A daily meditation book for adolescents, Our Best Days offers support on issues such as responsibility, family members, peer pressure, and relationships.

For twelve-year-old Lucy Crandall, the last week of August is the most perfect time in the world. It's the week she gets to spend with Grams at the lake house, canoeing, baking cookies, and glazing pots in Grams's potting shed. Grams has a way of making Lucy feel centered, like one of the pots on her kick wheel—perfect, steady, and completely at peace. But this summer, Grams doesn't seem to be exactly the person she once was. And as the week turns into a roller coaster of surprises—some good, some awful—Lucy can't help but wonder: Will things ever be centered again?

In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life. Advances in behavioral sciences are giving us an ever better understanding of how our brains work, why we make the choices we do, and what it takes for us to be at our best. But it has not always been easy to see how to apply these insights in the real world--until now. In How to Have a Good Day, Webb explains exactly how to apply this science to our daily tasks and routines. She translates three big scientific ideas into step-by-step guidance that shows us how to set better priorities, make our time go further, ace every interaction, be our smartest selves, strengthen our personal impact, be resilient to setbacks, and boost our energy and enjoyment. Through it all, Webb teaches us how to navigate the typical challenges of modern workplaces—from conflict with colleagues to dull meetings and overflowing inboxes—with skill and ease. Filled with stories of people who have used Webb’s insights to boost their job satisfaction and performance at work, How to Have a Good Day is the book so many people wanted when they finished Nudge, Blink and Thinking Fast and Slow and were looking for practical ways to apply this fascinating science to their own lives and careers. A remarkable and much-needed book, How to Have a Good Day gives us the tools we need to have a lifetime of good days.

Simon Douglas is a good man. He's a smart, honest, and hardworking businessman. He's also a widow. Simon was living the good life, and was about to become a father when his life took a drastic change. Simon now believes that his Best Days are behind him and that there is nothing good to look forward to. One random night out with the guys, changes everything, and Simon will see that our Best Days aren't behind us, they're the ones waiting to be lived.

A retired Army Military Police Master Sergeant who recently lost his wife of 22 years to cancer is now living alone in a home that he and his wife built together.Between his struggles of loss, depression he remembers those times when life was effortless. To him, life was not only easier, but also filled with more love when dust, dirt, mortars falling, and bombs exploding surrounded him.Without knowing it, a simple routine occurrence will give him exactly what he seeks and test him to the fullest. With the assistance of his best friend and former soldiers, he will be able to face some of his greatest fears and relive some of his darkest moments.Determined to make whatever sacrifice, and do whatever it takes to protect those around him Master Sergeant Gary Jacobs will push his past to the side, throw his present into the wind and focus on his future at all cost. He will do this not because he wants to, but because he knows he has to; since at the end of the day, he knows, if not him, then who.

Following the disruption, hardship and challenges of the Second World War, the post-war years brought a sense of optimism and excitement, with families at last enjoying peacetime. This new book follows the lives of the nation's schoolchildren through the two decades following the war years, recalling what it was like for those experiencing the creation of a new school system; a system underpinned by the introduction of the 11 plus exam and the provision of free secondary education for all. Combining personal reminiscences with a lively description of what was going on in the wider world of British education, Simon Webb provides a vivid and entertaining picture of school life during in the 1940s and '50s which is sure to bring back nostalgic memories for all who remember the best days of their lives.

Set over the course of one life-changing year, The Best Days of Our Lives is a warm, big-hearted and poignant story, full of hope, heartache and love. The McKenzies are your average complicated family: knotted together by in-jokes, arguments and a few closely-guarded secrets. Thirty-something sisters Leni and Alice became inseparable following the divorce of their parents, Belinda and Tony, with younger brother Will always trying to keep up. They're not perfect, but they love each other - most of the time, anyway. But then one ordinary summer day, an accident changes the family forever. Questions arise, guilt surfaces and secrets begin to emerge. Scattered by grief and seeking comfort in the unlikeliest of places, can the McKenzies find their way back to each other? 'Deeply moving' Katie Fforde 'Wise and wonderful' Veronica Henry 'Compelling and beautifully written' Sarah Morgan SEE WHAT EVERYONE'S SAYING ABOUT THE BEST DAYS OF OUR LIVES 'So real and so romantic' Laura Kemp 'Deeply moving' 5* Reader Review 'This book touched my heart' Sarah Morgan 'So uplifting and comforting' 5* Reader Review 'Poignant, yet uplifting and comforting' My Weekly