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Surprised by motherhood : everything I never expected about being a mom / by Baker, Lisa-Jo.(CARDINAL)406493;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Motherhood; Mothers; Motherhood.; Mothers.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Never unfriended : the secret to finding and keeping lasting friendships / by Baker, Lisa-Jo,author.(CARDINAL)406493;
Starting with that guarantee from the most faithful friend who ever lived—Jesus—this book is a step-by-step guide to friendships you can trust. It answers the questions that lurk under the surface of every friendship—What are we afraid of? What can’t we change? What can we change? And where do we start?—with personal stories and practical tips to help you make the friends, and be the friend, that lasts.In a world where women can unfriend each other with the swipe of a finger, how do we find friendships that we can trust to last? Maybe by first becoming those kinds of lasting friends ourselves.
Subjects: Female friendship; Christian women; Christian women; Friendship.; Women's friendships.; Friendships.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The middle matters : why that (extra)ordinary life looks really good on you / by Baker, Lisa-Jo,author.(CARDINAL)406493;
The best-selling author of Never Unfriended opens up about midlife and what it feels like to have outgrown those teenage jeans, but finally grown into the shape of our souls. Do you ever wonder how you woke up one day with all the responsibilities of a grown-up who secretly enjoys going to Costco, can no longer recognize the tween celebrities on the magazines at checkout, but is still surprised when a Starbucks Barista calls you "ma'am"--because your inside self is frozen in time from about twenty years ago? So does Lisa-Jo Baker. Welcome to the middle! In these intimate reflections on midlife, Lisa-Jo Baker invites women to get a good look at their middles and gives permission to embrace them--beyond what the media, the mirror, the magazines, or our teenagers say. Through gutsy, beautiful storytelling, she admits out loud what most women are thinking about marriage, parenting, failure, and how badly we all want to buy those matching Magnolia Market mugs. Her delicious stories come from not being afraid of who she is (Your Age is Not a Dirty Word). Because she has finally grown comfortable in her own skin (The Scale is Not the Boss of You). She's not asking you to seize the day, just to make sure you actually see it; for all its wildly ordinary glory (Sobbing in my Minivan Over Honor Roll). Because Lisa-Jo knows that the middle might be the best part of the love story of life, muffin top included.
Subjects: Middle-aged women;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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It wasn't roaring, it was weeping : interpreting the language of our fathers without repeating their stories / by Baker, Lisa-Jo,author.(CARDINAL)406493;
Includes bibliographical references.Author's note to the reader -- Prologue: My fatherland -- Family thorn tree -- Tea and baboons -- 1984 -- The slow kiss goodbye -- Once upon a terrible time -- Concussed -- Coming to America -- Roll down your window -- What our scars mean -- The language of violence -- Tourists -- Interpreting -- Umusa -- Acknowledgments -- Notes."An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid, and an invitation to confront our inherited traumas and prejudices so that we may heal the sins of our fathers--from the bestselling author of Never Unfriended. Lisa-Jo Baker knows how burdened we can feel by the weight of the past. Born white in the heart of Zululand during the height of apartheid, her longing to write a new future for her children set her on a journey to understand how she fit into a story of violence and faith, history and race. Before marriage and motherhood, she came to the United States to study to become a human rights advocate. When she naively walked right into America's own turbulent racial landscape, she experienced the kind of painful awakening that is both individual and universal, personal and communal. Yet years would go by before she traced this American trauma back to her own South African past. Baker was a teenager when her mother died of cancer, leaving her with her father. Though they shared a language of faith and justice, she often feared him, unaware that his fierce temper had deep roots in a family's and a nation's pain. Decades later, old wounds reopen when she finds herself spiraling into a terrifying version of her father, screaming herself hoarse at her son. Only then does Baker realize that to go forward--to refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers--we must first go back. Stretching from South Africa's Outback to Washington, D.C., It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping invites readers to look at their inherited hurts and prejudices. It's also a hope-filled guide for all who feel lost in life, worried they're too off-course to make the necessary corrections. Baker assures you, it's never too late to be free"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Baker, Lisa-Jo.; Baker, Lisa-Jo; Fathers and daughters; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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From abortion to pederasty : addressing difficult topics in the classics classroom / by Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin,editor,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)855430; McHardy, Fiona,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)855429; Smith, Tyler Jo,contributor.(CARDINAL)855428; Sulosky Weaver, Carrie Lynn,contributor.(CARDINAL)855427; Butler, Margaret,contributor.; Trentin, Lisa,contributor.(CARDINAL)855426; Baker, Patricia Anne,contributor.(CARDINAL)855425; King, Helen,1957-contributor.(CARDINAL)525531; Totelin, Laurence M. V.,contributor.(CARDINAL)855424; Deacy, Susan,contributor.(CARDINAL)855423; Strolonga, Polyxeni,contributor.; Sharland, Suzanne,contributor.(CARDINAL)855422; Liveley, Genevieve,contributor.(CARDINAL)855421; Thakur, Sanjaya,contributor.; James, Sharon L.,contributor.(CARDINAL)855420; DuBois, Page,contributor.(CARDINAL)855419; Gold, Barbara K.,1945-contributor.(CARDINAL)855418; Endres, Nikolai,contributor.(CARDINAL)855417; Penrose, Walter Duvall,Jr.,contributor.(CARDINAL)855416; Lewis, Maxine,contributor.; Ohio State University.Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)855415;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-294) and index."This volume had its origins in a very specific situation: the teaching of ancient texts dealing with rape. Ensuing discussions among a group of scholars expanded outwards from this to other sensitive areas. Ancient sources raise a variety of issues-slavery, infanticide, abortion, rape, pederasty, domestic violence, death, sexuality-that may be difficult to discuss in a classroom where some students will have had experiences similar to those described in classical texts. They may therefore be reluctant to speak in class, and even the reading themselves may be painful. From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom, edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Fiona McHardy, is committed to the proposition that it is important to continue to teach texts that raise these issues, not to avoid them. In this volume, classicists and ancient historians from around the world address how to teach such topics as rape, pederasty, and slavery in the classics classroom. The contributors present the concrete ways in which they themselves have approached such issues in their course planning and in their responses to students' needs. A main objective of From Abortion to Pederasty is to combat arguments, from both the left and the right, that the classics are elitist and irrelevant. Indeed, they are so relevant, and so challenging, as to be painful at times. Another objective is to show how Greco-Roman culture and history can provide a way into a discussion that might have been difficult or even traumatic in other settings. Thus it will provide teaching tools for dealing with uncomfortable topics in the classroom, including homophobia and racism"--
Subjects: Civilization, Classical; Classical literature;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Self-rising flowers / by Mountain Girl Press.;
The baker's cabinet / Pam Keaton ; Failure to thrive / P.J. Wilson ; Mama's hand / Rebecca Lee Williams ; In the blood / Judith Victoria Hensley ; Cross training / Tammy Wilson ; To catch a bug / Donna Akers Warmuth ; For the love of Annie / Susan Noe Harmon ; Momma's shoes / Lisa Hall ; Autum's song / Lissa Creola ; Yellow roses / Susanna Holstein ; Up in the mountain / Kay Smith Elliott ; I know this happened 'cause somebody seen it / Padgett Gerler ; Lucy's pears / Mary Kuykendall Weber ; Riverview Road / Maggie Thomas ; Preacher Donovan's nephew / Jo Ann Scott.A collection of short stories about the lives of women who make their homes in the Appalachian Mountains.
Subjects: Fiction.; Women's lives;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Healing visions : an anthology of micro prose and fine art photography / by Boscov, Meg,photographer,author.;
In this inspirational anthology, fifty-two international writers respond to images from award-winning fine art photographer Meg Boscov with exactly one-hundred words. These "healing visions" arise forcefully against the backdrop of our seemingly ever-darkening world.
Subjects: Creative nonfiction.; Flash fiction.; Photographs.; Short stories.; Nature photography.; Photography.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ultimate country showstopppers
Subjects: Country music.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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