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Lucho Castillo

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An Unexpected Healer is a fictional novel inspired by my twenty-five years in nursing. It is a homage to a beautiful profession. I've had a wonderfully well rounded nursing career: visiting nurse, Surgical/Orthopedics, Trauma ICU, Critical Care, Post Anesthesia, OR.

I am a Latino-American writer, who along with my mom, dad and older brother, arrived via Pan Am Airlines in 1971. My younger brother was born in the U.S. a few years later. I grew up in the Bronx and lived there until 2001. I began my love affair with L.A. during my time in the Navy in the early eighties.

As for me, I am a plantain chip in a stack of french fries. My goal is to tell a Latino-American story, which is not being told enough in today’s literature, music or film. I ...more

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A Peasant of El Salvador, by Peter Gould and Stephen Stearns

One of the saddest stories of any country in the world is the story of the wonderful, little nation of El Salvador. It is a volcanic, tropical place full of intelligent and kind people. Unfortunately, it is also a classic, tragic tale of greed, war and exploitation.

The Civil War in the Central American nation of El Salvador was fought between the US backed, military-led junta government and the

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Por quién doblan las campanas

by Ernest Hemingway

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