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'FOR THE TAKING' is the remarkable story of rising sci-fi author Donnalee Vodka's life (Don Vodka), and takes the reader on an adventure that stretches across the entire country. Sometimes heart-wrenching and sad, and at other times light and uplifting. Defying the odds, Donnalee survived and managed to fill her seventeen years with Forrest Gump-like twists and turns along the way. From the desert of Nevada, to a circus life in Toledo, to Hollywood and Beverly Hills, across the ocean to Hawaii, and finally back to the mainland—was she running from a nightmare, or chasing a dream? To know ...

Elizabeth's matchmaking for Anne de Bourgh backfires when she falls for Anne's secret fiancé, Mr. Darcy. When Elizabeth Bennet arrives in London for the social season, she never expects to befriend the pale, sheltered Anne de Bourgh. Beneath Anne’s quiet exterior burns a brilliant mind yearning for freedom, and Elizabeth cannot resist drawing her into London’s glittering literary scene. Determined to find Anne true love, Elizabeth introduces her to charming playwright Julian Gardiner. She doesn’t expect to keep running into the insufferably proud Mr. Darcy—Anne’s stern guardian, ...

Would you like to inspire your son to grow into a brave, confident, and disciplined young man? Are you looking for a way to help him discover his innate strength and courage while teaching him important values for the road ahead? Through 10 empowering stories for boys ages 8-12, your son will meet young heroes just like him, so he can learn from how they face setbacks, overcome challenges, and learn the importance of discipline, perseverance, and gratitude.

If you can't bear to watch the news lately, you're not alone. Luckily, Ione Butler is here to offer you some respite. As the founder of Uplifting Content, a social media platform followed by more than 1.5 million people, she understands the power of inspirational true stories - the kind we don't see covered enough these days. Here, she presents an eclectic group of narratives - some from people she's met in her own travels; others crowdsourced from the uplifting content community or taken from the headlines.

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II offers more inspiring stories to help you master the game we call life. Today's teens have ever more issues and social pressures to juggle than young adults just 20 years ago. This book, like its predecessor, can be your guide, a beacon in the darkness, a safe haven in a storm, a warm hug in the cold and a respite from loneliness. There's no preaching as to what you should and shouldn't do. Instead, this book is full of teens sharing their experiences.

As one of the world's leading experts on disaster, Lucy Easthope has been at the centre of the most seismic events of the last few decades - advising on everything from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami to the 7/7 bombings, the Salisbury poisonings, the Grenfell fire and the COVID-19 pandemic. She has travelled across the world in this unusual role, seeing the very worst that people have to face and finding that even the most extreme of situations, we find the very best of humanity. In her moving memoir, she reveals what happens in the aftermath.

In Fantasy Life, Berry celebrates every aspect of the fantasy sports world. Brilliant trash talk. Unbelievable trophies. Insane draft day locations. Shake-your-head-in-disbelief punishments. Ingenious attempts at cheating. And surprisingly uplifting stories that remind us why we play these games in the first place.

The Struggle for Women’s Rights and Social Justice Continues In the second book in The Love Series, Batu, the heroine from Love’s Transformation, is cast out of her village to face death by predators. After she is saved by the council’s healer and spiritual leader, Taja, he appoints her as his apprentice. Batu’s treacherous antagonist, the High Priest, clamors to have the law changed so women cannot serve as apprentices and have Batu ejected again. Batu and Taja construct a brilliant document to protect women, providing them with equality and the ability to divorce their husbands. ...

Our families can fill us with joy or bother us with constant, even unconscious, power struggles throughout our lives. This new, revised edition of The Winning Family shows a new generation of parents exactly how to strengthen children with positivity and empathy by building instead of tearing down, and responding instead of reacting. Step by step, this beloved book teaches crucial parenting techniques that break intergenerational blame/shame/enabling patterns and help children develop skills to become confident, capable adults with self-worth and healthy self-concepts.

On this inspiring audio program, world-renowned motivational speakers Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen present a hand-picked selection of stories from A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul. This bounty of empowering tales from the best-selling sequel to Chicken Soup for the Soul and A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul will strengthen and sustain you as you listen in your car or in the comfort of your home. It's sure to warm your heart and put a smile on your face.

Love’s Forgiveness (Book 10) Achieving Serenity Through Forgiveness The tenth book, in the Love Series, finds Kaathi, the mystic, and her circle of heroic women embarking on a harrowing journey to the village of Zuba to challenge the male-dominated society addressing problems of emancipation, inequities, worth, freedom, respect, dignity and gender equality. Kaathi stresses the importance of forgiveness to Zendar and guides her to the afterlife where she apologizes to the men she has harmed and helps her achieve serenity. She then encourages and supports Zendar on her arduous, soul-...

LOVE'S SANCTUARY Discovering Inspiration Through Love A Self-Help Novel Offering Emotional and Spiritual Guidance Through Events, Issues and Personal Interaction Kaathi, visits friends in a neighboring village and meets an endearing, enigmatic young girl with great wisdom and spiritual depth. Other women, she encounters and gives sanctuary to, have faced imprisonment in a box, barbaric female circumcision, and sex slavery. She organizes girls and women, who were circumcised, to protest non-violently to force the village elders to enact a law to protect girls from being mutilated. Kaathi’s...

The Quest To Discover Truth And Beloved In Book 13 of the LOVE SERIES, Nicholas, the wandering storyteller, is in Kiev and meets the mythical woman in his most heralded story, and his life is changed dramatically. While in Kiev a rare breatharian accompanies him on his spiritual quest to visit villages and towns across Europe to share Kaathi’s philosophy of love. In Budapest, Nicholas meets a woman with a heightened ability to detect a person’s emotional and character odors, and she eagerly joins them on their quest. After visiting the capitals of Europe, the trio arrive on the African ...

The third volume in the Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul series gives more love, support, and inspiration for the series' loyal teen readers. More and more, life is a struggle for teens. Not just dealing with the tragedies that seem to plague them so often, but also handling the daily pressures that pervade their lives. This book, like the first two volumes in the series, will help them, and will serve as their guide and constant companion.

Love’s Beloved Achieving Women's Equality and Worth In the seventh book in The Love Series, Kaathi, the mystic healer, Jacob, the warrior, and friends confront danger and intrigue in distant villages. Global warming has led to natural disasters wiping out nearly all of humanity. In the post-apocalyptic society, women encounter suppression similar to the Dark Ages. Kaathi and her group visit other nations and encourage women to demand equality, justice, and freedom. Now a force to be reckoned with, Kaathi speaks with the leaders of the three world religions, enraging one of them so ...

A Thrilling Odyssey from Conflict to Love - - - A Self-Help Novel Offering Emotional & Spiritual Guidance Through Events, Issues & Personal Interaction In the sixth book in The Love Series, Kaathi, the village Healer, lives in a future, young, developing society after an apocalypse. She establishes the Relationship Sessions based upon the philosophy of equality, justice, and love in several villages. Angry men rooted in traditional male domination are determined to make her life miserable and make the sessions fail. Despite her joyful presence and spiritual insights, she meets tremendous ...

A CHRONICLE OF BRAVERY IN THE FACE OF DANGER In Book 5 of The Love Series saga,, Kaathi, the enlightened Healer, and Jacob, the Warrior, together with the Tall Ones, Evette and Gene, set out on another adventure to Sumati to share their loving philosophy. In yet another page-turning story about the brutality, negativism and condescending nature of the men of his make-believe world where the greatness of the female spirit that resists, overcomes and sacrifices, Emil Toth expounds upon philosophies of creation and meditation rooted in the enduring power of love. When Kaathi and her fearless ...

Love's Grace The Mystic Healer Uses Love to Conquer All Challenges In the ninth book in The Love Series, Kaathi, the mystic healer, and her friends continue their quest to challenge societies to bring about gender equality, justice, and worth for women wherever their quests lead them. When Kaathi hears Innocent's suffering voice in her head, she takes to the river to find him. On the quest to rescue Innocent, they stop in the village of Obour where they encounter a notorious sex slave trafficker and confront him for his contemptible character and disgusting actions and deceit. They visit ...

Are you struggling to make your kid behave in public? Is your child always throwing temper tantrums in restaurants, airplanes or toy stores? Do you always find yourself on the receiving end of complaints about your kid’s bad behavior in school? Raising a child is an ongoing challenge and it’s your responsibility to help your little one develop into a useful member of society, a self-confident individual, and a happy person. Here’s how you can raise happy kids and transform them into thriving, successful adults!

Love’s Ancients A Spiritual Quest for Enlightenment In Book 4 of The Love Series, Kaathi, the healer, and Jacob, the warrior, embark on a quest to find the Ancients who have been communicating with Kaathi since she was a child. They encroach on the territories of lions, crocodiles, baboons, a race of diminutive hairless people, a new colony of mutants, a married couple of gigantic stature, and people resembling Neanderthals. Their encounters elicit danger, injury, and death. Intrigued by the depth of love inherent in someone as young as Kaathi, some from the new races seek sanctuary with ...