Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
By: Kim Brooks
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"Part memoir, part history, part documentary, part impassioned manifesto...it might be the most imp…
Want to Read $ 11.99"I saw what was happening, the way my privilege was shielding me from the more unpleasant elements of the process, and a part of me recognized that it was wrong to quietly and gratefully accept this protection. Another, stronger part of me was fine with this. I was too scared to choose fairness over my being able to avoid being fingerprinted or having to wait for hours alone in a cell while my case was processed."-Kim Brooks, Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
"I saw what was happening, the way my privilege was shielding me from the more unpleasant elements of the process, and a part of me recognized that it was wrong to quietly and gratefully accept this protection. Another, stronger part of me was fine with this. I was too scared to choose fairness over my being able to avoid being fingerprinted or having to wait for hours alone in a cell while my case was processed."-Kim Brooks, Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
"It was a familiar dynamic between the two of us, a dynamic that had probably always been present in our relationship but that parenthood had exacerbated and intensified a hundredfold: my caring about a thing, an issue, an obligation or need of our shared family life—my caring what other people thought about us as a family—and his caring less, then my caring about his lack of caring and then his frustration at my agitation about this discrepancy in our caring because really, why did we have to care so much about every small detail?"-Kim Brooks, Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
"It was a familiar dynamic between the two of us, a dynamic that had probably always been present in our relationship but that parenthood had exacerbated and intensified a hundredfold: my caring about a thing, an issue, an obligation or need of our shared family life—my caring what other people thought about us as a family—and his caring less, then my caring about his lack of caring and then his frustration at my agitation about this discrepancy in our caring because really, why did we have to care so much about every small detail?"-Kim Brooks, Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
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1. The Girls from Corona del Mar
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.59
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A fiercely beautiful debut blazing with emotion: a major first novel about friendships made in yout… read more
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"Whatever it is that hurts you, don't talk to anyone about it."-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar
"Non ci meritiamo la primavera, e non ci meritiamo nemmeno l'inverno. Esistono e basta."-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar
"How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?"-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar
"What had been so funny? But you can never remember what you were laughing about, and even if you could, it seems doubtful that it would still be funny."-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar
2. All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
By: Jennifer Senior
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. Award-winning journalist… read more
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"Children live life as a controlled experiment."-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
"What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion"-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
"The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want."-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
"Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive."-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
3. Mindful Discipline: A Loving Approach to Setting Limits and Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child
By: Shauna L. Shapiro , Chris White
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Raising happy, compassionate, and responsible children requires both love andlimits. In Mindful Dis… read more
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- nonfiction
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4. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
By: Peter O. Gray
3.63
Format: 256 pages,
Our children spend their days being passively instructed, and made to sit still and take tests--oft… read more
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5. The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
By: Jessica Joelle Alexander , Iben Dissing Sandahl
4.50
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
What makes Denmark the happiest country in the world--and what are the secrets of Danish parents fo… read more
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6. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
By: Richard Louv
3.93
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourt… read more
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- nonfiction
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"The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses."-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature--the certainty that it's not even worth looking at. (62)"-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world."-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we could add a line of hopeful epilogue to that song: then they tore down the parking lo…"-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
7. Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
By: Michael Ruhlman
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Cookbook author and food writer Ruhlman explores the evolution of the American grocery store and ho… read more
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8. 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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9. There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom’s Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids
By: Linda Åkeson McGurk
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"A perfect antidote to the hyper-vigilant, extra-electrified, standardized-tested, house-arrested, … read more
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10. The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When The World Overwhelms Them
By: Elaine N. Aron
3.62
Format: None pages,
"The bestselling author and psychologist whose books have topped 240,000 copies in print now addres… read more
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11. How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
By: Scott D. Sampson
3.00
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved host of PBS Kids' Dinosaur Train,an easy-to-use guide for parents, teachers, and o… read more
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12. Creep: Accusations and Confessions
By: Myriam Gurba
4.37
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more
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"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions
13. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
By: Jessi Klein
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York … read more
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"A mother's heroic journey is not about how she leaves, but how she stays."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"But becoming a mother alters every ince of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"Motherhood leaves you inevitably and profoundly changed; you can be similar to who you were - maybe? - but you'll never be the same."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"Because now I know that everything bad can happen, and I am responsible for it not. Because sometimes I feel like keeping us from dying will kill me. Because I am on board, and I'm exhausted. Because…"-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
14. 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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15. Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood
By: Chelsea Conaboy
3.62
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Health and science journalist Chelsea Conaboy explodes the concept of “maternal instinct” and tells… read more
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16. The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays
By: Kelly McMasters
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A memoir in intimate essays navigating marriage and motherhood, art and ambition, grief and nostalg… read more
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17. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more
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18. Magic Words
By: Jonah Berger
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ' New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger’s cutting-edge rese… read more
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19. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
By: Meghan O'Rourke
4.03
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise… read more
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"As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word “diagnosis"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick ."-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
"Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should…"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
20. Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
By: Chris J. Anderson
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of huma… read more
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21. Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
By: Pete Buttigieg
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete B… read more
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"As I raised the glass and said, "South Bend is back," the roar of the crowd at once reflected, certified, and caused it to be so."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"Yet even now he looked on his days as mayor -- not governor or lieutenant governor or baseball team owner or naval aviator -- as the best job he'd ever had."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"At one point I learned that when I'd told them my college coursework in Arabic might make me a good intelligence officer, they had recorded that my minor at Harvard had been in aerobics."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"I had a professional background in economic development and was fluent in the language of business - even while having fought and bled politically for organized labor in the auto industry."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
22. Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy
By: Sharon Malone
4.34
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A practical guide to aging and health for women who have felt ignored or marginalized by the medica… read more
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23. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
By: Julia Lee
4.34
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more
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24. The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
By: Cory Leadbeater
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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25. The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage
By: Kelly McGonigal
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of The Willpower Instinct introduces a surprising science-based book that do… read more
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"I don't think it's a coincidence that so many people are drawn to communities where they can pursue physical challenges alongside others. It's a joy to watch people to exert themselves, face their fe…"-Kelly McGonigal, The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage
"Movement offers us pleasure, identity, belonging and hope. It puts us in places that are good for us, whether that's outdoors in nature, in an environment that challenges us, or with a supportive com…"-Kelly McGonigal, The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage
26. Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
By: Rabia Chaudry
4.12
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Serial told Only Part of the Story… In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to lif… read more
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"It wasn't just Adnan being indicted at this grand jury proceeding, it wasn't just him being prosecuted. His faith, his ethnicity, his community--they were all on trial."-Rabia Chaudry, Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
27. Hestia Strikes a Match
By: Christine Grillo
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Christine Grillo's Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and … read more
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"He suggested a date and a time, and I felt all the power sucked out of me, the power to resist, the power to think straight, the way an encounter with a parent can do. I entered the date on my calend…"-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
"Sooner or later you realize that dating is performative. You have to perform how interesting you are. Perform how kind you are. Perform what an emotional grown-up you are. And then--it gets worse. Be…"-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
28. To Be Loved: A Story of Truth, Trauma, and Transformation
By: Frank G. Anderson
4.45
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Trauma blocks love. Love heals trauma. Frank was just six years old when he learned there was so… read more
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29. Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
By: Kim Brooks
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"Part memoir, part history, part documentary, part impassioned manifesto...it might be the most imp… read more
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- adult
- sociology
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"I saw what was happening, the way my privilege was shielding me from the more unpleasant elements of the process, and a part of me recognized that it was wrong to quietly and gratefully accept this p…"-Kim Brooks, Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
"It was a familiar dynamic between the two of us, a dynamic that had probably always been present in our relationship but that parenthood had exacerbated and intensified a hundredfold: my caring about…"-Kim Brooks, Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
30. Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir
By: Mary L. Trump
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! A New York Times Nonfiction Book to R… read more
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31. Practically Still a Virgin: An Adoption Memoir
By: Monica Hall
4.59
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
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