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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

    $11.59 USD

  • The Invisible Cure

    Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa

    by Helen Epstein ...
    New York Times Notable Book: "Enlightening and troubling," a scientist searching for an AIDS vaccine in Uganda explores Africa's AIDS epidemic ( The New York Times ).Helen Epstein left her job in the US in 1993 to move to Uganda, where she began work on a test vaccine for HIV. Once there, she met patients, doctors, politicians, and aid workers, and began exploring the problem of AIDS in Africa ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

    $9.59 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

    $5.99 USD

  • 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

    $3.99 USD

  • 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

    $3.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

  • Archivist on a Bicycle: Jiří Fiedler

    by Helen Epstein, Wilma Iggers, Arno Pařík ...
    Archivist on a Bicycle is a tribute to Jiří Fiedler, a Czech Protestant, who for most of his life documented extinct Bohemian and Moravian Jewish communities at great danger to himself. His day job was as a children’s book editor; his passion was mapping and archiving the sites of Jewish life in the Czech lands. From the 1970s through 2014, he was an invaluable source for scholars, genealogists, ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Children of the Holocaust

    Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Narrated by Nan McNamara ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 52 min

    "I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived."The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found:• Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America;• Albert Singerman, who ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

  • Tina Packer Builds A Theater

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Tina Packer Builds A Theater by Helen Epstein (30,000 words)Anyone interested in theater should read this small, engaging biography about a woman who founded a regional theater. Tina Packer began as a young actress from Nottingham, England who emigrated to the United States in the early 1970s and, with Kristin Linklater and Dennis Krausnick, developed her own company in Edith Wharton’s abandoned ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Joe Papp: An American Life

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Joe Papp: An American Life by Helen Epstein (228,000 words, 116 photographs and theater posters by Paul Davis)Joseph Papp (1921-1991), theater producer, champion of human rights and of the First Amendment, founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and Public Theater, changed the American cultural landscape.Born Yussel Papirofsky in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, he discovered Shakespeare in public ... Read more

    $12.99 USD