Lisa Redfern
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Crossing is a vividly human re-imagining of the love, sacrifices, and history that laid tracks for the North America of today. Leaving behind ancestral Chinese homelands and their family, brothers Yang and Lee face harrowing challenges as they join countless immigrants seeking a better life in the 1860s. This story follows their remarkable journey across the ocean to San Francisco, then into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where they'll labor...
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Phineas Gage, the subject of the first neuroscience and psychology case study, was more than a medical curiosity. He was a young man adapting to life after an on-the-job injury left him with brain damage.
At the American Museum in New York, P.T. Barnum promoted Phineas as 'The Man with his Brains Blown Out." 1850/1851. In this novella, Phineas, his sister, Phoebe, and her husband, David, share their experiences during the years after the famous accident,...