Chicken Soup for the Soul: Power Moms. Jack Canfield, et al, $16.95

101 stories celebrating the power of choice for stay-at-home and work-from-home moms.

Child Care Today: Getting It Right for Everyone. Penelope Leach, $21.00

Who is caring for today’s children? How well are they succeeding? Leach answers these and other urgent questions with facts and figures gathered from the most current research, brought to life by the voices of parents, including those involved in her own five-year study. She highlights the urgent need for measures to raise the quality of child care and to make the best care we can provide available to all families, just as it is in most other developed nations. Setting out clearly and candidly what is known about every aspect of child care—including the often hidden feelings and fears of parents—Leach presents a critical case for change.

Choosing Childcare for Dummies. Anne Douglas, $21.99

Finding quality, affordable childcare is no easy task. This book offers practical advice on finding reliable childcare – at home, in a daycare or with a nanny. Find out how to evaluate health and safety practices; transition a child into daycare; interview caregivers and notice the warning signs that tell you this arrangement may not be working for your child.

The Entrepreneurial Mom's Guide to Running Your Own Business. Kathryn Bechthold, $23.95

This helpful guide offers tips and resources for keeping a profitable business running while still making the kids your priority.

Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives and Their Families. Leslie Morgan Steiner, editor, $19.95

With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman's life: stay home or pursue a career? As an executive at the Washington Post and a mother of three, Leslie Morgan Steiner has lived and breathed every side of the mommy wars. Rather than just watch the battles rage, she decided to do something about it. She asked 26 outspoken mothers to write about their lives and the choices that have worked for them. The result is a frank, surprising, utterly refreshing look at American motherhood. Mommy Wars is a book by and for and about the real experts on motherhood and hard work: the women at home, in the office, on the job every day of their lives.

And Nanny Makes Three: Mothers and Nannies Tell the Truth about Work, Love, Money and Each Other. Jessika Auerbach, $29.95

Jessika Auerbach explores the complex and unique interactions between families and nannies. By presenting both perspectives, she gives a balanced view of this highly complicated, often emotionally charged relationship. Looking at issues of race and racism, class, power, sex, parental insecurities and guilt, Auerbach opens a dialogue that needs to be heard.

The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home, Revised Edition. Arlie Hochschild & Anne Machung, $18.50

More than twenty years ago, sociologist Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with the bestselling book, THE SECOND SHIFT. In it, she examined what really happens in dual-career households. Adding together time in paid work, child care, and housework, she found that working mothers put in a month of work a year more than their spouses. Updated for a workforce now half female, this edition cites a range of new studies and statistics and includes a new afterword in which Hochschild assesses how much, and how little, has changed for women today.

Working Mom Survival Guide: How to Run around Less and Enjoy Life More. Suzanne Riss & Teresa Palagno, $16.95

Sanity-saving solutions and shortcuts for home and work from the experts at Working Mother magazine.

Working without Weaning: a Working Mother’s Guide to Breastfeeding. Kirsten Berggren, $29.95

Do you want to breastfeed your baby, but do not think you can because you have to go back to work? Are you concerned about the challenges of combining breastfeeding and a full-time job? Working without Weaning describes in detail how you can work and still breastfeed your baby, with stories and advice from mothers who have been in your shoes.

Working without Weaning gives you step-by-step guidance to help you work and continue to breastfeed, including:

• Talking to your boss about breastfeeding in a language they will understand
• Figuring out the time and place to pump during the day
• Maintaining your milk supply when you are pumping
• Choosing the best pump for your needs
• Storing and feeding breastmilk from a bottle
• Getting enough rest when you have work all day and baby all night
• Keeping balance in your life
• Supplementing without weaning
• And most importantly, preserving your breastfeeding relationship with your baby when you are together.