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Tiger Babies Strike Back
How I Was Raised by a Tiger Mom but Could Not Be Turned to the Dark Side
The author examines her family history and upbringing to expose the harmful effects of a Chinese style of parenting which emphasizes perfection and overachievement and advocates that parents instead give their children unconditional love and acceptance.
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What My Mother Gave Me
Thirty-One Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most
A collection of essays in which daughters remember their relationships with their mothers and the complicated bonds they shared with them, symbolized by gifts or memories of emotional encounters.NPR Bestseller
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Shocked
My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me
The author shares the lessons about womanhood and personal style she learned from both her mother, an upper-middle-class New Yorker who was the polished hostess at her family's garment district restaurant, and Elsa Schiaparelli, the outrageous, iconoclastic Italian fashion designer.
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Ask Wendy
Straight-up Advice for All the Drama in Your Life
Drawn from her popular "Ask Wendy" segment, the outspoken host of The Wendy Williams Show tells it like it is in this collection of womanly wisdom that is filled with advice on everything from relationships, parenting, body image, beauty and more. 100,000 first printing.
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Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
At 22, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than 1,000 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington state — and she would do it alone.NPR Bestseller
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Quiet
The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations.NPR Bestseller
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Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake
A Memoir of a Woman's Life
A candid and whimsical memoir that explores what matters to middle-aged women.NPR Bestseller
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Papadaddy's Book for New Fathers
Advice to Dads of All Ages
An author and father of four children ranging in age from 5 to 30 years old offers humorous, heartfelt, creative and inspired advice based on his experiences and lessons learned through three decades of parenting. With drawings by Daniel Wallace.
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The Little Way of Ruthie Leming
A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life
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The Child Catchers
Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption
The author of Quiverfull reveals how adoption has become entangled in the conservative Christian agenda as a reflection of pro-life initiatives, explaining how child and family well-being has become a lesser priority in a market increasingly driven by profit and religious ideology.
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If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother
The Broadway actress and early-1990s cast member of Saturday Night Live shares parenting misadventures, from her poignant decision to adopt as a single woman to her efforts to explain the birds and the bees to her precocious 8-year-old.
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Some Assembly Required
A Journal Of My Son's First Son
Anne Lamott has entered a new and unexpected chapter in her life: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at 19, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson's life. Some Assembly Required is the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family and redefines each member's role.NPR Bestseller
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Brothers Emanuel
A Memoir of an American Family
This portrait of the Emanuel family — bioethicist Ezekiel, former White House chief of staff Rahm, and Hollywood superagent Ari — traces their remarkable careers while offering insight into the family history, unique upbringing and social atmosphere that influenced their lives.
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The Still Point of the Turning World
Emily Rapp's high hopes for her infant son were shattered when he was diagnosed with a fatal degenerative disorder at nine months. Her memoir describes loving a son she knew she would lose, and coping with her grief by studying great works of art, literature, philosophy and theology.
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A Wedding In Haiti
Growing up in the Dominican Republic, author and poet Julia Alvarez says, she was taught to view neighboring Haiti with suspicion. But because of a promise made one night, Haiti, and a particular Haitian boy named Piti, would become ingrained in her heart — so much so that she would find herself smuggling Piti out of Haiti with his new family, and then finding her way back there after the devastating 2010 earthquake.
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With or Without You
A Memoir
A wryly comic, deeply emotional memoir of the author's relationship with her flamboyant drug dealer mother describes her misfit youth and eventual escape into writing before succumbing to addiction and resolving to leave her past in order to survive.
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The Secrets of Happy Families
Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More
Bruce Feiler spoke to experts from a range of disciplines — everything from the military to software firms — for ideas on how to raise happier families. With his wife and two children, Feiler tested these methods, and in this book, he shares the best strategies for drawing your family closer together.
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Tiny Beautiful Things
Advice on Love and Life From Dear Sugar
A collection of advice on everything from infidelity and grief to marital boredom and financial hardships from Cheryl Strayed's popular "Dear Sugar" column in the online magazine The Rumpus.NPR Bestseller
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Sticks and Stones
Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
Through the stories of three young bullying victims, Emily Bazalon explores the community-wide impact of teenage cruelty.
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The Heavy
A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet: A Memoir
An expansion of the author's controversial "Up Front" column in Vogue magazine describes her family's efforts to help her clinically obese, seven-year-old daughter to lose weight, recounting how their progress was challenged by judgmental and conflictingdetractors.
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Vow
A Memoir of Marriage (and Other Affairs)
Writing as both betrayer and betrayed, the author explores repeated infidelities in a memoir of desire, commitment, anger and guilt.
