12 Top nonfiction books like The Strong, Sensitive Boy by Ted Zeff

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The Strong, Sensitive Boy

By: Ted Zeff

3.64

Format: None pages,

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Strong, Sensitive Boy by Ted Zeff , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Healing the Shame that Binds You by John Bradshaw

1. Healing the Shame that Binds You

By: John Bradshaw

4.09

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

“I used to drink,” writes John Bradshaw, “to solve the problems caused by drinking. The more I dran… read more

Similar categories in John Bradshaw's Healing the Shame that Binds You book and Ted Zeff's The Strong, Sensitive Boy

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • health
"Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are."

-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

"Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive."

-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

"True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love."

-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

"Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically."

-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

Cover of Bradshaw on the Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem by John Bradshaw

2. Bradshaw on the Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem

By: John Bradshaw

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Based on the public television series of the same name, Bradshaw On: The Family is John Bradshaw's … read more

Similar categories in John Bradshaw's Bradshaw on the Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem book and Ted Zeff's The Strong, Sensitive Boy

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • self help
"The shared secret and the shared denial are the most horrible aspects of incest."

-John Bradshaw, Bradshaw on the Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem

"Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial. The denial forces members to keep believing the myths and vital lies in spite of the facts, or to keep expecting that the…"

-John Bradshaw, Bradshaw on the Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem

"The utter atrocities of Nazism have shown us clearly what the inherent potential of destruction in the parenting rules we have been using for the last 150 years. These rules are non-democratic. They …"

-John Bradshaw, Bradshaw on the Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem

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3. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

By: John Taylor Gatto

4.15

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

A highly praised bestseller for over a decade, Dumbing Us Down is a radical treatise on public educ… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • psychology
"… nothing important can ever really be boring."

-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

"As redes operacionais tornam as pessoas solitárias."

-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

"I assign a type of extended schooling called “homework,"

-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

"Networks like schools are not communities, just as school training is not education."

-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

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4. The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You

By: Elaine N. Aron

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Do you fall in love hard, but fear intimacy? Are you sick of being told that you are "too sensitive… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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5. The Stepford Wives

By: Ira Levin

2.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost to… read more

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6. The Strong, Sensitive Boy

By: Ted Zeff

3.64

Format: None pages,

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  • parenting
  • childrens
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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7. The Children's Book of Virtues

By: William J. Bennett , Michael Hague

4.24

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The perfect companion to William J. Bennett's number-one bestseller; The Book of Virtues, The Child… read more

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  • parenting
  • childrens

8. How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk

By: Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish

3.85

Format: None pages,

The renowned #1 New York Times bestselling authors share their advice and expertise with parents an… read more

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9. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

By: Elaine N. Aron

3.85

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"But psychology is not perfect. It can only reflect the biases of the culture from which it comes."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

10. Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better

By: Brant Hansen

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Not entitled to get angry? Really? It's a radical, provocative idea: We're not entitled to get offe… read more

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11. Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, When to Say No to Help Your Children Gain Control of Their Lives

By: Henry Cloud , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

You want your kids to grow up into healthy adults. You want to see them take responsibility for the… read more

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12. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

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"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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13. The Warm Hands of Ghosts

By: Katherine Arden

4.02

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more

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"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."

-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Cover of Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel

14. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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15. I Am Not Starfire

By: Mariko Tamaki

3.41

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

From New York Times bestselling author Mariko Tamaki (Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, Harley … read more

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16. Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

Cover of The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Jen Gunter

17. The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism

By: Jen Gunter

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Just as she did in her groundbreaking bestseller The Vagina Bible, Dr. Jen Gunter, the internet’s m… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
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18. Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale

By: Lauren Myracle

3.67

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

When fourteen-year-old Selina Kyle, aka the future Catwoman, becomes homeless, she must confront qu… read more

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"Cats and dogs are said to be sworn enemies, but I don't believe it. I think we get to choose our enemies, just like we choose our friends."

-Lauren Myracle, Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale

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19. The Highly Sensitive Parent: Be Brilliant in Your Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You

By: Elaine N. Aron

3.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Parenting is the most valuable and rewarding job in the world, and also one of the most challenging… read more

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  • parenting
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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20. Stories of Hope: Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives

By: Heather Morris

3.44

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

In Stories of Hope, Heather Morris takes us on an inspirational journey through some of the definin… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Edith Eger

21. The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life

By: Edith Eger

4.44

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This practical and inspirational guide to healing from the award-winning, New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help

8 Top self help books like The Strong, Sensitive Boy by Ted Zeff

Transform Your Habits

Healing the Shame that Binds You

John Bradshaw

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Bradshaw on the Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem

John Bradshaw

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You

Elaine N. Aron

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Strong, Sensitive Boy

Ted Zeff

3.64

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21 must-read fiction books like The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

Transform Your Habits

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Katherine Arden

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

3.87

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T. Kingfisher

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