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Nurturing Paws is an uplifting collection of more than 80 short stories and poems celebrating the remarkable ability of animals to ease our physical and emotional pain while showing us love, compassion, and acceptance.

These pieces, written by some of today's most prolific writers, will warm your heart, uplift your spirit and leave you with a greater appreciation of the unconditional love, comfort and friendship we receive from our pets.

Contributors include three time Senior Poet Laureate Elaine Morgan, New York Post and Huffington Post columnist Tina Traster, several Chicken Soup for the Soul® contributors and dozens of award-winning writers.

Living Lessons is an inspirational collection of short stories and poems illustrating the enduring legacy of courage, tolerance, optimism, love and support as it is passed down by our families, friends and special people gracing our lives. These pieces, written by some of today's most prolific writers, will touch your heart, uplift your spirit and help you appreciate the people who touched your life in a positive way.

Discover the awesome power that hope and faith play in our physical, emotional and spiritual healing with this collection of uplifting and life-affirming poems and short stories. Each piece demonstrates the resilient spirit of individuals coping with such devastating issues as chronic and life-threatening diseases, death, and the struggle to regain faith and pursue life-long dreams. Its inspirational and uplifting messages will touch your heart and fortify your desire to succeed over adversity.

Writers include noted authors and Chicken Soup for the Soul® contributors: Glenda Barrett, Linda O'Connell, Francine L. Bilingslea and Perry P. Perkins, along with Pushcart Prize nominee, Lyn Halper and Pulitzer Prize nominee, Ed Roberts.

Poet Lynn C. Johnston will uplift your spirit and soothe your soul with inspiring poems on love, friendship, faith, encouragement, family and more. Each poem is prefaced with the philosophy or events that inspired each piece.

Poems include: Sleep Tight, My Little Darling, To See The Night Sky, You Are My Hero, Angel on the Ground, The Bravery Pledge, O Spirits Gather Closely, Glimmer of Hope and many more.

Like a Chinese menu, “Stir-fried Memories” serves tasty morsels that appeal to a variety of interests. It is a collection of essays and personal experience pieces combined much like vegetables are mixed together in a wok for a tasty stir-fried meal, heaped with flavor, color, nutrition, and fragrance. It offers readers a taste of living through humor, travel, childhood, major moves, sickness, death, and family.