BookTrib Giveaway: A Book to Make You Laugh, a Book to Make You Cry

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Almost Happy: Pushing Your Buttons With Reverse Psychology by Brian Kaplan MD, Hephzibah Kaplan

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“Left me feeling almost joyous! It’s a kind of therapeutic masterpiece wrapped in a beautiful user-friendly format. It both provokes and soothes in equal measure. It’s a work of art.” —Simeon Niel-Asher Bphil, BSc(Ost), Osteopath

“I could not stop turning the next page, eager to spot myself, my friends and family in the tiny capsules of wisdom in this witty book.” —Neil Mullarkey, Founder member of the London Comedy Store Players

“This book is a triumphant achievement…..hilarious, original and utterly unique.” —Michal Cooper Keren, Award-winning TV writer

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It’s a proven fact; we are healthier and happier when we are laughing. Not only is laughter good for our body, mind and spirit, but it can also help us face the uncomfortable challenge of dealing with our personal difficulties.

Almost Happy introduces the reader to a practical and accessible way to use humor to effect change. Reverse psychology can provoke us to discover, own and enact authentic solutions to many of our issues. The 114 original “buttons” presented in this book were designed as stirring visual communications to enhance the provocative process — which is based on three core ideas:

1. People don’t like being told what to do.
2. Reverse psychology, a technique known to most parents, also works brilliantly on adults.
3. Irony, satire and parody — when used warmly and responsibly — can provoke the emergence of conscience and common sense.

Are you ready to read a book that will gently tease you about your issues? The buttons and provocative suggestions are offered with a twinkle in the eye and affection in the heart.

Learn more about this book in BookTrib’s review.

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I’ll Remember You by Deborah Packer

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“A truly entertaining and moving experience filled with well-developed and wonderfully rich characters along with thought-provoking historical perspective. I will be thinking of Murray and Bobbie long after turning the last page. Based on a true story.” —Heather, Amazon reviewer

“Old fashioned love story … The empathy with which the author and characters approached the racism of the ’30s and ’40s was honestly captured … Good storytelling in light prose.” —Arlen, Goodreads reviewer

“A wonderful story about love and war and life! … It made me laugh and almost cry. It kept my interest from beginning to end.” —Pamela Frady, Goodreads reviewer

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Based on a true story, I’ll Remember You is a bittersweet love story set on the home front in 1943 about two strangers who meet and fall in love in the shadow of war and the racism and anti-Semitism of the 1940s.

Fiercely proud, idealistic Bobbie Feinman, a small-town Jewish girl, travels to Miami Beach and finds herself in the middle of the military buildup in 1943 America. Against her better judgment, she falls for a complex young soldier from Brooklyn named Murray, whose childhood was marred by horrific images of another war.

The young Jewish couple falls in love during World War II. However, they struggle with misunderstanding, doubts and the challenges of a hasty marriage, all of which threaten any hope of intimacy or a future together. As needs go unmet, their anxieties, fears and communication problems play out against a backdrop of anti-Semitism and racism as Murray prepares to go to war.