Tim Powers crea romanzi avvincenti che intrecciano eventi storici reali con elementi soprannaturali, esplorando "storie segrete" in cui forze occulte influenzano profondamente le motivazioni e le azioni di figure storiche. La sua abilità unica di fondere storia e fantasia crea esperienze di lettura immersive e indimenticabili. Lo stile distintivo di Powers è ricco di dettagli e mistero, attirando i lettori negli angoli inesplorati del passato. Le sue acclamate opere offrono una prospettiva unica sulla storia, rivelando le correnti nascoste che plasmano le imprese umane.
Focusing on the intertwining of physical and spiritual fitness, the book offers a comprehensive guide to achieving overall well-being. Coach Tim Powers provides practical advice on workout fundamentals, nutrition, and advanced training techniques. Aimed at both beginners and seasoned athletes, it emphasizes the importance of commitment to lifelong fitness while encouraging readers to align their efforts with obedience to God.
Set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Paris, the story follows Andrew Hale, a young double agent who infiltrates the Soviet spy network. His dangerous mission leads him into a secret war that leaves lasting scars. Two decades later, in 1963, he must confront the haunting remnants of his past, particularly an unresolved operation known as Declare, which threatens to resurface and disrupt his life once more. The narrative explores themes of loyalty, betrayal, and the long shadows cast by espionage.
Trends have become a commodityan element of culture in their own right and the
very currency of our cultural life. Consumer culture relies on a new class of
professionals who explain trends, predict trends, and in profound ways even
manufacture trends.On Trend delves into one of the most powerful forces in
global consumer culture. From forecasting to cool hunting to design thinking,
the work done by trend professionals influences how we live, work, play, shop,
and learn. Devon Powers' provocative insights open up how the business of the
future kindles exciting opportunity even as its practices raise questions
about an economy increasingly built on nonstop disruption and innovation.
Merging industry history with vivid portraits of today's trend visionaries,
Powers reveals how trends took over, what it means for cultural change, and
the price all of us pay to seeand livethe future.
'The Drawing of the Dark is not only one of my favourite Tim Powers novels,
it's simply one of my favourite novels. The seamless and seemingly effortless
blend of action and humour, the wonderful characters, the rich settings, the
brilliant plot - all of it is perfect' James P. Blaylock
Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societies, insane homunculi and magic. When he is kidnapped by gypsies and consequently misses his return trip to 1983, the mild-mannered Doyle is forced to become a street-smart con man, escape artist, and swordsman in order to survive in the dark and treacherous London underworld. He defies bullets, black magic, murderous beggars, freezing waters, imprisonment in mutant-infested dungeons, poisoning, and even a plunge back to 1684. Coleridge himself and poet Lord Byron make appearances in the novel, which also features a poor tinkerer who creates genetic monsters and a werewolf that inhabits others' bodies when his latest becomes too hairy.
"Sebastian Vickery has learned something about UFOs that he shouldn't have-and Naval Intelligence, desperate to silence him, orders his old partner, Agent Ingrid Castine, to trap him. But Castine risks career, liberty, and maybe even life to warn Vickery-and now they're both fugitives, on the run from both the U.S. government and agents of the Russian GRU Directorate, which has its own uses for the UFO intelligence. With the unlikely aid of a renegade Russian agent, a homeless Hispanic boy, and an eccentric old Flat-Earther, Vickery and Castine must find an ancient relic that spells banishment to the alien species, and then summon the things and use it against them-in a Samson-like confrontation that looks likely to kill them as well. Sweeping from the Giant Rock monolith in the Mojave Desert to a cultist temple in the Hollywood Hills, from a monstrous apparition in the Los Angeles River to a harrowing midnight visitation on a boat off Long Beach Harbor, Stolen Skies is an alien-encounter novel like no other"-- Provided by publisher
Set in 19th century London, the story follows Isaac Fairchild, a dimwitted beggar summoned by the sinister Horrabin, a clown who leads a guild of down-and-out individuals. Horrabin is rumored to maim his followers to enhance their begging skills. In a hidden chamber, Fairchild discovers Horrabin's plan to merge his mind with that of the Spoonsize Boys, tiny homunculi used for theft and assassination. While Fairchild longs for intelligence and understanding, he must confront the significant costs of such transformation.
Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as a speaker on the religious circuit and has big plans for the future. But then the provincial head of his dowdy religious order banishes him to a retreat house in the Minnesota hinterlands. Father Urban soon bounces back, carrying God's word with undaunted enthusiasm through the golf courses, fishing lodges, and backyard barbecues of his new turf. Yet even as he triumphs his tribulations mount, and in the end his greatest success proves a setback from which he cannot recover.First published in 1962, Morte D'Urban has been praised by writers as various as Gore Vidal, William Gass, Mary Gordon, and Philip Roth. This beautifully observed, often hilarious tale of a most unlikely Knight of Faith is among the finest achievements of an author whose singular vision assures him a permanent place in American literature.
