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Rainbow magic. Princess fairies volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Rachel and Kirsty are going to spend a week at the Golden Palace, but when Jack Frost steals the Princess Fairies' magic tiaras they must help Hope the Happiness Fairy find her tiara to cheer everyone up.
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Kamogawa food detectives volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Down a quiet Kyoto backstreet, “food detectives” Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the proprietors of the Kamogawa Diner, through ingenious investigations, recreate dishes from a person’s treasured memories, which hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness.
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 9
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
When Merlin is weighed down by sorrows, Jack and Annie travel back to feudal Japan to learn one of the four secrets of happiness.
7) Happiness
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A fox makes its way across London's Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide - Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures, and the true nature of happiness....
8) Pass it on
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"When you see something terrific, smile a smile and pass it on! If you chance upon a chuckle, hee hee hee and pass it on. Should you spot a thing of wonder, jump for joy and pass it on! So begins Sophy Henn's ode to the excitement of sharing happiness with others. With a refrain that begs to be uttered before every turn of the page, children will eagerly read alongside their parents as they discover how wonderful--and fun!--it is to share the good...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues--gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest--visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Sole--local...
14) The umbrella
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Pub. Date
c2023.
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A little girl and her dog find unexpected ways to spread the light in their dreary town where it always rains, showing that happiness is contagious.
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"Ginny Masters manages a popular boutique hotel in Seattle, but the daily challenges and irritations of a fast-paced job and a demanding boss are starting to get to her. Jacqueline Potter manages her grandfather's fishing lodge in Idaho because it was the only job she could find after graduating with her hospitality degree. She's grateful for the work but longs for a more sophisticated and cosmopolitan life she's just not going to find in this backwoods...
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Pub. Date
2007
Description
Merlin the magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone. The enchantress Morgan asks young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania for help. Jack and Annie know they have to search for one of the four secrets of happiness to help Merlin the magician find joy in his life again. And so they head off in the magic tree house for Florence, Italy, in the early 1500s, then to a misty island in the middle of nowhere, then to the continent of Antarctica....
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Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion? Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind...
20) The traveler
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Pub. Date
2008
Description
A charming fable that evokes a life lesson we would all do well to learn: living and loving are time well spent.
Once, there was a boy named Charlie. He had a pretty nice life ... but it wasn't perfect. So one day he packed up all his time-all his round, squishy years and square, mushy months, down to every itsy-bitsy second-in his suitcase and locked it up safe, said goodbye to his parents, and set off to find something better to spend his time...