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Include books by the same authorMe Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris · 272 pages
A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of “Naked”, presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. David Sedaris' move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious pieces, including the title essay, about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that every day sp
Baby Sign Language Basics: Early Communication for Hearing Babies and Toddlers, Original Diaper Bag Edition
Monta Z. Briant · 333 pages
This is Happy
Camilla Gibb · 276 pages
The bittersweet memoir of a writer whose child was born just after her partner left her, and how she carried on to make her daughter's life a happy one.
Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad
Dan Zevin · 240 pages
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
Annette Lareau · 343 pages
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their children's hectic schedules of "leisure" activities and here are families with plenty of time but li
The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me
Bruce Feiler · 240 pages
Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?"Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would reach out to six men from a
Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds
David C. Pollock, Ruth E. van Reken · 360 pages
Mum's List: A Mother's Life Lessons to the Husband and Sons She Left Behind
St. John Greene, Rachel Murphy · 352 pages
Over her last few days Kate Greene created "Mum's list" to help her husband St John 'Singe' bring up her two sons Reef and Finn.
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family: Simple Ways to Keep Daily Responsibilities and Household Chaos from Taking Over Your Life
Richard Carlson · 255 pages
Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
Debra Gwartney · 224 pages
"Live Through This"--as emotionally wrenching and ultimately redemptive as David Sheff 's "Beautiful Boy"--follows Gwartney's frantic effort to recover her beautiful, intelligent daughters from their lives on the street.
Where Did I Come From?
Peter Mayle · 48 pages
Describes the reproductive process from intercourse to birth.
Specimens of Bushmen Folklore
Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek, Lucy Lloyd · 231 pages
This new edition of the long-out-of print classic collection of Bushman tales provides a fascinating look into the life of these little-known people. As Megan Biesele writes in her Foreword: The fact that a family of trained linguists and their associates sat down between 1870 and 1884 with a group of /Xam people who had been temporarily sprung free of imprisonment in Cape Town's Breakwater Prison
Baby Bumps: From Party Girl to Proud Mama, and all the Messy Milestones Along the Way
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi · 228 pages
The formerly reckless party girl of MTV's "The Jersey Shore" describes her bumpy and humorous transition to motherhood after an unplanned pregnancy put the brakes on her former lifestyle.--
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch · 224 pages
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson · 160 pages
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the author’s account of falling in love with Dodge, as well as her journe
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
Donalyn Miller · 227 pages
Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets that make reading a chore. Instead, she helps students navigate the world of literature and gives t
Primates of Park Avenue
Wednesday Martin · 256 pages
Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new
Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses
Claire Dederer · 350 pages
Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out trying to feed her rapidly growing baby. Reluctantly, she joined a yoga class, and unexpectedly embarked on an eye-opening adventure. In 'Poser', Claire provides a humorous and uplifting book for anyone who has ever tried to stand on their head (while keeping their feet on the ground).