Katie Hafner
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The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner’s remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions.
Dreaming of a “year in Provence” with her mother, Katie urges Helen to move to San Francisco to live with her and Zoë, Katie’s teenage...
Dreaming of a “year in Provence” with her mother, Katie urges Helen to move to San Francisco to live with her and Zoë, Katie’s teenage...
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"Hafner's taut and utterly delightful debut is a novel of multitudes. . . . What a wonder of storytelling."—Weike Wang, New York Times
New York Times Editor's Choice * Good Morning America Reading Pick * LitHub Most Anticipated Book * Christian Science Monitor Summer Reading Pick
A delicious summer read filled with humor and surprise for readers of
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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.