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1) The boys
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"When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries Barb, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a lifetime of solitude. She fills his world with a sense of adventure, expanding his horizons beyond his comfortable routine. Because Ethan fears becoming a father, one day Barb brings home two young brothers, Tommy and Sam, for them to foster, and Ethan immediately falls in love with the two boys. When the pandemic hits, he becomes obsessed with...
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Esta es una formidable biografía de uno de los pianistas más emblemáticos de la historia: Glenn Gould, y del "dúo dinámico" que lo acompañó: su afinador, el casi ciego y sinestésico Vern Edquist, y su piano, el CD 318, al cual el canadiense dedicó una milimétrica y obsesiva búsqueda, no sin discutir con Edquist, por el sonido perfecto. Gould, un artista que renunció al formato de concierto y se dedicó a realizar grabaciones que se volvieron...
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Inventions That Shook the World volume 9
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The 1980s launch an unprecedented technological age that will continue into the next century. DNA profiling begins changing crime scene investigations for all time. Network computing gets a giant boost around the world with the advent of the Internet, and the MIR space station kicks off a new age of space science.
