Stacy Horn
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Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York’s Blackwell’s Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals, quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, "a lounging, listless madhouse." Digging through city records, newspaper articles, and archival reports, Stacy Horn tells a gripping narrative through the voices of the island’s inhabitants....
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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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Presents an inside look at the New York City police department's Cold Case Squad, a group of detectives charged with trying to solve murders that are sometimes decades old,and follows them as they work to find answers to four unsolved murder cases going back as far as 1951.
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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...