A collection of heartrending and heartwarming stories of people, both famous and unknown, who have suffered great emotional or physical hardship and went beyond their pain to help others.

The Courage to Give: Inspiring Stories of People Who Triumphed over Tragedy and Made a Difference in the World (Unabridged Selections, 4 cassettes)

Self-Help

Waldman, Jackie

Dworkis, Janis Leibs

Motivational

New Star Media Inc

A collection of heartrending and heartwarming stories of people, both famous and unknown, who have suffered great emotional or physical hardship and went beyond their pain to help others.

The Courage to Give: Inspiring Stories of People Who Triumphed Over Tragedy and Made a Difference in the World

Happiness

Conari Press

Lately, troubled teens have been dominating the headlines. But there are other stories that deserve the spotlight, stories about the many teenagers who have dedicated themselves to important, socially useful volunteer work and who will lead their generation toward a more hopeful tomorrow. The fourth in Conari Press' "Call to Action" series, Teens with the Courage to Give profiles thirty amazing young people throughout the United States and Canada who overcame great personal odds to reach out and help others while healing themselves in the process. Each has founded or is linked to a nonprofit organization that is also profiled in the book, to encourage other teens to embrace volunteerism.
In these inspiring pages, to name just a few of these heroic teenagers, you'll meet an amputee who runs in the Paralympics and spurs others on with his inner resolve; the son of a cancer patient who created support groups around the country for kids with sick parents; a girl who helped her mother and younger sister as they died of aids and who is now an aids awareness and prevention volunteer; and one of the students from the Littleton, Colorado, shooting who has gone on to create a teen drop-in center.
Through their courageous first person stories, these teens show that they are part of the solution to what ails today's society. Includes an extensive resource guide of volunteer opportunities and a classroom/group discussion guide.

Teens with the Courage to Give: Young People Who Triumphed Over Tragedy and Volunteered to Make a Difference (Call to Action Book)

Religion & Spirituality

The first story in this book is Jackie Waldman's own the selfdescribed charmed life until July of 1991, when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. It took years, but eventually she came to understand that a person with MS is only part of who she is. Since her diagnosis she's done a number of things, including publish the Courage to Give series. In this most recent addition to the series, Waldman has collected stories of 24 men and women living with MS, who have extraordinary lives, who've gone way beyond slogging through every day, who've found the courage to do new things or old things in new ways, to make the lives of those around them sometimes tens of thousands of those around them so much better. In these pages, you'll meet Alicia Conill, an M.D. who continued her medical practice for as long as she could, and then founded a revolutionary course called The Disability Experience, so that health care workers know what it's like to live with disability. You'll also meet Anthony Zaremba, who almost lost his job when his employees thought his shaking hands meant he was drunk or on drugs. His work is with community gardens and making one in Brooklyn wheelchair accessible. There's Loia Feuchter, who started a knitting circle that does philanthropic knitting. There's Dwight Riskey, a senior VP of Frito Lay, who organized a big team to raise money for MS. There's David L. Lander, better known as Squiggy from "Laverne and Shirley," who hid his disease for years. But now he's an Ambassador for the National MS Society.

People with MS with the Courage to Give: (Stories of Successful People with Multiple Sclerosis)

Biographies & Memoirs

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The Courage to Give: Inspiring Stories of People Who Triumphed over Tragedy and Made a Difference in the World (Unabridged Selections, 4 cassettes)

The Courage to Give: Inspiring Stories of People Who Triumphed Over Tragedy and Made a Difference in the World

Teens with the Courage to Give: Young People Who Triumphed Over Tragedy and Volunteered to Make a Difference (Call to Action Book)

People with MS with the Courage to Give: (Stories of Successful People with Multiple Sclerosis)