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**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021** A father. A son. A bewildering world. Discover the breath-taking new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Overstory. 'The love between son and father h...

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** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION ** A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. The perfect literary escape. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all...

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An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the la...

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*THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER *WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION* A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. 'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place i...

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an enthralling, wrenching novel about the lives and choices of one family, caught on the cusp of identities. Jonah, Ruth and Joseph are the children of mixed-race parents determined to raise...

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Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable, Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018 A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most "prodigiou...

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an intense, thrilling novel about a near fatal accident and its devastating consequences. On a winter night, Mark Schluters truck turns over in a near-fatal accident. His sister, Karin, retu...

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After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of "Galatea 2.2"--Richard Powers--returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs...

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A well-researched biography about the public and private life of J. Edgar Hooverformer FBI director and Americas most controversial law enforcerthat draws on previously unknown personal documents, a study of FBI files, and the presidential papers ...

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A photograph of three young men walking along a road in Germany just before World War I inspires one man to attempt to penetrate the photograph's mystery through research and prompts another man to a personal quest.

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National Bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five yea...

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The magnificent second novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment.Accomplished . . . mature and assured. . . . A major American novelist. New RepublicSomething is wrong with Eddie Hobson, Sr., fat...

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"Dazzling and audacious. . . Nothing short of astounding." - Philadelphia Inquirer 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, capt...

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The magnificent second novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment . "Accomplished . . . mature and assured. . . . A major American novelist.”— New Republic Something is wrong wit...

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National Book Award Finalist From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment , an exquisitely rendered novel set in the pediatrics ward of a public hospital that examines the power, joy, and anguish of stor...

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National Bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment , a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five y...

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Information systems with an abundance of graphics data are growing rapidly due to advances in data storage technology, the development of multimedia communications across networks, and the fact that parallel computers are leading to faster image p...

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The threats of economic espionage and intellectual property (IP) theft are global, stealthy, insidious, and increasingly common. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, IP theft is estimated to top $250 billion annually and also costs the Unite...

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The American anticommunist movement has been viewed as a product of right-wing hysteria that deeply scarred our society and institutions. This book restores the struggle against communism to its historic place in American life. Richard Gid Powers ...

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In a Digital Laboratory, virtual-reality researchers rush 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, a young man is held hostage in another emp...

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Three Boston merchant brothers coax from an Irish immigrant the secret of making fine soap, and set into motion a chain of events that spins a family-run cottage soap works into a multinational consumer-goods giant.

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A "NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW" NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR The National Book Award-winning author of "The Echo Maker "proves yet again that "no writer of our time dreams on a grander scale or more knowingly captures the zeitg...

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Offering a clear and authoritative overview of recent developments in microbiology and neuroscience, this reference describes factors contributing to the emergence and resurgence of neurological infections-studying both new and drug-resistant path...

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"e;The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry."e; - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magn...

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Winner of the National Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's The Echo Maker, a powerful novel about family and loss. "e;Wise and elegant . . ....

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A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014' New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for The Man Booker Prize Longlisted for the National Book Award The National Book Award winning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged novel to dat...

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A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014' New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for The Man Booker Prize Longlisted for the National Book Award The National Book Award winning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged novel to dat...

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"Richard Powers, whose novels combine the wonders of science with the marvels of art, astonishes us in different ways with each new book." -Heller McAlpin, NPR Books The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos w...

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Robbie is a 9-year old boy with Asperger's-like traits, a precocious intelligence, a prodigious memory and exquisitely tuned to loss. A gifted young artist, he aims to draw all of the animals in danger of extinction. His father, Theo, is an astrob...

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