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  • Understanding The Language Of AI

    Speaking AI, #1

    by Michael J. Power ...
    Series Book 1 - Speaking AI
    Learn the Language That Makes AI UsefulArtificial intelligence can do remarkable things—but only if you can communicate what you actually want.Speaking AI is a practical series designed to teach ordinary people how to communicate effectively with artificial intelligence. No programming. No computer science background. No unnecessary technical language.Whether you're completely new to AI or already ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Amina: Through My Eyes

    by J.L. Powers, Lyn White ...
    Series Book 2 - THROUGH MY EYES
    A moving story of one child's life in a conflict zone, in Mogadishu, Somalia.Amina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Her family's house has been damaged in Somalia's long civil war, but they continue to live there, reluctant to leave their home. Amina's world is shattered when government forces come to arrest her father because his art has been officially censored, deemed too political. Then rebel ... Read more

    $9.29 CAD

  • Audiobook

    This Thing Called the Future

    by J.L. Powers ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 56 min

    Fourteen-year-old Khosi yearns for this thing called the future-- something better than sickness and superstition in a shanty town. Does she want too much? A stunning YA coming-of-age story set in post-apartheid South Africa.Khosi lives with her beloved grandmother, her little sister, and her weekend mother in a matchbox house on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. In this shantytown, ... Read more

    $21.97 CAD

    PRE-ORDER

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Wanjiku, Child of Mine

    by J.L. Powers, Ciiku Ndungu-Case ...
    Illustrated by Karen Vermeulen ...
    A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionA CBC Spring 2024 Showcase SelectionLibrarian Favorites: Third to Fifth GradeNo matter where she goes, or how big she grows, Wanjikũ knows her name.In the lush Kenyan countryside, a young Gikũyũ girl helps her grandmother with daily tasks. Here, as she tends to the cows, carries water, and plays in the fruit trees and sugarcane, she is called W... ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Morte d'Urban

    by J.F. Powers ...
    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 ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • How to Stop Mental Looping

    Mental Overload, Burnout, and Emotional Survival, #3

    by Michael J. Power ...
    Series Book 3 - Mental Overload, Burnout, and Emotional Survival
    If your mind gets stuck on repeat, this book will finally break the cycle.How to Stop Mental Looping is a direct, practical guide for anyone who replays conversations, overanalyzes decisions, imagines worst‑case scenarios, or gets trapped in thought spirals that won't let go. Instead of offering clichés or surface‑level advice, this book exposes the exact mechanics of looping — and gives you the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Thing Called the Future

    by J.L. Powers ...
    Fourteen-year-old Khosi yearns for this thing called the future-- something better than sickness and superstition in a shanty town. Does she want too much? A stunning YA coming-of-age story set in post-apartheid South Africa.Khosi lives with her beloved grandmother, her little sister, and her weekend mother in a matchbox house on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. In this shantytown, ... Read more

    $26.04 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Broken Circle

    by J. L. Powers, M. A. Powers ...
    For young Adam Jones, inheriting the family business is more than a rotten hand. It's downright skeletal."The Powerses' worldbuilding and writing will keep [readers] hooked. They will find themselves questioning what is fact and what is fiction and cheering Adam on as he journeys in this new, strange world. A gripping, philosophical paranormal thriller." — Kirkus ReviewsAdam wants nothing more ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Energy Independence: Controlling Alberta's Most Valuable Asset

    The Alberta Independence Series: Control, Properity, and Self-Determination, #3

    by Michael J. Power ...
    Series Book 3 - The Alberta Independence Series: Control, Properity, and Self-Determination
    Alberta is ready for a new future—one defined by national control, strategic planning, and the freedom to build without interference. This book lays out a clear, disciplined vision of what Alberta becomes when it stands as a fully sovereign nation.For decades, Alberta's economic potential was restricted by decisions made outside its borders. Major projects were delayed or cancelled. Infrastructure ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bloody Path to Valkyrie

    How Duty, Faith, and Honor Inspired the German Resistance 1933 - 1946

    by Bryan J. Powers ...
    Many great writers and historians have written about the failed Valkyrie plot and the Germans who led the operation. Historians and authors Peter Hoffman, Michael Baigent, Richard Dargie, and Nigel Jones have all written extensively on the events of Valkyrie and the failed 1944 plot, focusing much of their efforts on the iron will of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. The general theme following ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Masters Reimagined: A Speculative Fiction Anthology

    The Masters Reimagined, #1

    by Jade Kerrion, E.J. Wenstrom, Veronica Helen Hart, Kristin Durfee, John Hope, Elle Andrews Patt, Scott Michael Powers, T.L. Woolsley, Ken Pelham, Charles A. Cornell ...
    Series Book 1 - The Masters Reimagined
    From characters that disappear to odd occurrences to open endings, the masters who penned today's literary classics left a lot of room for speculation. Have you ever wondered what inspired Kipling to pen The Jungle Book? Who else Macbeth's witches influenced? Why Mr. Rochester's first wife went mad in Jane Eyre? How the events of Treasure Island would unfold if the pirates flew spaceships instead? ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • MRI Physics

    Tech to Tech Explanations

    by Stephen J. Powers ...
    MRI PHYSICSMRI PHYSICSTECH TO TECH EXPLANATIONSTechnologists must have a solid understanding of the physics behind Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including safety, the hows and whys of the quantum physics of the MR phenomenon, and how to competently operate MRI scanners. Generating the highest quality images of the human body involves thorough knowledge of scanner hardware, pulse sequences, ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD