Introducing . . . Sasha Abramowitz
Introducing . . . Sasha Abramowitz

Author: Sue Halpern

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1466894199

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"I'm wild about Sasha . . . You'll like her, too." - Gregory Maguire Meet Sasha Abramowitz: smart, funny, resourceful. Aspiring writer and pastry chef. Good listener (usually), good talker (when she feels like it), good friend (most of the time). Good sister? Well, that's more complicated. You see, her brother has Tourette's syndrome, which is really his problem, but in a way it's Sasha's, too (he can be pretty embarrassing at times). Let's just say she's working on it. Anyway, he's away at a special school (until a fire sends the students home, unexpectedly). But with her baseball-loving professor dad, a mom who teaches neuroscience, a babysitter who's the star shortstop for the Krieger Cats and doubles as a magician and card trickster, an ex-babysitter who becomes her substitute teacher, and an on again-off-again best friend, Sasha is not alone. As she struggles with changing friendships and feelings about her older brother, learns her lines for her part in Cheaper by the Dozen, gets to know James, the quiet boy who plays opposite her, and helps the doctors solve a medical mystery, she comes to see herself and her life in a different light. In this original novel, Sasha tells her story, complete with footnotes, card tricks, appendixes, and all her best vocabulary words, with brio.

Introducing--Sasha Abramowitz
Introducing--Sasha Abramowitz

Author: Sue Halpern

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0374384320

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When eleven-year-old Sasha tries to ignore the fact that her brother has Tourette's Syndrome, it takes a classmate to help her understand and accept the situation.

Migrations to Solitude
Migrations to Solitude

Author: Sue Halpern

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-03-02

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0307787494

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Why do we often long for solitude but dread loneliness? What happens when the walls we build around ourselves are suddenly removed—or made impenetrable? If privacy is something we can count as a basic right, why are our laws, technology, and lifestyles increasingly chipping it away? These are somong the themes that Sue Halpern eloquently explores in these profoundly original essays. In pursuit of the riddle of solitude, Halpern talks to Trappist monks and secular hermits, corresponds with a prisoner in solitary confinement, and visits and AIDS hospice and a shelter for the homeless places where privacy is the first—and perhaps the most essential—thing to go. This is a book that lends weight to the ideas that have become dangerously abstract in a society of data bases and car faxes, a guide not only ot the routes to solitude but to the selves we discover only when we arrive there.

Tourette Syndrome
Tourette Syndrome

Author: Ruth Bjorklund

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780761446170

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Provides readers with all the facts they need to know about Tourette Syndrome.

Can't Remember What I Forgot
Can't Remember What I Forgot

Author: Sue Halpern

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2009-05-26

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307407888

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Behind the Scenes of Cutting-Edge Memory Research When Sue Halpern decided to emulate the first modern scientist of memory, Hermann Ebbinghaus, who experimented on himself, she had no idea that after a day of radioactive testing, her brain would become so “hot” that leaving through the front door of the lab would trigger the alarm. This was not the first time while researching Can’t Remember What I Forgot that Halpern had her head examined, nor would it be the last. Like many of us who have had a relative or friend succumb to memory loss, who are getting older, and who are hearing statistics about our own chances of falling victim to dementia, Halpern wanted to find out what the experts really knew, how close science is to a cure, to treatment, to accurate early diagnosis, and, of course, whether the crossword puzzles, sudokus, and ballroom dancing we’ve been told to take up can really keep us lucid or if they're just something to do before the inevitable overtakes us. Sharply observed and deeply informed, Can’t Remember What I Forgot is a book full of vital information and a solid dose of hope.

The Book of Hard Things
The Book of Hard Things

Author: Sue Halpern

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780374115593

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Cuzzy Gage, a small-town boy living in a dead-end, poverty-stricken town, meets Tracy Edwards, an ethnomusicologist hoping to chronicle the life of his friend, and the two strangers bond while sifting through the deceased man's papers.

Shakespeare's Kitchen
Shakespeare's Kitchen

Author: Lore Segal

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2008-04-29

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1595585834

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The thirteen interrelated stories of Shakespeare's Kitchen concern the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them. Featuring six never-before-published pieces, Lore Segal's stunning new book evolved from seven short stories that originally appeared in the New Yorker (including the O. Henry Prize–;winning “The Reverse Bug”). Ilka Weisz has accepted a teaching position at the Concordance Institute, a think tank in Connecticut, reluctantly leaving her New York circle of friends. After the comedy of her struggle to meet new people, Ilka comes to embrace, and be embraced by, a new set of acquaintances, including the institute's director, Leslie Shakespeare, and his wife, Eliza. Through a series of memorable dinner parties, picnics, and Sunday brunches, Segal evokes the subtle drama and humor of the outsider's loneliness, the comfort and charm of familiar companionship, the bliss of being in love, and the strangeness of our behavior in the face of other people's deaths. A magnificent and deeply moving work, Shakespeare's Kitchen marks the long-awaited return of a writer at the height of her powers.

Natives and Exotics
Natives and Exotics

Author: Jane Alison

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780156032476

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Three generations of one Australian family become "exotics" in foreign lands as nine-year-old Alice moves to Ecuador with her parents, while her grandmother makes a home in the hinterlands of Australia.

A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home
A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home

Author: Sue Halpern

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1760110604

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Funny, moving and profound, A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home is the story of how one faithful, charitable, loving and sometimes prudent mutt - showing great hope, fortitude and restraint along the way (the occasional begged or stolen treat notwithstanding) - taught a well-meaning woman the true nature and pleasures of the good life.