Parenting Your Kids with Love and Logic, Parenting Teens with Love and Logic etc...
The Out of Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz - excellent resource on Sensory Integration Disorder but can weigh you down with the technical language.
The Out of Sync Child Has Fun - Kranowitz - Excellent - Activities to provide the sensory diet that helps Sensory Integration Disorder (SID). Each activity lists what senses it stimulates (proprioceptive etc...), ways to change it, any safety issues/need for supervision on various steps. Also lists ways to make the activities less expensive, to find less expensive sources for needed items, etc...
The first OOSC book tells you what Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) is, how it affects your child, what the therapies are, how and why they work, plus some ideas for providing the elements of the sensory diet. The second OOSC book, the Has Fun book, gives things to actually DO to provide the sensory diet in ways that are affordable, realistic, adaptable and most importantly - FUN. The activities are not just for the child with Sensory Integration Disorder (SID), they are enjoyable for almost everyone. I have found that using them with a class of kids, where practical and reasonable, can provide a child with sensory issues some time to enjoy a game or art project or other activity while still fitting in with the other kids. I have used several of them during class parties and ALL the kids enjoyed them - and NONE of them thought they were "special" activities designed to include the differently abled kids. They just thought they were FUN.
(it can be hard to explain the different functions of each book to parents, so I thought that this might be helpful to put with the description of the books. If I ahve explained them incorrectly or they can be reworded to be more clear or whatever, that is fine. Or if the description needs to be cut out, it is no big deal.)
She's Gonna Blow: Real Help for Moms Dealing with Anger by Julie Ann Barnhill - Practical ways for Moms to handle anger. Doesn't just tell you what to do when you are angry and why. This book helps you identify the physical signs that you are getting angry. We hear how damaging it can be to our kids when we to blow up at them, but most of us need some practical step by step directions to learn to see it coming before it hits us full steam. This books is Christian faith-based but the basic tools for identifying and handling anger can be applied in the framework of most religiions or without a religious framework at all. At least it worked that way for me.
Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment by Wm Byham and J Cox This book is written for managers to learn how to inspire employees to improve productivity. It has specific strategies designed to help you encourage responsibility, acknowledgment, and creativity so that employees feel they "own" their jobs. Our households can be looked at as "mini-businesses" and the general ideas and strategies of this book can be used to encourage our family members to take responsibility for the jobs that must be done around the house. Part of it is giving them some creativity and the power to make some basic decisions about the tools used to do the job. I can explain this more if asked - my mom used this kind of thing with the chores we did when I was growing up.
Eloise - The Ultimate Edition by Kay Thompson. My go-to book when I need a mini vacation back to a simpler time. When I grow up I want to be Eloise. So did my grandma.
and our bookstore too. 
