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    Exterminator!

    A Novel

    by William S. Burroughs ...
    Narrated by Richard Powers ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 57 min

    Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their parts in this mosaic, experimental novel. Here is William S. Burroughs at his coruscating and hilarious best. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hamlet's BlackBerry

    A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

    by William Powers ...
    A crisp, passionately argued answer to the question that everyone who's grown dependent on digital devices is asking: "Where's the rest of my life?"At a time when we're all trying to make sense of our relentlessly connected lives, this revelatory book presents a bold new approach to the digital age. Part intellectual journey, part memoir, Hamlet's BlackBerry sets out to solve what William Powers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blue Clay People

    Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge

    by William D. Powers ...
    "A haunting account of one man's determination and the struggles of a people living in a deeply troubled country."-BooklistWhen William Powers went to Liberia as a fresh-faced aid worker in 1999, he was given the mandate to "fight poverty and save the rainforest." It wasn't long before Powers saw how many obstacles lay in the way, discovering first-hand how Liberia has become a "black hole in the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • New Slow City

    Living Simply in the World's Fastest City

    by William Powers ...
    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 out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff, left their 2,000-square-foot Queens ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Dispatches from the Sweet Life

    One Family, Five Acres, and a Community's Quest to Reinvent the World

    by William Powers ...
    Many fantasize about dramatically changing their lives — living in accordance with their ideals rather than the exigencies of job, bills, and possessions. William Powers actually does it. In his book Twelve by Twelve, Powers lived in an off-grid tiny house in rural North Carolina. In New Slow City, he and his wife, Melissa, inhabited a Manhattan micro-apartment in search of slow in the fastest ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Goldie Vance Book Two

    by Hope Larson, Brittney Williams, Jackie Ball ...
    Illustrated by Noah Hayes, Elle Power ...
    Series Book 2 - Goldie Vance
    Teen detective Goldie Vance is back on the case in this thrilling two-for-one whodunnit adventure for upper–middle grade readers!Where sixteen-year-old Goldie goes, mystery follows.With the Prescription One race in town, Goldie and her biggest rival, Sugar Maple, find themselves in an unlikely alliance to unmask a saboteur before the big event.Then, the St. Pascal Rockin’ the Beach Music Festival ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Overclocked

    More Stories of the Future Present

    by Cory Doctorow ...
    Narrated by various narrators, Lloyd James, Nicola Barber, R. C. Bray, Fiona Hardingham, Jeffrey Kafer, Jim Meskimen, Emily Woo Zeller, William Hughes, Richard Powers ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 13 min

    Now available for the first time with two additional stories!Have you ever wondered what it's like to be bitten by a zombie or live through a bioweapon attack? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology—and its various uses—run amok."Anda's ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Ripple

    An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist and His Daughter

    by William Powers ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner, Bianca Bryan ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 55 min

    Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist and His Daughter is a narrative of letters written by an ecologist dad to his daughter upon her coming-of-age. Drawing upon his personal history, family anecdotes, and shared memories, Powers envisions a path for humanity's reintegration with nature, and a chance to save the life force that runs through all of us. A story of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Black Psychedelic Revolution

    From Trauma to Liberation--How to heal from racial, generational, and systemic trauma through reclaiming Black psychedelic culture

    by Nicholas Powers ...
    How psychedelics can heal historical, intergenerational, and racialized trauma—an Afrofuturistic take on Black psychedelia toward joy and liberationThe mainstream has long viewed psychedelic medicine as the purview of people with privilege: money to burn, time to trip, and the social safety to experiment. Though psychedelics have deep roots in Black and Indigenous cultures, Western psychedelic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Yuwipi

    Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual

    by William K. Powers ...
    A profoundly spiritual book, Yuwipi describes a present-day Oglala Sioux healing ritual that is performed for a wide range of personal crises. The vivid narrative centers on the experience of a hypothetical father and son in need of spiritual and physical assistance.The author combines the Yuwipi ceremony with two ancient Sioux rituals often performed in conjunction with it, the vision quest and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Long Journey Home

    by William Powers ...
    The Long Journey Home takes place in the American mid-west during the late 1880s.Ben Owens, a young man in his late teens had a devastating argument with his father and left home, traveling west to become a cowboy. He writes to his mother who patiently encourages both father and son to reconcile, but pride and stubbornness thwart her wishes. After five years Ben must face his uncertainties when ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Succession of Days

    by William Powers ...
    Half of the story is set in Good Samaritan House, a soup kitchen in Manhattan where Dom Gregory goes on a sabbatical to experience firsthand how the unexpected windfall the monks received might be used--this is a radical departure from his quiet monastic life of the past 20-plus years. After struggling with what to do with the inheritance, the abbot holds a meeting of the monks that fails to find ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus