Halpern: 111 books
Can't Remember What I Forgot
The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
An essential behind-the-scenes foray into the world of cutting-edge memory research that unveils findings about memory loss only now available to general readers.
When Sue Halpern decided to emulate the first modern scientist of memory, Hermann Ebbinghaus, who experimented on himself, she...
Braving Home
Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Funny, moving, and utterly unique, Braving Home introduces us to five unforgettable modern American pioneers. When Jake Halpern was a cub reporter, he became obsessed with stories about "some outlandish and often hellish place inhabited by a handful of stalwarts who refused to leave." His...
200 Love Lessons from the Movies
Staying Moonstruck for Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Romantic movies—no matter how fluffy or fanciful—contain some kernel of truth about real-life love. These films are fictionalized accounts of the collective romantic experiences of everyone involved in the filmmaking process, so even average movies can provide spectacular insights for every stage...
by Kathy Lubar, Belle Linda Halpern
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
BRING THE TECHNIQUES OF THE STAGE TO THE BOARDROOM.
For more than a decade, Belle Linda Halpern and Kathy Lubar have applied the lessons and expertise they have learned as performing artists to the work of their company, The Ariel Group. Halpern and Lubar have helped tens of thousands of executives...
A Far Piece to Canaan
A Novel of Friendship and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
A Far Piece to Canaan is a warm and nostalgic novel from an unexpected source: Sam Halpern, whose salty paternal wisdom made Justin Halpern’s Sh*t My Dad Says a phenomenal bestseller.
Inspired by Sam Halpern’s childhood in rural Kentucky, A Far Piece to Canaan tells the story of Samuel Zelinsky,...
A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home
Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
A layabout mutt turned therapy dog leads her owner to a new understanding of the good life.
At loose ends with her daughter leaving home and her husband on the road, Sue Halpern decided to give herself and Pransky, her under-occupied Labradoodle, a new leash—er, lease—on life by getting...
Sentimental Readers
The Rise, Fall, and Revival of a Disparaged Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
How could novels like Uncle Tom’s Cabin change the hearts and minds of thousands of mid-nineteenth-century readers, yet make so many modern readers cringe at their over-the-top, tear-filled scenes? Sentimental Readers explains why sentimental rhetoric was so compelling to readers of that earlier...
Cutting Loose
An Adult's Guide to Coming to Terms with Your Parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1990
With more than thirty-five years of experience in psychotherapy, Dr. Halpern enables the adult child to understand his or her parent and foster a positive, healthy adult relationship.
In all respects, you appear to be well-adjusted, reasonably successful adult, but in the presence of your parents,...
by Adena Halpern
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Et si c’était à refaire ? En soufflant ses bougies d’anniversaire, Ellie, soixante-quinze ans, fait un vœu : retrouver pour un jour ses vingt-neuf ans et tout recommencer différemment. Hélas, tout le monde sait que ce genre de vœu n’a aucune chance de se réaliser.
Le lendemain matin,...
Les duos - Adena Halpern (2 romans)
On n'est jeune que deux fois - Les dix plus beaux jours de ma vie
Language: French
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Passez un agréable moment en compagnie d’Adena Halpern et de ses deux comédies pleines de légèreté, de pep’s et d’humour.
Les dix plus beaux jours de ma vie
Aller au paradis ? Rien de plus facile. Y rester va demander un peu plus d'efforts.
Malencontreusement renversée par...
by Justin Halpern
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
From the #1 New York Times bestseller author of Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern, comes a laugh-out-loud funny and deeply touching collection of personal stories about relationships with the opposite sex, from a first kiss to getting engaged and all the awkward moments in between. With Sh*t My Dad...
by Sue Halpern
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its refugees. Halpern’s novel is an unforgettable tale of family...the kind you come from and the kind you create.
People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books...
by Adena Halpern
Language: French
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Aller au paradis ? Rien de plus facile. Y rester va demander un peu plus d'efforts.
Malencontreusement renversée par une Mini Cooper alors qu’elle promenait sa chienne, Alexandra Dorenfield, 29 ans, se réveille au paradis. Et découvre, ébahie, qu’on y exauce tous ses vœux : elle a...
Edge of the Universe
A Voyage to the Cosmic Horizon and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
An accessible look at the mysteries that lurk at the edge of the known universe and beyond
The observable universe, the part we can see with telescopes, is incredibly vast. Yet recent theories suggest that there is far more to the universe than what our instruments record—in fact, it could...