A Good Birth: Finding the Positive and Profound in Your Childbirth Experience

10 best books like A Good Birth: Finding the Positive and Profound in Your Childbirth Experience (Anne Lyerly): Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, The Stonewall Reader: Edited by The New York Public Library, Patron Saints of Nothing, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, Kiss Number 8, The Night Before, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, They Called Us Enemy, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

Author

Mariko Tamaki

Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend.

Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her,...

The Stonewall Reader: Edited by The New York Public Library

Author

New York Public Library

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.

June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which is considered...

Patron Saints of Nothing

Author

Randy Ribay

A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.

Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall....

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Author	Adam Higginbotham
ISBN	1501134612

The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.

April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the...

Kiss Number 8

Author

Colleen A.F. Venable

Amanda can’t figure out what’s so exciting about kissing. It’s just a lot of teeth clanking, germ swapping, closing of eyes so you can’t see that godzilla-sized zit just inches from your own hormonal monstrosity. All of her seven kisses had been horrible in different ways, but nothing compared...

The Night Before

Author	Wendy Walker
ISBN	1250198674

First dates can be murder.

Riveting and compulsive, national bestselling author Wendy Walker’s The Night Before “takes you to deep, dark places few thrillers dare to go” as two sisters uncover long-buried secrets when an internet date spirals out of control.

Laura Lochner...

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

Author	Ina May Gaskin
ISBN	0553381156

What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you.

Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation’s leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys of natural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy...

They Called Us Enemy

Author	George Takei
ISBN	1603094504

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.

Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

Author	Emily Oster
ISBN	0525559256

From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting

With EXPECTING BETTER, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies....

The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

Author	La Leche League International
ISBN	0452285801

This book is great for helping new moms get the hang of latching and positioning. That's about it.

Most moms work and many of those moms work full-time, so having an entire chapter of a breastfeeding book devoted to advocating that women NOT work is unsupportive, misogynistic and completely...

The Last Astronaut

Author	David Wellington
ISBN	0356512290

Mission Commander Sally Jansen is Earth’s last astronaut–and last hope–in this gripping near-future thriller where a mission to make first contact becomes a terrifying struggle for survival in the depths of space.

Sally Jansen was NASA’s leading astronaut, until a mission to...

Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

Author	Angela Garbes
ISBN	0062662961

What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and early motherhood that debunks myths and dated assumptions, offering guidance and camaraderie to women navigating one of the biggest and most profound changes in their lives.

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Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know

Author	Emily Oster
ISBN	1594204756

What to Expect When You're Expecting meets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves standard recommendations about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting.

Pregnancy—unquestionably one of the most profound, meaningful experiences of adulthood—can...