The Library

Thirteen Books

From an international bestseller published in 13 countries, to poetry, memoir, and fiction spanning five decades: a body of work that refuses to be quiet.

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Dear Cancer
New
2023

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.

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Love Sometimes
2020 · Post Hill Press / Simon & Schuster

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.

"At last a writer is writing the truth about ageism, Hollywood, creativity, and true love. Love it!"

Paula Abdul, Dancer, Choreographer, Actor

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Night Songs
2021 · Green Writers Press

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
International Bestseller
2013 · Simon & Schuster · Published in 13 Countries

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.

"Smart, witty, sometimes hilarious, a coming-of-age novel for and about the boomer generation. Will appeal to women of all ages while men should find it attractively controversial."

Kirkus Reviews

"Brooker's prose is poetry. She doesn't write this story, she paints it in the subtlest, refined colors imaginable."

Bradly Bessey, Co-Executive Producer, Entertainment Tonight

Available in: Germany · Turkey · Holland · Spain · Taiwan · Poland · Romania · Russia · Portugal · Hungary · Bulgaria · Brazil · Italy
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