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    A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

    Raul Palma's debut novel A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens introduces Hugo Contreras, who came to the United States from Bolivia as a child and is now a widower in Miami, where he staves off mountains of ...

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    Bolivia's Cerro Rico and the Mining God El Tío

    During the height of the Spanish colonization of Latin America in the 16th and early 17th centuries, conquistadors forced enslaved workers to extract vast amounts of silver from mines in Cerro Rico ('...

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    The MANIAC

    The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut is an ambitious work that falls squarely into the category of fiction of ideas. This is the first book written in English by the Chilean author, whose last novel When We...

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    The MANIAC Computer

    The title of Benjamin Labatut's novel The MANIAC refers to the computer—the fastest of its kind at the time—developed by the Hungarian American physicist John von Neumann. During the ...

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    Blood Test

    Brock Hobson is a loving single father, a Sunday School teacher, and an upstanding and honest insurance agent. He's patient with his teenage son and daughter, of whom he has primary custody, and even ...

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    The Case for Rats as Pets

    Rats are polarizing animals. In some people, they evoke feelings of fear and disgust, thanks to their historical association with squalid settings and the spread of disease. But others find them ...

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    The Barn

    The barn doesn't reek of catastrophe at first glance. It is on the southwest quarter of Section 2, Township 22 North, Range 4 West, surrounded by cypresses, sequoias, and the bayou. The barn looks ...

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    Willie Reed: The Witness Who Returned Home

    The plan had to be executed perfectly by Willie Reed, an eighteen-year-old native of the Mississippi Delta. He had to walk into the darkness by himself making sure his bearings were correct. He ...

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    Tell Me Everything

    In her memoir Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, Erika Krouse becomes involved in the intricacies of an explosive rape case. Krouse, a private investigator, is ambitious. But ...

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    Trauma and the Brain

    Rape survivor Erika Krouse rarely dreams. She has lost memories. She has trouble remembering what happened the prior week but knows in spectacular detail how it felt to be raped when she was a ...

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    The Schubert Treatment

    Claire Oppert fell in love with music at an early age and trained to make a career as a classical cellist. But her grandfather, father, and brother were all doctors, and Oppert, influenced ...

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    Music Therapy and Autism Spectrum Disorder

    In The Schubert Treatment, musician Claire Oppert shares her experiences with the healing power of music. A classically trained cellist, Oppert was inspired by the work of her physician family members...

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