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The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World is a book by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu published in 2016 by Cornerstone Publishers. In this nonfiction, the authors discuss the challenges of living a joyful life.
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The book was adapted as a 2012 French TV film, also called La joie de vivre, directed by Jean-Pierre Améris and starring Anaïs Demoustier as Pauline. [1] In 2016, Swindle , a "radical re-imagining" largely inspired by the book was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as part of its radio drama series Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola .
Joy (French: La Joie) is a 1929 novel by the French writer Georges Bernanos. The story is set among people with shattered dreams and follows a young woman who is defined by youthfulness and joy. The book was awarded the Prix Femina. [1] It was published in English in 1946 in a translation by Louise Varèse. [2]
The novel opens with a brief flashforward of Bertie and Jeeves driving home, with Bertie remarking that there is an expression, something about Joy, that describes what he has just been through. Jeeves helpfully supplies the phrase, "Joy cometh in the morning". [4] Bertie proceeds to narrate the events that occurred.
However, the book is considered fictional since many conversations and actions are assumed or created. The author and his wife traveled to India many times and sometimes stay with friends in the "City of Joy". Half of the royalties from the sale of the book go towards the City of Joy Foundation, [2] which looks after slum children in Calcutta.
Joy Behar and 'The View' launch 'Joy's Banned Book Club,' starting with a kids book about two male penguins who form a bond and raise a baby together.
The Joy of Work by Scott Adams. The Joy of Work (1998) by Scott Adams is a two-part book. The first part offers recommendations as to how office workers can find happiness at their cubicle desks and the second part is a formula for creating humor, based on the author's experience penning the Dilbert comic strip.