Powers, Richard

"A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest"--OCLC.

"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. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin's emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother's brain"--Provided by publisher.

"A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest"--OCLC.

Music composer Peter Els also dabbles in microbiology, using science to try to find patterns in microscopic life which he might be able to turn into music. Homeland Security learns about Els' microbiology lab and worries about its potential to be used for terrorism. They show up at his house. Terrified himself, Els goes fugitive, and with help of the closest people in his life he weaves a pattern on the run that may just turn into a work of art itself.

"Composer Peter Els, the "Bioterrorist Bach", pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey and, through the help of his ex-wife, his daughter, and his longtime collaborator, he hatches a plan to turn his disastrous collision with Homeland Security into a work of art that will reawaken its audience to the sounds all around them."--Provided by OCLC.

A brilliant novel that plumbs the arcane worlds of manufacturing and product development, human ingenuity and survival, GAIN is at once a celebration of the American experiment and an exploration of the cost of unbridled growth.

On Easter Day, 1939, David Strom, a German Jewish emigre scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia negro studying to be a concert singer, and their mutual love of music draws them together and against everyone's advice, they marry, not realizing the violence and prejudice they and their children will be forced to endure.

Karin Schulter reluctantly returns to her hometown to nurse her brother, Mark, back to health after he suffers a traumatic head injury in a car accident on a remote Nebraska road, but her task is made more difficult when he wakes from his coma only to claim that she is an imposter, and she turns to renowned neurologist Gerald Weber for help.