The “All Things New” is a story about personal growth and overcoming our owns fears. Lauren Miller is the author of this book. This book follows Jessa on her journey of healing. The lead character’s struggle with mental health issues is realistic and important for teen readers. The story is strong and her work to overcome her mental health issues is powerful. No one at school knows about the panic attacks, the therapy that didn’t help the meds that haven’t worked. But when a severe accident leaves her with a brain injury and visible scars, Jessa can no longer pretend that she’s okay now she looks as shattered as she feels. Fleeing from her old life in Los Angeles, Jessa moves to Colorado to live with her dad, but her anxiety only gets worse in the wake of the accident. That is until she meets Marshall, a boy with a heart defect whose kindness and generous spirit slowly draw Jessa out of her walled-off shell and into the broken, beautiful, real-world a place where souls get hurt just as badly as bodies and we all need each other to heal. “ALL THINGS NEW” is a love story about perception and truth, physical and emotional pain, and the messy, complicated people we are behind. Overall it is a thought-provoking and emotional story with an amazing circulation of characters.

The “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life” is a great book for bringing happiness in life. Gretchen Rubin is author of this book. Gretchen Rubin’s best book, The Happiness Project, focused on her efforts to build a more fulfilled, joyful life. In Happier at Home, Gretchen Rubin outlines her nine-month plan for making her day-to-day home life happier. She worked out general theories of happiness. Here she goes deeper on factors that matter for home, such as possessions, marriage, time, and parenthood. How can she control the cubicle in her pocket? How might she spotlight her family’s treasured possessions? And it really was time to replace that dud toaster. With her signature blend of memoir, science, philosophy, and experimentation, Rubin’s passion for her subject jumps off the page, and reading just a few chapters of this book will inspire readers to find more happiness in their own lives. If you have read Rubin’s first book, The Happiness Project, this is not uncharted territory. The concept and even some of the goals, and definitely some of the research is repeated material. But that is not all that is in the book. There is also new research and new goals even for the same goals as those mentioned in her previous book, they are accomplished in a different way. This is a good read for anyone who likes Rubin’s work and first book.

“Better Than Chocolate: 50 Proven Ways to Feel Happier” distils simple lessons from the world’s major theories about happiness. Siimon Reynolds is the author of this book. This book distils 50 happiness principles from research into easy low-cost or no-cost activities, ways of thinking or being that we can do today to increase our happiness. If we have one life to live on this earth, we might as well do things which increase our happiness rather than decrease or neutralize it. This book is one of the best on the topic of happiness. This book gives you 50 things you can immediately do to increase your happiness. It also reminds those of us who have read extensively on the topic of what actions we can be taking now. You will probably feel happier just reading it. The book help reader to meet new people, take adult ed classes as an easy way to meet new like-minded people, listen to upbeat music-put more background music on while doing chores, throw out 1/3 of books, clothes and stuff etc. Some of the activities you probably will be doing already, but there will certainly be ones you’ll want to start doing or do more of.  It has something to offer anybody who values happiness.

The “There Is No App for Happiness: Finding Joy and Meaning in the Digital Age with Mindfulness, Breathwork, and Yoga” is a must-read book for anyone who wants to be happy. Max Strom is the author of this book. If you are slogging through the 1340 Happiness-related Apps available on your iPhone today, it may better serve you to read Max Strom’s “There’s No App for Happiness,” (which could have alternatively been titled: “Tune in to Your Inner App for Happiness”). Max gives a balanced view of how the explosion of technology, though easing and entertaining our lives in many ways, often keeps us distracted, disconnected, and overwhelmed. The tells that “You have an internal technology within you, along with all of the apps you need in your heart, mind, and body, to elicit a personal renaissance, but you need to upload this knowledge and begin to use it.” Max goes on to show us how to do this for ourselves through self-awareness, attentiveness to how we utilize our time and energy, and through a personal daily empowerment practice of breath-initiated movement which can heal the body, mind, and spirit. This is an intelligent and thought-provoking work by a warm and light-hearted teacher.