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Hoda Kotb didn''t expect to join the Today show at age 44. Or to become a mother at 52. Or to leave Today and embark on a new adventure at 60! Change doesn''t always arrive when we expect it, and its effects are anything but predictable. But Hoda believes that the benefits of change can be extraordinary...if we''re willing to listen to and learn from it. In the tradition of books like Savannah Guthrie''s Mostly What God Does and Maria Shriver''s I''ve Been Thinking comes Hoda Kotb''s Jump and Find Joy - an intimate book that reveals for the first time what Hoda discovered as she started embracing change in every aspect of her life. In her quest to better understand change and how to work with (not against) it, Hoda relies on her reporting instincts to investigate HOW change works, WHO is approaching it with grace, and WHAT she can apply to her own life and share with others. Jump and Find Joy combines the wisdom of change experts, insights from the latest work on resilience, and deeply personal stories from celebrities and inspirational people in our own communities. From small shifts in daily routines to major leaps of faith, Hoda shows why change isn''t to be feared but celebrated...and how each of us can thrive in the midst of changes we''ll inevitably face ourselves.

Louisa Walsh emerged from a tumultuous childhood with a degree in counselling, a wealthy boyfriend, and her sunny outlook on life mostly intact. But that optimism is tested when she''s dumped and left unable to afford rent on their gorgeous house in the mountains of Colorado. Even with her life in disarray, Lou knows losing the one stable place she''s ever called home is not an option. Her plan: ask her reclusive landlord, Henry Rhodes, to let her stay for free in exchange for renting out the house''s many rooms as a bed-and-breakfast. She''s shocked when he agrees to her terms, and even more surprised to discover Henry is a handsome thirtysomething veterinarian with silver at his temples and sadness in his eyes. One who does not take it well when Lou starts marketing her B and B as a retreat for the recently heartbroken. But as the Comeback Inn opens its doors to its weary, hopeful guests, Lou and Henry find themselves dancing around both their undeniable connection and the closely held secrets that threaten to topple this fragile new start. A chance at love, here, could be too close to home...or it could be exactly where their hearts finally heal.

Everything was going great for Tricia Miles, right up until her estranged mother, Sheila, arrives on her front step with an urn she says contains the remains of Tricia''s father. Shocked and saddened, Tricia and her sister, Angelica, attempt to get to the bottom of what happened. But their efforts for clarity are dashed when Shelia disappears the very next day, leaving behind the urn and a cryptic note. Naturally, the sisters are upset-especially after they take the remains to the local funeral parlour and discover that not only is the urn filled with kitty litter, but hidden inside is a valuable (and stolen) Rolex watch. Digging deeper, the sisters find their parents are in dire financial trouble and seem to be lurking around Booktown. Tricia and Angelica can''t help but wonder how many more secrets their mother was keeping...and whether that includes murder.

The Pura Belpré Honor Award winning author of Aniana del Mar Jumps In makes her YA debut with a powerful novel-in-verse about a Texas teen who is battling racism in her theatre program and book banning efforts by her town?s school board.Yulieta Lopez is angry. Angry at her racist drama teacher who refuses to cast Black students in lead roles. Angry at the school board threatening her favorite teacher for teaching works of literature that they deem ?controversial.? Angry that she has to keep quiet until she can head to college and leave Texas forever.Yuli is accustomed to playing various roles: the diligent daughter, the honorable hija, the good girl who serves everyone else before serving herself. But as the fire of Yuli''s rage spreads and lights her up, she can no longer be silent. Determined to find a way to fight back, Yuli and her friends start a guerilla theatre club which stirs things up and gets people talking, and finally, Yuli steps into the role she was always meant to play.

Famed Reddit detective Fiona Addai is great at solving problems - online, that is. Cold cases, reality TV scandals, everyone calls on @Princess_PI. It''s her way of escaping her strict religious life at home and the memory of her brilliant brother''s sudden death. But when the sheltered sleuth tries to apply her inquisitive skills to real life, her plan to reclaim her late brother''s invention from the ruthless corporation that stole it goes disastrously wrong. Now, instead of getting justice, Fiona finds herself accused of murder. Maurice Bennett is no stranger to insomnia. These days, he''s not losing sleep over the cases he''s solving - but running from the one he couldn''t. Instead, he''s been settling for small-time scandals that don''t stir up the guilt he''s buried. But when he spots Fiona Addai at the centre of a murder investigation, something clicks. And for the first time in a long while, Maurice feels that old spark of intrigue. However, Fiona is not the helpless damsel she appears to be. Sure, she needs Maurice''s help to clear her name, but she''s got conditions of her own: she wants a crash course in real-world detective work. Maurice isn''t exactly thrilled. With every late-night stakeout and tension-filled interrogation, their partnership starts to feel a little too close for comfort. To bring the real killer to light, they''ll need to trust each other and that might be the most dangerous gamble of all.

Cynthia Kumar always wins. She''s successful, competitive, and knows exactly what she wants: to be the heir to her father''s multimillion dollar business. Except, her father just chose his successor and it''s not her it''s her one-night stand. Rohit Patel can''t believe his luck. He''s just landed the opportunity of a lifetime, his future is once again on track, and the woman he just spent the night with could be the love of his life. Except, she''s his new boss''s daughter and now she hates him. When Kumar Constructions falls under scrutiny, both Cynthia and Rohit are determined to see its tarnished reputation restored to its original glory. As they each try to swoop in and save the day, their game of one-upmanship fails spectacularly, leaving them no choice but to set their differences aside and work together. But as their partnership to save the company - and their feelings for one another - blossoms, they''ll have to decide what''s more important their careers or love?

Eleven-year-old Maya’s life is bit of a mess. Her dad just moved out to pursue his stand-up comedy dreams, her mom seems more preoccupied with running the family’s Russian deli than getting Dad back, and Maya’s anxiety and germ worries have only been growing stronger. Her grandma always tells her “slozi goryu ne pomozhet” - tears won’t help sorrow - but right now it’s hard to be strong. So when her teacher Ms. Banta announces the talent show, Maya sees an opportunity. If she can perform stand-up comedy in the show, she can prove to her mum and dad that comedy has a place in all their lives and try to get them back together. But conquering her fears amidst her family falling apart and a growing hot-hot-hot feeling inside is easier said than done…In this authentic novel full of both humour and heartbreak, Margaret Gurevich crafts a story about comedy, fractured family, and learning how strength comes in many forms.

Eleanor Hamby and Dr. Sandra Hazelip, the two irresistible women who have become known on social media as the travelling grannies, deliver a book of life lessons drawn from their late-in-life friendship, and the daring and transformational adventures they''ve undertaken. Together, they have traveled to twenty countries since they turned 80. Life on the road at their age has given them essential wisdom, and they have written this reflection with the goal of sharing their affirming and joyous insights with the world. Ellie and Sandy''s life lessons come from the intersections of their discoveries about aging, their shared faith, and their deep friendship. The photographer and doctor duo immerse themselves in the communities they visit, always learning more about themselves and the world around them. Boldly and independently traveling without a guide or staying at resorts, the fullness of Eleanor and Sandra''s lives makes for a book you can return to in the face of loss, uncertainty, and to inspire new beginnings.

For fear of summoning evil spirits, Native superstition says you should never, ever whistle at night. Henry Hotard was on the verge of fame, gaining a following and traction with his eerie ghost-hunting videos. Then his dreams came to a screeching halt. Now, he''s learning to navigate a new life in a wheelchair, back on the reservation where he grew up, relying on his grandparents'' care while he recovers. And he''s being haunted. His girlfriend, Jade, insists he just needs time to adjust to his new reality as a quadriplegic, that it''s his traumatised mind playing tricks on him, but Henry knows better. As the specter haunting him creeps closer each night, Henry battles to find a way to endure, to rid himself of the horror stalking him. Worried that this dread might plague him forever, he realises the only way to exile his phantom is by confronting his troubled past and going back to the events that led to his injury. It all started when he whistled at night...

The day Oona was kicked out of her mother''s coven at eighteen, she gave up on her dreams of harnessing the witchcraft she''d imagined was her birthright. Years later, she''s carved out an ordinary life with her husband, though she is filled with a longing she can barely name. If she can only carry a pregnancy to term, become a mother, then - according to island lore - she will come into her magic. But after multiple pregnancies end in miscarriages, Oona begins to feel desperate. Without the money to seek medical treatment, she decides she must return to the rugged, windswept island where she was raised - and to her dark, enigmatic mother whose coven claims to be able to harness witchcraft to help women struggling to conceive. Due to her acrimonious departure, Oona will have to return under the cover of anonymity. But there are dark forces at work on the island, and as her time there grows more harrowing, the truth threatens to come to light. How far will Oona go to access the power she knows her mother still commands?

You may know Zosia Mamet from her singular role as Shoshanna on Girls, or for being one of Hollywood''s original nepo babies (or as she says, ''a B-minus nepo baby, a nepito baby if you will''). What you might not know is that as a toddler she visited theatres where her mum was rehearsing, crawling around on the floor and scrunching herself between seats; that she earnestly believed in Santa Claus for way too long; that she spent years navigating body image issues in hopes of finding elusive self-love; and that she was so overwhelmed and overjoyed when finally meeting her idol David Sedaris that she hid in the bathroom and melted into a ''puddle of glitter.'' By turns charmingly witty and achingly vulnerable, the essays in Does This Make Me Funny? introduce us to Zosia Mamet in all her glory-from her early days growing up in literary and dramatic circles, to her years as a young adult pining for acceptance and love, to her first attempts to make it as an actor, to where she (and Shosh) are now. A gripping, funny, and earnest look at what it means to be a girl in the world and how to define yourself amid the bustle of show business, Does This Make Me Funny? is a captivating debut from a natural-born storyteller.

A speculative middle grade novel about three generations of Black girls connected across time and space through a wormhole in their school locker.On the first day of eighth grade, thirteen-year-old Candace Wells opens her locker and is astonished when an unusual bird flies out. Soon after, a notebook mysteriously appears on the top shelf. There?s a name written in it, Tracey Auburn, and a year, 1988. On a whim, Candace writes in the notebook?and she''s shocked when a short time later, Tracey Auburn writes back.Then an invitation appears from Loretta Young, who had the locker in 1948, and the three meet up in the present day. Tracey Auburn is now 53 and a college professor, and Loretta Young is 93 and a quantum physicist. Loretta tells them that her life?s work has been to study the portal and others like it across Chicago and the state of Illinois. But Loretta is now an old woman, and she needs Tracey?s and Candace?s help to complete her research. And to truly get to the bottom of things, one will have to do the unimaginable?pass through the portal herself.

Anna Koray escaped her father''s darkness long ago. When she was a girl, her childhood memories were sealed away from her conscious mind by a controversial hypnosis treatment. She''s now a decorated sheriff''s lieutenant serving a rural county, conducting an ordinary life far from her father''s shadow. When Anna kills a man in the line of duty, her suppressed memories return. She dreams of her beloved father, his hands red with blood, surrounded by flower-decked corpses he had sacrificed to the god of the forest. To Anna''s horror, a serial killer emerges who is copying her father - and who knows who she really is. Is her father still alive, or is this the work of another? Will the killer expose her, destroying everything she has built for herself? Does she want him to? But as she haunts the forest, using her father''s tricks to hunt the killer, will she find what she needs most...or lose herself in the gathering darkness?

''Middle Spoon subverts the ordinary novel with intelligence and vulnerability... Varela has made a sly, analytical opera of the heart.'' - Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less and Less Is Lost. ''A rollicking delight!... Varela asks provocative questions about the shape of family and the nature of love.'' - Ada Calhoun, New York Times bestselling author of Crush. One of TODAY''s 50 Books We Can''t Wait to Read in 2025. The narrator of Middle Spoon appears to be living the dream: He has a doting husband, two precocious children, all the comforts of a quiet bourgeois life - and a sexy younger boyfriend to accompany him to farmers markets and cocktail parties. But when his boyfriend abruptly dumps him, he spirals into heartbreak for the first time and must confront a world still struggling to understand polyamorous relationships. Faced with the judgment of friends and the sting of rejection, he''s left to wonder if sharing a life with both his family and his lover could ever truly be possible. With a big heart and just the right dose of the anxieties that define the modern era, Middle Spoon reveals the rawness of infatuation while reimagining what relationships, marriage, and family life can look like. Alejandro Varela boldly probes the corners of society in desperate need of change-from taboos around intimacy to the shortcomings of Oscar season, pop culture, and gluten-free food-offering a surprising perspective on the tangled dynamics that shape our lives. Equal parts heart-wrenching and uproariously funny, Middle Spoon is for anyone who has longed, nursed a broken heart, or grappled with love at its messiest.

Each year, when no one is paying attention, The Dead of Night Halloween store appears in a new location with its giant sign and great low prices. No one sees them setting up or tearing down - one day it''s just there and then, two days after Halloween, it''s gone. Pepper White knows exactly how this works. For five years, ever since the last Keeper of the Store tricked her, she has been cursed - appearing when the store does, and disappearing when it goes away. People will remember The Dead of Night, but they''ll completely forget Pepper. That is, until Christina Loring walks in the door. Their chemistry is instantaneous and, for the first time in five years, Pepper finds herself wishing for more time. But how do you tell the girl you''re falling for that you''re cursed and that you only have ten weeks together before Christina forgets everything? To have a chance at happily ever after, Pepper has to do the one thing she swore she wouldn''t - find the right treat to trick someone else into taking on the curse. But all''s fair in love and spells, and this spooky season, Pepper and Christina are ready to stir up trouble in the name of love.

A book about the strength of a family''s love, especially during times of illness, by cancer survivor and president and CEO of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Paula Schneider.Did you know that our universe is constantly expanding? When we look up at the stars, they?re mixing and moving, flaring and fading. Just like you grow each and every day, change is all around us. I am changing, too.In a beautiful text that all families facing serious illness can relate to, a mother explains her own illness and changing body to her child. Offering comfort, guidance, and explanation, the mother reassures her daughter that no matter how life unfolds in the journey ahead, their love for one another will always stay strong.Lyrically written by Paula Schneider, a breast cancer survivor herself and CEO of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and gorgeously illustrated by Nicole Wong, whose family was also touched by cancer, this powerful story shows families that they are not alone.