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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 ('...
Read ArticleThe 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...
Read ReviewThe 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 ...
Read ArticleBrock 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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Read ReviewWillie 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 ...
Read ArticleIn 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 ...
Read ReviewRape 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 ...
Read ArticleClaire 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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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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