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411 for Life! The teen years are one of the most difficult periods of your life, while at the same time one of the funnest. You are dealing with so many changes that sometimes you don't know which end is up. Now there is help! Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul is your handbook for surviving and succeeding during these exciting years with both your sanity and sense of humor intact. You will relate to and learn from the stories here, without feeling criticized or judged. Featuring contributions from stars Jennie Garth, Jennifer Love Hewitt and A.J. Langer, as well as many teens just like you, this edition of Chicken Soup contains lessons on: the nature of friendship and love; the importance of belief in the future; the value of respect for yourself and others, and dealing with tough issues like death, suicide and the loss of love. The awesome stories in this collection include "My First Kiss, and Then Some," "Please Listen," Detention Can Be Fun," "No-Hair Day" and "Wile Thing." Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul will become your good friend: one who understands your feelings, is there for you when needed, and cheers you up when things are looking down.

From the moment they met, Marjie's heart has belonged to handsome Captain Stanley Jonquil, younger brother of the Earl of Lampton. But six long months ago, when Stanley's sense of honor required that he do as he had sworn and return to the Continent to fight in defense of King and country, neither Stanley nor Marjie could have dreamed what the cost of his service would be. It has been ages since Stanley last wrote, and Marjie and the Jonquil family are plagued by his unknown fate—until the day he unexpectedly reappears. Marjie's joy, however, is quickly shadowed by confusion—the aloof, battle-worn soldier before her is not the man he once was. In the wake of Stanley's blatant disinterest in renewing their acquaintance, Marjie's devastation turns to determination as she vows to help him find peace. But his scars run far deeper than anyone realizes. Despite his feelings for her, Stanley believes Marjie deserves a man whose hands are not stained with the violence of battlefields and whose mind and heart are not haunted by the horrors he has seen. Honor requires Stanley to return once more to the life he has grown to despise, one he knows will destroy him in the end, even as his heart beckons him to stay with Marjie, the only woman he could ever love, and the promise, at last, of redemption.