 The Parenting Breakthrough: A real-life plan to teach your kids to work, save money, and be truly independent
Merrilee Browne Boyack
Recommended by: Heather
“As a mom of 4 boys, I felt early on in my life with them that one of my primary responsibilities was to prepare them to leave me. I want them to become independent, strong capable men who could handle themselves in the world and make a difference. I did not want to raise the “tissue hands” type of kids who depended on mom to fetch them a drink of water, pay for everything and live at home forever! This book lays out a great plan of what to teach them and how to do it. Kids can and should cook dinner and change the oil and the tires on the family car!
“Merrilee Boyack tells it like is and how it can be in a very readable & fun way. Sometimes parenting can be overwhelming, so it is great to have a plan that works! She has made a list of things she wanted her kids to know and at what age to teach them and then explains how to make it happen. The plan is practical, field tested, and sensible and gives me real hope that my boys will be real men someday!” 
 I was a Really Good Mom Before I had Kids Reinventing Modern Motherhood
Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile
Recommended by: Sharon
“I could relate to the general idea here, although we love our kids dearly and desperately, the job of it all is somewhat harder to love. This book helped me know I’m not alone here and let me laugh at the scenarios we all face.”
 The Comeback Seven Stories of Women Who Went from Career to Family and Back Again
Emma Gilbey Keller
Recommended by: Sharon
“A very funny beginning and totally relatable. As women we are always exploring how to have and do it all and sometimes feeling guilty if we fall short. I enjoyed the stories of the choices other women have made along the way.”
 Multiple Blessings Surviving to Thriving with twins and Sextuplets
Jon & Kate Gosselin
Recommended by: Carly
“I just love this family and how strong their relationships are despite being a large family. This book is so encouraging for moms who need a little uplifting. Those of us who only have one or two children think we have a busy schedule...wait until you read about Kate’s days!”
 Parenting with Love and Logic
FosterW. Cline, M.D.
Recommended by: Tami
“This is my favorite parenting book - and I’ve read a lot of them. It taught me how to have my kids pay the consequences (not me) for their poor decisions and how to react to their mistakes with sadness instead of anger. It all just makes sense.”
 The Middle Place
Kelly Corrigan
Recommended by: Sharon
“Kelly Corrigan brings life to life with a warm and witty true look at her life as a daughter and a mother. She captures ordinary-ness in an extraordinarily enjoyable way. If you can’t relate to this, I’m sorry. I love how the words form perfect pictures in my mind. I can’t wait until her next book.”
 Holding Her Head High
Janine Turner
Recommended by: Sharon
“An absolutely amazing book! Janine Turner chooses 12 women, all single mothers from the year 248 to 1900 and tells the story of how each of them fought for their children and made a difference in history. She does a great job of setting the stage in history, so you understand why they were able to triumph. How did I live all these years, not really understanding what the women who’ve marched before us have had to withstand. Great research, great storytelling.”
 Mary Mrs. A. Lincoln
Janis Cooke Newman
Recommended by: Sharon
“This book without a doubt made a life changing impression on me! The story of Mary Todd Lincoln and the tragedies she endured was mind-boggling. I find it amazing that while slavery was being abolished, women were living in bondage. Mary Lincoln was actually a very strong woman completely misunderstood in her time because she was so forward thinking. Reading this book got me started reading the biography this book was based on. Now I can’t get enough!”
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 Gonzales & Daughter Trucking Co.
Maria Amparo Escandon
Recommended by: Sharon
“Don’t let the title of this book put you off. It’s a story beautifully told, with characters as interesting as they come. And the way the author puts words together to tell a story is flawless. Surprising, enjoyable, definitely a reader’s story.”
 People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks
Recommended by: Sharon
“Based on fact and mixed with fiction this story is brilliantly told. The longer you read it, the more attached you’ll become. It took me a while to figure out the history part of the story was going backwards and that made it all the more fascinating. It’s one of those books you want to start all over again once you’ve finished.”
 The Monster’s of Templeton
Lauren Groff Recommended by: Sharon “The history and mystery of the family tree is explored in a thoroughly fascinating way. Examining relationships past and present complete with a ‘real’ monster, I loved the characters as they came alive in their own stories, each so different from one another...or were they? ”
 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Recommended by: Sharon “A fiction set in the time of World War II, yet so real in feel. The story is told in letters from one character to the next. While it may seem a copout, it was a wonderful way to develop the characters. I feel like they were my friends, like I was part of the story.”
 The Thirteenth Tale
Diane Setterfield
Recommended by: Sharon
“The plot thickens on every page. Just when you think you’ve got it figured...a twist! Loved the writing, the description, the story! I bought the book for all my friends.”
 Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
Recommended by: Sangita
“This book was written with so much visual description and emotion, that I did not even realize that a man had written it. It seemed so real, as if it were written by someone who actually went through it all. The topic also fascinated me. I have always wanted to know about Geishas, and this book said it all.”Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
 Hanna’s Daughters
Marianne Frederiksson
Recommended by: Sangita
“This is a most amazing story about the unheard struggles of women, girls, mothers over a span of several generations. It helps you to realize how much the women around you do for you, even though they don’t say it outright. And how eventually you come to realize this the closer you get to that person.”
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