Fiction
Kay Pigeon co-signed her daughter's student loan and is holding the bag when she can't pay. After finding that the loan servicer has not been posting her payments correctly, Kay meets a customer service rep who promises to help her expose wrong-doing at the servicer.
In Praying For Rain, pitcher Carl Hubbs and catcher Joe Sperma are involved in a low-rent struggle to keep their minor league baseball careers afloat in hurricane-ravaged South Florida of the 1970s.
Nonfiction
When HIV/AIDS surfaced in South Africa during the 1990s, public health officials were slow to react.
By the mid-1990s, public health officials in the United States had become concerned that women of child-bearing years were at risk of contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Yet family planning agencies were slow to recognize the needs of vulnerable clients. Advocates for people with AIDS believed that mandatory name reporting of people being tested for HIV discouraged at-risk individuals from being tested and getting access to treatment and prevention strategies.
A story in the November-December 1994 New Jersey Reporter examined these issues in New Jersey, a state which then ranked fifth in the nation for the number of AIDS cases.
The conflict then between state health departments, most of which identified people by name when they were tested, and advocates for people with AIDS and HIV who generally supported unique identifiers, was thought at one point to have hindered the fight against the disease.
In the wake of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, the Financial Information eXchange Protocol could have led examiners to the fraud.
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Consolidated Supervised Entities Program regulated investment bank holding companies such as Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. Critics say it contributed to the 2008 financial crisis.