From the Publisher: Designed as a manual to complement the Clinician’s Guide, this book is written for birth, foster, or adoptive parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, or anyone who may be raising a child who has experienced attachment loss and trauma. Their severe behaviors can often leave caregivers feeling confused, frightened, hurt, and overwhelmed, as they struggle to make sense of a massive amount of information—and misinformation—that exists on attachment issues. This book provides understanding, validation, and solutions for these caregivers. In it, the authors explain their innovative model of “team” treatment that includes an EMDR therapist and a family therapist. Best used in conjunction with therapeutic help, it walks readers through an array of parenting strategies that will lead them to a deeper understanding of their traumatized child, and better enable them to calm their behavior and improve their attachment security so they can heal.

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By the Same Author: The Whole Parent (1998, Da Capo Press) and Integrative Team Treatment for Attachment Trauma in Children: Family Therapy and EMDR (with Cathy Schweitzer & Stefanie Armstrong; 2014).

From the Back Cover: If you are a woman considering adoption, you and your spouse will receive hope and encouragement from the gentle wisdom of Kimberley Raunikar Taylor’s experience of adopting a child.

Her story will encourage you to

• Examine the condition of your own heart and discover what motivates your desire for a child

• Respond to God’s desire to place the lonely and homeless in families

• Plan for the changes and challenges of adoption

• Prepare to assimilate a new child into an existing family

Taylor guides you through the thoughts and emotions you may experience before embracing the possibility of adopting and then explores the challenges, joys, and rewards of bringing an adopted child home.

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About the Author: Kimberley Raunikar Taylor is the mother of an internationally adopted child. She has served as a guest speaker for orientation meetings at a Dallas adoption agency speaks often to women’s groups concerning adoption issues. She and her husband live in Fort Worth with their son, Jonathan Valentin.

From the Back Cover: The difficult times, promising moments, and eventual joy of international adoption are all accounted for in this honest and encouraging guide. Excerpts from an inspiring journal show a real mother-to-be filling out forms, confronting racism and red tape, packing baby gear, visiting a foreign place, and returning home with a beautiful baby girl. Complementary chapters discuss the initial decision, finding an agency or private coordinator, home-studies, the warning signs of fraud, regard for the child’s birth culture, political issues, and other common aspects of intercountry adoption.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The adoption of foreign children has been an issue frequently grabbing the media headlines. Child service specialists state that, although the process is a complicated and often long one, people—both couples and singles—want to open the doors of their home for those whose only shelter has been an orphanage. Several worldwide recognized and famous people like Angelina Jolie have set the example for international adoption, and thousands have followed it. United States residents are leading among adoptive parents, giving home to thousands of kids from all around the world each year. After Russia and China have made their adoption rules more strict, the focus of parents-to-be has switched to African countries, especially Ethiopia.

From the Back Cover: For anyone involved in, or thinking about, adopting a child from abroad, this is an essential guide. The process of international adoption can sometimes seem complex, frustrating, and endless. This step-by-step guide, which provides the necessary hard facts and information—as well as support through the experiences of the author and others—will help smooth the way.

After a general discussion of who may adopt and what restrictions may apply, the book goes into the nitty-gritty of what the process entails: choosing where to adopt and how to go about it; using an agency or a facilitator; initiating the home study; assembling a dossier; working with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; knowing the types of expenses that can be anticipated; and many other issues. In addition, the book provides up-to-date information on resources, including what is available today on the Internet, information that was previously difficult for adoptive parents to find out on their own.

Equally informative are the author’s interviews of a number of adoptive families whose stories are interspersed throughout the book. By sharing their experiences, they help to make the process work for others.

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About the Author: Myra Alperson, a journalist, is a senior research associate at The Conference Board in New York City. She is thrilled to be the mother of a baby daughter, Sadie Zhenzhen, who was born in Suzhou, China. They became a family on October 14, 1996.

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By the Same Author: Dim Sum, Bagels, & Grits: A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families (2001, FS&G).

“How can we prepare for being immediate parents of our new son? How will we communicate with him when we speak two different languages? What will we do if he has a tantrum?” These are just a few of the issues new adoptive couples face when their new child is from another country. International Adoption of a Preschool Child: 100 Parenting Tips for Your Child’s First Year provides practical ideas, from preparing for the child’s homecoming, to celebrations of holidays and birthdays in his new country. The child’s responses to grief and loss are explored, as well as ways to provide love and comfort. The author includes suggestions on learning about and preserving the child’s culture, and a section on self-care for new parents. She also emphasizes the importance of support for the parents because of the challenges of immediate parenthood.

As an adoptive mother of children from Russia and Colombia, Conroy has compiled the resource book she wished she had when she first investigated the possibility of international adoption. This guide lists addresses and resources, provides information on costs, medical conditions, immigration regulations, and more.

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By the Same Author: A World of Love: The Inspiring True Story of One Couple’s Odyssey Into the World of International Adoption (1997, Kensington Books).

International adoption travel is a time of excitement, wonder and unpredictable experiences. In addition to adding a new child to your family, your trip is probably the first you will make to your child’s birth country. Everything is new. Everything is interesting. You want to savor it all. You know that your record of this trip will one day become a cherished link to your child’s heritage. But as many parents who have been there know, in all of the excitement and stress of international adoption travel, chronicling your trip in a blank notebook becomes next to impossible—particularly once your child arrives.

The International Adoption Travel Journal was designed with your special trip in mind. With seven separate sections organized in meaningful categories, and a fill-in-the-blank format, parents find this unique journal an invaluable keepsake to record their trip of a lifetime. The newly revised edition now includes these great features: Special place on the inside front cover for your child’s photo and footprints; Map of the world for tracking your journey; Additional blank “Daily Journal” pages for free writing; New “Souvenirs” section; Handy envelope bound in for receipts/small keepsakes Sturdy travel-ready spine (Covered wire-O, so it lays flat while you’re writing).

From the Publisher: This book of true, positive, and very exciting adoption stories will:

• Interest anyone who has ever been touched by adoption

• Magnify God and show His answers to specific prayers

• Give birth mothers and birth fathers assurance and help in moving forward with their lives

• Give hope to infertile couples

• Dispel myths about birth mothers

• Give many examples that adoption, not abortion, is a loving option

• Help in understanding that God’s timing is perfect

• Show positive aspects and happy endings of adoption.

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About the Author: Jean A. Veckruise, Ph.D., cofounder and director of Christian Family Services, Inc.; formerly director of Tender Loving Care adoption agency, SC; assistant dean in schools of medicine: Medical College of Virginia and Louisiana State University, with a joint appointment in the pediatric department; assistant professor, Houghton College, New York, Trinity College, Illinois, and SUNY, Buffalo, New York; cofounder and counselor, Niagara Frontier Christian Counseling Center, New York; and teacher of special education in New York, Illinois, and Minnesota.

The decision to adopt can be one of the most rewarding that a couple or individual can make. As with any important decision, it can also be quite complex. Persons who are interested in adopting a child must not only be willing to welcome a new person into their hearts, but they must also be willing to cope with the bureaucratic and legal issues that can often be involved and can frequently take months, if not years. The primary key to a successful adoption is doing some background research which can include locating reputable agencies and attorneys, understanding the pros and cons associated with different types of adoptions and understanding the importance of being actively involved in each step; all without allowing frustration or impatience to take over. Adoption takes place for many different reasons. Many people are not able to have children on their own. Other people wish to provide a loving environment for children who need a home. In fact, many people who ultimately adopt have already given birth to other children. Some individuals choose to adopt children who have “special needs”; such as children who have disabilities or who would be difficult to place for adoption because of their age or ethnicity. Regardless of the reasons for adoption, the most important requirement to adopt is for future adoptive parents to realize that it is a lifelong commitment.

Adopting a child is one of the noble deeds someone can do. Someone decides to adopt a child because of inability to have children of their own or out of desire to provide a better future for a child, whatever is the reason behind it, it is always a noble action. The bureaucratic process of adoption becomes more and more difficult that affect many people to give up adoption. In this eBook I want you to know how you can adopt a child despite long and difficult processes.

The primary goal of this book is to share insights and provide guidance and support for parents trying to work through the myriad issues that children with attachment disorders encounter during their growth and maturation processes. The Invisible Road addresses many of the difficulties commonly experienced by families who adopt children with these problems. Written from the perspective of a parent, who is also a professional, this book gives user friendly, easily understood information that can be adapted by families for use with schools, family members, and others who are part of the child’s life.

We were not pursuing adoption when we came across a picture on my sister’s bulletin board. In the picture were two little girls sitting in a toy car. The picture, though cute, did not initially pull me in, but as the day wore on, there was a pressing in of one simple question. “What about you?” Six months later, we were on a plane heading for Uganda with $12,000 sewn in on the insides of our shirts!

From the Back Cover: Would adopting a child be a good choice for you? Would you want to adopt an infant or an older child? What about a child from another country? A child of another race? Would you be willing to adopt a child with medical problems? Could you agree to involvement and openness with the birth mother? Would you be better off working with an agency or an attorney? Do you have to be married? How much does it really cost?

Before you decide, make sure you have all the facts. In this warm, straightforward new book, adoption expert—and adoptive parent—Christine Adamec gives you the information you need to make this important decision. From financial considerations to the myriad emotional issues involved, there are numerous questions to explore. Adamec’s expert guidance, drawn from personal stories, clinical studies, and academic research, helps you find the answers that are right for you.

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About the Author: Christine Adamec is the publisher of Adoption/Medical News and the author of several books about adoption, including The Encyclopedia of Adoption and There Are Babies to Adopt. She writes a monthly column for National Adoption Reports, published by the National Council for Adoption. An adoptive mother, Ms. Adamec founded an adoptive parent support group, Parents Adopting Children Everywhere, and served on the statewide Florida Advisory Council on Adoption.

I tell the true story of how I came to adopt four children from four different ethnicities. The first chapter gives a brief history of my philosophies and the circumstances leading up to my decision to adopt. The first adoption takes place within the first chapter, and the remainder of the book is a step by step narration of all significant events relating to the adoption portion of my life. The main purpose of the book is to make readers aware of the devastating effects that any child’s early childhood experiences can have on him or her. I discuss my first two children, who were adopted at a very early age and have consequently grown up to be healthy, happy teenagers. I am able to use this experience as a contrast to my last two children, who were obtained from the social welfare system from horrendously negative living conditions at a much later age, around five years old. Hence, the title of the book. I am honestly asking if a child is “salvageable” at the age of five years, after experiencing years of neglect, abuse, and trauma after trauma. As an experienced social worker, I had the knowledge to be able to make full use of the system and resources available to adoptive families. In this book, I point out just how inadequate these resources are. In fact, many public policies relating to the world of adoption are downright detrimental to the child’s health and growth. I talk about the many people, both professional and lay, involved in our lives, some of whom have been extraordinarily helpful and others, well ... who haven’t. I bring the readers through my own difficulties throughout this period; my divorce, my alcoholism, my suicidality, and finally, my spiritual awakening. Although the book ends before the children are fully grown adults, I make it clear that the older two are well on their ways to success. I lastly talk about the prognosis for the younger two and my concerns and/or joys for their futures. I answer my own question at the end of the book and give the readers many options (throughout the book) for procedures to avoid and/or repair early childhood trauma.

From the Back Cover: The social worker was enthusiastic when I first explained my background to her, but went a bit quiet when I explained that my partner was a woman. She took all our details and said she had a number of other families interested in the girls and would get back to us if she wanted more information. She never did. I rang a while later to find out what had happened and they said they were looking at another family for the girls, but thank you for our interest. Thanks, but no thanks, was becoming a pretty universal message.

This is the heart-warming true story of Ruby and Gail and their belief in their potential to adopt. Some of the social workers they encounter think that, as a lesbian couple, they are unfit to be parents; others recognise that their Asian dual-heritage family has much to offer. This story charts their journey to becoming parents to their three daughters and offers a glimpse of their family life over 18 extraordinary years.

Is It True You Have Two Mums? is the twelfth title in BAAF’s popular Our Story series, which provides an insight into the highs and lows of adoption and fostering through the real life experiences of a wide range of families. It will be of particular interest to lesbian and gay adoptive parents and prospective adopters as well as adoption social workers and child care professionals.

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About the Author: Ruby Clay is an Asian lesbian trainer and writer, who lives in the north of England with her partner, her three daughters and her elderly father. She enjoys hill-walking and writing fiction, and travels with her family to Scotland on a regular basis and to India whenever she can.

From the Back Cover: On the day she was born in 1950 as one of two identical twins, Patty O’Leary Emry’s formidable challenges were only just beginning. The exhilaration of welcoming new life quickly gave way to desperation as doctors discovered that Patty had multiple congenital difficulties. With underdeveloped digestive, urinary tract, and reproductive systems, the prognosis was grim. When the hospital staff declared that the baby would die within a few days, her steadfast parents refused to give up hope, and they firmly insisted that Patty be given a fighting chance—after all, she deserved every chance at life.

After ground breaking operations, doctors were able to reconstruct the tiny infant’s digestive organs. It was a miracle that this premature baby survived such procedures, and before long, Patty’s tenacious spirit quickened and flourished. But tragedy struck the family again when, Patty’s twin sister, Catherine, died only three months after being born.

Despite the pain of becoming a “twinless twin” and in the face of daily difficulties that many could consider discouraging, Patty rallied and cultivated a robust and outrageous approach to life that has seen her through over twenty-two surgeries in her lifetime. You, the reader, can also lay hold of the transformative power of laughter and positivity in every circumstance. So whether you’re sixteen or ninety-nine, throw off those shackles of self-doubt and despair, put on your dancing shoes, and do the funky chicken on the nearest tabletop—because It Takes a Sense of Humour!

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About the Author: With a degree in Physical Education and Art from Central Washington University, Patty O’Leary Emry took a running leap into a teaching and coaching career which she enjoys to this day. A robust combination of faith, family, sport, and a sense of humour has lifted her beyond her physical and emotional limits; this outward focus also serves her deepest passion to encourage and empower others to learn how to “balance forward.” A lover of painting, music, and dancing, she lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with the love of her life, Greg Dean Emry.

From the Publisher: Take a journey of self-discovery and healing. Learn about the short but unforgettable life of Casey Jang-Joon Candelaria, a boy adopted from Busan, South Korea, who found a loving family and home in the American Southwest. Casey’s vibrant personality had an impact on his family members and on everyone who knew him. His early death at age 25 left his family shocked and devastated. Author Neil Candelaria, Casey’s father, shares his experiences as a parent coping with the loss of a child. He weaves together anecdotes of life with Casey and unexplained but encouraging events which occurred after Casey’s death. A former criminal court judge, Neil relates how he overcame his reliance on physical proof and came to believe in life after death. This poignant story explores personal tragedy to find inner discovery and hope, as Neil unravels the meaning of Casey’s last text message: “It’s all good.”

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About the Author: Neil Candelaria is a former prosecutor and retired criminal law judge. He has lived in New Mexico most of his life and currently lives in Albuquerque with his wife Alice. His desire is to help other parents who have suffered the loss of a son or daughter.

An action packed adventure about abandoned babies, foster care and adoption. True stories of abused children and the traumas they endured and how they succeeded in life. Children that were destined for dumpsters or death and were saved by a foster mom that cared.

Have you ever heard the quote “We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give” by Winston Churchill? or the quote “Give me a child until he’s 7 and I will give you the man” by St. Francis Xavier?, the journey that this true family story will take you on will be an amazing in depth look into the positive impact we can have in this world, in the lives of our children and those surrounding us.

This isn’t your typical book about autism. It’s a heck of a lot funnier! You won’t find a lost or lonely kid on the cover, you won’t find a guide telling you what to do and what not to do with your autistic child and you definitely won’t find a nonsense miracle cure that will make your kid “normal.” No, this isn’t that kind of book. This is my raw, emotional but successful journey about how we battled through the never-ending maze of autism to learn just how incredibly AU-some our son truly is. Now, that’s not to say it was an easy road, nor did I always embrace it, but that’s what this book is about. This is my story about how I became the mom that my son needed me to be, to be his voice when he didn’t have one. I wasn’t always enthused by the idea about my son being different, especially when not only did I have to be a super-mom, I had to learn to be his therapist, his teacher, his advocate, and his fighter in a boxing ring with a bunch of administrators that wanted to slap a label on him and pass him down the special education assembly line. But this is our journey as a family through the crazy world of autism, from its simple but triumphant moments to the nights we cried ourselves to sleep. This is my adventure of how I became an AU-some mom while happily losing my sanity along the way. It’s about how although I used to feel alone and depressed about the dreaded diagnosis of the A-word, I knew I had to use all the love in my heart for my son to fuel and drive him to succeed in a world where some would have given up on him. It’s about how we took the cards we were dealt in life and made them into a winning hand, how we got back up after getting knocked on our butts time and time again, and how our love, faith and commitment to our son will continue to get us through. Consider this my hand held out to parents just like me, who sometimes need a lifeline to get them through the rough waters. I’m battling through it with you. You’re not alone. Crack this sucker open, and I’ll show you, it’s okay to say the A-word.

From the Dust Jacket: “When Benny Kubelsky was born, who in their wildest dreams would imagine that, eighty years later, at the event of his passing, every television program, every radio show would stop, ... and that every magazine and newspaper would headline it on their front pages?” For Bob Hope, as for millions of Americans, the story of the tenth-grade dropout from Waukegan, Illinois, who left home to play the violin in a vaudeville act was little short of a miracle. When Benny Kubelsky changed his name, he could not have known it would become one of the most famous in entertainment history—Jack Benny.

But his story is more than a rags-to-riches success—it is the story behind his famous on-the-air feud with Fred Allen, and the story of the Golden Era in Hollywood, of Frank Sinatra and Gregory Peck and George Burns and their fabulous extravaganzas—and of great tragedy. It is the story of a man whose world shook with the death of Al Jolson and who spent long hours of vigil beside Clark Gable after Carole Lombard’s fatal accident.

It is also that rarity, the story of a man in love with his own wife, so much so that his will provided her with roses, one a day for the rest of her life. Mary Livingstone Benny and her brother Hilliard Marks along with Marcia Borie have collaborated in this book to bring the Jack Benny only they could know to his adoring public. The result is an intimate portrait of a most compassionate, generous, extraordinary man.

This is the story of a little girl named Jackie. The story attempts to explore her short life and how she impacted those who shared it with her.

From the Back Cover: Come with Jeanie Shaw on an incredible journey of faith and love ... Jacob’s Journey. Jeanie shares the story of her family’s adoption of a Romanian orphan and the insights she gained about God’s adoption of his children. Heart-moving and heart-challenging, this book will bring tears and smiles, heartaches and belly laughs ... all wrapped up together. Jacob will journey right into your heart and give you a deeper understanding of adoption and a more personal relationship to your heavenly Father.

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About the Author: Jeanie Whitehead Shaw grew up in Gainesville, Florida, where she became a Christian as a teenager. She graduated from the University of Florida, where she met her husband-to-be, Wyndham Shaw. As a young married couple, they worked for five years in the campus ministry in Raleigh, North Carolina, serving the campuses of North Carolina State, the University of North Carolina and Duke University. Then, over an eight-year period, they worked with the churches in Morgantown, West Virginia, and Charlotte, North Carolina.

For the past fourteen years they have been with the church in Boston, where they currently serve as elder and wife, and evangelist and women’s ministry leader. Wyndham now also serves as the Executive Director of HOPE worldwide New England, a non-profit benevolent organization. Jeanie serves as Director of Program Development. She develops programs such as the HOPE worldwide Family Center in Romania and the New England Permanent Families Program, which includes foster care, home studies. post-placement training and support, and various other programs throughout the Northeast and Europe. Through HOPE worldwide, she is also a representative to the United Nations advisory council.

Jeanie and Wyndham have four children: Melissa, Kristen, Sam and Jacob, and they have one son “by marriage”: Kevin Miller, who is married to Melissa. They are raising an exemplary family, and have taught innumerable classes and seminars on marriage and family. They are known in the churches worldwide for their wisdom, compassion and insight.

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By the Same Author: Understanding Goose: For Anyone Who Has Felt Different, Rejected or Empty (2011) and My Morning Cup, and Other Spiritual Thoughts (2011).

Janani or mother as the creator of life, defines this narrative collection. The book brings together autobiographical writings of women from many walks of life noted authors, artists, academics to share their experiences of being mothers, daughters or both. The accounts combine memory and nostalgia in nuanced detail, making each narrative heart-warming and at times, profoundly challenging. The contributors abandon their public faces to provide humane, intimate and compelling narratives. The collection includes accounts of adoptive motherhood, stepmothering and single motherhood. On the One hand, the reader encounters the wrenching pain of an abortion, while on the other, the choice of a women determined not to be a mother. The Janani stories vividly explore the whole gamut of motherhood. Immensely readable, the volume has a wide appeal not just for mothers and daughters, but for fathers and sons as well, in fact for all those who celebrate the rare gift of human relationships.

From the Dust Jacket: The Outlaw: Forty years after the release of this motion picture, its title still conjures up an image of a dark-haired female—peasant blouse hanging loosely from her shoulders, lips sensuously pouted, with an ample bosom and long legs—reclining seductively on a stack of hay. Her name was Jane Russell and both the movie and the girl evoked theatrical notoriety.

A five-year publicity campaign was launched and a new sex-symbol was created. She was not characterized as the “girl-next-door.” Rather, she was lust, desire and everything good boys were not supposed to think about. But think about her they did, and the box-office zoomed. The American G.I. returning from the perils of World War Il was eager for more than just his childhood sweetheart, and Jane Russell fit the bill. Even today, she remains the advertising symbol of the “full-figured” female.

But beneath the photographer’s delight, Jane Russell was the girl-next-door. Destined to marry her own high school sweetheart, football legend Robert Waterfield, and become the mother of three adopted children, she founded WAIF, a national adoption organization. Her primary goals were never her movie career and stardom, but instead her close relationship with her family and friends, and her own personal faith in the Lord. Jane’s rise to stardom under the direction of Howard Hughes, her legendary long-term contract, and her succession of rises and falls in the film industry were all the public was to know of this warm, down-to-earth humanitarian whose love for children set her apart and about which she writes in her candid autobiography.

Nine years ago, Pam Cope owned a cozy hair salon in the tiny town of Neosho, Missouri, and her life revolved around her son’s baseball games, her daughter’s dance lessons, and family trips to places like Disney World. She had never been out of the country, nor had she any desire to travel far from home. Then, on June 16th, 1999, her life changed forever with the death of her 15-year-old son from an undiagnosed heart ailment. Needing to get as far away as possible from everything that reminded her of her loss, she accepted a friend’s invitation to travel to Vietnam, and, from the moment she stepped off the plane, everything she had been feeling since her son’s death began to shift. By the time she returned home, she had a new mission: to use her pain to change the world, one small step at a time, one child at a time. Today, she is the mother of two children adopted from Vietnam. More than that, she and her husband have created a foundation called “Touch A Life,” dedicated to helping desperate children in countries as far-flung as Vietnam, Cambodia and Ghana. Pam Cope’s story is on one level a moving, personal account of loss and recovery, but on a deeper level, it offers inspiration to anyone who has ever suffered great personal tragedy or those of us who dream about making a difference in the world.

From the Dust Jacket: In this stunning biography of Josephine Baker, Phyllis Rose brings us into the glitter of Paris in the ’20s, through Europe transformed by the rise of Hitler, to the last thirty-five years of Baker’s life when she became a civil rights activist and adopted twelve children from around the world, whom she called her “Rainbow Tribe.”

From the poverty of Baker’s childhood in St. Louis to the worldwide fame she experienced at her peak, Rose traces Baker’ life in exquisite detail, not only capturing the essence of the famous singer, but also the cultural and historical circumstances that both shaped and mirrored her life: her struggles in a Europe torn by hate and suspicion; her undercover work for the French Resistance during World War II; her fabulous tours around the world and the children she brought back from the countries she visited; the sad later days of poverty and struggle; the gratifying comeback just before her death; and her glorious state funeral in Paris, her adopted home.

At the heart of the book is Baker’s struggle to overcome the limitations imposed by the color of her skin. But beyond the difficult questions of race and culture, Jazz Cleopatra is, above all, the compelling story of a St. Louis girl with a toothy grin who parlayed her charm, vivacity, and gift for clowning into international stardom.

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About the Author: Phyllis Rose is the author of Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1978, and of the highly acclaimed and enduringly popular Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, which established her as a biographer of the first rank. She has taught literature at Wesleyan University since 1969, and has written essays, reviews, and articles for many publications, including the “Hers” column for the New York Times. Rose received Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships to write Jazz Cleopatra. She lives in Middletown, Connecticut.

From the Publisher: Losing a child is the worst pain a parent can ever feel. Gerald Lishka recounts in the poignant story of a father’s loss of his child as well as the transformation and triumph of life over death, of spirit over body. Painfully powerful, Jenny is rich with love, understanding, and inspiration destined to change lives. This story will touch your heart and warm your spirit.

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About the Author: Trained as a concert pianist, Gerald R. Lishka has worked as a classical musician, dance accompanist, composer, and recording artist. He also has professional experience in real estate, drafting, and commercial interior design. Since 1985, he has resided in Los Angeles, where he has been an administrative and contracts manager for a number of prestigious planning, design, and construction firms. His Galde Press books include Darkness is Light Enough, Jenny: A Father’s Story, and Kaleidoscope.