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New York Times bestselling author and Duke University professor Kate Bowler offers a profound, funny, and deeply human case for joy that doesn’t depend on everything getting better.
You can’t always be happy, but you can be joyful, anyway.
We live in a culture convinced that chasing happiness will optimize our bodies, our minds, our relationships, our lives. But in the meantime, bad news usually stays bad: illness, chronic pain, grief, and disappointment don’t obey our timelines or vision boards. We are left wondering why, if we’re doing everything right, life still feels so hard.
Honest and bracingly tender, Joyful, Anyway proves that experiencing joy does not depend on resolving everything that makes life difficult. Drawing on a decade of living with serious illness and a lifetime studying America’s obsession with progress, Kate Bowler shows why people so busy chasing happiness miss out on actual joy.
Joy isn’t something you can optimize or manufacture—it finds us at the edge of expectation, when life interrupts our scripts. Joyful, Anyway gives language for the ache we all carry and practices for “putting yourself in the way of joy”: loosening control, introducing novelty, choosing charity, and staying open to the surprising, technicolor moments that pull us back into life.
Joy reminds us that no matter what, life is still worth loving. For every time we ask is this it?, joy will answer: There is more.
- Year 2026
Viola Davis and James Patterson have written an incredible courtroom drama and created the most unforgettable character in years.
All rise…for Judge Stone.
The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone. She holds two responsibilities running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. It’s there she draws the most controversial case in the history of the South.
Criminally, it’s open-and-shut.
Ethically, there is no middle ground.
Essentially, it’s a choice between life and death.
No judge can satisfy everyone. It would be dangerous to try. But Judge Stone is willing to fight to bring justice to the people and place she loves.
- Year 2026
The instant internationally bestselling outrageously unputdownable debut for fans of Bunny, Bat Eater and Yellowface
‘An absolute masterpiece’ STYLIST
‘You’ll enjoy this nail-biting life-swap ride through the glossy influencer scene’ DAILY MAIL
Julie Chan didn’t mean to steal her identical twin’s life. She meant to call the police when she found the body. She meant to dial 911.
Except when she unlocked Chloe’s phone to make that call, she also gained access to her estranged sister’s sponsorship deals, her followers, her wealth, her whole life.
And Julie’s not prepared to give it back. Not yet. So it’s goodbye Julie, love Chloe x
Now all Julie has to do is keep her head down and blend in with the beautiful Belladonnas, the tribe of influencers who had welcomed Chloe in to their inner circle before she died.
Julie’s going to breathe, detox, workout. Curate each post. Filter each picture. Spend whole days filming unboxing videos.
- Year 2026
June Baby by Shannon Garvey tells the story of Ruth, a woman whose life is defined by a single, transformative summer on Block Island.
The Story
At seventeen, following the death of her mother, Ruth was sent to the island to live with a photographer named Diana. That summer became her sanctuary; it was where she discovered her passion for writing and fell deeply in love with Diana’s nephew, Charlie.
Ten years later, Ruth is still caught in the island’s pull, living for the summers and merely scraping by the rest of the year. When a new tragedy strikes, she turns to Charlie for comfort, only to be met with a shocking revelation.
Everything Ruth thought she knew is challenged when she receives a mysterious box left by Diana. The contents force her to question her past and the women who raised her. Surrounded by golden dunes and seaside sunsets, Ruth must decide if she will stay anchored to her grief or find the courage to rewrite her future. It is a moving tale of love, secrets, and the beauty of new beginnings.
- Year 2026
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick The Other Womanand The Guilt Trip comes a twisty and suspenseful new novel about love turned deadly.
Charlie and Freya used to be the picture-perfect couple everyone in their idyllic village in the Cotswolds envied—and if you couldn’t be them, you wanted to be with them. Happy, healthy, forging successful careers, and with a beautiful son in tow, they had it all . . . until one night a tragedy tears their lives apart.
Unable to live with themselves, let alone each other, they’re looking for someone to blame and who they land on is each other.
Told from both Freya and Charlie’s perspectives, a cat and mouse game ensues, as each of them become determined to win-out against the other, both battling to emerge victorious and guilty-conscience-free. But can Freya stay one step ahead of the man who knows her best? Or will Charlie’s stoic conviction to get what he wants, be the death of her?
Sandie Jones’s latest addictive novel is a wickedly twisty tale of obsession and the deadly consequences of loving someone too much.
- Year 2026
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood, but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Atlanta at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and marries into an affluent family. Annie, abandoned by her dissolute mother as a child, and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, and culminate in a battle for her life.
A novel about mothers and daughters, about friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.
- Year 2026
King of Gluttony by Ana Huang is the sixth installment in the popular Kings of Sin series. This story follows Sebastian Laurent, the handsome and charming heir to a massive culinary empire. While the world sees him as a “golden boy,” he hides deep internal demons that no one understands—except for one woman.
Maya Singh is a brilliant marketing executive and Sebastian’s childhood rival. Their history is rooted in a fierce academic competition that started at a Swiss boarding school. When a series of events forces them to work together, their long-standing hatred begins to simmer into something else. Despite Maya’s determination to one-up him and never cross the line, she discovers that the boundary between rivalry and desire is dangerously thin. As they navigate their forced proximity, the explosive chemistry between them threatens to set both of their egos on fire.
- Year 2026
Which would you kiss, marry, or kill?
When three best friends and founders of a health and wellness app on the verge of hitting the big time play a spin on the game of “kiss, marry, kill” at their company’s summer outing, they wake up the next morning in an alternate universe to discover they’ve each done just that.
In the “real world,” quiet, indecisive Aubrey is heartbroken over things ending with her fiancé. In the new reality ushered in by the game, Aubrey finds herself in bed, naked, next to their company’s newly hired graphic designer.
Practical, straight-laced Ilena, on the brink of a divorce following a stressful struggle with infertility, wakes up six months pregnant and married to their company’s general counsel.
Mallory’s philosophy is to ask neither forgiveness nor permission. Yet the reckless behavior of their biggest investor crosses lines even Mallory didn’t know she had. Especially since she’s been secretly sleeping with him for the past year. She’s mad enough to kill. But in this world, he’s already dead.
Told alternately from the perspectives of these three best friends, this Sliding Doors-esque story explores the nuances of ambition, the power of female friendship, and the many facets of love in our lives, ultimately Do our choices define us, or do we define our choices?
- Year 2026
New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a captivating story about a young woman whose life becomes ensnared in her glamorous neighbor’s secret past
SPRING, 2007
At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She’s in a long-distance relationship, living at home with her mother’s beliefs, saving up for her wedding to a future doctor. But after Alicia ventures out one night in the neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, she finds herself lured by the siren song of youth and possibility that the striving crowd of creatives holds, and moves in.
No one embodies this milieu more than La Garza, a larger-than-life, up-and-coming fashion designer whose epic house parties fuel neighborhood lore. La Garza’s life, observed by Alicia from her apartment across the street, seems to hold the allure and fearlessness Alicia has never dared to imagine for herself.
But when Alicia’s wealthy banker cousin moves to the neighborhood, she finds herself increasingly drawn into both his and La Garza’s precarious lives.
- Year 2026
In Last One Out by Jane Harper, the story centers on Carralon Ridge, a dying Australian coal-mining town covered in dust and secrets. Five years ago, a young man named Sam vanished during a visit, leaving behind only his car and personal belongings. His disappearance caused his family to crumble, leading his mother, Ro, to flee the grieving community.
Ro eventually returns for the anniversary of Sam’s disappearance, hoping for closure. However, she discovers that the townspeople are suspicious and the atmosphere is heavy with unspoken truths. As Ro digs deeper into the past, she realizes that while the town is physically fading, someone is desperate to keep the dark secrets of that night buried forever.
The novel is a haunting study of grief and the lengths people go to protect their history. It highlights the tension between those who stay and those who leave, ultimately revealing a shocking truth about what really happened to Sam in the shadows of the mine.
- Year 2026
