MotherStyles: Using Personality Type to Discover Your Parenting Strengths
10 best books like MotherStyles: Using Personality Type to Discover Your Parenting Strengths (Janet P. Penley): And Only to Deceive, Heartstone, The Friday Society, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, A School for Unusual Girls, A Little History of the World, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Winning Hand, Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
From gifted new writer Tasha Alexander comes a stunning novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves stolen antiquities, betrayal, and murder
And Only to Deceive
For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip,...
| Author | Elle Katharine White |
A debut historical fantasy that recasts Jane Austen’s beloved Pride & Prejudice in an imaginative world of wyverns, dragons, and the warriors who fight alongside them against the monsters that threaten the kingdom: gryphons, direwolves, lamias, banshees, and lindworms.
They say...
| Author | Adrienne Kress |
| ISBN | 0803737610 |
An action-packed tale of gowns, guys, guns–and the heroines who use them all
Set in turn of the century London, The Friday Society follows the stories of three very intelligent and talented young women, all of whom are assistants to powerful men: Cora, lab assistant; Michiko, Japanese fight...
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0151686564 |
T.S. Eliot is known for masterworks of poetry like The Waste Land, but somehow also the author of this delightful collection of cat poems. The full book consists of 15 very short poems, most of which describe a distinct personality of cat. There's the cat who can never be pleased, for example, the thieving...
A School for Unusual Girls
| Author | Kathleen Baldwin |
| ISBN | 0765376008 |
Welcome to Stranje House.
It’s 1814. Napoleon is exiled on Elba. Europe is in shambles. Britain is at war on four fronts. And Stranje House, a School for Unusual Girls, has become one of Regency England’s dark little secrets. The daughters of the beau monde who don’t fit high society’s...
A Little History of the World
| Author | E.H. Gombrich |
| ISBN | 0300108834 |
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was...
The Adventures of Robin Hood
| Author | Roger Lancelyn Green |
| ISBN | 0140367004 |
Robin Hood is champion of the poor and oppressed against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. He takes refuge with his Merrie Men in the vast Sherwood Forest, emerging time and again to outwit his enemies with daring and panache. This classic version brings sense and clarity...
| Author | Nora Roberts |
| ISBN | 0373239955 |
"Did you say I won almost two million dollars?" Running away from her former life and her controlling fiance, Darcy Wallace was down to her last ten dollars. And in the bright lights of a Las Vegas casino, Darcy gambled and won! Suddenly the small-town girl was big news - and in need of protection. Robert...
Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse
| Author | Henry N. Beard |
| ISBN | 0679435824 |
Earlier today, we were walking past one of the open-air bookstalls on Rue de la Marché when I noticed a second-hand copy of this book. It opened naturally at the following poem, which I liked so much that I immediately had to read it aloud:Kubla Kat
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Cat
In Xanadu...
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
Once upon a time, in the olden days, heavy-set middle-aged men would congregate in their elitist clubs, sit in over-stuffed leather chairs, smoke air-choking cigars, and pitch story ideas and plots to each other. Problem was, these stories, many of which found their way into the general social consciousness,...
| Author | Joshua Palmatier |
| ISBN | 0756406595 |
Science fiction and fantasy readers have long shown an affinity for a good "bar story". Now some of today's most inventive scriveners have decided to tell their own tall tales-from an alewife's attempt to transfer the gods' curse to Gilgamesh, to Odin's decision to introduce Vikings to the Ur-Bar,...
| Author | Princess Michael of Kent |
| ISBN | 0743296370 |
Though of eminent birth and status in their own right, the women of Crowned in a Far Country all left the countries of their birth to marry heirs to great thrones. They all shared an inbred sense of duty and a genuine desire to see it performed. None fought against what she saw as her destiny but only sought...
The Art and Power of Being a Lady
| Author | Noelle Cleary |
| ISBN | 0802139418 |
"Lady." Let's face it: the word brings to mind a host of associations‚ many of which call to mind costume dramas or tea-sipping debutantes. That is, until The Art and Power of Being a Lady‚ the book that brushes the cobwebs off and makes "lady" relevant to every girl and woman — whether her role...
Nurture by Nature: How to Raise Happy, Healthy, Responsible Children Through the Insights of Personality Type
| Author | Paul D. Tieger |
| ISBN | 0316845132 |
Every parent knows that children, even babies, have distinct personalities. Any parent with more than one child is probably well aware of how different from each other children, even siblings, can be. So it's only natural that the parenting strategies that work with one child may be less effective...
| Author | Gigi Pandian |
| ISBN | 0738741841 |
A modern tale of ancient intrigue from a USA Today bestselling author
When Zoe Faust--herbalist, alchemist, and recent transplant to Portland, Oregon--begins unpacking her bags, she can't help but notice she's picked up a stow away: a living, breathing, three-and-half-foot gargoyle....
| Author | L. Ron Hubbard |
| ISBN | 0884049345 |
Lauded by authors and critics alike as a work of trend-setting importance in modern speculative fiction, Typewriter in the Sky is an extravaganza of vivid action/adventure and dazzling fantasy.Pianist Mike de Wolf suddenly finds himself the main character in a resounding adventure story of danger...
| Author | Sofie Kelly |
| ISBN | 0451234537 |
Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson never wanted to be the crazy cat lady. But after Owen and Hercules followed her home, she realized her mind wasn't playing tricks on her-her cats have magical abilities.When the body of elderly do-gooder Agatha Shepherd is found near Kath's favorite local café,...
The Golden Ball and Other Stories
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0312981694 |
Is it a gesture of good will or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to magnificent estate? How desperate is Joyce Lambert, a destitute young widow whose only recourse is to marry a man she despises? What unexpected circumstance stirs old loyalties in Theodora Darrell, and unfaithful...
