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The Second Nine Months: One Woman Tells the Real Truth about Becoming a Mom. Finally.

10 best books like The Second Nine Months: One Woman Tells the Real Truth about Becoming a Mom. Finally. (Vicki Glembocki): The Glass Menagerie, My Ántonia, The Dive From Clausen's Pier, Ginny Moon, Maine, A Separate Peace, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence, The Sound and the Fury, Little Bear

The Glass Menagerie
AuthorTennessee Williams
ISBN0811214044
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere...
My Ántonia
AuthorWilla Cather
ISBN1583485090
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride,...
The Dive From Clausen's Pier
AuthorAnn Packer
ISBN0375727132
A suspenseful, richly layered first novel that asks: How much do we owe the people we love?

THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN'S PIER will speak to all those who have ever thought about leaving when they knew they should stay, anyone who has ever felt trapped, not only by circumstance, but by the strength of...
Ginny Moon
AuthorBenjamin Ludwig
ISBN1410498204
Meet Ginny. She’s fourteen, autistic, and has a heart-breaking secret…

Ginny Moon is trying to make sense of a world that just doesn’t seem to add up….

After years in foster care, Ginny is in her fourth forever family, finally with parents who will love her.

Everyone...
Maine
AuthorJ. Courtney Sullivan
ISBN0307595129
In her best-selling debut, Commencement, J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradictory landscape of female friendship. Now, in her highly anticipated second novel, Sullivan takes us into even richer territory, introducing four unforgettable women who have nothing in common...
A Separate Peace
AuthorJohn Knowles
ISBN0743253973
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war.

Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World...
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
AuthorT Kira Madden
ISBN1635571855
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...
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
AuthorMichele Filgate
ISBN1982107340
*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The Week, and Elle.com*

Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse.

As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started...
The Sound and the Fury
AuthorWilliam Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed...
Little Bear
AuthorElse Holmelund Minarik
ISBN0590319671
Enter the world of Little Bear. Children will be entranced by Little Bear's trip to the moon, his birthday party, and his wishes and adventures.This is the first of the five classic books about Little Bear, introducing the funny and strikingly childlike bear cub and his friends. The combination of Else...
The Waste Land
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0393974995
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot's own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.

For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition...
How to Be an American Housewife
AuthorMargaret Dilloway
ISBN0399156372
A lively and surprising novel about a Japanese woman with a closely guarded secret, the American daughter who strives to live up to her mother's standards, and the rejuvenating power of forgiveness.

How to Be an American Housewife is a novel about mothers and daughters, and the pull of tradition....
Blue Hat, Green Hat
AuthorSandra Boynton
ISBN0671493205
Three earnest animals and one misguided turkey learn colors and clothes in this Sandra Boynton classic.

Serious silliness for all ages. Artist Sandra Boynton is back and better than ever with completely redrawn versions of her multi-million selling board books. These whimsical and hilarious...
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing
AuthorKyria Abrahams
ISBN1416556842
Raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, Kyria Abrahams’s childhood was haunted by the knowledge that her neighbors and schoolmates were doomed to die in an imminent fiery catastrophe; that Smurfs were evil; that just about anything you could buy at a yard sale was infested by demons; and that Ouija boards—even...
My Squirrel Days
AuthorEllie Kemper
ISBN1501163345
Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays “teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments” (Associated Press).

“A pleasure. Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent,...
I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
AuthorJanelle Hanchett
ISBN0316503770
"A refreshingly raw, contrasting perspective on the foolproof idea of motherhood." --POPSUGAR
"By turns painful and funny... A searingly candid memoir." --Kirkus
"Far from your cookie-cutter story of addiction... [I'm Just Happy to Be Here] describes Hanchett's journey to recovery...
The Little Red Caboose
AuthorMarian Potter
ISBN0307021521
I didn't read this book; I didn't have to because my little brother read it out loud over and over and over and over again. He had memorized the book. Think of sitting in a car with him on a long trip. But maybe it wasn't that he was quoting from this book but from a song he had somehow learned:

Little...
Commencement
AuthorJ. Courtney Sullivan
ISBN0307270742
A sparkling debut novel: a tender story of friendship, a witty take on liberal arts colleges, and a fascinating portrait of the first generation of women who have all the opportunities in the world, but no clear idea about what to choose.

Assigned to the same dorm their first year at Smith College,...
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