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• Dear Future Mama

  a TMI Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, and New Motherhood From Your Bestie

  Trainor, Meghan, 1993-

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  Meghan Trainor has wanted to be a mom since before she even knew how babies were made. From the moment she discovered she was pregnant with her first child--her son, Riley--she was fascinated by the entire experience. Yes, pregnancy and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The World Deserves My Children

  Leggero, Natasha,

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  When Natasha Leggero got pregnant at forty-two after embarking on the grueling IVF process, she was over the moon. But once her feelings of bliss dissipated, she couldn’t help but shake the lingering question: Am I doing this right? And…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'll Show Myself Out

  Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

  Klein, Jessi

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  "In New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Jessi Klein’s second collection, she hilariously explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood and explore the humiliations,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ask Me What's for Dinner One More Time

  Inappropriate Thoughts on Motherhood

  Masony, Meredith,

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  "From the founder of That’s Inappropriate - one of the most popular parenting blogs on the web - comes a hilarious, genuine, and relatable essay collection on the ups and downs of motherhood."

• Go to Sleep (I Miss You)

  Cartoons From the Fog of New Parenthood

  Knisley, Lucy,

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  "Lucy Knisley is one of the great memoirists of the graphic novel format. Following the completion of her pregnancy memoir Kid Gloves (and the birth of her baby), Lucy embarked on a new project: documenting new motherhood in short,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hold On, but Don't Hold Still

  Hope and Humor From My Seriously Flawed Life

  Kuzmič, Kristina,

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  "Delivering inspiration and 'parenting comedy at its finest,'* here is one woman's story of ditching her fairytale dreams and falling in love with her unpredictable, chaotic, imperfect life."

• Frontier Follies

  Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere

  Drummond, Ree

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  In this relatable, charming book, Ree unveils real goings-on in the Drummond house and around the ranch. In stories brimming with the lively wit and humor found in her cookbooks and her best-selling love story, The Pioneer Woman: Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cat and Nat's Mom Truths

  Embarrassing Stories and Brutally Honest Advice on the Extremely Real Struggle of Motherhood

  Belknap, Catherine • Telfer, Natalie

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  "Hilarious best friends Cat and Nat created a massive online community of moms by sharing their ultra-real and just a bit R-rated dispatches from the mom trenches. From what not to eat a few days after giving birth (chicken wings) to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• #IMomSoHard

  Hensley, Kristin • Smedley, Jen

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  "In their highly anticipated first audiobook, the hilarious mom duo with millions of followers explores all the ridiculous things you’re expected to do to keep multiple humans alive and happy-ish and celebrates the love for the friends who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Amateur Hour

  Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words

  Harrington, Kimberly

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  “Being a mother is a gift.” Where’s my receipt? Welcome to essayist Kimberly Harrington’s poetic and funny world of motherhood, womanhood, and humanhood, not necessarily in that order. It’s a place of loud parenting, fierce loving, too…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Joys of Raising Boys

  The Good, the Bad, and the Hilarious

  Auten, Diane,

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  "Have you ever laughed, slapped your forehead and thought, 'What the heck is wrong with these boys?' If this is you, you're not alone. Whether they are whacking themselves in the head, asking inappropriate questions, or playing with their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

  Dunn, Jancee

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  "A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice. Part memoir, part self-help book with actionable and achievable advice, How Not to Hate Your…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay

  And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom

  Wilder-Taylor, Stefanie

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  The moment the second line on the pee stick turns pink, women discover they've entered a world of parenting experts. In busy-mom-friendly short essays, Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay delivers the empathetic straight dirt on parenting,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Heart My Little A-Holes

  A Bunch of Holy-crap Moments No One Ever Told You About Parenting

  Alpert, Karen

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  "Popular blogger Karen Alpert shares her hysterical take on the many "joys" of parenting - I Heart My Little A-Holes is full of hilarious stories, lists, thoughts and pictures that will make you laugh so hard you'll wish you were wearing a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How Not to Calm a Child on a Plane

  And Other Lessons in Parenting from a Highly Questionable Source

  Stein, Johanna

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  For Johanna Stein, parenting is an extreme sport. Her stories from the trenches may not always be shared experiences -- Have you ever trained your preschooler for a zombie invasion? -- but they will always make you laugh.

• Ketchup Is a Vegetable

  and Other Lies Moms Tell Themselves

  O'Bryant, Robin

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  "If you don't have anything nice to say about motherhood, then… read this book. Robin O'Bryant offers a no holds barred look at the day to day life of being a mother to three, running a household and the everyday monotony of parenting.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sh!t No One Tells You

  a 52-week Guide to Surviving Your Baby's First Year

  Dais, Dawn

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  "There comes a time in every new mother's life when she realizes that all the pregnancy well-wishes and baby shower gifts left her profoundly unqualified for the realities of life with a newborn. Best-selling author Dawn Dais offers real…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moms Who Drink and Swear

  True Tales of Loving My Kids While Losing My Mind

  Knepper, Nicole

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  "If you feel like your kids are killing you, you’ve come to the right place. Any bad thought you’ve had about your kids, Nicole Knepper has had worse. Much worse. It’s not that she doesn’t love her kids. It’s that she understands what a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sh*tty Mom

  the Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us

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  "Sh*tty Mom is the ultimate parenting guide, written by four moms who have seen it all. As hilarious as it is universal, each chapter presents a common parenting scenario with advice on how to get through it in the easiest and most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Confessions of a Slacker Mom

  Mead-Ferro, Muffy

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  "Parents who are fed up with the pressure to turn their children into star athletes, concert violinists, and merit scholars-all at once!-finally have an alternative: the world of Slacker Moms, where kids learn to do things for themselves…Read moreRead more of this annotation