The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance
8 best books like The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance (Polly Young-Eisendrath): Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, So You Want to Talk About Race, The Trespasser, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Medea, "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity, Kid Confidence: Help Your Child Make Friends, Build Resilience, and Develop Real Self-Esteem
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
| Author | Firoozeh Dumas |
| ISBN | 0812968379 |
In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. Funny in Farsi...
So You Want to Talk About Race
| Author | Ijeoma Oluo |
| ISBN | 1580056776 |
In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the...
| Author | Tana French |
| ISBN | 0143110381 |
Being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she’s there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she’s...
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
| Author | Ocean Vuong |
| ISBN | 0525562028 |
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's...
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
| Author | Jia Tolentino |
| ISBN | 0525510540 |
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes...
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 0486275485 |
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the sorceress Medea. Having married Medea and fathered her two children, Jason abandons her for a more favorable...
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
| Author | Beverly Daniel Tatum |
| ISBN | 0465083617 |
The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly...
Kid Confidence: Help Your Child Make Friends, Build Resilience, and Develop Real Self-Esteem
| Author | Eileen Kennedy-Moore |
| ISBN | 1684030498 |
Help your child cultivate real, lasting confidence! In Kid Confidence, a licensed clinical psychologist and parenting expert offers practical, evidence-based parenting strategies to help kids foster satisfying relationships, develop competence, and make choices that fit who they are and want...
