Older & Wiser

by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Amy Newmark

Published 30 September 2008
Today's dynamic seniors will appreciate these 101 stories of inspiration, humor, and wisdom about life at a certain age.

You still feel young at heart despite the ups and downs of getting older. You wouldn't trade away those wrinkles if it meant giving up the wisdom you have earned. Be amused, inspired, and comforted by these terrific stories on:
  • starting new careers
  • enjoying travel and new sports
  • surviving illness and loss
  • finding new love
  • enjoying family and friends
  • and not really retiring

Teens share their personal stories and life lessons with you in these 101 stories about growing up, meeting challenges, and learning from life.

Being a teenager is hard but you have lots of friends in the Chicken Soup family. In this collection, we share our 101 best stories with you about growing up, meeting challenges, and learning from life.

Teens share their stories with you on:
  • being yourself and being proud of it
  • peer pressure and popular kids
  • changing family relationships
  • your new challenges in school
  • boyfriends and girlfriends
  • overcoming obstacles and meeting challenges

Applying to colleges is stressful, and teens will appreciate reading these stories from other kids who been through it and understand the anxiety and uncertainty of the process.

Colleges are deluged with applications and the college application process has become traumatic and all-consuming. In this portable “support group” for high school students, kids share their stories of:
  • SAT and ACT testing madness
  • parental pressure — and support
  • stress and the need to “have a life”
  • road trips, interviews, and auditions
  • disappointments and silver linings
  • gap years and other alternative paths to higher education
  • not getting in anywhere
  • and all the other facets of the college application process!

Your dreams are powerful tools for redirecting your life, changing your relationships, and making you a happier person. Learn how to use your dreams, premonitions, and intuition for personal transformation.

You're too busy during the day to pay attention to that quiet voice inside you that knows you so well. But at night your dreams are a window into what your subconscious is trying to tell you. This enlightening new collection is filled with true, personal stories from ordinary people whose dreams, premonitions, and intuition tapped into the extraordinary wisdom they already had within them.

These 101 tales of inner guidance, divine intervention & miraculous insight will show you how to:
  • Use your dreams as your GPS for navigating life
  • Find love & companionship-from soul mates to rescue dogs!
  • Face your fears and overcome them with new confidence
  • Accept divine guidance from that little voice in your head
  • Act on your premonitions and avoid dangerous situations
  • Improve your relationships with the living and the deceased
  • Find comfort and closure through messages from heaven



NASCAR

by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Cathy Elliott

Published 16 February 2010
Fans will be inspired, surprised, and amused by these inside stories from the race track and pit. Drivers, their families, pit crews, and fans share their behind-the-scene stories to give readers a front row view of the sport.

Get behind the driver's seat with these personal tales and anecdotes from inside the race track. Famous drivers and their families, pit crews, and fans share their stories of perseverance, triumph, comebacks, and life on and off the track.

Includes stories by the following NASCAR drivers:

Aric Almirola

Buddy Baker

Kurt Busch

Kerry Earnhardt

Jimmie Johnson

Bobby Labonte

Joey Logano

Casey Mears

Ryan Newman

Mike Skinner

Scott Speed

Tony Stewart

Martin Truex Jr.

Brian Vickers

Darrell Waltrip

Michael Waltrip

NASCAR CEO Brian France

Former NBA player and now NASCAR broadcaster: Brad Dougherty

Lt. Governor of South Carolina Andre Bauer


With many more to come, including more of the biggest names in the NASCAR world.


Power Moms

by Jack Canfield

Published 24 March 2009
1. Issue of moms leaving the workforce, opt-out moms hot topic these days in the media

2. Stories positively discuss the choices made by mothers to give up their full time work to be stay at home or work from home moms

3. Includes stories from grateful husbands and children

4. Must have book for Mother's Day

5. Every mom views herself as a "Power Mom."

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 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 contain a reader guide.

Dog lovers will enjoy these heartwarming and humorous stories about our companions and best friends.

We are all crazy about our dogs and can't read enough about them. This book contains the 101 best dog stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul's extensive library. Revel in the heartwarming, amusing, inspirational, and occasionally tearful stories about our best friends and faithful companions - our dogs. See your own dogs with a new eye through these true stories about:
dogs changing people's livesthe amazing intuition of dogsdogs saving livesthe high intelligence of dogsdogs helping other animals

Cat lovers will enjoy these heartwarming and humorous stories about our feline family members.

In this collection of 101 stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul's extensive library, readers will revel in the heartwarming, amusing, inspirational, and occasionally tearful stories about our best friends and faithful companions - our cats. See your own cats with a new eye through these true stories in which cats:
heal people or other petssave livesrejuvenate friendshipsgive new meaning to livessave family relationships

This collection of 101 stories of courage, support and love is a support group you can hold in your hands.

These intimate stories by cancer patients and their loved ones, medical professionals, 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.

Plus a Bonus Book-the inspirational frank memoir It's Just a Word by cancer patient Elizabeth Bayer







Empty Nesters... You have the whole nest to yourself... and that's not bad! You'll appreciate these 101 stories about surviving and thriving when the kids leave home.

You think that saying goodbye to the kids is going to be tough... but then you discover the new you - with free time, a clean kitchen, and unlimited possibilities.

This terrific book for empty nesters or soon-to-be empty nesters contains 101 stories written by parents who have been there already and share their experiences. You will be amused, inspired, and supported by stories from parents - and those almost grown-up kids - about:
parents and children learning to separatethe bittersweet thrill of clean bedroomsrediscovering spouses and friendsstarting new careers and hobbiestraveling and enjoying new freedomhandling the continuing, and often humorous, needs of "adult" children


Now more than ever, our teenagers need to be reminded of all that is good in their lives. These 101 true stories of teens for teens serve as that reminder, and will leave them feeling better about their present, and their future.

In Chicken Soup for the Soul: Attitude of Gratitude for Teenagers, teenage readers will learn how gratitude, even in the most challenging situations, can change their lives for the better. These 101 real-life stories show teens how to see their lives from a new perspective: through a lens of gratitude. These stories of thankfulness, mindfulness, appreciation for family and friends, doing the right thing, resilience, making best efforts, and doing good deeds for others are sure to encourage the good values and behavior that we wish for them. Teenagers will feel less alone and more empowered as they read about other teens who have faced the same ups and downs in their own lives.

Chicken Soup for the Soul books are 100% made in the USA and each book includes stories from as diverse a group of writers as possible. Chicken Soup for the Soul solicits and publishes stories from the LGBTQ community and from people of all ethnicities, nationalities, and religions.