Chicken Soup for the Soul: Woman to Woman: Women Sharing Their Stories of Hope, Humor, and Inspiration (Chicken Soup for the Soul (Quality Paper)) [Paperback]

Jack Canfield (Author), Mark Victor Hansen (Author), Amy Newmark (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 30, 2008 | Series: Chicken Soup for the Soul (Quality Paper)

Women have always been wonderful sources of inspiration and support for each other.  They are willing to lay bare their souls and share their experiences, even with perfect strangers.  Put two random women together in a room, on an airplane, in a line at the supermarket, and the sharing begins, often at the deepest level.

 

The first Chicken Soup for the Soul book was published in 1993, and became a publishing industry sensation, ultimately selling eight million copies.  The company went on to publish more than 150 Chicken Soup titles, selling more than 100 million copies, and becoming a household name.

 

Chicken Soup for the Soul has won dozens of awards over the past 15 years, and its founders, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen have become celebrity motivational speakers and authors.

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About the Author

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen are co-founders of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Amy Newmark is publisher and editor-in-chief of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Product Details

• Paperback: 380 pages
• Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul; 1 edition (September 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1935096044
• ISBN-13: 978-1935096047
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #662,925 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Amy Newmark has led a successful 30-year career as a writer, speaker, financial analyst and business executive in the worlds of finance and telecommunications. Most recently, Newmark has teamed up with one of the most successful book series of all time - Chicken Soup for the Soul® - as publisher, author, and editor.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University in 1979, Newmark majored in Portuguese and minored in French, earning a summa cum laude on her thesis which concerned popular poetry in Brazil. She traveled throughout the povertystricken northeast section of Brazil while in college, meeting with poets and writers and collecting their stories for her dissertation on whether this form of popular expression would survive the modernization of Brazil.

Newmark then joined the commercial sector while a college senior, editing a newsletter about opportunities to sell telecom equipment in Brazil. This led to a new passion for the telecommunications industry, and she became a consultant to the industry, culminating in a position at the Gartner Group, where she wrote several books on telecommunications and ran the telecommunications services practice. Newmark then moved to Wall Street in 1981, where she spent many years writing and speaking about telecommunications and information services, providing her stock picks and pans to mutual funds and hedge fund clients.

Newmark started her own hedge fund in 1993, specializing in telecommunications and technology companies, and then joined the original management team of Winstar Communications, Inc. in 1995 as executive vice president of strategic planning. She left Winstar in 1997 and spent the next ten years serving on the boards of several public companies in telecommunications and technology. Newmark stepped in as publisher of Chicken Soup for the Soul in 2008, the year of the brand's fifteenth anniversary. She is delighted to have come full circle in her writing career - from collecting poetry "from the people" in Brazil as a 20-year-old, to 30 years writing about business, back to collecting stories and poems "from the people" for Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Since its first release in 1993, the Chicken Soup for the Soul series has sold more than 112 million copies with more than 180 titles and 40 languages. The brand holds a place in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most books on the New York Times bestseller list at one time, and in 2007, USA Today named Chicken Soup for the Soul one of the five most memorable and impactful books of the last quarter century. Today, Newmark is working to deliver the Chicken Soup for the Soul message of hope and inspiration all over the world. For more information, www.visit chickensoup.com.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration from and for women..., February 3, 2010

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Diana Black (Atlanta, Georgia) - See all my reviews
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The Chicken Soup for the Soul series Woman to Woman is a heartwarming and inspirational collection of stories. Some have been repeated here, but the stories bear a second read, or for those women who have not previously read them, a wonderful introduction. Women encourage each other in many ways. This book gives some of us that much needed boost! -- Diana Black WOOF: Women Only Over Fifty

5.0 out of 5 stars A great collection of stories, December 8, 2008

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Diana X (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews

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I'm a longtime fan of the Chicken Soup series, and I love this collection of stories for women. I'm especially glad to see my favorite story made the cut, "The Touch of Kindness" by Tricia Caliguire. It just struck a cord with me the first time I read it, and has stayed with me ever since. Definitely recommend this, and just in time for the holidays!

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2.0 out of 5 stars A collection of other Chicken Soup Books, December 18, 2008

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L. Lohman "lohmalinda" (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Woman to Woman: Women Sharing Their Stories of Hope, Humor, and Inspiration (Chicken Soup for the Soul (Quality Paper)) (Paperback)

I was extremely disappointed as I am an avid collector of Chicken Soup books. ALL of the stories in this book were from other books in my large collection. I ordered 7 new Chicken Soup books and have found this true of at least FOUR of them. I should have saved my money. I didn't need a new cover for the same stories I already had. Very disappointed.