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Stefan Rudnicki
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J. Paul Boehmer
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Gabrielle de Cuir
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Alex Hyde-White
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Ben Bova
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New Frontiers offers fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from Ben Bova, six-time winner of the Hugo Award.
Frontiers can be found in all directions - frontiers of timeand space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outerlimits of the human spirit. This outstanding collection of stories by one of science fiction's premier talents spans the length and breadth of history andthe universe while exploring thought-provoking new ideas and dilemmas.
From the Baghdad of The Arabian Nights to a vast interstellar empire thousands of years in the future, from the Vatican to aone-man vessel drifting in the vast emptiness of the asteroid belt, from virtual reality duels to the subtle intricacies of time travel and a golf tournament on the moon, here are tales of scoundrels and heroes, scientists and explorers, aliens and artificial intelligences, and even a young Albert Einstein. Each of them stands at the border of a new frontier and must ventureout into unexplored territory - thanks to the limitless imagination of Ben Bova.
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The first book in an action–packed new SF adventure series. Vulcan is a factory planet, centuries old, Company run, ugly as sin, and unfeeling as death. Vulcan breeds just two types of native: complacent or tough. Sten is tough. When his family is killed in a mysterious accident, Sten rebels, harassing the Company from the metal world’s endless maze-like warrens. He could end up just another burnt–out Delinquent. But people like Sten never give up.
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5 out of 5 stars
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THE MASTERPIECE BY JERRY SCIARRIO
- De Professor en 10-31-12
De: Chris Bunch, y otros
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Queen of Angels
- De: Greg Bear
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Emanuel Goldsmith, a famous poet, murdered eight people, then disappeared. Three people want to find him: an aspiring writer, an embittered scientist who wants to use him, and a policewoman who needs to put him in custody before the Selectors, a vigilante organization, get to him first.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fantastic, a whole new experience on audio
- De Tungsten en 04-02-16
De: Greg Bear
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Man Plus
- De: Frederik Pohl
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris, Robert J. Sawyer
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 99
Roger Torraway watched in horror as the monster lurched, toppled over and died. Project Man Plus had gone suddenly and drastically wrong. The race to colonize Mars was too important, too costly, and America was already too committed, for plans to be scrapped. They would have to make a new Martian. And Roger Torraway was it, candidate for the endless surgery, operation after painful operation, that would enable him to survive on that faraway planet.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More timely now than ever
- De Sandy R en 06-28-10
De: Frederik Pohl
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Footfall
- De: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 24 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,119
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,592
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,590
They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star. The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a Soviet space station, seize the survivors, and then destroy every dam and installation on Earth with a hail of asteriods.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle at Their Best
- De Flatlander en 06-24-10
De: Larry Niven, y otros
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Up Against It
- De: M. J. Locke
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 123
Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes to salvage methane ice shrapnel that flies away when the colony brings in a big (and vital) rock of the stuff, and figuring out how to avoid the ubiquitous surveillance motes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very old school SF, in ways good and bad
- De A reader en 06-19-12
De: M. J. Locke
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Gateways
- Original New Stories Inspired by Frederik Pohl
- De: Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, y otros
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 85
It isn’t easy to get a group of bestselling SF authors to write new stories for an anthology, but that’s what Elizabeth Anne Hull has done in this powerhouse book. With original, captivating tales by Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, David Brin, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Joe Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Larry Niven, Vernor Vinge, Gene Wolfe, and others, Gateways is a SF event that will be a must-buy for SF readers of all tastes, from the traditional to the cutting edge; from the darkly serious to the laugh-out-loud funny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spectacular.
- De Steve Reid en 08-21-15
De: Greg Bear, y otros
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Orbital Decay
- De: Allen Steele
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 67
The award-winning, bestselling author's first novel. The beamjacks work in zero-gravity constructing satellites in the vacuum of deepest space. And they're not going to let the military control them anymore.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hard to follow
- De Don en 12-27-16
De: Allen Steele
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Starfire
- De: B.V. Larson
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,645
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,426
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,426
On June 30, 1908, an object fell from the sky, releasing more energy than a thousand Hiroshima bombs. A Siberian forest was flattened, but the strike left no significant crater. The anomaly came to be known as the Tunguska Event, and scientists have never agreed whether it was the largest meteor strike in recorded history - or something else. Alien artifacts have been uncovered since the 1908 event, and a new star drive is discovered.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Het
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-09-17
De: B.V. Larson
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The Mote in God's Eye
- De: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- Narrado por: L J Ganser
- Duración: 20 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 7,960
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 5,984
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6,021
The Mote In God's Eye is their acknowledged masterpiece, an epic novel of mankind's first encounter with alien life that transcends the genre. No lesser an authority than Robert A. Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read".
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great read!
- De J. Rhoderick en 02-12-10
De: Larry Niven, y otros
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Independence Day: Crucible
- The Official Movie Prequel
- De: Greg Keyes
- Narrado por: William Hope
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 268
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 248
Cities were crushed by the falling spacecraft, but one ship didn't crash. It remained intact and disgorged hordes of alien soldiers determined to fight to the death. The abandoned vessels also contained a wealth of advanced technology. Led by David Levinson, the greatest minds of our world developed deadly new hybrid weapons. Bases were built on the moon, Mars, and beyond. A new generation of defenders had to be trained, for the invaders would return.
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4 out of 5 stars
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YA Romance
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 01-06-17
De: Greg Keyes
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Excelsior
- De: Jasper T. Scott
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 258
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 242
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 237
The year is AD 2790. With space elevators and giant orbital fleets hovering over Earth, open war looks inevitable, and people are anxious to get away. The lines are drawn, with the Confederacy in the East and the First World Alliance in the West. In hopes of finding a refuge from the looming war, the Alliance is sending Captain Alexander de Leon to explore an Earth-type planet, code-named Wonderland, but at the last minute before launch, a Confederate fleet leaves orbit on a trajectory that threatens both the mission and Alliance sovereignty.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This is not military sci-fi
- De ACC en 06-24-16
De: Jasper T. Scott
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Fleet of Worlds
- 200 Years Before the Discovery of the Ringworld
- De: Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 859
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 603
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 608
Fleet of Worlds takes a closer look at Human-Puppeteer (Citizen) relations and the events leading up to Niven's first Ringworld novel. Kirsten Quinn-Kovacks is among the best and brightest of her people. She gratefully serves the gentle race that rescued her ancestors from a dying starship, gave them a world, and nurtures them still. If only the Citizens knew where Kirsten's people came from.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hurrah!
- De Bruce en 01-25-08
De: Larry Niven, y otros
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Singularity Sky
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 550
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 415
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 418
In the 21st century, the perfection of faster-than-light travel and the rise of a prodigious artificial intelligence known as the Eschaton altered the course of humankind. New civilizations were founded across the vastness of space. Now, the technology-eschewing world known as the New Republic is besieged by an alien information plague. Earth quickly sends a battle fleet - but is it coming to the rescue, or is a sinister plot in motion?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gonzo giggleworthy geekitude
- De Noah Smith en 11-11-10
De: Charles Stross
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2113
- Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush
- De: John McFetridge - editor, Kevin J. Anderson - editor
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
The music of Rush, one of the most successful bands in music history, is filled with fantastic stories, evocative images, thought-provoking futures and pasts. In this anthology, notable, best-selling, and award-winning writers each chose a Rush song as the spark for a new story, drawing inspiration from the visionary trio Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I'm a RUSH fan, but ...no..not this book
- De NBP en 07-15-17
De: John McFetridge - editor, y otros
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Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds
- The First Adventure of Alacrity Fitzhugh & Hobart Floyt
- De: Brian Daley
- Narrado por: Brian Holsopple
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
Mankind was beginning its third leap into the Galaxy, but Old Earth had so long kept to herself that her people were unable to travel safely among the rough-and-tumble cultures that had evolved on distant worlds. That annoyed Earth's rulers, for Hobart Floyt--a minor Terran bureaucrat-- had been left a mysterious inheritance by the deceased ruler of a small but wealthy interstellar empire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Sci Fi Fun anywhere!
- De A. Foxter en 07-07-15
De: Brian Daley
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The Myriad
- Tour of the Merrimack, Book 1
- De: R.M. Meluch
- Narrado por: John Glouchevitch
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
The U.S.S. Merrimack was the finest battleship class spaceship in Earth's fleet, able to stand up against the best the Palatine Empire could throw at them, even able to attack and kill swarms of the seemingly unstoppable Hive. But nothing could have prepared the captain and crew of the Merrimack to face the Myriad - three colonized worlds in the midst of a globular cluster that the Hive had somehow overlooked.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great performance. Great read.
- De fistandantilus8u en 07-15-17
De: R.M. Meluch
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In the Garden of Iden
- A Novel of the Company, Book 1
- De: Kage Baker
- Narrado por: Janan Raouf
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 193
The first novel of Kage Baker’s critically acclaimed, much-loved series, the Company, introduces us to a world where the future of commerce is the past. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus, Inc. One of these is Mendoza, the botanist. She is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very different SF, both in performance and tone
- De A reader en 10-21-11
De: Kage Baker
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Prominence
- De: A. C. Hadfield
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 857
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 803
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 803
They tried to destroy our planets. Our way of life. They tried to send us into extinction. But we, the Coalition, fought them and won. That was a decade ago. They’re known as the Host: a cabal of aliens seeking to dominate our sector of space. And they’re back - with help from a powerful new enemy. We’re outnumbered and unprepared. But there is hope. An ancient race of long-dead but technologically advanced aliens called the Navigators have a ship called the Blackstar that could potentially turn the tide. That is if I, Kai Locke, a humble ship racer, can find it and learn how to harness its power in time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Newly found love.
- De L. Rampey en 03-22-19
De: A. C. Hadfield