Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief

10 best books like Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief (Dale McGowan): Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance, Kids Are Worth It!: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline, Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain, Raw: A Love Story, Whirl Away, Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too, Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Author	bell hooks
ISBN	0896086283

Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuality, and society in this inspiring and accessible volume. In engaging and provocative style, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience....

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

Author	Raymond Carver
ISBN	0099449897

And here it is...the best collection of short stories I've ever read.

Where has Carver been all my life? Why did no one slap me over the head with his work fifteen years ago? I mourn that it took me this long to discover him and now I must get my little claws on everything Carver asap.

How the...

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Author

Lawrence M. Krauss

Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place.

“Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than...

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

Author	David Epstein
ISBN	1591845114

Now a New York Times Bestseller! With a new chapter added to the paperback. 

In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance...

Kids Are Worth It!: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline

Author	Barbara Coloroso
ISBN	0060014318

The parenting classic, now revised with new chapters, checklists, and information about today's most pressing issues regarding our children

This bestselling guide rejects "quick-fix" solutions and focuses on helping kids develop their own self-discipline by owning up to their mistakes,...

Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain

Author	Sue Gerhardt
ISBN	1583918175

Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work.

Sue Gerhardt considers...

Raw: A Love Story

Author	Mark Haskell Smith
ISBN	0802122019

Reality TV hunk and People magazine's "sexiest man alive", Sepp Gregory goes on a book tour to promote his debut novel, a thinly veiled autobiography. Not that Sepp has actually read the book, he doesn't have to, he lived it! The book becomes a sensation, a New York Times bestseller, and, surprisingly,...

Whirl Away

Author	Russell Wangersky
ISBN	0887629369

Everyone has something they’re good at: one particular personal skill that they use to keep their lives moving forward when their worlds suddenly become difficult or near-impossible. For some, it’s denial; for others, blunt pragmatism. Still others depend on an over-inflated view of self...

Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

Author	Adele Faber
ISBN	0393342212

Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish turned their minds to the battle of the siblings. Parents themselves, they were determined to figure out how to help their children get along. The result was Siblings Without Rivalry....

Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

Author	Kim John Payne
ISBN	0345507975

Today’s busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the pace of life accelerates to hyperspeed–with too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time–children feel the pressure. They can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even...

The Excellent Lombards

Author	Jane Hamilton
ISBN	1455564222

From the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, a heartfelt coming-of-age story that Karen Joy Fowler calls "a timeless classic...a book you will read and reread."

Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple...

The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone

Author	Jaclyn Moriarty
ISBN	1760297178

I was ten years old when my parents were killed by pirates. This did not bother me as much as you might think - I hardly knew my parents.

Bronte Mettlestone's parents ran away to have adventures when she was a baby, leaving her to be raised by her Aunt Isabelle and the Butler. She's had a perfectly...

Amanda's Wedding

Author	Jenny Colgan
ISBN	0446678112

Melanie and Fran are two charmingly wisecracking young Londoners who simply can't believe it when their old schoolfriend Amanda, Satan's own PR agent, manages to get herself hitched to a laird (Scottish for lord). Who cares that Fraser McConnel has worn the same ratty Converse sneakers for years and...

The Clairvoyants

Author

Karen Brown

Karen Brown’s most hypnotic novel to date--gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical gift

On the family homestead by the sea where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from those...

The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman

Author	Bruce Robinson
ISBN	0747542376

Maurice threw another log on and a mass of brilliant sparks leapt in the air like burning confetti.

'You know what I'd like now?' he said, without taking his eyes off the fire. 'A pot of tea on top of that and a shag.'

Thomas agreed.

'Do you realize it can take up to a year of constant...

Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds

Author	Steven Vogel
ISBN	0691138079

Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds offers an eye-opening look into how the characteristics of the physical world drive the designs of animals and plants. These characteristics impose limits but also create remarkable and subtle opportunities for the functional biology of organisms....

Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

Author	J.E. Gordon
ISBN	0306812835

In a book that Business Insider noted as one of the "14 Books that inspired Elon Musk," J.E. Gordon strips engineering of its confusing technical terms, communicating its founding principles in accessible, witty prose.

For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse...

Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists: A Primer

Author	Miriam Leah Zelditch
ISBN	0127784608

Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists is an introductory textbook for a course on geometric morphometrics, written for graduate students and upper division undergraduates, covering both theory of shape analysis and methods of multivariate analysis. It is designed for students with minimal...