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Elon Musk
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
- Duración: 20 h y 39 m
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When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh....
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megalomania on display
- De JP en 09-12-23
De: Walter Isaacson
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Challenger
- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 16 h y 54 m
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that comes across like a thriller.
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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- De: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 26 h y 30 m
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....
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An American Tragedy
- De Edith en 12-13-07
De: Kai Bird, y otros
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Steve Jobs
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Dylan Baker
- Duración: 25 h y 18 m
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From the author of the best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs....
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Good Biography, Fine narrator
- De Chris en 10-27-11
De: Walter Isaacson
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How to Change Your Mind
- What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
- De: Michael Pollan
- Narrado por: Michael Pollan
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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An investigation by Michael Pollan into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs—and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences....
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A delightful trip
- De Paul E. Williams en 05-19-18
De: Michael Pollan
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 21 h y 30 m
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Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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Surprise: Two books in one!
- De Henrik en 04-20-07
De: Walter Isaacson
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Elon Musk
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
- Duración: 20 h y 39 m
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When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh....
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megalomania on display
- De JP en 09-12-23
De: Walter Isaacson
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Challenger
- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 16 h y 54 m
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that comes across like a thriller.
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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- De: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 26 h y 30 m
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....
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An American Tragedy
- De Edith en 12-13-07
De: Kai Bird, y otros
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Steve Jobs
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Dylan Baker
- Duración: 25 h y 18 m
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From the author of the best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs....
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Good Biography, Fine narrator
- De Chris en 10-27-11
De: Walter Isaacson
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How to Change Your Mind
- What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
- De: Michael Pollan
- Narrado por: Michael Pollan
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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An investigation by Michael Pollan into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs—and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences....
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A delightful trip
- De Paul E. Williams en 05-19-18
De: Michael Pollan
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 21 h y 30 m
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Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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Surprise: Two books in one!
- De Henrik en 04-20-07
De: Walter Isaacson
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Leonardo da Vinci
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Alfred Molina
- Duración: 17 h y 1 m
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Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering....
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Wish the sample was not from the preface!
- De Chris M. en 11-13-17
De: Walter Isaacson
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
- De: Eric Jorgenson, Tim Ferriss
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval’s wisdom and experience from the last 10 years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections....
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Narrator sucks
- De Dagarcia718 en 03-25-21
De: Eric Jorgenson, y otros
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- De: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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The Secret Life of an American Cancer Cell
- De Cynthia en 08-10-13
De: Rebecca Skloot
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The Code Breaker
- Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur, Walter Isaacson
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with an account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies....
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Except for the author, this book is good!
- De Johan en 03-14-21
De: Walter Isaacson
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The Last Lecture
- De: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
- Narrado por: Erik Singer, Randy Pausch
- Duración: 4 h y 36 m
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When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with cancer....
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How to Live
- De Kelli G en 04-21-08
De: Randy Pausch, y otros
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The Innovators
- How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....
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A History of the Ancient Geeks
- De Mark en 10-21-14
De: Walter Isaacson
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The Worlds I See
- Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
- De: Fei-Fei Li
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution....
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A story of humanism and science
- De C. Tilney en 04-24-24
De: Fei-Fei Li
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Finding the Mother Tree
- Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
- De: Suzanne Simard
- Narrado por: Suzanne Simard
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery....
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Couldn't finish, will try the hard copy
- De primrose en 07-22-21
De: Suzanne Simard
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Hidden Valley Road
- Inside the Mind of an American Family
- De: Robert Kolker
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with 12 children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....
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A story you've never heard before
- De Kelley Cox en 04-19-20
De: Robert Kolker
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Unmasking AI
- My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
- De: Joy Buolamwini
- Narrado por: Joy Buolamwini
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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To most of us, it seems like recent developments in artificial intelligence emerged out of nowhere to pose unprecedented threats to humankind. But to Dr. Joy Buolamwini, who has been at the forefront of AI research, this moment has been a long time in the making....
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Eye Opening report
- De Melissa en 04-10-24
De: Joy Buolamwini
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Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- De: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....
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Great Story of a History Obscured
- De Cynthia en 09-18-16
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Elon Musk (Spanish Edition)
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Luis Solís
- Duración: 24 h y 33 m
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Del autor de Steve Jobs y otras grandes biografías, todas ellas éxitos internacionales de ventas, esta es la historia asombrosamente íntima del innovador más fascinante y polémico del mundo....
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Una historia única, contada de forma excepcional.
- De Jacobo en 05-12-24
De: Walter Isaacson
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Thunderstruck
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Bob Balaban
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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Thunderstruck tells the stories of two men: Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication....
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Reader cannot read
- De Bob en 12-08-07
De: Erik Larson
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Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- De: Ashlee Vance
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....
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The best of competence porn
- De Tristan en 08-20-16
De: Ashlee Vance
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Longitude
- De: Dava Sobel
- Narrado por: Kate Reading, Neil Armstrong
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, Longitude is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd....
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To hear Neil Armstongs Voice
- De Boots en 01-19-13
De: Dava Sobel
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The Wright Brothers
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....
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Disappointing
- De Sara en 07-10-16
De: David McCullough
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Building a Life Worth Living
- A Memoir
- De: Marsha M. Linehan
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber, Stephen Mendel
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
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Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others....
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What an amazing journey!!
- De Sharon-nyc en 01-31-20
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My Stroke of Insight
- De: Jill Bolte Taylor
- Narrado por: Jill Bolte Taylor
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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In My Stroke of Insight, Taylor shares her perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery, and the sense of omniscient understanding she gained from this inspiring voyage....
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Excellent description of stroke experience
- De Polyhymnia en 09-26-09
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Why Fish Don't Exist
- A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
- De: Lulu Miller
- Narrado por: Lulu Miller
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
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David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. When his specimen collections were demolished, many might have given up....
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If fish don't exist, do stars matter?
- De K. Ishihara en 12-05-20
De: Lulu Miller
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Inventor of the Future
- The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
- De: Alec Nevala-Lee
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 18 h y 4 m
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During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century....
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I learned much about Buckminster Fuller!
- De Richard J. Chandler en 09-12-22
De: Alec Nevala-Lee
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Lab Girl
- A Memoir
- De: Hope Jahren
- Narrado por: Hope Jahren
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime collaboration, in work and in life; and a stunningly fresh look at plants....
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A paradigm-shifting perspective on plant life
- De Elizabeth en 05-20-16
De: Hope Jahren
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All That Remains
- A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
- De: Sue Black
- Narrado por: Angela Dawe
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, renowned forensic scientist Professor Sue Black presents a deeply humane introduction to the reality of death in our lives, for anyone seeking a clear-eyed guide to a subject that touches us all....
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I wanted a science book about forensics. I got a mostly-memoir instead.
- De A Customer en 11-29-19
De: Sue Black
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Ghost in the Wires
- My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
- De: Kevin Mitnick, William L. Simon
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
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Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history....
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For a smart guy, Mitnick was an idiot
- De Joshua en 09-17-14
De: Kevin Mitnick, y otros
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Written in Bone
- Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
- De: Sue Black
- Narrado por: Sue Black
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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Internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black takes us on a guided tour of the human skeleton, explaining how each person's life history is revealed in their bones....
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A very human story by a very believable human
- De Gary en 09-21-21
De: Sue Black