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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

By Max Porter ,

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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
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The Color of Water

By James McBride ,

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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

By Amy Chua ,

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The Blue Jay's Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood
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The Blue Jay's Dance

By Louise Erdrich ,

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Native Guard
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Native Guard

By Natasha Tretheway ,

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Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
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Inferno

By Catherine Cho ,

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Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
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Essential Labor

By Angela Garbes ,

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My Wild and Sleepless Nights
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My Wild and Sleepless Nights

By Clover Stroud ,

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Little Stories of Your Life: Find Your Voice, Share Your World and Tell Your Story
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Little Stories of Your Life

By Laura Pashby ,

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Dear Birthmother: Thank You for Our Baby
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Dear Birthmother

By Kathleen Silber , Phyllis Speedlin ,

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We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood
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We Live for the We

By Dani McClain ,

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Up the Duff: The Real Guide to Pregnancy
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Up the Duff

By Kaz Cooke ,

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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
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A Mother's Reckoning

By Sue Klebold ,

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Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
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Bad Mother

By Ayelet Waldman ,

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The Mission of Motherhood: Touching Your Child's Heart of Eternity
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The Mission of Motherhood

By Sally Clarkson ,

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Life as a mother: From the Diamonds to the Dirt of Motherhood
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Life as a mother

By Chantelle Lambert ,

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Portraits of the Queen Mother: Polemics, Panegyrics, Letters
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Portraits of the Queen Mother

By Catherine de Medicis , Leah L. Chang (translator) , Katherine Kong (translator)

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Mama Bear Apologetics(r): Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies
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Mama Bear Apologetics(r)

By Hillary Morgan Ferrer ,

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Sunburning
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Sunburning

By Keiler Roberts ,

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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About

By Michele Filgate (editor) ,

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Strong as a Mother: How to Stay Healthy, Happy, and (Most Importantly) Sane from Pregnancy to Parenthood
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Strong as a Mother

By Kate Rope ,

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Hello, Mum
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Hello, Mum

By Polly Dunbar ,

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Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World
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Fruitful

By Anne Richardson Roiphe ,

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The Gift of an Ordinary Day
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The Gift of an Ordinary Day

By Katrina Kenison ,

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Good-Enough Mother: The Perfectly Imperfect Book of Parenting
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Good-Enough Mother

By René Syler ,

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Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom
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Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay

By Stefanie Wilder-Taylor ,

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I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids: Reinventing Modern Motherhood
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I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids

By Trisha Ashworth , Amy Nobile ,

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Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth About the First Year of Mommyhood
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Baby Laughs

By Jenny McCarthy ,

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The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood
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The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood

By Vicki Iovine ,

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

By Vicki Glembocki ,

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I Am Not Your Baby Mother
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I Am Not Your Baby Mother

By Candice Brathwaite ,

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Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
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Mom Genes

By Abigail Tucker ,

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My Sweet Angel: The True Story of Lacey Spears, the Seemingly Perfect Mother Who Murdered Her Son in Cold Blood
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My Sweet Angel

By John Glatt ,

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Mommy Doesn't Drink Here Anymore: Getting Through the First Year of Sobriety
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Mommy Doesn't Drink Here Anymore

By Rachael Brownell ,

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Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History
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Mother Is a Verb

By Sarah Knott ,

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Motherhood: A Confession
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Motherhood

By Natalie Carnes ,

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The Mommy Myth: The Mass Media and the Rise of the New Momism
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The Mommy Myth

By Susan Douglas , Meredith Michaels ,

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Be With
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Be With

By Forrest Gander ,

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A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother
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A Life's Work

By Rachel Cusk ,

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The Little Book of Calm for New Mums: Grounding words for the highs, the lows and the moments in between
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The Little Book of Calm for New Mums

By Anna Mathur ,

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To the Gorge: Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail
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To the Gorge

By Emily Halnon ,

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Ordinary Insanity
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Ordinary Insanity

By Sarah Menkedick ,

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Momma Zen
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Momma Zen

By Karen Maezen Miller ,

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Infanticide
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Infanticide

By Margaret G. Spinelli (editor) ,

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