"A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. "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 while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife....

From Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Overstory, Richard Powers's Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston, grows...

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven year old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an impostor who looks just like his sister. Shattered, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, who eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines

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Stuart Ressler, an up-and-coming molecular biologist, finds his career sidetracked by the turmoil of the 1960s, and a young couple of the 1980s tries to discover why the biologist abandoned his scientific pursuits.

The three part Silver Foxes finale all in one place. Expermia lay in ruins, and Hunter is determined to do something to help. But the resources he tries to send to the country continue to be returned. What's behind this, and what can he do to help his people? Will he ever reunite with Xena? Or will Max find her first? Contains Part 1: Rebuilding Expermia, Part 2: The Festival of the Silver Crescent Moon, and Part 3: Rise of the Silver Foxes.

The first account of the life of the illegitimate daughter of King John of England and wife of Llwelyn the Great of Gwynedd. The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For the Age of Princes, an era defined by ever-increased threats of foreign hegemony, internal dynastic strife and constant warfare, the comings and goings of women are little noted in sources. This misfortune touches...

Finally reunited with her family, Xena endeavors to do what she can to rebuild Expermia. But everyone is looking to her-the only Silver Fox in existence-to lead them to greatness, a task she feels woefully unprepared for. What's more, word is King Maximilian is coming to visit the country. Can Xena prove herself a leader and temper Expermian specism and her own fear of Max to restore Expermia to greatness? Or will Max bring about another, more devastating...

Here's a new kind of Bible study: a lively, deep, personal look at some of the Old Testament's most powerful-and intriguing-women. From Sarah, who was unafraid to nudge God into action; to Hagar, whose courage and passion founded a whole nation; to Judith, woman and warrior whose faith saved God's people, readers will examine the stories of biblical women up close. As they to read between the lines, readers will learn to use Bible stories to throw...

Swan maiden Hilde sacrifices her magical wings to seek freedom in the human world, but when her pact with an upstart baron takes her the court of Ludwig II, she struggles to fit in, and only Jewish artist Franz, who has the power to paint souls, can help her escape her newfound prison.

This book will teach you how to use word power rather than willpower to increase your motivation and overcome your struggles with eating and body care. It explains how self-talk ties thought to action or inaction and how what we say to ourselves is shaped-for better or worse-by our families, culture and personal history. It illustrates how unconscious, unhealthy self-talk leads to poor decision-making around eating, fitness and general self-care and...