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10 best books like The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life (Harriet Lerner): Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, The Conscience of a Conservative, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, The Bobbsey Twins of Lakeport, The Tea Planter's Wife, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Beggars in Spain

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
AuthorIna May Gaskin
ISBN0553381156
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...
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
AuthorCathi Hanauer
ISBN0060936460
Virginia Woolf introduced us to the “Angel in the House”, now prepare to meet... The Bitch In the House.

Women today have more choices than at any time in history, yet many smart, ambitious, contemporary women are finding themselves angry, dissatisfied, stressed out. Why are they dissatisfied?...
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
AuthorAmanda Palmer
ISBN1455581089
Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support...
The Conscience of a Conservative
AuthorBarry M. Goldwater
ISBN0691131171
In 1960, Barry Goldwater set forth his brief manifesto in The Conscience of a Conservative. Written at the height of the Cold War and in the wake of America's greatest experiment with big government, the New Deal, Goldwater's message was not only remarkable, but radical. He argued for the value and importance...
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
AuthorNadia Bolz-Weber
Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies.
 
Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment...
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
AuthorAngela Garbes
ISBN0062662961
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.

Like...
The Bobbsey Twins of Lakeport
AuthorLaura Lee Hope
While most books in the 1001
childrens books series are timeless, The Bobbsey Twins is definitly of a time. Unfortunately this time is one of segregation and racism.

For example: The twins sort their dolls- the best doll had blond hair and blue eyes, the worst doll is black and dirty and named...
The Tea Planter's Wife
AuthorDinah Jefferies
ISBN0241969557
#1 International bestselling novel set in 1920s Ceylon, about a young Englishwoman who marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences

Nineteen-year-old...
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
AuthorRichard Rohr
ISBN0470907754
A fresh way of thinking about spirituality that grows throughout life In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up." Most of us tend to think...
Beggars in Spain
AuthorNancy Kress
Please Note: This is the original Hugo and Nebula Winning Novella

Leisha Camden is a genetically engineered ‘Sleepless.’

Her ability to stay awake all the time has not only made her more productive, but the genetic modifications have also given the ‘Sleepless’ a higher...
Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s
AuthorPamela Sargent
ISBN0156000318
Based on one of the most popular SF anthologies of all time, which dispelled the notion that women don’t write “real” science fiction, this volume features stories by twenty-one seminal SF writers. Included are works by Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Judith Merril. Introduction...
Men, Women, and Worthiness: The Experience of Shame and the Power of Being Enough
AuthorBrené Brown
ISBN1604078510
We Are Enough: Engaging with the World from a Place of Worthiness

Course objectives:

Summarize the differences and similarities between the experience of shame for men and women
• Define guilt vs. shame—why one is a useful force for growth, while the other keeps us small
•...
The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
AuthorDaniel J. Siegel
ISBN0399594663
From the authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, an indispensable guide to unlocking your child's innate capacity for resilience, compassion, and creativity.

When facing contentious issues such as screen time, food choices, and bedtime, children often act out or shut...
The Wonder Weeks. How to Stimulate Your Baby's Mental Development and Help Him Turn His 10 Predictable, Great, Fussy Phases Into Magical Leaps Forward
AuthorFrans X. Plooij
ISBN9079208043
The Wonder Weeks. How to stimulate your baby's mental development and help him turn his 10 predictable, great, fussy phases into magical leaps forward describes in easy-to-understand terms the incredible developmental changes that all babies go through during the first 20 months of their lives....
Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore
AuthorKent Hoffman
ISBN1462528139
Today's parents are constantly pressured to be perfect. But in striving to do everything right, we risk missing what children really need for lifelong emotional security. Now the simple, powerful "Circle of Security" parenting strategies that Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell have taught...
This Is Motherhood: A Motherly Collection of Reflections + Practices
AuthorJill Koziol
ISBN1683642651
By Moms, for Moms—Redefining Motherhood for a New Generation

With This Is Motherhood, the cofounders and contributors of the Motherly online community present a collection of essays and practices to celebrate motherhood in all its complexity.

Here you’ll find reflections...
The Gentle Parenting Book: How to raise calmer, happier children from birth to seven
AuthorSarah Ockwell-Smith
Parenting trends come and go. Gentle parenting is different - it isn't a label for a precise set of rules but a method of parenting that embraces the needs of parent and child, while being mindful of current science and child psychology. It means parenting with empathy, respect, understanding - and boundaries.
In...
Child Care and the Growth of Love
AuthorJohn Bowlby
ISBN0140202714
Child Care and the Growth of Love is an important seminal work by John Bowlby, the main British psychologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst responsible for developing attachment theory in the early 1950's. His work is based on Konrad Lorenz' work on imprinting in ducklings. Bowlby's thesis, similar...
Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss
AuthorStephanie Wittels Wachs
ISBN1492664103
The space between life and death is a moment.
But it will remain alive in me for hundreds of thousands of future moments.

One phone call. That's all it took to change Stephanie Wittels Wachs' life forever..

Her younger brother Harris, a star in the comedy world known for his work...
Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle
AuthorJohn Rolfe
ISBN0446676950
They Hit "The Street." Forget what you've read, forget what you've heard, forget what you've been taught. Monkey Business pulls off Wall Street's suspenders and gives the reader the inside skinny on real life at an investment bank, where the promised land is always one more twenty-hour workday and...
First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
AuthorBee Wilson
ISBN0465064981
We are not born knowing what to eat; as omnivores it is something we each have to figure out for ourselves. From childhood onward, we learn how big a “portion” is and how sweet is too sweet. We learn to enjoy green vegetables—or not. But how does this education happen? What are the origins of taste?

In...
Every Mother Is a Daughter: The Neverending Quest for Success, Inner Peace, and a Really Clean Kitchen (Recipes and Knitting Patterns Included)
AuthorPerri Klass
ISBN0345477189
Mothers and daughters go through so much–yet when was the last time a mother and daughter sat down collectively to write a book together about it all? Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass, both gifted professional writers, prove to be ideal collaborators as they examine their decades...
Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom
AuthorStefanie Wilder-Taylor
ISBN1416915060
This straight-talking and wickedly funny parenting guide is a must-have for new moms trying to weed through all that other “expert” advice.

The moment the second line on the pee stick turns pink, women discover they've entered a world of parenting experts.

Friends, family,...
Copilul invizibil
AuthorGáspár György
Autorul explica foarte bine importanta bunastarii parintelui in relatia cu copilul sau. Imi place faptul ca autorul da exemple din viata personala, aratand ca este un om simplu ca toti ceilalti, ca nu ii teama sa se deschida in fata cititorilor si sa fie vulnerabil.
Practicile de la sfarsitul fiecarui...
Childhood and Society
AuthorErik H. Erikson
The original and vastly influential ideas of Erik H. Erikson underlie much of our understanding of human development. His insights into the interdependence of the individuals' growth and historical change, his now-famous concepts of identity, growth, and the life cycle, have changed the way we...
The Bobbsey Twins' Mystery at School
AuthorLaura Lee Hope
ISBN0448437554
Another good Bobbsey Twins book. I am sooo enjoying these books from my childhood.

The Bobbsey's train has a problem on the way home from the seashore and almost runs into another train that has come off the tracks. A circus train. They loose a silver cup and their cat Snoop and while walking to...
The Outsider
AuthorAnthony Franze
“THE OUTSIDER is as authentic and suspenseful as any John Grisham novel—and I like Grisham a lot.”—JAMES PATTERSON

A young law clerk finds himself caught in the crosshairs of a serial killer in this breathtaking thriller set in the high-pressure world of the Supreme Court, from renowned...
This Perfect World
AuthorSuzanne Bugler
This book worried me, before I even opened the first page, as having been bullied many times during my youth and even beyond, I knew it was not going to be a comfortable read. As it was, I found myself examining my own behaviour and asking the question, have I ever been the perpetrator of bullying, rather...
A Fine Imitation
AuthorAmber Brock
ISBN1101905115
Set in the glamorous 1920s, A Fine Imitation is an intoxicating debut that sweeps readers into a privileged Manhattan socialite’s restless life and the affair with a mysterious painter that upends her world, flashing back to her years at Vassar and the friendship that brought her to the brink of ruin.

Vera...
Wait, What?: And Life's Other Essential Questions
AuthorJames E. Ryan
New York Times Bestseller

“What, What? is a welcome—and joyful—reminder that true wisdom comes from asking the right questions. Should you read this book? Absolutely.”

 —Clayton Christensen, bestselling author of How Will You Measure Your Life?

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