Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul: Stories About Pets as Teachers, Healers, Heroes and Friends (Chicken Soup)

From the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, these stories honour the strength and reveal the beauty of women's spirits. Readers will find inspiration, joy and comfort in the messages found in chapters on love, marriage and motherhood.

Described by the author as a kind of prayer, the ten stories here explore concepts of ownership; naming, and unnaming, things; interpreting signs and language; animals as mirrors of the soul; and honouring one's own stories.

When ten-year-old Rebecca Randall leaves Sunnybrook Farm to go and live with her aunts, neither she nor her aunts know quite what to expect. And with Rebecca around it's usually the unexpected that happens. In fact it is this gift for the unexpected that means that life is never quite the same again for those with whom she comes into contact.

Offers animal anecdotes written in poetic style. Through entertaining stories about cats, horses, an ornamental carp, a scorpion, tortoises and other animals, the author focuses on how each of these various creatures experiences happiness in its own special way. She also considers the process of mourning a loved dog's death.

Gabriel Landry is blissfully happy until rich cannery owner Octavious Tate shatters her innocence forever. Pregnant and desolate, Gabriel agrees to a plan that will allows Octavious' wife to claim the baby as her own, but nothing can prepare Gabriel for the moment when Gladys takes her baby away.

The Casteel family saga concludes with this fifth and final book as Annie and Luke return to Farthinggale Manor to finally put her past behind her. But the Manor still holds one final key to the mysteries surrounding her family.

Part of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, this work presents a collection of stories that can help you find inspiration, joy and comfort in the special messages found in chapters on love, living your dreams, overcoming obstacles, marriage, motherhood, ageing, bridging the generations, and self esteem.

Snow in the Summer?! Eric, Neal, and Julie are headed back to Droon to fix the mess they made with the Wand of Urik. Even though it's summertime back home, the gang's new adventures get them all snowy in the Ice Hills of Droon. In a hidden castle there, they must wake Droon's last hope against evil Lord Sparr...the famous Knights of Silversnow.

Provides inspiration for women to find excitement and joy in the ordinary events of daily life - encouraging each one to discover what makes her heart skip a beat or moves her to tears.

Arguments that animals possess an emotional life are often dismissed as sentimental anthropomorphism. This book challenges that notion by proposing that the objective scientific evidence for human emotions is all but non-existent.