Powers: 789 books

A New Novel From Award-Winning Master of Fantasy and Science Fiction Tim Powers. A modern ghost story as only Tim Powers can write it. Something weird is happening to the Los Angeles freeways—phantom cars, lanes from nowhere, and sometimes unmarked offramps that give glimpses of a desolate...

Supernatural Adventure from a Master of Modern Fantasy The magical King of the West has been killed in California, and his assassin is one of the multiple personalities in the head of Janis Cordelia Plumtree—but which one? One of them is a streetwise pickpocket. Another is dead, and...

Note: This collection contains all of the stories from 'Hardcore Gay Erotica Vol. 5' and 'Hardcore Gay Erotica Vol. 6'. Eight erotic stories by Dick powers. Included are the story of a mad scientists creates a hunky robot designed for sex and is surprised that the first thing it wants to do...

A heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction's most original talents—back in print! Ghosts can be caught, and bottled, and sold by covert dealers to addicts who inhale the things—and when a young boy named Kootie accidentally inhales the ghost of Thomas Edison, he...

Note: This collection contains all of the stories from 'Hardcore Gay Erotica Vol.3' and 'Hardcore Gay Erotica Vol. 4'. Eight erotic stories by Dick powers. Included are the story of a repairman that comes to fix the cable and ends up fixing himself up with the two hot blonds who live in the...

A wry, moving collection of letters from the late J. F. Powers, "a comic writer of genius" (Mary Gordon) Best known for his 1963 National Book Award–winning novel, Morte D'Urban, and as a master of the short story, J. F. Powers drew praise from Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow,...

NPR Best Books of 2017 In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most...

Hailed by Frank O’Connor as one of “the greatest living storytellers,” J. F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Raymond Carver among the authors who have given the short story an unmistakably American cast. In three slim collections of perfectly crafted...

Four erotic stories by Dick powers. Included are the story of a hotel manager trying to make amends to a hot playboy for a transgression with his butt, a supermarket midnight affair, two food vendors that love their neighbor a little too much, and two teachers engaging in a forbidden workplace affair....

The career of Stefanie Powers is one of so many stage, screen, and television credits that her name alone recalls memories as varied as her roles—on screen and off. From movie roles including John Wayne’s daughter in McLintock! and Lana Turner’s rival in Love Has Many Faces, to being terrorized...

Finally, a communication expert who explains the deep reason that we dont understand each other. Powers shows how we are stuck in our own private realities, and how our very perception s are keeping us there! Randi Voss, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin The...

In 1998, at the very moment that a publisher had approached Bruce Davidson about a book of his 1959 Brooklyn Gang photographs, former gang leader Bobby Powers unexpectedly telephoned the Davidsons. Over the next decade, Emily Davidson maintained an ongoing conversation with Powers in order to bring...

Note: This collection contains all of the stories from 'Hardcore Gay Erotica Vol. 1' and 'Hardcore Gay Erotica Vol. 2' Eight erotic stories by Dick powers. Included are the story of a hunk filled fire station with two particularly gay fire hunks doing dirty drills when no one is looking, a...

Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To find...