Section: Family & relationships

8 Keys to Raising the Quirky Child: How to Help a Kid Who Doesn't (Quite) Fit in

Mark Bowers

A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return

Sandy White Hawk

A Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China

Cai Hua and Asti Hustvedt

Abolish the Family

Sophie Lewis

Above Ground

Clint Smith

African American Families Today: Myths and Realities

Angela J. Hattery

All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion

Lisa Appignanesi

All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion

Lisa Appignanesi

All About Love: New Visions

bell hooks

An African-American Guide To Ethical Non-Monogamy : The How, Why and With Whom To Explore Your Expanding Love Styles

Taylor K. Sparks

Ancestors

Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Editor), Ed Pavlic (Editor), Ivelisse Rodriguez (Editor), and Evie Shockley (Editor)

Ask Me about Polyamory: The Best of Kimchi Cuddles

Tikva Wolf

Baby Making for Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents

Marea Goodman, LM, CPM and Ray Rachlin, LM, CPM

Baby Making for Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents

Marea Goodman, LM, CPM and Ray Rachlin, LM, CPM

Babygate: How to Survive Pregnancy and Parenting in the Workplace

Dina Bakst, Phoebe Taubman, and Elizabeth Gedmark

Be a Father to Your Child: Real Talk from Black Men on Family, Love, and Fatherhood

April R Silver

Being You: A First Conversation About Gender

Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Anne/Andy Passchler (Illustrator)

Being You: A First Conversation About Gender [Boad Book]

Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Anne/Andy Passchler (Illustrator)

Between Monogamy & Polyamory / Beyond the Maps: Towards Cooperative Love

Shuley Cantor and Orlando Marion

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman

Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta

Ina May Gaskin and Ani Difranco

Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work

Jenny Brown

Black Love Letters

Cole Brown and Natalie Johnson

Bodies on the Line: At the Frontlines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America

Lauren Rankin

Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls

Sonya Renee Taylor

Childbirth Without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth

Grantly Dick-Read

Complicated Relationships : Conversations on Polyamory and Anarchy

Ardent Press

Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for Abolition

Alan J. Dettlaff

Consensuality: Navigating Feminism, Gender, and Boundaries Towards Loving Relationships

Helen Windfell

Considering Parenthood

Cheri Pies

Creating Consent Culture: A Handbook for Educators

Marcia Baczynski and Erica Scott

De-escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 seconds or Less

Douglass E. Noll

Dear Ijeawele: Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence

Leigh Goodmark

Designer Relationships: A Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships

Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson

Different Daughters: A Book by Mothers of Lesbians

Louise Rafkin

Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India

Sharmila Rudrappa

Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities

Victoria Law and China Martens

Double Pregnant: Two Lesbians Make a Family

Natalie D. Meisner

Dragonslippers: This is what an Abusive Relationship Looks Like

Rosalind B. Penfold

Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

Gabrielle Stanley Blair

Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home

Kate Mangino

Everyday Illegal

Joanna Dreby

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

Kristen R. Ghodsee

Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

M. E. O'Brien

Family Activism: Empowering Your Community, Beginning with Family and Friends

Roberto Vargas

Fat and Fertile: How to Get Pregnant in a Bigger Body

Nicola Salmon

Feminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering

Dorsía Smith Silva and Simone A. James Alexander

Full Surrogacy Now

Sophie Anne Lewis

Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor's Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices

Sarah J. Buckley, M.D. and Ina May Gaskin (introduction)

Ghostbelly

Elizabeth Heineman

Go the F**k to Sleep

Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés

Golden Names for an African People

Nia Damali

Helping Your Transgender Teen, 2nd Edition: A Guide for Parents

Irwin Krieger

Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

Gordon Neufeld (Author) and Gabor Mate (Author)

How Chinese Are You?: Adopted Chinese Youth and Their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture

Andrea Louie

How to Overcome Your Childhood

The School of Life and Alain De Botton

How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way

Tim Seldin

How to Raise an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

How to Support Your Non-Binary Family Member

How We Do Family: From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned about Love and LGBTQ Parenthood

Trystan Reese

How We Show Up: Building Community in These Fractured Times

Mia Birdsong

Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families: Culturally Responsive Practice

Alan J. Dettlaff (Editor) and Rowena Fong (Editor)

In Sickness and in Health: Love, Disability, and a Quest to Understand the Perils and Pleasures of Interabled Romance

Ben Mattlin

In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation

Isabel Zapata

Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding

Ina May Gaskin

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

Ina May Gaskin

Intimate Inequalities: Millennials' Romantic Relationships in Contemporary Times

Cristen Dalessandro

Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Women

Mignon Moore

It Runs in the Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood

Frida Berrigan

It's Called Polyamory: Coming Out about Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

Tamara Pincus and Rebecca Hiles

Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 3, Partners

Gavin Van Horn, Robin Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer

Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

Moira Weigel

Learning Good Consent: On Healthy Relationships & Survivor Support

cindy crabb (Editor)

Legalizing Lgbt Families: How the Law Shapes Parenthood

Amanda Baumle and D'Lane Compton

Let's Get This Straight: The Ultimate Handbook for Youth with LGBTQ Parents

Tina Fakhrid-Deen and COLAGE

Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

Angela Garbes

Love Always: Partners of Trans People on Intimacy, Challenge, and Resilience

Jordon Johnson and Becky Garrison

Love WITH Accountability

Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Darnell L. Moore

Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities

Kevin A. Patterson (Author)

Making Sense of "it": A Guide to Sex for Teens (and Their Parents, Too!)

Alison Macklin

Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle

Nina LaCour and Kaylani Juanita (Illustrator)

Mama's Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression

Marlo D. David

Mindful Masculinity Workbook: A Practical Guide to Healthier Masculinity

Rocco Kayiatos

More Than Two: A practical guide to ethical polyamory

Franklin Veaux (Author), Tatiana Gill (Illustrator), and Paul Mendoza (Illustrator)

MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence

Lynne Tillman

Multiamory: Essential Tools for Modern Relationships

Jase Lindgren, Dedeker Winston, and Emily Sotelo Matlack

My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities

Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman, and Sarah Talbot

My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us

Jessica Mills and Jessica Mills

Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy--A Polyamory Memoir

Rachel Krantz

Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

Tristan Taormino

Out!: A Parents Guide to Supporting Your LGBTQ+ Kid

John Sovec

Parental Incarceration and the Family: Psychological and Social Effects of Imprisonment on Children, Parents, and Caregivers

Joyce A. Arditti

Parenting for Liberation

Trina Greene Brown

Parenting Without God: How to Raise Moral, Ethical, and Intelligent Children, Free from Religious Dogma

Dan Arel

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminal Costs of Motherhood

Michele Goodwin

Polyamory and Pregnancy

Jessica Burde

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Jessica Fern

Polywise: A Deeper Dive Into Navigating Open Relationships

Jessica Fern and David Cooley

Power Circuits: Polyamory in a Power Dynamic

Raven Kaldera

Practicing Feminist Mothering

Fiona Joy Green

Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag

A. K. Summers

Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers

Lynne Haney

Queer Conception: The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-To-Be

Kristin Liam Kali

Queering Motherhood: Narrative and Theoretical Perspectives

Margaret F. Gibson

Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood

Tomas Moniz and Jeremy Adam Smith

Rad Families: A Celebration

Thomas Moniz (Author) and Ariel Gore (Foreward)

Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

Kate Johnson

Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide

Britt Hawthorne

Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Ross W. Greene

Raising Them: Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting

Kyl Myers

Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America

Jennifer Harvey

Refused a Second Date

Maya Williams

Regretting Motherhood: A Study

Orna Donath

Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice After Roe V. Wade

Sara Matthiesen

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines

Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Author), Mai'a Williams (Author), and China Martens (Editor)

Safe in a Midwife's Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South

Linda Janet Holmes

Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

Jessica Grose

Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

Nedra Glover Tawwab

Sex from Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules

Sarah Mirk (Author)

Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity

Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network

Social Experiences of Breastfeeding: Building Bridges Between Research, Policy and Practice

Sally Dowling, Kate Boyer, and David Pontin

Social Justice Parenting: How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World

Traci Baxley

Social Work's Histories of Complicity and Resistance: A Tale of Two Professions

Vasilios Ioakimidis (Editor) and Aaron Wyllie (Editor)

Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America

Stacey Patton

Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life

Amy Gahran

Stories from the Polycule: Real Life in Polyamorous Families

Elisabeth Sheff

Supporting Queer Birth

Aj Silver

Supporting Trans People of Colour: How to Make Your Practice Inclusive

Sabah Choudrey

The Anti-Social Family

Michele Barrett (Author) and Mary McIntosh (Author)

The Complete Book of Breastfeeding

Marvin S. Eiger and Sally Wendkos Olds

The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships

Harriet Lerner

The Don't Before I Do

Emily McKnight

The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth

Marshall H. Klaus (Author) and Phyllis H. Klaus (Author)

The End of Family Court: How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families

Jane M. Spinak

The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love

Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton

The Every Body Book: The LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids about Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families

Rachel E. Simon

The First Six Weeks: The Tried-and-Tested Guide That Shows You How to Have a Happy, Healthy Sleeping Baby

Midwife Cath

The First-Time Parent's Childbirth Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide for Building Your Birth Plan

Stephanie Mitchell

The Gender Identity Guide for Parents: Compassionate Advice to Help Your Child Be Their Most Authentic Self

Tavi Hawn

The Hearts of Being Polysecure: Creating Secure Attachments in Multiple Relationships

Jessica Fern

The Jealousy Workbook: Exercises and Insights for Managing Open Relationships

Kathy Labriola

The Movement for Reproductive Justice

Patricia Zavella

The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood

Krys Malcolm Belc

The No Worries Guide to Raising Your Anxious Child: A Handbook to Help You and Your Anxious Child Thrive

Karen Lynn Cassiday

The Polyamorists Next Door

Elizabeth Sheff

The Polyamory Breakup Book: Causes, Prevention, and Survival

Kathy Labriola

The Polysecure Workbook: Healing Your Attachment and Creating Security in Loving Relationships

Jessica Fern

The Reflective Workbook for Partners of Transgender People: Your Transition As Your Partner Transitions

DENISE. MAYNARD

The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution

Ann Travers

The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure: Erotic Exploration for Men and Their Partners

Ph.D. Charlie Glickman, Aislinn Emirzian, Debby Herbenick, and Carol Queen

They Call It Love

Alva Gotby

This Heart Holds Many: My Life As the Nonbinary Millennial Child of a Polyamorous Family

Koe Creation

This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century

Mai'a Williams

This Is Supposed to Be Fun: How to Find Joy in Hooking Up, Settling Down, and Everything in Between

Myisha Battle

Thriving in Non Monogamy an Ethical Slut's Guide: Overcome Jealousy, Enjoy Sex, and Honor Yourself

Erin Davidson

Tinder Nights with Tracey: Swiping Right During The Age of The Rona

Tracey M. Kennedy

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Cheryl Strayed

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

Dorothy Roberts

Trans Allyship Workbook: Building Skills to Support Trans People in Our Lives

Davey Shlasko

Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

Tey Meadow

Transforming Family: Queer Kinship and Migration in Contemporary Francophone Literature

Jocelyn Frelier

Transgender Intimate Partner Violence

Adam M. Messinger and Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz

Transitions: The Development of Children of Immigrants

Carola Suárez-Orozco, Mona Abo-Zena, and Amy Marks

Trust Kids!

Carla Bergman and Matt Hern

Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child

Telaina Eriksen

Understanding Montessori: A Guide for Parents

Maren Schmidt and Dana Schmidt

We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood

Dani McClain

What Does Consent Really Mean?

Pete Wallis

Whatever Arises, Love That: A Love Revolution That Begins with You

Matt Kahn

When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface

Leslie J. Reagan

When Boys Become Boys: Development, Relationships, and Masculinity

Judy Y. Chu

When Someone You Love Is Polyamorous: A Guide to Understanding Poly People and Relationships

Elisabeth Sheff

When the Welfare People Come: Race and Class in the US Child Protection System

Don Lash (Author)

Who Are You?: The Kid's Guide to Gender and Identity

Brook Pessin-Whedbee

Why Did No One Tell Me This?: The Doulas' (Honest) Guide for Expectant Parents

Natalia Hailes and Ash Spivak

Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

You Have to Fucking Eat

Adam Mansbach

You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gender, Puberty, and Other Things

Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth

You-Ology: A Puberty Guide for Every Body

Trish Hutchison, Kathryn Lowe, and Melisa Holmes

Young Queer America: Real Stories and Faces of LGBTQ+ Youth

Maxwell Poth