26 best-selling nonfiction books like Calm the H*ck Down: How to Let Go and Lighten Up About Parenting by Melanie Dale

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Calm the H*ck Down: How to Let Go and Lighten Up About Parenting

By: Melanie Dale

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From author and speaker Melanie Dale comes a laugh-out-loud hilarious parenting book that teaches y…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Calm the H*ck Down: How to Let Go and Lighten Up About Parenting by Melanie Dale , here is a list of 26 books like this:

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1. Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?

By: Gary L. Thomas

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Happy is good. Holy is better. Your marriage is more than a sacred covenant with another person. I… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit."

-Gary L. Thomas, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?

"Heloise learned to love Abelard solely for who he was. That forbidden love brought her nothing but pain, but she would rather have shame and pain with Abelard than peace and happiness without him."

-Gary L. Thomas, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?

"Contempt is born when we fixate on our spouse’s weaknesses. Every spouse has these sore points. If you want to find them, without a doubt you will. If you want to obsess about them, they’ll grow – bu…"

-Gary L. Thomas, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?

"The mature response, however, is not to leave; it's to change -- ourselves. Whenever marital dissatisfaction rears its head in my marriage -- as it does in virtually every marriage -- I simply check …"

-Gary L. Thomas, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?

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2. Summerlost

By: Ally Condie

3.86

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

It's the first real summer since the devastating accident that killed Cedar's father and younger br… read more

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"I understood why Leo called the fountain Baby Niagara. Because once you see something big, you can't help seeing it in everything small."

-Ally Condie, Summerlost

"You're not my girlfriend. You're my person." I knew right away what he meant. I thought he was cute and he though ti was cute but was different than it was when people have crushes. With Leo I'd fall…"

-Ally Condie, Summerlost

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3. Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

By: Kim John Payne , Lisa M. Ross

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Today's busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
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4. The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive

By: Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Yo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
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5. I Heart My Little A-Holes

By: Karen Alpert

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

When your son wakes you up at 3:00 A.M. because he wants to watch Caillou, he's an a-hole. When you… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • parenting

6. Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry

By: Lenore Skenazy

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

FREE RANGE KIDShas become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy… read more

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7. Toddlers Are A**holes: It's Not Your Fault

By: Bunmi Laditan

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Toddler a**holery is a normal part of human development--not unlike puberty, except this stage invo… read more

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8. Counting the Cost

By: Jill Duggar

4.06

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family… read more

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  • nonfiction
"He loved spending time with us and told us often that we were his number one hobby."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"Sometimes you have to be okay with other people not being okay with you. And you have to be okay with you not being okay too."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"The dangers were not just out there on the street or in the mall, and they weren't just limited to the summer. They were closer to home as I soon discovered."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"It's like roses and thorns, justice and grace. You can recognize the beauty and happy parts of your story while also recognizing the more difficult parts. The two can coexist. The highs aren't automa…"

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

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9. Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

By: Jinger Duggar Vuolo

3.60

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kid… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

By: Hunter Clarke-Fields

3.95

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

“A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting.” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance A k… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
"The only way out of our difficult feelings is through."

-Hunter Clarke-Fields, Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

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11. Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself: 5 Steps to Banish Guilt and Beat Burnout When You Already Have Too Much to Do

By: Morgan Cutlip

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Loving your kids isn’t supposed to mean you completely disappear or get swallowed up by the demands… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
"You are not needy. You are not too much. You are not required to give all of you in order for others to thrive. You must not give all of you. In fact, it is imperative that you don't. You deserve to …"

-Morgan Cutlip, Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself: 5 Steps to Banish Guilt and Beat Burnout When You Already Have Too Much to Do

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12. Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

By: Jennie Allen

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head provides a revolutionary path to embr… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Feelings aren’t meant to be fixed. Feelings are meant to be felt."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"Let me be clear, you will never be emotionally healthy outside the will of God."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"Our willingness to feel what we feel connects us to ourselves, to others, to God."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"After all, where did those of us who know Jesus get the idea that we were going to have a straight and easy path all the way to heaven? It’s a wild ride all the way home."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

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13. How to Keep House While Drowning

By: K.C. Davis

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revol… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
"Shame has never helped anyone's mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

"No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

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14. E.R. Nurses

By: James Patterson

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

James Patterson and Matt Eversmann present the medical frontline heroes who work to save our lives … read more

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  • nonfiction
"My job isn't just taking care of patients. I take care of families too. It is the greatest gift."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

"Nursing, I realize, isn't just about medicine. It's also about making---and preserving--- that human connection."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

"I don't think people realize the fight that goes on in nurses' hearts--- sticking to a hospital's legal policy versus acting on humanitarian impulses."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

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15. The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did]

By: Philippa Perry

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

This book is about how we have relationships with our children, what gets in the way of a good conn… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
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16. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans

By: Michaeleen Doucleff

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff becomes a mother, she examines the studies behind modern parenting gui… read more

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  • parenting
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18. Risen Motherhood: Gospel Hope for Everyday Moments

By: Emily A. Jensen

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Motherhood is hard. In a world of five-step lists and silver-bullet solutions to become perfect par… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
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19. Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood

By: Ashlee Gadd

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Motherhood and creativity can coexist.   You have creative dreams swirling in your heart, but purs… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
"At the root, my desire to feel ready is actually a desire to control the outcome."

-Ashlee Gadd, Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood

"You desperately want all the right tools because you want to mother “the right way."

-Ashlee Gadd, Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood

"If you view creativity as a selfish act, you will always struggle to justify making time for it."

-Ashlee Gadd, Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood

"The enemy hisses imposter and fraud, but I beg you to listen to the louder voice who calls you by a different name."

-Ashlee Gadd, Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood

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20. How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

By: Jancee Dunn

4.08

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

"Get this for your pregnant friends, or yourself" (People): a hilariously candid account of one wom… read more

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  • parenting
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21. The Montessori Baby: A Parent's Guide to Nurturing Your Baby with Love, Respect, and Understanding (The Parents' Guide to Montessori, 2)

By: Simone Davies

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It’s time to change the way we see babies. Drawing on principles developed by the educator Dr Maria… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
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22. Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

By: Jessica Grose

3.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"If this book feels like it’s sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that’s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
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23. The Postnatal Depletion Cure: A Complete Guide to Rebuilding Your Health and Reclaiming Your Energy for Mothers of Newborns, Toddlers, and Young Children

By: Oscar Serrallach

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

While postpartum depression has become a recognizable condition, this is the first book to treat ro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
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24. Under an Outlaw Moon

By: Dietrich Kalteis

3.30

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Meet Depression-era newlyweds Bennie and Stella. He’s reckless, she’s naive. Longing for freedom fr… read more

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25. Raising Emotionally Strong Boys: Tools Your Son Can Build On for Life

By: David Thomas

4.58

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

About those meltdowns, blowups, and one-word answers . . . Some say that's just how boys are--pr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
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26. French Kids Eat Everything

By: Karen Le Billon

3.93

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Moving her young family to her husband's hometown in northern France, Karen Le Billon expected some… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
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27. Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All

By: Karen Ehman

4.02

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

Keep It Shutby Karen Ehman explores how to better control your tongue, knowing what to say and how … read more

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  • nonfiction
"When Satan gets a foothold, we're in trouble. He wants us to lose our balance. He would love to pin us to the mat, rendering us ineffective for the kingdom. Once we give him a foothold, he can gain a…"

-Karen Ehman, Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All

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28. How to raise kids who aren’t assholes

By: Melinda Wenner Moyer

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes is a clear, actionable, sometimes humorous (but always scien… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
Cover of Perfectly Parvin (Perfectly Parvin, #1) by Olivia Abtahi

29. Perfectly Parvin (Perfectly Parvin, #1)

By: Olivia Abtahi

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Fourteen-year-old Iranian-American Parvin Mohammadi sets out to win the ultimate date to homecoming… read more

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  • humor
Cover of Remaining You While Raising Them: The Secret Art of Confident Motherhood by Alli Worthington

30. Remaining You While Raising Them: The Secret Art of Confident Motherhood

By: Alli Worthington

3.98

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A guilt-free guide that strips away the myths you've believed about motherhood and offers you a new… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
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31. Calm the H*ck Down: How to Let Go and Lighten Up About Parenting

By: Melanie Dale

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From author and speaker Melanie Dale comes a laugh-out-loud hilarious parenting book that teaches y… read more

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19 Best parenting books like Calm the H*ck Down: How to Let Go and Lighten Up About Parenting by Melanie Dale

Transform Your Habits

Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

Kim John Payne , Lisa M. Ross

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive

Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson

4.44

Transform Your Habits

I Heart My Little A-Holes

Karen Alpert

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

Hunter Clarke-Fields

3.95

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5 Best adult books like E.R. Nurses by James Patterson

Transform Your Habits

Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

Transform Your Habits

E.R. Nurses

James Patterson

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Run, Rose, Run

Dolly Parton

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

Theresa Brown

3.61

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