Books with author Nina Brown Baker

Growing up with a parent who is self-absorbed is difficult, and they may become more difficult to deal with as they age. This essential book shows how to cope with your aging parent's narcissistic behavior, and provides tips to help protect yourself and your children from their self-absorbed, destructive actions.As your self-absorbed parent grows older and becomes more dependent on you, hurtful relationships may resurface and become further strained. In the tradition of Children of the Self-Absorbed, author Nina Brown offers the first book for adult children of aging narcissistic or self-absorbed parents. You will learn practical, powerful strategies for navigating the intense negative feelings that your parents can incite, as well as tips to protect your children from the criticism, blame, or hostility that may exist between you and their grandparent.In this book, you will gain greater awareness of how and why your parent's self-absorbed behaviors and attitudes get worse, and develop strategies to manage the negative feelings that can arise as a result. You'll also learn to reduce the shame and guilt that may be felt when you feel like you don't want to be a caretaker. Finally, you'll learn to set limits with your parent so you can stay sane during this difficult time.Having an aging parent can be stressful enough, but dealing with an aging narcissistic or self-absorbed parent is especially challenging. This essential guide will help you through.

Although written as a young adult title, the drama and the details in this book will also engage adult readers . If you are buying this as a gift for a student, the grade level from the Flesch–Kincaid analysis is 6.3.Editorial Review from the New York Times:"A distinguished biography.""Mrs. Baker guides us deftly, with wit and knowledge, through the bewildering mazes of Mexi­can politics of the time, showing clearly how great was Juarez's integrity and how much his understanding and foresight light­ened the weary load which Mex­ico had borne for centuries. But the story is not all one of politics, for we see him in relation to his lovely wife, his children and his loyal friends. This is a distin­guished biography which adults as well as youth will find ex­tremely rewarding in its con­tribution to our understanding of Mexico's history and the perspec­tive it thus gives to her problems..."...Awkward, stolid, but unswerving in his devotion to the truth which the law embodied to him, his life was one of amazing ups and downs. From struggling lawyer to Governor, to political prisoner and penniless exile, he was borne up again on the tide of revolt and counter-revolution to the Presidency of Mexico. Through the comic-tragedy of Maximilian's reign Juarez never admitted that he was other than the legally elected President, and when he was restored to power he had forgotten none of his aims for legal reform, for education and the betterment of his people in a hundred ways."New York Times, November 15, 1942

Reviews:“A finely proportioned narrative.” The New York Times“Worth its weight in gold. A warm dramatic story of a man whose career was one of the most astonishing and colorful the world has known.” Parents MagazineSIMÓN BOLÍVAR, hailed as Liberator by the people of South America, occupies the same place in their affections that George Washington does in ours. An aristocrat and a wealthy man like Washington, he risked position, wealth, and life itself to free South America from the unhappy rule of Spain. Like Lincoln in his love for the common man, he brought about the abolition of slavery a generation before that institution was ended here.HE WOULDN'T BE KING is the first modern biography of Bolívar in English for young people, yet history provides few more exciting tales than the march across the Andes of Bolívar's small but dauntless army; it can offer few stories to compare in color and surprise with Bolivar's courageous career.Nina Brown Baker tells Bolívar's story fully and vividly. She has not only so portrayed the ideals of the man that we are the better for knowing him, but she has also given us the background that enables us to understand both Bolívar and the South America of today.More from the New York Times, New Books for Younger Readers, March 15, 1942.By Ellen Lewis Buell. HE WOULDN'T BE KING. The Story Of Simon Bolivar. By Nina Brown Baker. Illustrated by Camilo Egas. 306 pages. New York: The Vanguard Press.SIMÓN BOLÍVAR was a hero not merely through force of circumstances and period. He was truly cast in a heroic mold and should be known wherever greatness of spirit as well as deed is revered. His life is of special significance to us of the United States, not only be­cause of our growing sympathy with South America, but because it was from our own Revolution and our first leader, Washing­ton, that he drew much of the in­spiration to win freedom for his own part of the Americas.It was a life so full and so dra­matic that there is plenty of room for both the fine biogra­phies for young people which this year has brought forth. It would indeed be difficult, and is unnec­essary. to make a final choice be­tween Elizabeth Waugh's "Simón Bolivar: A Story of Courage," previously reviewed in this department and Nina Brown Baker's "He Wouldn't Be King," which has won the 1941 Intra-American Award annually pre­sented by the Society for the Americas. Mrs. Baker's is per­haps more dramatic in its pres­entation of an essentially dra­matic life, and certainly there is a twinkling humor to throw into perspective some of the lighter aspects of a career and a strug­gle which inevitably took on at times a certain comic opera fla­vor, which really emphasizes the size of the task performed.This would be good reading if only for the sketches of the col­orful figures which surrounded Bolívar: the picturesque, incredi­ble Páez: the dashing and equally incredible Manuela Sáenz, his eccentric tutor, Rodriguez; the loyal and charming Irishmen who fought under him. A host of such friends, and enemies too. come to life, but all these are properly dominated by the Liber­ator himself, and as the pattern of his life is unfolded in a finely proportioned narrative so is the greatness of his vision and of his achievement.

"One of our best writers for young people is to be congratulated for this biography, which gives us a basis for understanding Russia."—The Christian Science MonitorThis is a dramatic and exciting biog­raphy of the Russian leader who guided his nation during the first years of an upheaval unparalleled in history. Every current event, all the events of the past few years, make it more important than ever that all of us, young and old, un­derstand the Russian Revolution. In this book we see how the Soviet system of government was established, as we fol­low the life story of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known to the world as Nikolai Lenin.Mrs. Baker's book is written in her usual vivid yet simple style; she gives us a biography of a memorable historical figure whose life has immeasurable sig­nificance for us all.