There could be only thing more impressive than reading Punch Happy by Lux Alani. That would be having the opportunity to meet her in person and/or to hear her talk at one of her speaking engagements. What an inspiring woman and author! In her intro,...

How to be Happy Alone: A Single's Guide to a Satisfying Life by Katharine Benelli Coggeshall is an insightful and motivating book for readers who are single and trying to find themselves. The book guides them to appreciate the wonders of being in single town...

Raising a happy and healthy child and remaining sane at the same time is a challenge. Although rearing children is exciting, it can also be stressful at times. The Happy Toddler by Chantal Kayem is a useful guide that will help parents understand their children’s...

Permanent Happiness: The Only Way to Find Peace, Joy, and Your Life-Given Purpose by Iyabo Ojikutu, MD is an inspiring book that highlights the author’s observation that permanent happiness comes from inner peace. Without this peace, our happiness will only last temporarily, because of the...

Politics isn’t an easy subject to discuss with anyone because it seems as if everyone is so set in their ways that they refuse to even listen to someone with different views than their own. But in The Secret to Political Happiness by AM Ramsey,...

You Make Your Parents Super Happy! A Book About Parents Separating is a children’s picture book, written and illustrated by Richy K. Chandler. Children become quite anxious when their parents separate, with some even blaming themselves for the split. In such difficult times, it is...

Noble the Happy Kid is the seventh book in the Not So Serious Jack series, written in rhyme by Jack Thompsen (aka: Not So Serious Jack) and illustrated by Ignacio G. Noble is a happy boy who loves to exercise, play with his dog and...

Shelly Reuben’s My Mostly Happy Life: Autobiography of a Climbing Tree is the work of great imagination, as inspiring as it is engaging. It’s a story about the life of a community, centered on a park and told by a climbing tree. Sam Swerling is...

Be Happy To Be You! is an animal picture book for children written by Diane Hull and illustrated by Jan Dolby. Baby Bird looked at the fish swimming in the river, and he knew he wanted to swim. When he told his mom, she reminded...

Angry Octopus Color Me Happy, Color Me Calm: A Self-help Kid's Coloring Book for Overcoming Anxiety, Anger, Worry, and Stress by Lori Lite is an interactive and fun coloring book in which children get to see the Angry Octopus using great techniques to express his...

Stumbling into Happiness: A Catholic Priest finds true love in wild places is a short and delightful memoir by author Michael Schoenhofer, which focuses on the unusual but ultimately right path that God has for His followers. The story follows our author as a young...

Sherman’s Happy New Year is a children’s book written by Anne Shields and illustrated by Janell Colburn. On his very first outing, Sherman the balloon is ever so excited to be attending the countdown at Times Square. After the giant ball falls, hailing in the...

Strip Naked and Re-dress with Happiness: How to Survive and Thrive through Personal Challenge by Maria Hocking is a book that everyone should read, a book about lifting the mask, coming home to who we really are, and embracing authenticity. In this book, the author...

How to Calm the Hell Down and Be Happy by Ilene Angel is a self-help book about stress management. There are funny moments when the author talks about her various attempts to release stress with yoga. I bet lots of people found themselves in that...

Having finally ventured to read this book with its irresistibly wacky sounding title, Plum Rains on Happy House by Michael A. Greco, I recommend that the reader start with understanding the author's short dedication, because that will be a taste of the flavor of the...

Meet Granny Annie in the children's picture book story Granny Annie & the Happy Moon Cats by Reesa Grace. Granny Annie owned a bread shop and she enjoyed making people happy with her delicious warm bread. Granny waited but no customers came. She wondered if...

If all those who want to write a memoir wrote their stories the way Geraldine Birch wrote Vision of a Happy Life, both publishers and readers would be more receptive to this less popular form of book. The reason is that Birch, like a skilled...

The 12 Steps to Joy and Happiness by David L. Peters is an inspirational book that invites readers to discover the joy of the Gospel, the hidden beauty of our being connected to God. In this book, the author draws inspiration from Jesus’ words that...

Turn Your Happiness On is Norma Nikutowski’s practical guide to living a happy and healthy life. The work begins by defining happiness as seeing the good even in the bad and having a positive outlook on life. It also acknowledges that happiness means different things...

Stumbling Toward Happiness by Kat Lehmann is a collection of poetry that illustrates the struggles of growing up and the bittersweetness of life itself. The poetry is separated into several parts, each of which carries a specific theme. From Sweeping the Corners, which illustrates the...