All Moms Work: Short-Term Career Strategies for Long-Range Success. Sharon Reed Abboud, $20.95

All Moms Work offers sound, short-term strategies for supplementing the family income and a long-range game plan for keeping your career on track, your skills current and your resume fresh.

Baby on Board: Becoming a Mother without Losing Yourself, a Guide for Moms-to-Be. Joelle Jay & Amy Kovarick, $22.95

Filled with practical advice and heartfelt wisdom, as well as anecdotes and hands-on exercises, Baby on Board is an encouraging and inspiring guide that helps you figure out what motherhood means to you personally. This warm and reassuring book helps you discover what will bring you balance and fulfillment as you juggle career, family demands, social expectations, and your own needs and dreams as you give birth to your new life as a mother.

Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence. Rebecca Walker, $15.00

Rebecca Walker’s story of her emotional and intellectual journey from ambivalence to certainty is insightful, moving and funny. Great reading for anyone trying to find their way through their own uncertainties about parenthood.

Babyproofing Your Marriage: How to Laugh More and Argue Less As Your Family Grows. Stacie Cockrell, Cathy O'Neill & Julia Stone, $16.25

Babyproofing Your Marriage is the warts-and-all truth about how having children can affect your relationship. The authors' evenhanded approach to both sides of the marital equation allows partners to understand each other in a whole new way. With humor, compassion, and practical advice, the Babyproofers will guide first-time parents and veterans alike around the rocky shores of the early parenting years.

The Balanced Mom: Raising Your Kids Without Losing Yourself. Bria Simpson, $15.95

In The Balanced Mom, Bria Simpson, a life coach and mother of three shows busy moms how to meet the challenges of motherhood, while still making time to find balance and fulfillment. Dozens of simple tips help you create the time and space you need to reconnect with yourself and by extension, help your children develop a greater sense independence and self-worth.

Bearcub and Mama. Sharon Jennings, illustrated by Mélanie Watt, $6.95 (preschool age)

Told in simple, evocative language and illustrated in rich, luminous colors, Bearcub and Mama is a reassuring story about growing up and the powerful bond between mother and child.

Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves. Camille Peri & Kate Moses, $17.50

The founding editors of Salon.com's "Mothers Who Think" column and the subsequent anthology of the same name, have once again compiled a selection of intimate and fiercely honest essays on the profound issues that affect women and their children. Because I Said So offers 33 unique perspectives on motherhood that are witty and wise. Their stories range from the anguish of giving up child custody to the guilt of having sex in an era of sexless marriages; from learning to love the full-speed testosterone chaos of boys to raising girls in a pervasively sexualized culture; from facing racial and religious intolerance to surviving cancer and rap simultaneously. This is the collective voice of real mothers in all their humor, anger, vulnerability, grace, and glory.

Breaking the Good Mom Myth: Every Mom's Modern Guide to Getting Past Perfection, Regaining Sanity, and Raising Great Kids. Alyson Schafer, $18.95

As a psychotherapist, parent educator and parent coach, Alyson Schäfer has worked with a great many mothers who, in the quest to be a "good mother" have ended up on the door step of despair. Breaking the Good Mom Myth explains the psycho-social phenomena of how each person creates their own unique "good mother myth" and then examines why these myths are not only faulty, but could in fact lead to poor parenting, marital disaster and individual crisis. Readers uncover their own good mother myths and are given an eye-opening glimpse into potential issues to challenge their thinking. A great sense of empowerment is restored as mothers become better able to resist the pulls of their personal and cultural myths, and instead begin parenting with greater intention and in ways that are more suitable to proper child guidance.

Buddhism for Mothers of Young Children: Becoming a Mindful Parent. Sarah Napthali, $18.95

In a clear and engaging manner, Sarah Napthali takes us on a journey through the challenges (and the joys) of raising children, using Buddhist teachings and principles to help her answer the eternal questions of mothers everywhere: Who am I now? Where am I going? And how can I do my best by my children and myself?

Writing from personal experience, and weaving in stories from other mothers throughout her narrative, Sarah shows us how spiritual and mindful parenting can help all mothers to be more open, attentive and content.

Slacker moms say 'NO' to parenting philosophies that undermine parents' — and children's — ability to think for themselves … Muffy Mead-Ferro looks back at growing up on a ranch in Wyoming, where parenting was more hands-off, where people made do with what they had, where common sense and generational wisdom prevailed." Confessions of a Slacker Mom is funny, wise and a validation for parents who don't buy into the 'Super Mom' model.

The Emotionally Absent Mother: a Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed. Jasmin Lee Cori, $18.00

Was your mother too busy, too tired, or too checked-out to provide you with the nurturing you needed as a child? Men and women who were undermothered as children often struggle with intimate relationships, in part because of their unmet need for maternal care. The Emotionally Absent Mother will help you understand what was missing from your childhood, how this relates to your mother's own history, and how you can fill the mother gap by examining the past with compassion for yourself and your mother.

Even June Cleaver Would Forget the Juice Box: Cut Yourself Some Slack (and Raise Great Kids) in the Age of Extreme Parenting. Ann Dunnewold, $18.95

If you're feeling overstressed, overtired, or overscheduled, noted psychologist Ann Dunnewold can help you rewrite the rules of motherhood by introducing a new, healthier paradigm, one that replaces the dysfunctional myth of the June Cleaver mom.

Finding Your Inner Mama: Women Reflect on the Challenges and Rewards of Motherhood. Eden Steinberg, Editor, $18.00

Finding Your Inner Mama explores the profound inward challenges and rewards of motherhood, from first giving birth to the empty nest. The editor—herself a mother of two sons—has chosen some of the most insightful writings about the emotional and spiritual landscape of motherhood drawn from the best books, articles, and essays, as well as two original essays. The authors speak from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives, each exploring a unique dimension of the journey of motherhood.

From the author-illustrator of the best-selling Furry Logic comes a book of smile-provoking, truth-telling adages just for parents. Accompanied by touching water-color paintings of the most expressive animals you've ever seen, Furry Logic: Parenthood will speak to the hearts, souls, and funny bones of anyone who's experienced the joys of being a mom or dad. Seabrook's paintings uncannily capture the highs and lows, loves and fears that all parents feel.

Good Enough is the New Perfect. Becky Beaupre Gillespie & Hollee Schwarz Temple, $19.50

Finding happiness and success in modern motherhood.

How She Really Does It: Secrets of Successful Stay-at-Work Moms. Wendy Sachs, $18.95

Wendy Sachs, stay-at-work mother of two, has interviewed women from every walk of life, from celebrities to everyday moms and has uncovered some inspiring stories. HOW SHE REALLY DOES IT will validate the millions of women now attempting to “have it all,” or at least some of it all the time — revealing the keys to staying at work, staying sane, staying satisfied, and staying at the heart of her family as well.

The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World. Therese Borchard, editor, $17.95

Poignant and amusing, this collection of thirty-six original essays by award-winning novelists, famous columnists, and bestselling authors is a refreshing look at mistakes we all make in mothering and a consoling and amusing testimony to parents who don't have it all figured it out.

Mars Needs Moms! Berkeley Breathed, $21.00

From Pulitzer Prize–winning comic strip creator of Bloom County and bestselling author Berkeley Breathed comes a funny, poignant book about how the unique love that binds our families can be overlooked in the rush and tumble of everyday lives . . . especially those of disgruntled little boys.

M.O.M. (Mom Operating Manual). Doreen Cronin & Laura Cornell, $19.99

Moms are complex machines who run at full speed, on little fuel and almost no sleep whatsoever.  This guide to caring for your Mom will help you to get years of enjoyment out of your model.

MOMfulness: Mothering with Mindfulness, Compassion and Grace. Denise Roy, $17.99

Denise Roy combines the hard-won wisdom of a parent with the insights of meditation to create a spiritual practice that goes to the heart of everyday life: mothering with mindfulness. Through anecdotes, reflections, and specific practices, this book invites mothers to wake up and embrace their lives, discovering that they are always standing on holy ground.

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.

The Monster Within: the Hidden Side of Motherhood. Barbara Almond, $19.95

Whether it is uncertainty over having a child, fears of pregnancy and childbirth, or negative thoughts about one's own children, mixed feelings about motherhood are not just hard to discuss, they are a powerful social taboo. In this beautifully written book, Barbara Almond draws on her extensive clinical experience to bring this issue to light. In a compelling portrait of the hidden side of contemporary motherhood, she finds that ambivalence of varying degrees is a ubiquitous phenomenon, yet one that too often causes anxiety, guilt, and depression. In a society where perfection in parenting is the unattainable ideal, this compassionate book offers some prescriptions for relief by showing women how they can affect positive change in their lives.

The Mother-Daughter Project: How Mothers and Daughters Can Band Together, Beat the Odds, and Thrive Through Adolescence. SuEllen Hamkins & Renée Schultz, $15.00

At once simple and revolutionary, this book details the success of the Mother-Daughter Project's groundbreaking model, providing the reader with a roadmap for strengthening her bond with her own daughter, and providing strategies for staying close through adolescence and beyond.

Whether you are interested in starting a mother-daughter group in your own community or would simply like to ensure a close relationship with your daughter as she grows up, this groundbreaking book will show you the way.

The mother-daughter relationship sets the stage for our state of health and well-being for our entire lives. Because our mothers are our first and most powerful female role models, our most deeply ingrained beliefs about ourselves as women come from them. And our behavior in relationships–with food, with our children, with our mates, and with ourselves–is a reflection of those beliefs. Once we understand our mother-daughter bonds, we can rebuild our own health, whatever our age, and create a lasting positive legacy for the next generation … (w)ritten with warmth, enthusiasm, and rare intelligence, Mother-Daughter Wisdom is an indispensable book destined to change lives and become essential reading for all women.

Whether we acknowledge it or not, our mothers leave an indelible impression on the persons we become. Dr. Poulter demonstrates how the internalized “rulebook” we inherit from our mothers is a very powerful force. These unspoken rules govern work, relationships, emotions, separation, and independence. This enlightening book will help readers connect with their past to correct self-defeating behaviors, reach their full emotional potentials, and live happier, more fulfilling lives.

Written by moms, for moms, this book will help you create a happier, healthier, more fulfilling life for you and your family. The authors reveal their own unvarnished turning points, share stories they've gathered from the trenches, and present eye-opening research to show how a little selfishness can bring a whole new sense of purpose and energy to stressed-out modern mothers.

The Mothers of Reinvention: Reclaim Your Identity, Unleash Your Potential, Love Your Life. Jennifer Pate & Barb Machen, $18.50

Through the journey of their own reinventions, Jennifer Pate and Barb Machen discovered the Mom Secret — the more satisfied you are with yourself, the better you can deal with the chaos that surrounds you, the better role model you will be, and the better off your entire family will be. This is not a luxury—it is a necessity. 

In THE MOTHERS OF REINVENTION, Jen and Barb share their steps to help you realize your full potential while maintaining your joy as a mom. Whether you're a new mother, a mother of school-aged children, or an empty nester, you need a life outside the family, and THE MOTHERS OF REINVENTION will help you discover just what that means for you. 

My Mommy Hung the Moon: a Love Story. Jamie Lee Curtis, illustrated by Laura Cornell, $19.99 (ages 4-8)

A bright and cheerful look at what moms do best — EVERYTHING!

My Mother Wears Combat Boots: a Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us. Jessica Mills, $18.95

Jessica Mills is a touring musician, artist, activist, writer, teacher, and mother of two. Disappointed by run-of-the-mill parenting books that didn't speak to her experience; she set out to write a book tackling the issues faced by a new generation of moms and dads. The result is a parenting guide like no other. Written with humor, extensive research, and much trial and error, My Mother Wears Combat Boots delivers sound advice for parents of all stripes. Amid stories of bringing kids (and grandparents) to women's rights demonstrations, taking baby on tour with her band, and organizing cooperative childcare, Jessica gives detailed nuts-and-bolts information about weaning, cloth vs. disposable diapers, the psychological effects of co-sleeping, and even how to get free infant gear. This book provides a clever, hip, and entertaining mix of advice, anecdotes, political analysis, and factual sidebars that will help parents as they navigate the first years of their child's life.

Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses. Claire Dederer, $29.95

Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out while breastfeeding her baby daughter. Told to try yoga by everyone from the woman behind the counter at the co-op to the homeless guy on the corner, she signed up for her first class. She fell madly in love.

Over the next decade, she would tackle triangle, wheel, and the dreaded crow, becoming fast friends with some poses and developing long-standing feuds with others. At the same time, she found herself confronting the forces that shaped her generation. To her surprise, Dederer found that the deeper she went into the poses, the more they tested her most basic ideas of what makes a good mother, daughter, friend, wife — and the more they made her want something a little less tidy, a little more improvisational. Less goodness, more joy.

Witty and heartfelt, sharp and irreverent, Poser is for anyone who has ever tried to stand on their head while keeping both feet on the ground.

Sex After Baby … Why There Is None. Kathleen Hamilton, $19.95

After she had a baby at 39, Kathleen Hamilton's sexual desire dove overnight from, ‘Honey, can we please have sex tonight, I've got a headache?’ to nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada.

It was an identity crisis. Plus, it was no fun at all.

None of the books and articles Kathleen could find came close to explaining why she lost her libido, or how or when she might find it again. No one around Kathleen talked openly about her experience balancing sex and motherhood - until Kathleen asked.

Funny, frank, political, and poignant, Sex After Baby: Why There Is None is Kathleen's quest to bring the surprise triple orgasm back into her life. Along the way, the book reveals how Kathleen's questions about sex after baby — among her friends and neighbours and favourite books — brought her new, unexpected understanding of women's sexuality and women's lives.

The Single Mother's Guide to Raising Remarkable Boys. Gina Panettieri with Philip Hall, $18.95

As a single mother to a growing son, you take on many roles: coach, chef, cheerleader, buddy, housekeeper, teacher, disciplinarian, and nurturer. The Single Mother's Guide to Raising Remarkable Boys helps you juggle all these roles with aplomb. You'll also learn how to help your son:

• Succeed at school
• Find an appropriate male role model
• Socialize and combat peer pressure
• Deal with sex, drugs, and video games

Complete with resources and recommended strategies for every stage of a boy's life, The Single Mother's Guide to Raising Remarkable Boys helps you go it alone — and raise a happy, healthy, well-adjusted young man.

Stunned: the New Generation of Women Having Babies, Getting Angry and Creating a Mother’s Movement. Karen Bridson, $19.95

The 1970S' feminist movement changed a lot for women. In Stunned, journalist Karen Bridson explores how women today may have the right to accomplish what their fathers achieved, but are expected to do it while doing most of what their mothers did too. As a result, women are angry about the inequality inside their homes and are beginning to see how sexism beyond the domestic realm has never really been fully erased at all. Stunned is a call to action to women to finish the jobs their mothers' generation started.

The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose and Sanity. Meg Meeker, $28.95

Motherhood is a demanding job. Many mothers are increasingly lonely, anxious, depressed, and unhappy with themselves. Here, Dr. Meeker has identified the 10 most positive habits of mothers who are healthy, happy, and fulfilled. The key is to embrace a new perspective and create real joy and purpose by utilizing such core habits as:

• making friends with those who know the meaning of friendship
• finding out what money can buy (and what it cannot)
• lightening the overload—and doing less more often
• discovering faith and learning how to trust it
• taking some alone time and reviving yourself

Best-selling parenting guru Michele Borba, the mother of three, has surveyed 5,000 mothers for their experience and wisdom in raising happier, more confident kids by returning to a more natural, authentic kind of mothering. She shares 12 top secrets of successful moms culled from her research and shows how to apply them to your family.

Who's Your Mama? The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers. Yvonne Bynoe, Editor, $21.50

While most books about motherhood center on the experiences of affluent, married white women, Who's Your Mama focuses on the voices, perspectives, and complexities that are most often left out of this dialogue. From the adoption process for a gay couple, a feminist juggling the roles of activist and mother, to a mother's celebration of her own vibrant sexuality, the book explores the intersection between motherhood and the facets of the authors' lives, which include race, class, sexuality, politics and personal tragedy. Who's Your Mama offers the perspectives of women from all cross-sections of society who are actively engaged in crafting identities and family structures  that speak practically to their personal beliefs, intimate relationships, and socio-economic realities.

Writing Motherhood: Tapping Into Your Creativity as a Mother and a Writer. Lisa Garrigues, $17.50

Whether you are a new mother or a grandmother, Writing Motherhood will inspire you and help you find your writer’s voice.

You’re Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation. Deborah Tannen, $19.95

With inspired observations, pitch-perfect dialogues, and deeply moving memories of her own mother, author Deborah Tannen untangles the knots daughters and mothers can get tied up in. Readers will appreciate Tannen’s humor and come away with real hope for breaking down barriers and opening new lines of communication. Compassionate and insightful, You’re Wearing That illuminates and enriches one of the most important relationships in our lives.