Bergner, Daniel
Summary: The touching, triumphant story of a young black man's journey from violence and despair to one of the world's most elite artistic institutions. In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera. Today, he is a rising star performing major roles at the Met and Europe's most prestigious opera houses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Summary: An examination of the war in Sierra Leone follows several people through this war-ravaged land, including a family of American missionaries, a child soldier who sometimes resorts to cannibalism, and a father who lost his hands while defending his daughter against rape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2003
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Summary: In the early 1960s, JFK declared that science would take us to the moon. He also declared that science would make the "remote reaches of the mind accessible" and cure psychiatric illness with breakthrough medications. We were walking on the moon within the decade. But today, psychiatric cures continue to elude us, as does the mind itself. Why is it that we still don't understand how the mind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022