Stacy Horn
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"It's now known as New York City's Roosevelt Island. Originally called Blackwell's Island, it housed a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse and almshouse in the 19th century. This book re-creates what daily life was like on the island, what politics shaped it, and what constituted therapy and charity in the nineteenth century"--
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For Stacy Horn, regardless of what is going on in the world or her life, singing in an amateur choir, the Choral Society of Grace Church in New York, never fails to take her to a place where hope reigns and everything good is possible. She's not particularly religious, and her voice is not exceptional (so she says), but like the 32.5 million other chorus members throughout this country, singing makes her happy. Horn brings us along as she sings some...
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A fascinating, eye-opening collection of "Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory," Unbelievable by Stacy Horn explores science's remarkable first attempts to prove-or disprove-the existence of the paranormal. A featured contributor on the popular NPR program "All Things Considered," Horn has been praised by Mary Roach, bestselling author of Spook, for her "awe-fueled...
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When Stacy Horn-single, deeply addicted to television, and hopelessly attached to two diabetic cats-turned forty, she free-falled into a mid-life crisis. Waiting for My Cats to Die is a passionately and profoundly honest look at what happens the moment you realize-beyond a shadow of a doubt-that someday the credits will roll on your life. There are all those things you haven't done yet. There are all those things you have and wish you hadn't. In the...
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Journalist Stacy Horn is a contributor to NPR's All Things Considered program. In her enticing narrative The Restless Sleep, she sheds light on the dark world of the NYPD's real-life Cold Case Squad-a special command of detectives who take on the homicide cases that remain unsolved after their initial period of investigation. Those who comprise its ranks are often characterized as misfits and lone wolves-but brilliant ones, to be sure. Here, their...