Susan Shapiro: 20 books
by Susan Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
In the critically acclaimed Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Manhattan journalist Susan Shapiro revisited five self-destructive romances. In her hilarious, illuminating new memoir, Lighting Up, she rejects five self-destructive substances. This difficult quest for clean living starts with Shapiro’s...
Five Men Who Broke My Heart
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2004
In this honest, hilarious, fiercely intelligent memoir, journalist Susan Shapiro dares to do what every woman dreams of: track down the five men who'd broken her heart and find out what really went wrong. Between the ages of thirteen and thirty-five, Susan had plunged into love, heart-first, five...
Toxic Friends
The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A woman can always count on are her friends—right? But what if those friendships are hurtful, harmful, even toxic? Susan Shapiro Barash explores the ten types of female friends and shows you why and how women get stuck with the worst kinds, the ways to get "unstuck, and how to recognize a true...
Speed Shrinking
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
"Proust had a cookie. Susan Shapiro has a cupcake—and a really hilarious book."
—Patricia Marx, author of Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him
In Susan Shapiro's laugh-out-loud funny fictional debut Speed Shrinking, Manhattan self-help author Julia Goodman thinks she's got...
Secrets of a Fix-up Fanatic
How to Meet & Marry Your Match
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Ever since her former boss introduced her to her handsome, brilliant husband-to-be, Susan Shapiro has been on a marital mission. So far, she’s fixed up twelve marriages and countless couples. Unlike all those “relationship experts” who are incapable of having a real relationship, or who took...
The Byline Bible
Get Published in Five Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Newspaper, magazine, and web editors are desperate for new voices and anyone, in any field, can break in. So why not you?
Over the last two decades, writing professor Susan Shapiro has taught more than 25,000 students of all ages and backgrounds at NYU, Columbia, Temple, The New School, and...
Overexposed
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Edgy Manhattan shutterbug Rachel Solomon can't wait to escape her difficult Midwestern Jewish family of doctors—and her crazy, condescending WASP friend and photography mentor, Elizabeth Mann. Not so easy when Elizabeth marries Rachel's surgeon-brother, moves to the Midwest, and becomes the daughter...
Little White Lies, Deep Dark Secrets
The Truth About Why Women Lie
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
From the bestselling author of Tripping the Prom Queen comes a fascinating and provocative look at the reasons behind female deception. Little White Lies, Deep Dark Secrets reveals how society doles out mixed messages to women, fostering the lies they tell. Among the liars are:
•A woman who...
The Nine Phases of Marriage
How to Make It, Break It, Keep It
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
From the author of Toxic Friends-a groundbreaking look at how to understand your marriage and create a more satisfying relationship
Every marriage goes through nine phases. It is only by understanding the course our marriages run that we can truly begin to craft the perfect relationship. In...
You're Grounded Forever...But First, Let's Go Shopping
The Challenges Mothers Face with Their Daughters and Ten Timely Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Susan Shapiro Barash's provocative new book examines the most difficult challenges any woman faces when raising daughters. Sample chapters include:
• What color would you like that Prada bag in? (material indulgence)
• Do you need to be eating that? (fixations on food and weight)
•...
Unhooked
How to Quit Anything
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Is smoking, alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, the Internet, or sex addiction holding you back from getting what you want most-in work and in love? We’re all addicted to something-but when the crutch gets in the way of living a happy and productive life, it must stop. Over the past twenty-five years,...
Tripping the Prom Queen
The Truth About Women and Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Tripping the Prom Queen is a groundbreaking investigation into the dark secret of female friendship: rivalry.
Susan Shapiro Barash has exploded the myth that women help one another, are supportive of one another, and want each other to succeed. Based on interviews with women across a broad...
Kick Your Addiction
How to Quit Anything
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Is a smoking, alcohol, food, gambling, Internet, drug, or sex addiction holding you back from getting what you want most? Over the past twenty-five years, renowned addiction therapist Dr. Frederick Woolverton has used his dynamic, empathetic approach to help thousands of addicts achieve long-term...
The Bosnia List
A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family
At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends,...
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