The Teapot Who Couldn't Whistle
A Celebration of Those Who Are Different
Timmy is an antique English teapot who can't whistle like the others, and for a long time he believes that makes him less. Then a mother and her deaf daughter, Maddy, bring him home from a garage sale, and Timmy finds a family of kitchen misfits, a cracked sugar bowl, a slow blender, a toaster that barely pops, who love him exactly as he is. On a quiet Christmas Eve, the teapot who can't whistle finds another way to be a hero.
A warm read-aloud about self-acceptance, disability inclusion, and found family, with sign language woven through the story. A gift for every child who has ever felt different.
Paperback and Kindle · Five-star reviews on Amazon
Dear Cancer
Letters to My Disease
A fearless, intimate collection of letters written to cancer itself: raw, defiant, and deeply human. Barbara turns the most frightening diagnosis into an act of creative resistance. Unflinching, darkly funny, and profoundly moving, Dear Cancer is the kind of book that could only come from someone who has lived long enough to not be afraid of the truth.
Love, Sometimes
A Novel About Risk, Hollywood, and Controversial Love
A passionate, sixty-eight-year-old author fights ageism in Hollywood and risks everything, her TV series, her fame, her fortune, finding controversial love along the way.
Paula Abdul, Dancer, Choreographer, Actor
Night Songs
A Book of Poems
A collection of poems that moves like music: lyrical, aching, and radiant with the experience of a life fully lived. Barbara's poetry has the same unfiltered quality as her prose: no distance, no performance, just the raw material of experience rendered into art.
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The Viagra Diaries
The international bestseller that put Barbara Rose Brooker on the world stage. Through the wonderfully witty Anny Applebaum, Brooker explores a world few authors have dared to enter: the dating lives of the over-sixty set. Humor, heartache, and hope, all of it razor sharp.
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Bradly Bessey, Co-Executive Producer, Entertainment Tonight