and fathers. This is a great book for couples to share, whether they are embarking on a new adventure as parents or reflecting on their lifetime experience, with stories written by parents about children and by children about their parents.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories of Faith
Inspirational Stories of Hope, Devotion, Faith and Miracles
This is the first Chicken Soup book to focus specifically on stories of faith, including 101 of the best stories from Chicken Soup’s library on faith, hope, miracles, and devotion. These true stories written by regular people tell of prayers answered miraculously, amazing coincidences, rediscovered faith, and the serenity that comes from believing in a greater power, appealing to Christians and those of other faiths, and everyone who seeks enlightenment and inspiration through a good story.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tales of Golf and Sport
The Joy, Frustration, and Humor of Golf and Sport
Golfers are a special breed. They endure bad weather, early wake up calls, great expense, and “interesting” clothing to engage in their favorite sport. This book contains Chicken Soup’s 101 best stories about golfers, golfing, and other sports. Chicken Soup’s approach to sports books has always been unique -- professional and amateur athletes contribute stories from the heart, yielding a book about the human side of golf and other sports, not a how-to book.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grand and Great
Grandparents and Grandchildren Share Their Stories of Love and Wisdom
A parent becomes a new person the day the first grandchild is born. Formerly serious adults become grandparents who dote on their grandchildren. This new book includes the best stories on being a grandparent from past Chicken soup books, representing a new reading experience for even the most devoted Chicken Soup fan. Everyone can understand the special ties between grandparents and grandchildren -- the unlimited love, the mutual admiration and unqualified acceptance.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Happily Ever After
Fun and Heartwarming Stories about Finding and Enjoying Your Mate
Dating and courtship, romance, love, and marriage are favorite Chicken Soup topics. Women, and even men, love to read true stories about how it happened for other people. This book includes the 101 best stories on love and marriage chosen from a wide variety of past Chicken Soup books. These heartwarming stories will inspire and amuse readers, whether they are just starting to date, are newly wed, or are veterans of a long marriage.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Like Mother, Like Daughter
Stories about the Special Bond between Mothers and Daughters
How often have you seen a teenage girl pretend to be perturbed, but secretly smile, when she is told that she acts or looks just like her mother? Fathers, brothers, and friends shake their head in wonder as girls “turn into their mothers.” This book contains the 101 best stories from Chicken Soup’s library on the mother-daughter bond. Mothers and daughters will laugh, cry, and find inspiration in these stories that remind them of their mutual appreciation.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats
Heartwarming and Humorous Stories about our Feline Family Members
We are all crazy about our mysterious cats. Sometimes they are our best friends; sometimes they are aloof. They are fun to watch and often surprise us. These true stories, the best from Chicken Soup’s library, will make readers appreciate their own cats and see them with a new eye. Readers will revel in the heartwarming, amusing, inspirational, and occasionally tearful stories about our best friends and faithful companions -- our cats.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs
Heartwarming and Humorous Stories about our Companions and Best Friends
We are all crazy about our dogs and can’t read enough about them, whether they’re misbehaving and giving us big, innocent looks, or loyally standing by us in times of need. This new book from Chicken Soup for the Soul contains the 101 best dog stories from the company’s extensive library. Readers will revel in the heartwarming, amusing, inspirational, and occasionally tearful stories about our best friends and faithful companions -- our dogs.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Moms & Sons
Stories by Mothers and Sons, in Appreciation of Each Other
There is a special bond between mothers and their sons that never goes away. This book contains the 101 best stories from Chicken Soup’s library honoring the lifelong relationship between mothers and their male offspring. These heartfelt and loving stories written by mothers, grandmothers, and sons, about each other, span generations. Many of these stories will make readers laugh and some will make them cry, but they will all remind them of the eternal bond they share.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Moms Know Best
Stories of Appreciation for Mothers and Their Wisdom
“Mom will know where it is... what to say... how to fix it.” This is the first Chicken Soup book to focus on the pervasive wisdom of mothers everywhere. It includes the 101 best stories from Chicken Soup’s library on our perceptive, understanding, and insightful mothers. These stories celebrate the special bond between mothers and children, our mothers’ unerring wisdom about everything from the mundane to the life-changing, and the hard work that goes into being a mother.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Older & Wiser
Stories of Inspiration, Humor, and Wisdom about Life at a Certain Age
We know how it is to cross the magic sixty-year mark and feel young at heart, despite a few new wrinkles. This is the first Chicken Soup book to focus on the wonders of getting older, with many stories about dynamic older singles and couples finding new careers, new sports, new love, and new meaning in their lives. This inspiring, amusing, and heartwarming book includes the best 101 stories for today’s young seniors from Chicken Soup’s library.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Preteens Talk
Inspiration and Support for Preteens from Kids Just Like Them
Being a preteen is harder than it looks. School is more challenging, bodies are changing, boys and girls notice each other, relationships with parents are different, and new issues arise with friends. This book, with 101 stories from Chicken Soup’s library, supports and inspires preteens and reminds them they are not alone. Stories written by preteens just like them cover friends, family, love, school, sports, challenges, embarrassing moments, and overcoming obstacles.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Growing Up
Stories about Growing Up, Meeting Challenges, and Learning from Life
Being a teenager is hard -- school is challenging, college and career are looming on the horizon, family issues arise, friends and love come and go, bodies and emotions go through major changes, and many teens experience the loss of a loved one for the first time. This book reminds teenagers that they are not alone, as they read stories written by other teens about the problems and issues they all face every day.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Relationships
Stories about Family, Friends and Love
The teenage years are difficult. Old friends drift away, new friends come with new issues, teens fall in and out of love, and relationships with family members change. This book reminds teenagers that they are not alone, as they read the 101 best stories from Chicken Soup’s library written, by other teens just like themselves, about the problems and issues they face every day -- stories about friends, family, love, loss, and many lessons learned.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Tough Times
Stories about the Hardest Parts of Being a Teenager
Being a teenager is difficult even under idyllic circumstances. But when bad things happen, the challenges of being a teenager can be overwhelming, leading to self-destructive behavior, eating disorders, substance abuse, and other challenges. In addition, many teens are faced with illness, car accidents, loss of loved ones, divorces, or other upheavals. This book includes 101 of our best stories about the toughest teenage times -- and how to overcome them.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Wisdom of Dads
Loving Stories about Fathers and Being a Father
Children view their fathers with awe from the day they are born. Fathers are big and strong and seem to know everything, except when their kids are teenagers -- then they know nothing. This book represents a new theme for Chicken Soup, with 101 great stories selected from our library, all focusing on the wisdom of fathers. Stories are written by sons and daughters about their fathers, and by fathers about their children.
Chicken Soup for the Soul:
Woman to Woman
Women Sharing Their Stories of Hope, Humor, and Inspiration
Women have always been wonderful sources of inspiration and support for each other. They are willing to lay bare their souls, even to perfect strangers. Put two random women together in a waiting room, on an airplane, in a line at the supermarket, and the sharing begins, often at the deepest level. This book contains 101 of our best stories from women sharing their stories of hope, humor, and inspiration with each other.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Middle School
101 Stories of Life, Love, and Learning for Younger Teens
Almost everyone hated middle school. It’s a very tough time for adolescents. This “support group in a book” is specifically geared to younger teens -- the ones still worrying about puberty, cliques, discovering the opposite sex, and figuring out who they are. Meant for middle school students ages eleven to fourteen, stories cover regrets and lessons learned, love and “like,” popularity, friendship, tough issues such as divorce, illness, and death, failure and rising above it, embarrassing moments, bullying, and finding something you’re passionate about. The stories provide emotional support, humor, and inspiration for the young teens making their way through the tumultuous middle school years.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk High School
101 Stories of Life, Love, and Learning for Older Teens
This book focuses on issues specific to high school age kids, ages fourteen to eighteen. Teens in high school have mainly moved past worrying about puberty and cliques, so stories in this book cover topics of interest to older teens such as sports and clubs, religion and faith, driving, curfews, growing up, self-image and self-acceptance, dating and sex, family relationships, friends, divorce, illness, death, pregnancy, drinking, failure, and preparing for life after high school. High school students will find comfort and inspiration in the words of this book, referring to it through all four years of their high school experience, like a portable support group.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Getting In... to College
101 True Stories from Kids Who Have Lived Through It
These days, colleges are deluged with applications, and the application process has become something traumatic that students and parents experience together. This book isn’t about how to get into college -- it’s about providing emotional, not tactical, support. The stories in this book are written by kids who have been there and want to pass on their words of support to the kids about to go through the whole ordeal. Story topics include parental and peer pressure, the stress of grades and standardized tests, applications and interviews, recruiting, disappointments, and successes. Parents and students alike will find Getting In... to College a great source of inspiration.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Divorce and Recovery
101 Stories about Surviving and Thriving after Divorce
Chicken Soup’s first book on divorce is wonderfully uplifting and filled with stories and poems from men and women who have been there and successfully navigated the divorce and recovery process. Heartfelt stories provide support, inspiration, and humor on all the phases of divorce, including the initial shock of the decision, the logistics of living through it, the inevitable self-discovery, and the new world of dating and even remarriage. Readers turn to Chicken Soup during the good times and the bad, and this book is a long overdue addition, created for the millions of divorced and divorcing men and women across the world.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Empty Nesters
101 Stories about Surviving and Thriving When the Kids Leave Home
This book provides support during a very emotional but exciting time for parents -- sending their children off to college, new homes, or careers. It’s a must-read for empty nesters or soon-to-be empty nesters grappling with their own bittersweet new freedom. These heartfelt stories about gazing at surprisingly clean bedrooms, starting new careers, rediscovering spouses, and handling the continuing, and often humorous, needs of children, even while they are away at college or ensconced in their own apartments, will inspire, support, and amuse parents. They’ll nod their heads, cry a little, and laugh a lot, as they recognize themselves and their almost grown-up children in these stories.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Cheer
Stories about the Love, Inspiration, and Joy of Christmas
Everyone loves Christmas and the holiday season. We reunite scattered family members, watch the wonder in a child’s eyes, and feel the joy of giving gifts. The rituals of the holiday season give a rhythm to the years and create a foundation for our lives, as we gather with family, with our communities at church, at school, and even at the mall, to share the special spirit of the season, brightening those long winter days.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dads & Daughters
Stories about the Special Relationship between Fathers and Daughters
The day a girl is born, she starts a special relationship with her father. It doesn’t matter her age -- she will always be his little girl. This wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between fathers and daughters provides a new reading experience for Chicken Soup fans, with our 101 best stories written by fathers and daughters about each other, celebrating the special bond between fathers and daughters as they move through all of life’s different phases.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Catholic Faith
101 Stories to Offer Hope, Deepen Faith, and Spread Love
This is Chicken Soup for the Soul’s first book written just for Catholics, and it is sure to please all Catholics, from the once-a-year attendee at Christmas Mass, to the devout church volunteer and daily worshipper. With 101 poignant and spirit-filled stories written by Catholics of all ages, this book covers the gamut, including fun stories about growing up Catholic to serious stories about sacraments and miracles. Whether the reader is a cradle Catholic, a convert, simply curious or struggling, these stories describe what it means to be a Catholic. They bring happiness, hope, and healing to everyone in all stages of life and faith.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Resolution
101 Heartwarming, Healthful, and Humorous Resolutions... and how they turned out!
Everyone makes resolutions -- for New Year’s, for big birthdays, for new school years. In fact, most of us are so good at resolutions that we make the same ones year after year. This book is an uplifting look at those resolutions. Why did we make them? How did they turn out? What did we learn? Stories talk about readers who learned to be proud of who they are, what they achieved, and what they know they can achieve going forward. This collection of great true stories covers topics such as losing weight, getting organized, stopping bad habits, restoring relationships, dealing with substance abuse, and changing jobs.
