Act Natural: A Cultural History of Misadventures in Parenting
By: Jennifer Traig
3.94
Format: 352 pages, ebook
From a distinctive, inimitable voice, a wickedly funny and fascinating romp through the strange and…
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1. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6)
By: Beverly Cleary
4.10
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Mr. Quimby's going to college, Mrs. Quimby's going to work. Now that Ramona is eight, she can go t… read more
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- humor
- childrens
- audiobook
"Ramona required accuracy from books as well as people."-Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6)
"Grown-ups often forgot that no child likes to be ordered to be nice to another child."-Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6)
"Willa Jean did not feel she was beautiful because she was a healthy child. She felt beautiful like a grown-up lady on TV."-Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6)
"For the first time, Ramona began to doubt that her father was the best artist in the whole world. This thought made her feel sad..."-Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6)
2. Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
By: Jamie Glowacki
3.90
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
From potty-training expert and social worker Jamie Glowacki, who’s already helped over half a milli… read more
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- audiobook
- parenting
- childrens
- nonfiction
- adult
- self help
3. Precious Little Sleep
By: Alexis Dubief
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Expert, Hilarious, and Tactically Comprehensive Baby Sleep Book Parenting a baby or toddler is … read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- childrens
- self help
4. Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
By: Abby Craden , Pamela Druckerman
4.02
Format: 10 pages, Audiobook
The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Dr… read more
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- audiobook
- parenting
- childrens
- nonfiction
- adult
- self help
"You don’t say, “I’m sorry,"-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
"Letting children “live their lives"-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
"...the main point of parental authority is to authorize children to do things, not to block them."-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
"One day I have a revelation. ‘I think we’re actually quite compatible,’ I tell him. ‘You’re irritable, and I’m irritating."-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
5. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
By: Jon Scieszka , Lane Smith
4.20
Format: 52 pages, Hardcover
A revisionist storyteller provides his mad, hilarious versions of children's favorite tales in this… read more
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- humor
- childrens
"And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End."-Jon Scieszka, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
6. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- audiobook
7. Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
By: Ali Wong
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Ali Wong's heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they wer… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"That day, my co-workers found out my secret: I'm a fucking idiot."-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
"I don't care how funny or beloved someone is. Take his ass down if he fucks with you."-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
"My dad would sometimes say things to my mom like, “Devil, get away, for I am God’s property!"-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
"It made me realize that the most important part of parenting, relationships, pretty much anything is just actually being there."-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
8. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
By: Becky Kennedy
4.55
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--whi… read more
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- audiobook
- parenting
- childrens
- nonfiction
- adult
- self help
9. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
By: Lucy Jones
4.54
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- parenting
- science
10. 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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- audiobook
- parenting
- history
- childrens
- nonfiction
- self help
11. Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
By: Emily Oster
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting With E… read more
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- audiobook
- self help
- parenting
- childrens
- nonfiction
- adult
- science
"This idea—that what parents need or want will play a role in choices—can be hard to admit. In a sense, I think this is at the core of a lot of the “Mommy War"-Emily Oster, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
12. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- audiobook
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
13. One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
By: Kate Kennedy
3.78
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millenni… read more
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- history
- humor
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Why would I ever let someone who drafts make-believe football teams make me believe I should be embarrassed by my interests?"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"Pregnancy loss...is an open wound with the most vulnerable scab, forced to constantly replenish its surface-level protection as it's picked at daily, not by you, but inadvertently by other people's j…"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"I'm a weird contradiction of someone who pursues and values traditions but tries to reject the parts that are oppressive, unfair or unnecessary, because we can adapt things to who we are, not to who …"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"That's the thing about girlhood. You and your friends have to take yourselves seriously, because no one else will. We had to keep our emotional behavior to diary pages and fangirl in private, perform…"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
14. Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years―No Time-outs Needed (2) (Oh Crap Parenting)
By: Jamie Glowacki
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Real-world, from-the-trenches toddler parenting advice from the author of the bestselling Oh Crap! … read more
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- self help
- parenting
- childrens
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Children are far more capable than we allow them to be."-Jamie Glowacki, Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years―No Time-outs Needed (2) (Oh Crap Parenting)
15. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
By: Coleman Hughes
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning tha… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
16. Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out
By: Gracie Gold
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental il… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
By: Harold Schechter
3.46
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychop… read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
18. Dear Future Mama: A TMI Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, and Motherhood from Your Bestie
By: Meghan Trainor
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The real talk you want about pregnancy, birth, body image, and the newborn days from Meghan Trainor… read more
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- self help
- parenting
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
19. The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
By: John Bolton
3.15
Format: 588 pages, Kindle Edition
As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"All this confused press coverage reveals both the inconsistencies within Trump’s own thinking, and reporting based on second- and third-hand sources, exacerbated under a President who spent a disprop…"-John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
20. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant
By: Stephanie Kiser
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more
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- parenting
- humor
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
21. Act Natural: A Cultural History of Misadventures in Parenting
By: Jennifer Traig
3.94
Format: 352 pages, ebook
From a distinctive, inimitable voice, a wickedly funny and fascinating romp through the strange and… read more
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- self help
- parenting
- history
- childrens
- historical
- humor
- nonfiction
- adult
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