Product Description: When Phyllis Barber’s thirty-three-year marriage ended, she had to redefine herself as a woman, a mother, and an artist. Raw Edges is her moving account of the “lean years” that followed her divorce. It is interwoven with a narrative of the marriage of two gifted people that begins with “sealing” in a Mormon temple, endures through the birth of four sons and the development of two careers, and founders when the couple’s personal needs no longer match their aspirations or the rigid strictures of Mormon life...read more

Product Description: Something about Mormonism keeps bringing Phyllis Barber back to its roots, something about the power of the miraculous she knew so intimately as a child. She was always fascinated by Sunday school stories of Joseph Smith's visions, about the Three Nephites rescuing people in harm's way, and about how unborn spirits talk to women in the night and ask to receive a mortal body...read more

Product Description: Phyllis Barber grew up in Las Vegas, in the midst of a devout Mormon family. As a small child, she began to feel uneasy with her faith's all-pervasive certainty and righteousness. As she grew, the tensions between her religious beliefs and her desire for a larger, more cultured life also grew...read more

Product Description: Book by Barber, Phyllis

Chronicles the life of an African giraffe, from his birth on an African plain, through the killing of his mother and his own capture, to his new life in a big-city zoo and his tragic death in captivity

During the Great Depression, the Jensens, a Mormon family, move to Nevada in order to find work on the Hoover Dam project

Presents a collection of stories peopled by individuals searching for love, who put the best face on reality, who deny reality, or create it anew with the lovers they find