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  • Use Me

    by Elissa Schappell ...
    The exquisitely artful fiction debut of Vanity Fair columnist Elissa Schappell is a novel told in ten stories that resonate with the most profound experiences in the life of a young woman -- friendship and rivalry, the love for a man, the birth of a child, and the death of a father. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Friend Who Got Away

    Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away

    by Jenny Offill, Elissa Schappell ...
    Losing a friend can be as painful and as agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed. THE FRIEND WHO GOT AWAY is the first book to address this near-universal experience, bringing together the brave, eloquent voices of writers like Francine Prose, Katie Roiphe, Dorothy Allison, Elizabeth Strout, Ann Hood, Diana Abu Jabar, Vivian Gornick, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Birth

    An Essay on Sharing Birth Stories

    by Elissa Schappell ...
    It's an elemental, almost animalistic urge—the expectant mother's hunger for birth narratives. We are inundated with how-to guides and month-by-month pregnancy manuals when what we truly crave are artful, entertaining, unvarnished accounts of labor and delivery. We want to know what really happens—the good, the bad, and the ugly. In anticipation of the publication of Labor Day: True Birth Stories ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Blueprints for Building Better Girls

    Fiction

    by Elissa Schappell ...
    Elissa Schappell, “a diva of the encapsulating phrase, capable of conveying a Pandora’s box of feeling in a single line” (The New York Times Book Review) delivers eight provocative, darkly funny linked stories that map America’s shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day.Blueprints for Building Better Girls delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Money Changes Everything

    Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune

    by Jenny Offill, Elissa Schappell ...
    The editors of The Friend Who Got Away are back with a new anthology that will do for money what they did for women’s friendships.Ours is a culture of confession, yet money remains a distinctly taboo subject for most Americans. In this riveting anthology, a host of celebrated writers explore the complicated role money has played in their lives, whether they’re hiding from creditors or hiding a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Blueprints for Building Better Girls

    by Elissa Schappell ...
    Narrated by Julia Whelan ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    Elissa Schappell's book delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters including the high school slut, the party girl, the reluctant mother, and the anorexic daughter, twisting our pre-conceived notions of who these women are, offering surprising revelations into the nature of female identity, and how it evolves. How the adolescent girl labeled the school slut in ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    Thalia Book Club: Colm Tóibín, House of Names

    by Colm Tóibín ...
    Narrated by Elissa Schappell, Amy Ryan ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 17 min

    Award-winning, bestselling author Colm Tóibín returns to the Thalia Book Club for a discussion on his latest novel with Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls). With a performance from the novel by Amy Ryan (Birdman). ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    House of Names

    Thalia Book Club

    by Colm Tóibín ...
    Narrated by Elissa Schappell, Amy Ryan ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 17 min

    Award-winning, bestselling author Colm Tóibín returns to the Thalia Book Club for a discussion on his latest novel with Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls). With a performance from the novel by Amy Ryan (Birdman). ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Thalia Book Club: Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster with Author Kaye Gibbons, The

    by Kaye Gibbons ...
    Narrated by Elissa Schappell, Andrea Marcovicci ...
    Series series Thalia Book Club

    Unabridged

    1 hour 12 min

    Kaye Gibbons joins Elissa Schappell to discuss The Life All Around Me, the sequel to her novel Ellen Foster. Andrea Marcovicci reads an excerpt. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Social Media and The Continuation of Capitalism

    by Marcus Gilroy-Ware ...
    Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as newer technologies are often said to be ... Read more

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  • Veronica's Bird

    Thirty-five years inside as a female prison officer

    by Veronica Bird, Richard Newman ...
    Veronica Bird was one of nine children living in a tiny house in Barnsley with a brutal coal miner for a father. Life was a despairing time in the 1950s, as Veronica sought desperately to keep away from his cruelty. Astonishingly, to her and her mother, she won a scholarship to Ackworth Boarding School where she began to shine above her class-mates. A champion in all sports, Veronica at last found ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Weeping Woman

    A Novel

    Translated by David Frye ...
    by Zoé Valdés ...
    Winner of the prestigious Azorín Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar.A writer resembling Zoé Valdés-a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter-is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was ... Read more

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