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Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.

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The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.

In Orfeo, Powers tells the story of a man journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present. Composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in surprising patterns - has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive. As an Internet-fueled hysteria erupts, Els - the "Bioterrorist Bach" - pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey.

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. I never believed the diagnoses the doctors settled...

Regan "Roz" Osbourne is broke. Her ex-boyfriend won't take no for an answer, and no one is taking her artwork seriously. So when a mysterious stranger offers her a million dollars and safety from her unstable ex in exchange for her left hand, she can't afford to refuse. Immediately following the amputation, she's racked with insufferable phantom limb pain. Desperate for relief, she enrolls in an experimental drug trial. But this drug has a peculiar side effect—she develops a psychic connection to her missing limb.

If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her longtime friend, Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi, found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities. Their friendship - between a secular American and a madrasa-trained sheikh - had always seemed unlikely, but now they were frustrated and bewildered by the battles being fought in their names.

What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination. In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers asks us to consider the big questions facing humankind as we begin to rewrite our own existence.

In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers' brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold.

In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these people unwittingly build in common, where they are all about to meet, where the dual frames of this inventive novel to coalesce.

After several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers - returns to the US as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, a cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.

Breaking Power è il podcast che racconta gli scandali politici che hanno cambiato il corso della storia. Attraverso documenti, testimonianze e ricostruzioni narrative, analizziamo i retroscena del potere: corruzione, bugie, finanziamenti illeciti e decisioni prese lontano dai riflettori. Ogni episodio approfondisce un caso emblematico — dall’Italia al mondo — per capire non solo cosa è successo, ma perché è successo e quali conseguenze ha avuto. Niente sensazionalismo, solo fatti, contesto e domande scomode.

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Power Moves for Business Growth - where stories and strategies meet to fuel business growth. Presented by Gulfside Business Solutions. Bringing together experts on Financing, Strategy, Marketing, Tax, Legal, IT, and Business Operations. Join us as we explore real-world insights and powerful moves from leaders, partners, and innovators shaping business growth today.

Letty Peniche and Rosecrans Vic come together for Brown Bag, the LA based (and biased) morning show from 2 hispanics who love to hustle, put people on game, and of course, clown. Check them out LIVE everyday on POWER 106 6A-10A, Monday thru Friday.

This podcast is designed to provide listeners with a roadmap for creating and achieving personal and professional goals, drawing from my experience as a life coach, author, and thought leader. Break Through The Noise with Linda Walls centers on personal growth, overcoming adversity, and empowering transformation.

Does your ideal body seem like it's a 1,000 workouts away? Has your expensive gym membership chipped away at your wallet but not at your midsection? Pro trainer and fitness author John Powers will show you how to make rapid gains from a well-structured, high intensity interval training program. HIIT: The 20-Minute Dream Body with High Intensity Interval Training is a complete system packed with incredibly efficient cardiovascular, muscular, and skeletal exercise routines.

Seats of Power asks leaders the defining question across generations, disciplines, and industries: what do you wish you knew at 18? Hosted by 18-year-olds, Alexia Purkanto and Riya Datta, put innovators, executives, and change-makers in the power seat to unpack the decisions, failures, and mindset shifts that shaped their paths. Each episode we ask leaders questions most people never think to ask…until it’s too late then translate their real-world experience into practical playbooks you can use now. This is your shortcut to success. If you’re building your future: take your seat.

Two sisters. One shared dream. Countless stories from the heart of women’s football. ⚽ Join hosts Hannah Power current top-flight player in Wales, Captain of Cardiff City FC in the Adran Premier League and Katie Sherwood 50-cap Wales international, former Bristol City, Chelsea and Yeovil WSL player, and BBC/Sgorio pundit, as they dive into the real stories behind the game. From ACL comebacks and juggling motherhood with football, to life after retirement and the power of the Welsh women’s game, nothing’s off limits. Authentic, funny, and refreshingly honest.