8 must-read self help books like Do Your Laundry or You'll Die Alone: Advice Your Mom Would Give if She Thought You Were Listening (fun back-to-school college care package gift) by Becky Blades

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Do Your Laundry or You'll Die Alone: Advice Your Mom Would Give if She Thought You Were Listening (fun back-to-school college care package gift)

By: Becky Blades

4.03

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

When Becky Blades sent her firstborn daughter off to Harvard, she knew the world’s top-ranked colle…

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1. The Buddha in the Attic

By: Julie Otsuka

3.70

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy … read more

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"„Niekas nelaimi karo.Visi pralaimi"

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting."

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?"

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs."

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

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2. Key Lime Pie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #9)

By: Joanne Fluke

3.84

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

The yummy [ninth] smalltown cozy from Fluke (after 2006's Cherry Cheesecake Murder) finds sometime … read more

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3. Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

By: Lisa Damour

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel Sch… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • family
  • self help
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4. Cherry Cheesecake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #8)

By: Joanne Fluke

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When Main Street in Lake Eden becomes a movie set, a clever killer rewrites the script and bakery o… read more

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"You're right. I forgot that barns were heated." Hannah didn't bother to correct her sister. Strictly speaking, Andrea was right, barns were heated. They were kept warm by herding in all the cattle, k…"

-Joanne Fluke, Cherry Cheesecake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #8)

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5. Peach Cobbler Murder (Hannah Swensen, #7)

By: Joanne Fluke

3.92

Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bakery owner and occasional sleuth Hannah Swensen finds herself the prime suspect when Shawna Lee, … read more

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"When Tracy was three she looked up at her aunt and asked, "Why don't we have dessert for breakfast?"

-Joanne Fluke, Peach Cobbler Murder (Hannah Swensen, #7)

"The secret of high finance...if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money."

-Joanne Fluke, Peach Cobbler Murder (Hannah Swensen, #7)

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6. The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better

By: Gretchen Rubin

3.54

Format: 337 pages, Audio CD

In this groundbreaking analysis of personality type, bestselling author of Better Than Beforeand Th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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7. The Upside of Unrequited

By: Becky Albertalli

3.95

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love--she's lived through it twenty… read more

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8. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

By: Roz Chast

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York TimesBestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction

9. Carrot Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #10)

By: Joanne Fluke

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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10. Certain Girls (Cannie Shapiro #2)

By: Jennifer Weiner

4.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in B… read more

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11. The Tailgate

By: Elin Hilderbrand

3.00

Format: 18 pages,

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12. An Ideal Husband

By: Oscar Wilde

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Although Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one n… read more

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13. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

By: David von Drehle

4.00

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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14. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

By: Stephanie Land

3.62

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

By: Mary Louise Kelly

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • family
  • self help
"In his book "Being Mortal", the surgeon Atul Gawande accurately describes the joy that flows from being good at your work. 'You become a doctor for what you imagine to be the satisfaction of the work…"

-Mary Louise Kelly, It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

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16. When Stars Are Scattered

By: Victoria Jamieson

4.62

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Heartbreak and hope exist together in this remarkable graphic novel about growing up in a refugee c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • family
"Pass or fail—I’ve done my best. It’s in God’s hands now."

-Victoria Jamieson, When Stars Are Scattered

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17. Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

By: Nora McInerny

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"He can say he forgives me, sure, but I know better. In therapy, I work on forgiving myself."

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"How frightening to know that your brain can betray you this way, that the vessel for our sense of self is often faulty and prone to error. How awful to know that death may come for us over and over, …"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"To admit this—a hopelessly unfashionable addiction to the appearance of my body—is a crime in some circles. It's much more becoming to "embrace your flaws" or—even better—to not see your body's flaws…"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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18. It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

By: Elizabeth Passarella

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A collection of refreshingly honest and hilarious essays from Southern Living columnist Elizabeth P… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"The whole crux of the Christian faith is that we cannot save ourselves... I know that I can't fix the brokenness inside me or overcome my own sin. For people who don't share my faith, this sounds tot…"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

"Epilogue: "I don't need these. Not any of this." "I want this camel. This is all I'm taking just to remember him by." "Sometimes you hold on to a big thing, an overwhelming thing because you believe …"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

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19. Huda F Are You?

By: Huda Fahmy

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From the creator of Yes, I'm Hot In This, this cheeky, hilarious, and honest graphic novel asks the… read more

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  • humor
"Use your hijab, woman! Cover that forehead!"

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?

"I swear if we end up getting joint weddings, we're running away."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?

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20. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • family
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21. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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  • nonfiction
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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22. Your House Will Pay

By: Steph Cha

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and taut novel about racial tensions in L.A., following two families—one Korean-American… read more

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"Don’t martyr yourself. Your workers’ comp won’t cover it.' --Shawn's boss, Manny."

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

"But she held tight to all her principles, and the most important of these was that family came first."

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

"Every day there had been rotten cops in the news and still she had been bamboozled. ‘I mean, they’re supposed to protect people, right? How can they be so bad at their jobs?’ ‘They protect people fro…"

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

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23. Dear Santa

By: Debbie Macomber

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A special holiday wish list brings about hope, love, and second chances in this nostalgic novel fro… read more

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24. Darling Rose Gold

By: Stephanie Wrobel

3.71

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. She was a… read more

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"It’s not my fault you have no friends and a dead-end job"

-Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

"It was easier to manipulate someone if they didn’t perceive you as a threat."

-Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

"The bond between a mother and daughter is sacred. You know better than anyone that no matter how awful they are, we still find it in our hearts to love them."

-Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

"The debt between a child and her mother could never be repaid, like running a foot race against someone fifteen miles ahead of you. What hope did you have of catching up?"

-Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

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25. The Invisible Husband of Frick Island

By: Colleen Oakley

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

“This is the hopeful book we all need right now. I loved it!”—Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bests… read more

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"... she realized that was the thing about loneliness. It made you susceptible to doing a whole manner of things you might not otherwise do."

-Colleen Oakley, The Invisible Husband of Frick Island

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26. Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances

By: Kwame Alexander

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poet… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • family
"I want them to know that banning a book is like banning a hug and THAT is a dismal storm no should be left behind in"

-Kwame Alexander, Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances

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27. The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

By: Mary Claire Haver

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her horm… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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28. Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions

By: Patricia Marx

3.46

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The perfect Mother's Day gift: A collection of witty one-line advice New Yorker writer Patricia Mar… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • family
"Some people like meat well done, but they are wrong."

-Patricia Marx, Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions

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29. What I Like About You

By: Marisa Kanter

3.59

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Can a love triangle have only two people in it? Online, it can... but in the real world, it's more … read more

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"First, my books need to breathe–in alphabetical order, by genre."

-Marisa Kanter, What I Like About You

"It’s knowing the world might be a trash fire, but it’s less trash when there are people to help navigate the darkness. Friendship is messy. Hard. Infuriating. Awesome. Fragile. Durable. Impossible. W…"

-Marisa Kanter, What I Like About You

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30. Do Your Laundry or You'll Die Alone: Advice Your Mom Would Give if She Thought You Were Listening (fun back-to-school college care package gift)

By: Becky Blades

4.03

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

When Becky Blades sent her firstborn daughter off to Harvard, she knew the world’s top-ranked colle… read more

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  • parenting
  • inspirational
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • self help
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31. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

Roz Chast

4.29

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Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

Nora McInerny

3.84

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It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

Elizabeth Passarella

3.98

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4.06

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4.28

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