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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorOne Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children
David Elliot Cohen · 312 pages
The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest to Heal His Son
Rupert Isaacson
Are We Nearly There Yet?: A Family's 8,000-Mile Car Journey Around Britain
Ben Hatch · 345 pages
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
Anthony Doerr · 224 pages
The author describes the year he spent in Rome after winning the Rome Prize, including his adventures around the city, life in a foreign but welcoming country, and parenthood as it applies to his newborn twins.
360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World
John Higham · 372 pages
If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother
Julia Sweeney · 246 pages
While Julia Sweeney is known as a talented comedienne and writer/performer of her one-woman shows, she is also a talented essayist--and the past few years have provided her with some rich material. Julia adopted a Chinese girl named Mulan and then, a few years later, married and moved from Los Angeles to Chicago. She writes about deciding to adopt her child, strollers, nannies, knitting, being ado
Sh*t My Dad Says
Justin Halpern · 176 pages
After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him: > *"That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? So
Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Jill Smokler
Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons
Tim Russert · 273 pages
After the publication of journalist Russert's book about his father, he received thousands of letters from people who wanted to tell him about their own fathers, ordinary men who were remembered and cherished for some of their best moments-of advice, tenderness, strength, honor, discipline, and occasional eccentricity. Most of these daughters and sons were eager to express the gratitude they had c
Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood
Anne Enright · 208 pages
Ironische beschouwingen over zwangerschap en moederschap.
Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down
Rosecrans Baldwin · 304 pages
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Jean Kerr · 167 pages
When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be
Amy Wilson · 272 pages
When Did I Get Like This? is the hilarious story of one mother's struggle to shrug off the ridiculous standards of modern parenting, and remember how to enjoy her childrenOver the last seven years of long days with little children, I have had many moments of joy, calm, and peaceful reverie.This book is about the other moments.Before I became a mother, failing at something did not shake my fundamen
Glitter and Glue
Kelly Corrigan · 288 pages
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond--sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine--between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as "Your father's the glitter but I'm the glue." This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure that
Roads To Mussoorie
Ruskin Bond · 125 pages
Anecdotes of the English author about his travels to Mussoorie, India.
Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
Glennon Doyle Melton · 269 pages
A New York Times essayist shares her journey from a self-destructive college student to a devoted family woman and teacher while illuminating the importance of trusting in a higher power and being truthful about life's challenges. "For years Glennon Doyle Melton built a wall between herself and others, hiding inside a bunker of secrets and shame. But one day everything changed: Glennon woke up to
Dinner: A Love Story: It All Begins at the Family Table
Jenny Rosenstrach
Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy Years
Catherine Newman · 219 pages
The author discusses the bittersweet joy of raising children as she describes her family's own journey.