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1	The Echo Maker more books like this by Richard Powers 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, his only close kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Time of Our Singing more books like this by Richard Powers A magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted -- and divided -- family, set against the backdrop of postwar AmericaOn Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish emigre scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Operation Wandering Soul more books like this by Richard Powers In the pediatrics ward of a public hospital in the heart of Los Angeles, a group of sick children is gathering. Surrogate parents to this band of stray kids, resident Richard Kraft and therapist Linda Espera are charged with keeping the group alive on make-believe alone. Determined to give hope where there is none, the adults spin a desperate ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Gold Bug Variations more books like this by Richard Powers A novel which follows the lives of four scientific researchers as they twist about each other in a double helix of desire, weaving intricately through the themes of music, science, language and love. By the author of "Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance" and "Prisoner's Dilemma". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover more books like this by Richard Gid Powers Drawing on previously unknown personal documents, thousands of FBI files, interviews with former agents, and the presidential papers of nine administrations, Powers reveals a man of inalterable ideals and convictions who clung to a private vision of an orderly, traditional America, and who vowed to crush anyone who threatened it. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Galatea 2.2 more books like this by Richard Powers The fictional protagonist, Richard Powers, becomes involved with Philip Lentz and his scheme to train a neural net on a canonical list of great books until the machine is capable of passing an English literature exam. As the device grows, Powers is forced to reconsider his literary vocation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Plowing the dark more books like this by Richard Powers In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, a bland white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn city on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room...Adie ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Secrecy: The American Experience more books like this by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Richard Gid Powers (Introduction by) Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan , chairman of the bipartisan Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, here presents an account of the development of secrecy as a mode of regulation in American government since World War I - how it was born, how world events shaped it, how it was adversely affected political decisions and events, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.40! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Gain more books like this by Richard Powers A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year "Gain" tells two parallel stories: one, of Laura Bodey, divorced mother of two and successful real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, who one day discovers that she has ovarian cancer; and two, of Clare Soap & Chemical, the company begun by three merchant brothers in 19th-century ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.92! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance more books like this by Richard Powers A photograph taken by German photographer August Sander of three young men on their way to a country dance at the beginning of World War I is the inspiration for three interrelated stories in this first novel which was a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.27! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Who Goes There? more books like this by John W. Campbell see all copies from $19.00! new only from $24.17! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism more books like this by Richard Gid Powers The American anticommunist movement has been viewed as a product of fight-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 shows that McCarthyism, red-baiting, and black-listing were only one aspect of this struggle and that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.71! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms more books like this by Richard Powers (Introduction by), Paris Review (Creator) This ingeniously useful compendium--organized to suit whatever time that the reader has available at that moment--offers reading material to fill those gray, in-between moments in life with beauty, wonder, insight, and emotion. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI more books like this by Richard Gid Powers The FBI that failed on 9/11 is the creation and captive of its spectacular and controversial past. Its original mission -- the investigation and prosecution of only the most serious crimes against the United States -- was forsaken almost from the beginning. This abandonment of purpose has been accompanied by a long history of political pressure, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.48! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide more books like this by Athan G Theoharis (Editor), Susan Rosenfeld, Richard Gid Powers The FBI is romanticized, feared, criticized and admired. Because of its strong impact on American public life, it is the focus of interest and research by students and professionals studying history, politics, law, criminal justice and law enforcement. This is a complete reference work on this powerful organization. This new guide focuses on the ... see all copies from $3.84! new only from $17.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Prisoner's Dilemma more books like this by Richard Powers Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and with his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile, in private, Eddie puts the finishing touches on a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.10! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Pathways to Spiritual Understanding: An Exciting Introduction to the Basics of the Christian Life more books like this by Richard Powers Pathways to Spiritual Understanding is an all-in-one textbook, reference book and study guide that enables you to recognize even more of God's guiding hand in your life. The uncommon appeal of this unusual Bible study lies in its extraordinary ability to lay a solid foundation for helping you grow in faith. In it you'll find a treasure of ... see all copies from $12.11! new only from $12.11! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Gain: A Novel of the American Century more books like this by Richard Powers A history of the fictional Clare Soap and Chemical Company that is also a history of America. The story revolves around Laura Bodey, a real estate broker who blames a malignant ovarian cyst on the company that dominates her small Illinois town. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.02! \| first editions
19	The human angle by William Tenn, Richard M. Powers see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	A decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction more books like this by Robert P. Mills (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
21	Abominable Earthman by Pohl see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Boys Will Be Men: Masculinity in Troubled Times more books like this by Richard A Hawley, Ron Powers (Designer) This is a fresh consideration of the idea of masculinity in our age. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.52! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	Beyond infinity. by Robert Spencer Carr see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
24	Tomorrow times seven, science fiction stories by Frederik Pohl, Robert Foster see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25	Time out for tomorrow. by Richard Wilson see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS

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