The Family Action Network (FAN) is a 501(c)(3) organization that curates a high-quality speaker series each academic year. All FAN programs are free and open to the public. The Family Action Network (FAN) presents fresh ideas that elevate minds, expand hearts, and make the world a better place.
The Book Stall is proud to partner with FAN in their mission to spread knowledge and compassion. As FAN's preferred bookseller, we provide access to the literature that accompanies their robust lecture series.
Please find a curated list of books presented by FAN speakers below. From time-to-time, purchasing your FAN titles through The Book Stall will grant you access to exclusive content.
PARENTING NEVER ENDS.
From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood
The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen/heard on CNN, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, The Bill Simmons Podcast, Rich Roll, and more.
Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
“Simply the best book I have ever read about adolescence. . . With gentle wisdom, Steinberg guides us through truly novel findings on what happens during adolescence and tells us how, as parents and teachers, we should change our ways.” — Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.
$24.00ISBN: 9781982132071Availability: On Our Shelves Now--Subject to AvailabilityPublished: Atria/One Signal Publishers - October 6th, 2020NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief.” —NPR
“A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side.” —The Boston Globe
“Powerful essays$15.99ISBN: 9780062429209Availability: On Our Shelves Now--Subject to AvailabilityPublished: Harper Perennial - August 1st, 2017From an important new American writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice.
$16.95ISBN: 9781523508310Availability: On Our Shelves Now--Subject to AvailabilityPublished: Workman Publishing Company - June 9th, 2020"A terrific book for parents who want to know how to talk about difficult, emotional issues with children."––Nancy Eisenberg, Regents' Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University
Includes how to talk to your kids about COVID-19.
In a lifesaving guide for parents, Dr.$17.99ISBN: 9781534454217Availability: On Our Shelves Now--Subject to AvailabilityPublished: Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books f - August 25th, 2020Mama’s love is brighter than the sun, even on the rainiest of days. This celebration of a mother-daughter relationship is perfect for sharing with little ones!
On a rainy day when the house smells like cinnamon and Papa and Luca are still asleep, when the clouds are wearing shadows and the wind paints the window with beads of water, I want to be everywhere Mama is.$19.99ISBN: 9781534444959Availability: On Our Shelves Now--Subject to AvailabilityPublished: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - October 13th, 2020Jason Reynolds’s Newbery Honor, Printz Honor, and Coretta Scott King Honor–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel Long Way Down is now a gripping, galvanizing graphic novel, with haunting artwork by Danica Novgorodoff.
Will’s older brother, Shawn, has been shot.
Dead.
Will feels a sadness so great, he can’t explain it.$19.99ISBN: 9781501174452Availability: On Our Shelves Now--Subject to AvailabilityPublished: Scribner - May 15th, 2018A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
“Five gritty leaders whose extraordinary passion and perseverance changed history…a gripping read on a timeless and timely topic” —Angela Duckworth, #1 bestselling author of Grit
An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights, Forged in Crisis, by celebrat$28.00ISBN: 9781984825780Availability: On Our Shelves Now--Subject to AvailabilityPublished: Crown - September 8th, 2020An urgent call to free those buried alive by America’s legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity—from a gifted young lawyer and important new voice in the movement to transform the system.
$27.00ISBN: 9780525575320Availability: On Our Shelves Now--Subject to AvailabilityPublished: Crown - June 30th, 2020NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In our own moment, when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever, what can we learn from his struggle?
$28.00ISBN: 9780525512363Availability: On Our Shelves Now--Subject to AvailabilityPublished: One World - June 23rd, 2020“An illuminating portrait of Baltimore in the aftermath of the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray . . . Readers will be enthralled by this propulsive account.”—Publishers Weekly
$28.99ISBN: 9780062657756Availability: On Our Shelves Now--Subject to AvailabilityPublished: Harper - February 11th, 2020The New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well explores how today’s parenting techniques and our myopic educational system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain future—and how we can reverse course to ensure their lasting adaptability, resilience, health and happiness.
$16.00ISBN: 9780807047415Availability: On Our Shelves Now--Subject to AvailabilityPublished: Beacon Press - June 26th, 2018The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
