The book summarizes the rules and cosmology of Vastu Shastra, written in an easy, accessible form for the reader, with numerous illustrations, stories and examples of how to create a happy home. There are valuable tips and instructions for homeowners, renters, architects, builders and designers.The secret of a happy home is a house itself, its location on the site and interior plan layout. Everything is connected with nature, with the earth and the movement of energy in the space of the cosmos. The book explores how our house affects our consciousness and our lives.

With color commentary from his wife, the cofounder of the NBA's Orlando Magic offers unique insight into the best game plan for building a strong, secure, and successful marriage. (Relationships)

When an American family visits a marvelous mud house in Kenya, they learn a wonderful lesson about true contentment, faith, and joy.

You have no one to hold your hand, no consolation in your sad times or grief. Imagine loving, but not being loved by anyone...not even your mother. Imagine yourself as a child, a child who grew into adulthood always believing the next sunrise was going to bring not only a new day, but a new life. My Journey to My Happy House, by Rita Sexton, is the true-life struggle for survival in an unloving world. On the brink of destruction, a child's fathera "Heavenly Fathera "steps in, and a life doomed reigns victorious."

There’s no place like home. Why not turn yours into the happiest it can be? Feng shui expert Patricia Lohan reveals a simple but groundbreaking truth: a happy life starts with a happy home. The Happy Home offers an introduction into the four-thousand-year-old practice of feng shui, an ancient Chinese art form that celebrities and Fortune 500 companies use to supercharge their environments and create balanced, harmonious spaces. You can look at your home in a brand-new light; it can serve not only as the place you live but as the foundation for your health, wealth, and happiness. Inside you’ll find the steps you need to take to balance your house’s energy, find greater flow, and design a living space that can help you realize your dreams. This beginner's guide provides the tangible and easy-to-implement strategies to use as you start your Feng Shui journey, to improve the energy of your home and reveals its true potential to benefit all aspects of your life.

Learning through creative, cross-curricular tasks.

From the beloved couple behind Masters of Flip, a warm and inviting guide to making wherever you are feel like home Home isn’t just a place to sleep and eat. It’s a haven—a place of refuge from the world, of connection with the people (and pets) you hold most dear, of celebration of life’s biggest moments and of recuperation from the exhaustion of the day. Kortney and Dave Wilson have built their careers and a beloved HGTV show, Masters of Flip, around creating houses that people instantly recognize as home. They build colour, joy and family into the design of every house they flip in Nashville, Tennessee, because those priorities are what shape their lives. Live Happy offers hundreds of fresh, fun ideas for how readers and fans of Masters of Flip can inexpensively and creatively build joy into their lives and their homes. From the reason you should always live close to the ice cream shop to the definitive philosophy for dealing with your junk drawer, it will help you make a new house into a home or inject new life into your forever home. It will go beyond design to personal connections, with stories of how Kortney and Dave found each other, built new dreams together and manage to have a happy marriage (and business!) while raising three amazing children. Full-colour and heavily illustrated, Live Happy will feature over 200 photos drawn from Kortney and Dave’s family and design projects. Think of it as The Wisdom of Sundays meets Domino with a shot of The Magnolia Story. Through it all, Kortney and Dave’s voices will be in hilarious and heartfelt conversation in the way fans have come to know and love on Masters of Flip.

A young dog finds a way to give flowers to his mother on her birthday.

In this delightful novel, a pair of best friends -- both of whom are named Anne Leavitt -- have just graduated from college and are about to embark on their new lives. But when a letter arrives bearing an unexpected requested, the pair are torn apart and forced to make new plans.