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  • Why Live

    How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic

    by Helen C. Epstein ...
    What causes suicide epidemics—and how can we prevent them?Many suicides are caused by biological mental illness, but sometimes the suicide rate of a particular group jumps—two-, three-, or even ten-fold—in a short time, behaving like an epidemic. Suicide epidemics unfold more slowly than microbial plagues like flu or malaria, but they happen far too quickly to result from genetic changes and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Living Will

    by Helen Epstein ...
    A Living Will by Helen Epstein (8,800 words)A personal account of a mother’s sudden and unexpected hospitalization, and how her adult children negotiated end-of-life decisions.This essay appeared as a New York Magazine cover story on November 27, 1989 as "A Death in the Family 1989." ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Memoir: How I Read, Write and Use It

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Memoir: How I Read, Write and Use It by Helen Epstein (3,400 words)This is an essay for students of memoir. Making meaning in writing memoir is similar to creating narrative in psychotherapy. What differentiates memoir from that work is the public nature of the literary product, its aim to document fact, elucidate memory, separate it from fantasy as far as possible and render lived rather than ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Another Fine Mess

    America, Uganda, and the War on Terror

    by Helen C. Epstein ...
    Is the West to blame for the agony of Uganda and its neighbors?In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni’s 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders’ single-minded focus on the War on Terror and their naïve dealings with strongmen are at the root of much of the turmoil in eastern and central Africa.Museveni’s involvement in the conflicts in Sudan, South Sudan, ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma

    by Helen Epstein ...
    This intrepid memoir tracks sexual harassment and sexual abuse in the life of a veteran American journalist. It also describes the long and ultimately successful psychotherapy the author undertook to heal. The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma “invents its own genre,” wrote Sherry Turkle. “The author suspects sexual abuse in her childhood and investigates with the toolkits of an historian and ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Franci's War

    A Woman's Story of Survival

    by Franci Rabinek Epstein ...
    Narrated by Suzanne Toren, Helen Epstein ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 29 min

    The engrossing memoir of a spirited and glamorous young fashion designer who survived World War ll, with an afterword by her daughter, Helen Epstein.In the summer of 1942, twenty-two year-old Franci Rabinek--designated a Jew by the Nazi racial laws--arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her three-year journey from ... Read more

    $23.00 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search For Her Mother's History

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History by Helen Epstein (106,000 words)A sequel to the groundbreaking Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From is a daughter’s memoir of her mother’s family. Drawing on her journalistic training, Helen Epstein demonstrates how documentary research can unearth family history and bridge the historical chasm of the Shoah. This book is ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD

  • Miss DeLay: portrait of beloved violin teacher Dorothy DeLay

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Miss DeLay: portrait of beloved violin teacher Dorothy DeLay by Helen Epstein (12,200 words)Dorothy DeLay (1917-2002) was the first woman to become an internationally-acclaimed master teacher of the violin. Her thousands of students (at the Juilliard School in New York, the Aspen Music Festival, the University of Cincinnati, the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts, the New England Conservatory ... Read more

    $8.23 CAD

  • Franci's War

    A Woman's Story of Survival

    by Franci Rabinek Epstein, Helen Epstein ...
    The engrossing memoir of a spirited and glamorous young fashion designer who survived World War ll, with an afterword by her daughter, Helen Epstein.In the summer of 1942, twenty-two year-old Franci Rabinek--designated a Jew by the Nazi racial laws--arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her three-year journey from ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Jewish Athlete: Swimming Against Stereotype in 20th Century Europe

    by Helen Epstein ...
    A Jewish Athlete: Swimming Against Stereotype in 20th Century Europe by Helen Epstein (4,700 words and 28 illustrations)In the American film Airplane, a stewardess asks a passenger whether he would like something to read. "Do you have anything light?" the man asks. "How about Famous Jewish Sports Legends?" she offers.In fact, Jews in sports are anything but a joke: they've been winning Olympic ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer during Covid

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Just after Covid arrived in North America in spring 2020, journalist Helen Epstein was diagnosed with endometrial cancer — one of a predicted 66,570 new cases of cancer of the uterine body in the United States in 2021. About 600,000 American women have had it.A candid and eye-opening account of a medical steeplechase of surgery, chemo and radiation therapy, Getting Through It brings together ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD

  • Music Talks: the lives of classical musicians

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Music Talks: the lives of classical musicians by Helen Epstein (92,000 words)A collection of profiles of some of the world's most fascinating musicians, including the late Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz, and Dorothy DeLay and the very lively James Galway and Yo-Yo Ma. Passed from hand to hand and read by music students as well as music lovers everywhere, Music Talks makes a wonderful gift ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD