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The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
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An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crew member in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.
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A mind changing book!
- By Anonymous User on 17-12-2018
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The Overstory
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2018
- Language: English
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Orfeo
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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Seventy-year old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab has come to the attention of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid on his house, Els flees and turns fugitive, waiting for the evidence to clear him and for the alarm surrounding his activities to blow over. But alarm turns to national hysteria.
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Orfeo
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 20-11-2014
- Language: English
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The Time of Our Singing
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 33 hrs and 57 mins
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On 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 music draws them together, and - against all odds and better judgment - they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. But their three children must survive America's brutal here and now.
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Musical
- By Roslyn on 19-07-2020
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The Time of Our Singing
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 33 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 19-11-2018
- Language: English
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Prisoner's Dilemma
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn, Lori Gardner, Morgan Hallett, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
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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 secret project he calls Hobbstown, a place that he promises will save him, the world, and everything that's in it. A dazzling novel of compassion and imagination, Prisoner's Dilemma is a story of the power of invalid experience.
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Prisoner's Dilemma
- Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn, Lori Gardner, Morgan Hallett, Tom Picasso, Richard Poe, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2019
- Language: English
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The Gold Bug Variations
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Rachel Botchan, Andrew Garman
- Length: 32 hrs and 21 mins
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Stuart Ressler, an up-and-coming molecular biologist, finds his career sidetracked by the turmoil of the '60s, and a young couple of the 1980s tries to discover why the biologist abandoned his scientific pursuits.
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The Gold Bug Variations
- Narrated by: Rachel Botchan, Andrew Garman
- Length: 32 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-01-2019
- Language: English
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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: John Skelley
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers' brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold.
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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
- Narrated by: John Skelley
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 20-10-2020
- Language: English
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Plowing the Dark
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett, Michael Braun
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
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In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these people unwittingly build in common, where they are all about to meet, where the dual frames of this inventive novel to coalesce.
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Plowing the Dark
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett, Michael Braun
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-07-2019
- Language: English
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Galatea 2.2
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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After several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers - returns to the US as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, a cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.
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Galatea 2.2
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-04-2019
- Language: English
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Gain
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
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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 she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in 19th-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown.
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Gain
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 27-11-2018
- Language: English
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Operation Wandering Soul
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
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Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amid the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award. Tired and overworked, surgical resident Richard Kraft finds his protective shell shattered when, along with his physiotherapist, he begins to view the children's ward of the hospital. Determined to give hope where there is none, the adults spin a desperate anthology of stories that promise restoration and escape.
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Operation Wandering Soul
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2019
- Language: English
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L'Arbre-Monde
- By: Richard Powers, Serge Chauvin
- Narrated by: Leah Vaidis
- Length: 21 hrs and 42 mins
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Après des années passées seule dans la forêt à étudier les arbres, la botaniste Pat Westerford en revient avec une découverte sur ce qui est peut-être le premier et le dernier mystère du monde : la communication entre les arbres. Autour de Pat s'entrelacent les destins de neuf personnes qui peu à peu vont converger vers la Californie, où un séquoia est menacé de destruction. Au fil d'un récit aux dimensions symphoniques, Richard Powers explore ici le drame écologique et notre égarement dans le monde virtuel. Son écriture généreuse nous rappelle que, hors la nature, notre culture n'est que "ruine de l'âme."
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L'Arbre-Monde
- Narrated by: Leah Vaidis
- Length: 21 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 06-12-2018
- Language: French
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