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North Carolina Day Trips by Theme

Marla Hardee Milling - Adventure Publications
Format: Paperback

Your All-in-One Guide to North Carolina's Best Outings! If you've ever asked, "What should we do today?" then you've never seen North Carolina Day Trips by Theme. This comprehensive guide to the Tar Heel State is jam-packed with hundreds of North Carolina's top spots...
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One in Five: How We're Fighting for Our Dyslexic Kids in a System That's Failing Them

Micki Boas - Tiller Press
Format: Hardcover

One in five children have dyslexia, but too many parents feel isolated and defeated in their efforts to secure an equal chance for their children. After fighting the school system for four years to get the correct diagnoses and proper learning assistance for her two dyslexic sons, Micki...
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Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School

Michelle Icard
Format: Hardcover

Trying to convince a middle schooler to listen to you can be exasperating. Indeed, it can feel like the best option is not to talk! But keeping kids safe - and prepared for all the times when you can't be the angel on their shoulder - is about having the right conversations at the right...
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The Best Baby Names for Boys: The Ultimate Resource for Finding the Perfect Boy Name

Emily Larson - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

The only naming book you'll need for your little boy-to-be!Perfect for baby showers, gender reveals, and parents with a little boy on the way, THE BEST BABY NAMES FOR BOYS is the only naming book created with baby in mind. Filled with over 100 helpful lists, naming tips, and a collection...
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Mama Natural's Week to Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth

Genevieve Grace - North Star Way
Format: Paperback

With more than 1.3 million video views each month and over fifty-two million total views on her YouTube channel, Howland's (a.k.a. Mama Natural) funny but informational videos have empowered millions of women to embrace natural pregnancy and parenting. Now Howland is turning to the page,...
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The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak

Grace Lau - Guernica Editions
Format: Paperback

The poems in The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak explore the many identities, both visible and invisible, that a body contains. With influences from pop culture, the Bible, tech, and Hong-Kongese history, these pieces reflect and reveal how the stories of immigrants in Canada hold...
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The Redemption of Bobby Love: A Story of Faith, Family, and Justice

Bobby Love - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Bobby and Cheryl Love were living in Brooklyn, happily married for decades, when the FBI and NYPD appeared at their door and demanded to know from Bobby, in front of his shocked wife and children: "What is your name? No, what's your real name?" Bobby's thirty-eight-year...
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Survivor: An Abortion Survivor's Surprising Story of Choosing Forgiveness and Finding Redemption

Claire Culwell
Format: Paperback

Raised in a loving adoptive home, Claire Culwell, at the age of twenty-one, decided to meet her birth mother - and got the shock of her life. Claire's birth mother, Tonya, confessed that when she was pregnant with Claire, she'd gone to a clinic for an abortion. Yet, after the abortion,...
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Fogland Point

Doug Burgess - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

"Fogland Point is a unique, surprising, moving, occasionally hilarious, and entirely marvelous book about the complicated mysteries that lie at the heart of all families - although the Hazard family is definitely more complicated and mysterious and interesting than most." --Nick...
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Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human

Sarah DiGregorio - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by the author's harrowing experience giving birth to her premature daughter, a compelling and empathetic work that combines memoir with rigorous reporting to tell the story of neonatology - and to meditate on the questions raised by premature birth. The heart of many hospitals...
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