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Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul is your handbook for surviving and succeeding during the exciting teen years with both your sanity and sense of humour intact. It contains invaluable lessons on the nature of friendship and love, the importance of belief in the future and the value of respect for yourself and others. It also deals with tough issues like death, suicide and the loss of love. You'll relate to and learn from the inspirational stories, without feeling criticised or judged. Like a good friend, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul will be there for you when you need someone and cheer you up when you're down.

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From budding bloggers to bestselling novelists, your fellow writers share their best advice, writing tips, time management strategies, and personal ups and downs in the business of writing. These stories will motivate you, entertain you, and keep those words flowing!Bestselling novelist J.A. Jance explains how her next book rights a wrong done to a friend killed in Vietnam. Award-winning Young Adult novelist Sarah Darer Littman talks about her “second book blues.” Read how bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan was mentored in the writing world by someone she had first mentored in the TV world, and how Jenna Glatzer overcame her agoraphobia to ghostwrite Celine Dion’s biography. Marc Tyler Nobleman explains how he unmasked the true creator of the Batman series. With chapters on overcoming your fears, beating writer’s block, accepting rejection, and making time to write, you’ll feel like you’re at a first-class writers’ conference. Additional chapters cover how to use writers’ groups and mentors effectively, tried and true methods to find new inspiration, and how writing can change your own life and others.

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Older teenagers will find comfort and inspiration in these 101 stories about the hardest parts of being a teenager.These stories for older teenagers cover mature topics and may not be suitable for younger teens. Being a teenager is difficult even under the best conditions, but these stories cover the toughest times, with tales of mental illness, abuse, eating disorders, self-destructive behavior, family and friend issues, love gone wrong, illness, and untimely deaths. When bad things happen, the challenges can feel overwhelming, but tough times can turn into great times. Teens will find comfort and inspiration in these stories, written by other teens just like them, who overcame their challenges and found happiness and meaning in their lives. Great advice and inspiration from people who really care.

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Miracles happen all the time and these 101 amazing stories of answered prayers will fill you with awe, inspire you, and strengthen your faith and hope.These fascinating stories prove that God is actively involved in our lives, listening to our heartfelt hopes and needs. You will be awed by miraculous true accounts of healing, divine appointments, angels among us, signs from above, timely gifts, and other answered prayers, including: Bryan, whose terminal bone cancer disappeared after his name was put on prayer lists all over the country. Dot, who prayed for a white station wagon to replace her broken down car, and was given one the next week by her boss. Joy, blinded by eye surgery, who found her husband in a snowstorm having a heart attack, after asking Jesus to show her the way. Ellie, who asked God for a sign from her late son, and was given a dream in which he assured her they would meet again. Carol, who substituted prayer for a cigarette every time she had a craving and finally managed to quit smoking. Six-year-old Clem, whose long-divorced parents reconciled the day after he asked God to put them back together.

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You’ll be inspired by these 101 true stories about how positive thinking can change your life!Everyone needs a little attitude adjustment once in a while, and these amazing true life stories reveal how real people used positive thinking to improve their lives and overcome challenges. You’ll read stories about how you can: make every day a special day incorporate gratitude and joy into your daily life count your blessings and change your outlook use a few well-chosen words to reorient your life manage cancer and other health challenges through a positive attitude simplify and have a more meaningful life learn to find the silver lining in every situation turn adversity into opportunity

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This collection of comforting stories provides support in your time of need. Find inspiration in stories about coping with loss, regaining your strength, appreciating life, and finding new joy.When you’re hurting, it helps to read stories from other people who have been through the same thing. Losing a loved one, whether a parent, a child, a spouse, a sibling, or a dear friend, is a shared human experience. Take comfort and find inspiration in these personal and revealing stories from people who have been there. Read about how they handled loss and found their way to recovery, finding acceptance, new happiness and meaning in their lives. This book is like having your own portable support group.

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