No Biking in the House Without a Helmet
9 best books like No Biking in the House Without a Helmet (Melissa Fay Greene): A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them, Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard, To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care, Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir, Richard Hittleman's Yoga: 28 Day Exercise Plan, Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America, Gratitude Daily
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
| Author | Sue Klebold |
| ISBN | 1101902760 |
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives.
For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan’s...
Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
| Author | Randy Christensen |
| ISBN | 0307718999 |
The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting...
Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
| Author | Neely Tucker |
| ISBN | 1400081602 |
Against a background of war, terrorism, disease and unbearable uncertainty about the future, this story of how a foreign correspondent and his wife fought to adopt a Zimbabwean baby emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve. Don't...
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
| Author | Liz Murray |
| ISBN | 0786868910 |
In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard.
Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and...
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
| Author | Cris Beam |
| ISBN | 0547999534 |
"Beam presents both a sharp critique of foster-care policies and a searching exploration of the meaning of family."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in...
Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
| Author | Tom Hart |
| ISBN | 1250049946 |
Rosalie Lightning is Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart's #1 New York Times bestselling touching and beautiful graphic memoir about the untimely death of his young daughter, Rosalie. His heart-breaking and emotional illustrations strike readers to the core, and take them along his family's...
| Author | Richard Hittleman |
| ISBN | 0911104216 |
While some of the language, nutritional advice and the photos are hopelessly (and hilariously) dated, this is a great little introduction to hatha or physical yoga. Structured as a 28-day training program, this book was created to help people gradually develop strength and flexibility through a...
Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America
| Author | Bill Geist |
| ISBN | 0767922727 |
Celebrated roving correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning and bestselling author Bill Geist serves up a rollicking look at some small-town Americans and their offbeat ways of life.
“In rural Kansas, I asked our motel desk clerk for the name of the best restaurant in the area. After mulling...
This audiobook was a refresher for me; I try to practice gratitude everyday. There was a handful of tips that I really liked and never thought of before: 1. think of your day as a scavenger hunt for beauty; 2. when apologizing to someone, also thank them (I'm sorry I..., thank you for being patient with me,...
