Family & relationships

A Better Yesterday: Living Life After Abuse

by Roger Kiser

After years of allowing the lies and abuse he suffered as a child define his past and cloud his future, Roger Dean Kiser author of The Whitehouse Boys: An American Tragedy decided to find a way to make sense...

Eat, Nap, Play: How to Get Even More Out of Your Child's Day for Less

by Robyn Spizman

Rock Your Routine and Be the Happiest Mommy on the Block

Moms will concur-routines and creative ideas help your day and save your sanity. And once you've established a routine that works, the inclination is...

When Big Issues Happen to Little Girls: How to Prepare, React, and Manage Your Emotions So You Can Best Support Your Daughter

by Erin Munroe

The average fifth-grade girl knows a cutter, a classmate with Asperger's syndrome, or has a friend with two fathers. Issues like these are big, and they are just drops in the bucket. A generation ago, we worried...

The 7 Best Things Happy Couples Do...plus one

by Ph.D., John Friel

Psychologists and best-selling authors John and Linda Friel have written an enormously readable and infinitely practical book that delves into what makes a relationship enduringly successful. Wherever readers...

Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat?: The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby

by Claire Mysko

"How much weight will I gain-and how fast can I lose it?"

"Will my partner still want to have sex with me after watching the birth?"

"How do I handle the know-it-alls, judges, and Space Invaders?"

"Will I end up...

Stop Second-Guessing Yourself--Baby's First Year: A Field-Tested Guide to Confident Parenting

by Jen Singer

Jen Singer, the Internet's favorite Momma, gives hilarious, straight-from-the-hip advice for surviving the first year of motherhood

You're so sleep deprived that you can't muster up the energy to shave both...

The Takeaway: 20 Unforgettable Life Lessons Every Father Should Pass On to His Child

by Peggy Matthews Rose

When All Is Said and Done, What Will They Take Away from You?

The story you've shared for generations across the holiday table, the moment you stopped to connect as you rushed out the door, or the pickup game...

Marni: My True Story of Stress, Hair-Pulling, and Other Obsessions

by Marni Bates

Marni pulls. Pulls her hair, that is.

Unable to deal with the mounting stress at home, in school, and with friends, Marni's compulsion to pluck out her eyebrows, eyelashes . . . even the hair from the top of...

Rekindling Romance For Dummies

by Ruth K. Westheimer, Westheimer & Stacy Collins

“Her energy level is higher than a charged particle.”

—People

“Her manner is down-to-earth and reassuring.... She tries to make people feel better, value themselves, trust their instincts.”

—Ladies’...

Check List for a Perfect Wedding, 6th Edition: The Indispensible Guide for Every Wedding

by Alan Lee Follett & Barbara Follett

For more than forty years, Check List for a Perfect Wedding has been the resource of choice for fiancees and their families. A perennial bestseller, it guides the happy couple gracefully throufgh every stage...

In Spite of Everything: A Memoir

by Susan Gregory Thomas

“For most of my generation—Generation X—there is only one question: ‘When did your parents split?’ Our lives have been framed by the answer. Ask us. We remember everything.”

In this powerful, poignant,...

Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers

by Michael Riera

This perennial bestseller (with more than 100,000 copies sold) has been completely revised and updated for a new generation of teenagers and their parents.

Since its initial publication in 1995, Uncommon Sense...

The Parenthood Decision

by Beverly Mfcc Engel

We are living in a time when baby showers are the most popular kind of party and when TV and movies abound with adorable babies and darling toddlers selling everything from soap to toilet paper. In this "baby-friendly"...

Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health: Birth Through Age Six

by Susan Roberts

How the new science of "metabolic programming" can help you:

Maximize your baby's IQ and development

Prevent allergies and obesity

Prevent or cure picky eating

Teach your child to enjoy healthy foods

Protect...

Endangered Minds: Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About I

by Jane M. Healy

Is today's fast-paced media culture creating a toxic environment for our children's brains?

In this landmark, bestselling assessment tracing the roots of America's escalating crisis in education, Jane M. Healy,...

Sleep, Potty Training, and Breast-feeding

by Tracy Hogg & Melinda Blau

Get all the top tips from the Baby Whisperer in this special edition, box set!

Sleep: It’s the number one issue that plagues parents from the moment they bring their baby home from the hospital. Even the lucky...

Breast-feeding: Top Tips From the Baby Whisperer: Includes Advice on Bottle-Feeding

by Tracy Hogg & Melinda Blau

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Sleep: Top Tips from the Baby Whisperer: Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night

by Tracy Hogg & Melinda Blau

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Happiness for Two

by Alexandra Stoddard

Pursuing happiness sounds easy, but with so many demands on our time and resources, it can be a challenge. So, how do we find happiness in a relationship—when there are two people who want and deserve to be...

Because I Said So: And Other Tales from a Less-Than-Perfect Parent

by Dawn Meehan

Yes, there are times when it’s appropriate to reason with your child, to patiently and eloquently explain why he or she needs to do as you ask. You might present convincing arguments like “Because it makes...