Guarding the Moon: A Mother's First Year
10 best books like Guarding the Moon: A Mother's First Year (Francesca Lia Block): Geek Love, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, Emily Climbs, Sex Object: A Memoir, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger, Juliet Takes a Breath, Perfect Little World
| Author | Katherine Dunn |
| ISBN | 0375713344 |
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out—with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes—to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of...
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
| Author | T Kira Madden |
| ISBN | 1635571855 |
Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant...
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
The Lady from the Black Lagoon
uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of Disney’s first female animators and the only woman in history to create one of Hollywood’s classic movie monsters.
As a teenager, Mallory O’Meara was thrilled to discover that one of her favorite...
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.
“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste...
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
| Author | Jonathan Van Ness |
| ISBN | 0062906402 |
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey.
The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy.
Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing...
| Author | L.M. Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0553262149 |
Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if she promises to stop...
Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential.
Sex Object explores the painful,...
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
| Author | Rebecca Traister |
| ISBN | 1501181807 |
From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement.
In the year 2018, it seems as if women’s anger has suddenly erupted...
Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn’t sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But Juliet has a plan, sort of, one that’s going to help her figure out this whole “Puerto Rican lesbian” thing. She’s interning...
When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's just about out of options. She recently graduated from high school and is pregnant with her art teacher's baby. Her mother is dead and her father is a drunk. The art teacher is too much of a head-case to help raise the child. Izzy knows she can be a good mother...
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
| Author | Elizabeth L. Cline |
| ISBN | 1524744301 |
The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth--fashion--into a force for good. Readers will learn where our clothes are made and how they're made, before connecting to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion...
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
| Author | Pamela Druckerman |
| ISBN | 0449010880 |
The runaway New York Times bestseller that shows American parents the secrets behind France's amazingly well-behaved children
When American journalist Pamela Druckerman had a baby in Paris, she didn't aspire to become a "French parent." But she noticed that French children slept through...
On Becoming Babywise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep
| Author | Robert Bucknam |
| ISBN | 1932740171 |
Don’t waste your time. Where the heck was the editor?!? These authors LOVE to hear themselves y’all... .
The Happiest Kids in the World A Stress-Free Approach to Parenting—the Dutch Way
| Author | Rina Mae Acosta |
| ISBN | 0857523856 |
Why do:
· Dutch babies seem so content, and sleep so well?
· Dutch parents let their kids play outside on their own?
· The Dutch trust their children to bike to school?
· Dutch schools not set homework for the under-tens?
· Dutch teenagers not rebel?
· What is the secret...
Thinspired: My Plan for Lasting Weight Loss and Self Acceptance
| Author | Mara Schiavocampo |
| ISBN | 1476784051 |
This inspirational book from ABC News correspondent Mara Schiavocampo takes you on her journey of weight loss—and helps you shed pounds and find peace, health, and happiness in the process.
Like so many people, Mara Schiavocampo had struggled with weight for most of her life. She tried...
Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic.
A witch is a wise woman, a healer. Yet for so long the word “witch” has had negative connotations. In this book, third generation hereditary witch Lisa Lister explains the history behind witchcraft, why identifying as a healer in past centuries led women to be burned at the stake, and why the witch...
| Author | Anne T. Donahue |
| ISBN | 1770414231 |
“The internet’s best friend.” — Flare
From the author of the popular newsletter That’s What She Said, Nobody Cares is a frank, funny personal essay collection about work, failure, feminism, and the messy business of being alive in your twenties and thirties.
As she...
The Sweetest Kind of Poison
| Author | Katie Wismer |
| ISBN | 1720864527 |
The stories never tell you what to do when the knight who rescues you turns out to be more dangerous than the dragon he saved you from.
The Sweetest Kind of Poison is a collection of poetry about toxic relationships and letting go of what no longer serves you. It takes you through the fall, the collapse,...
