Giftable Books for Mother’s Day

In researching this book, the authors interviewed the residents of the Japanese village with the highest percentage of 100-year-olds — one of the world’s Blue Zones. Ikigai reveals the secrets to their longevity and happiness: how they eat, how they move, how they work, how they foster collaboration and community, and — their best-kept secret — how they find the ikigai that brings satisfaction to their lives. And it provides practical tools to help you discover your own ikigai.

From the beloved, New York Times bestselling author of Heart Talk, a collection of prose and poetry that explores how we can find light in periods of lostness, love for ourselves after heartbreak, okay-ness in the midst of change, and strength in letting go.

In I Really Needed This Today, Today show co-host Hoda Kotb not only shares 365 sayings and quotes, she writes about the people and experiences that have pushed her to challenge boundaries, embrace change, and explore relationships to their fullest. Written with her signature wit and warmth, this book is the ideal companion to tuck beside your bed or to bring with you on-the-go to keep you motivated, recharged, and inspired each day.

In this relatable guide, Rebecca walks readers through the process of getting back to happy, for your own sake as well as your family’s. Going beyond the usual advice about finding balance, embracing gratitude, and not sweating the small stuff, her hard-won advice is written by a busy mom in the trenches.

A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes and explores their histories – reaching back to the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 – and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.

Gift a guide filled with advice and prompts for reflection. Throughout, sage advice from artists to athletes to business leaders along with suggested activities and reflections will help your loved one to be more present and aware.

With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult.

From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies: These eight stories take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life.

With her hallmark exuberance and a cast of characters so sassy, resilient, and full of life that they breathe, dream, and shout right off the page, Terry McMillan has given us a tour-de-force novel of family, healing, and redemption. A Day Late and a Dollar Short takes us deep into the hearts, minds, and souls of America — and gives us six more friends we never want to leave.

Anna Quindlen’s trademark wisdom on family, friendship, and the ties that bind us are at the center of this novel about the power of love to transcend loss and triumph over adversity, by the author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs and One True Thing.

In Conversations on Love, journalist Natasha Lunn interweaves personal essays and reveals interviews with some of the most sought-after experts on love. Lunn guides us through the paradoxical heart of three key questions about love — How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it? — to deliver a book that is a solace, a beacon, a call to arms, a toolkit. The real-life love stories in these pages will leave you hopeful and validated, while the insights from experts will transform the way you think about your relationships.

Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband and daughter, this new book is an intensely personal and moving account of her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old. As she reflects on her daughter’s life and on her role as a parent, Didion grapples with the candid questions that all parents face and contemplates her age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights — the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also it’s warning” —  is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profound.

Inspired by true events, Time’s Undoing is both a passionate tale of one woman’s quest for the truth behind the racially motivated trauma that has haunted her family for generations and, as newfound friends and supporters in Birmingham rally around Meghan’s search, the uplifting story of a community coming together to fight for change.