Erasing the Finish Line: The New Blueprint for Success Beyond Grades and College Admission
By: Ana Homayoun
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Moving beyond a prescribed path for success, Erasing the Finish Line highlights the essential skill…
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1. How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
By: Julie Lythcott-Haims
4.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate … read more
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2. He's Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe In Himself
By: Adam Price
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Clinical psychologist Price offers one of the most significant books of the year in this new look … read more
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3. Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
By: Frank Bruni
3.51
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasiona… read more
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4. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
5. Troubled
By: Rob Henderson
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more
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"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
6. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
By: Adam M. Grant
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more
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7. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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8. Here One Moment
By: Liane Moriarty
4.15
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Aside from a delay, there will be no probl… read more
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9. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
10. Dolls of Our Lives
By: Mary Mahoney
3.53
Format: None pages, None
For Feiwel & Friends, Kat Brzozowski bought world rights to a currently untitled book by Allison Ho… read more
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11. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more
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12. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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13. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
By: Susan Rogers
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secret… read more
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14. Christa Comes Out of Her Shell
By: Abbi Waxman
3.59
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Just when she thought she’d gotten far enough away . . . a life-changing phone call throws an antis… read more
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15. The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make
By: Ron Lieber
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR New York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Book Revi… read more
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16. Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
By: Jeffrey J. Selingo
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Seling… read more
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17. One Way Back: A Memoir
By: Christine Blasey Ford
4.30
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more
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18. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
19. Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
By: Casey Means
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future. What if depression, anxiety, … read more
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20. Valedictorians at the Gate: Standing Out, Getting In, and Staying Sane While Applying to College
By: Becky Munsterer Sabky
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Named one of Grown & Flown 's “Best Book on College Admissions and Paying for College” “The most h… read more
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21. The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents
By: Lisa Damour
4.47
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ in… read more
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22. One Woman Show
By: Christine Coulson
3.92
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A sly and stylish novel—remarkably told through museum wall labels—about a twentieth-century woman … read more
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23. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
24. Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
By: Tali Sharot
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Thinking Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit , a groundbreaking new study of how disru… read more
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25. Welcome Home: A Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating and Hosting All Year Round
By: Myquillyn Smith
4.09
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Decorating your home for each season doesn't have to be stressful, overwhelming, or expensive—just … read more
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"Fall has a big job of taking us from summer to pre-Christmas."-Myquillyn Smith, Welcome Home: A Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating and Hosting All Year Round
"... I take my cues from "Flylady" Marla Cilley, who says, "Housework done imperfectly still blesses your family."... we delight in what we can do, however little."-Myquillyn Smith, Welcome Home: A Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating and Hosting All Year Round
"Every year, I'm shocked at the abundance of growth, life, and wholeness that seem to happen in a matter of weeks. Half the year we live in Eden, the other half on Mars."-Myquillyn Smith, Welcome Home: A Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating and Hosting All Year Round
"Instead of calling plastic décor fake-- or it's fancy sister, faux-- I refer to it as pretend. It's pretend because using it and believing it's real is a workout for the imagination. We all know ther…"-Myquillyn Smith, Welcome Home: A Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating and Hosting All Year Round
26. This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained
By: Cara Natterson
4.28
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
The ultimate roadmap for adults helping tweens and teens navigate the rollercoaster of puberty. … read more
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27. 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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28. The Other Mothers
By: Katherine Faulkner
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has … read more
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29. The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman
By: Gennifer Choldenko
4.55
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Readers will be rooting for a happy ending for Hank in Newbery-Honor-winner Gennifer Choldenko’s gr… read more
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30. Erasing the Finish Line: The New Blueprint for Success Beyond Grades and College Admission
By: Ana Homayoun
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Moving beyond a prescribed path for success, Erasing the Finish Line highlights the essential skill… read more
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31. Not Nothing
By: Gayle Forman
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"The book we all need at the time we all need it.” —Katherine Applegate, Newbery Award–winning auth… read more
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