Christina Stanton moved into her apartment weeks before 9/11 took down the neighboring World Trade Center towers. She describes her escape, the famous boat rescue that took her family across the Hudson River. Now she gives tours as we recognize the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

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Two stories about stray dogs that show up just when they're needed and are adopted by lonely people. They keep them company for years, save their lives, and disappear when they're no longer needed. Canine angels? These are certainly dogs with a purpose.

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We're talking about caring for our loved ones with Alzheimer's or other dementias and that big decision--whether to move someone into an assisted living or memory care facility. It  can lead to doubt, guilt, family conflict… and, yes, relief. Relief because it is often the right decision for everyone involved. 

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m pleased to share new stories with you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Let It Go, which is our best-selling self-help book from last summer. It’s all about how you can find freedom in your own life by using the power of forgiveness. It really works, too. I’ve adopted it in my own life, and now I even do what I call “pre-forgiveness”, saying to myself “Well if I’m going to forgive this behavior anyway I might as well not even get mad in the first place.” Pre-forgiveness is a great way to live.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it’s Wow Wednesday. I always try to share awe-inspiring or surprising stories with you on Wednesdays, and I have a whole fresh crop of them for you from our latest bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Hope, Faith & Miracles. I made this new collection by going through tens of thousands of the stories in our library and picking out the ones I wanted to put together for this new anthology.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I want to share a couple of stories with you today from one of our new books, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Pets, Pets, Pets. This is such a fun book and it’s been the #1 bestseller among pet books ever since it came out a couple of months ago. I haven’t counted but I think there are at least 40 kinds of pets in this new collection, every kind of furry, feathered, scaly, flying, walking, swimming, slithering, indoor or outdoor, tame or wild, tiny or gigantic pet imaginable. And we got lots of stories submitted about unlikely friendship between all these different kinds of animals, friendships you might not expect.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today we’re talking about 9/11, as this year marks the 25th anniversary of the attacks on the United States and the loss of thousands of lives. I’m going to share a couple of stories with you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Celebrating the Spirit of America, our way of participating in the 250th birthday of the U.S. These stories are about the aftermath of 9/11, one from a resident of the town in Pennsylvania where one of the Washington bound airplanes was crashlanded by the brave passengers onboard, and the other by a 9/11 widow whose husband was on one of the flights from Boston.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and today I’m sharing a couple of stories from one of our latest audiobooks about how you can use your dreams as a kind of GPS for your life. We have a lot of audiobooks out there, and a lot more coming, and I thought you’d enjoy hearing some of the stories narrated by professional actors. So today, with permission of Simon & Schuster, I’m going to share a couple of stories from the Simon & Schuster audiobook version of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Let Your Dreams and Premonitions Guide You. It’s copyright 2026 by Chicken Soup for the Soul, and available now in all the places you go to listen to audiobooks.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m excited about sharing stories with you from our new dog book: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Best Dog Ever. This new collection celebrates everything dog, from dogs that are mischievous to dogs that are surprisingly good, from dogs that are hilarious to dogs that are heroes, and from dogs that are natural therapists to dogs that bring people together. Sometime, these dogs don’t just belong to one family, but to a whole neighborhood, even when their official humans don’t know it. That’s what happened to Joy Marie Morris. And she didn’t find out until she went home from work early one day, only to discover that her Malamute, Panda Bear, was missing.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul and I’m excited about sharing stories with you from our new dog book: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Best Dog Ever. No matter what, everyone’s dog is the best dog ever, right? So our new collection of dog stories celebrates everything dog, from dogs that are mischievous to dogs that are surprisingly good, from dogs that are natural therapists to dogs that bring people together, from dogs that are hilarious to dogs that are heroes. And always, dogs are our best friends, and become integral parts of their families. We also focus our stories on dogs that are rescued from shelters or from being strays, and we also make sure to include stories about people adopting elderly dogs, and pit bulls, and black dogs, because those are the types of dogs that are often left behind in shelters, often to uncertain fates.

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