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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive, Live Happy
101 Stories about Creating Your Best Life
Amy Newmark & Deborah Norville
Published by Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC www.chickensoup.com
Copyright ©2019 by Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.
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The publisher gratefully acknowledges the many publishers and individuals who granted Chicken Soup for the Soul permission to reprint the cited material.
Front cover illustration of elephant courtesy of iStockphoto.com/Denis-Art (©Denis-Art)
Front cover illustration of coconut drink courtesy of iStockphoto.com/Floortje (©Floortje)
Interior photo courtesy of iStockphoto.com/Jacob Wackerhausent (©Jacob Wackerhausen)
Photos of Deborah Norville courtesy of Timothy White
Photo of Amy Newmark courtesy of Susan Morrow at SwickPix
Cover and Interior by Daniel Zaccari
Distributed to the booktrade by Simon & Schuster. SAN: 200-2442
Publisher’s Cataloging-In-Publication Data
(Prepared by The Donohue Group, Inc.)
Names: Newmark, Amy, compiler. | Norville, Deborah, compiler.
Title: Chicken soup for the soul : think positive, live happy : 101 stories about creating your best life / [compiled by] Amy Newmark & Deborah Norville.
Other Titles: Think positive, live happy : 101 stories about creating your best life
Description: [Cos Cob, Connecticut] : Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC, [2019]
Identifiers: ISBN 9781611599923 | ISBN 9781611592931 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Conduct of life--Literary collections. | Conduct of life--Anecdotes. | Happiness--Literary collections. | Happiness--Anecdotes. | Optimism--Literary collections. | Optimism--Anecdotes. | LCGFT: Anecdotes.
Classification: LCC BF637.C5 C45 2019 (print) | LCC BF637.C5 (ebook) | DDC 158.1/02--dc23
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019940302