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When Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer living on Cape Cod, awakes with a gruesome hangover, a painful tattoo on his upper arm, and a severed female head in his marijuana stash, he has almost no memory of the night before. As he reconstructs the missing hours, Madden runs afoul of retired prizefighters, sex addicts, mediums, former cons, a world-weary ex-girlfriend, and his own father, old now but still a Herculean figure.

As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, author Norman Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs the listener by the throat and refuses to let go.

Published at the height of the McCarthy era, Norman Mailer's audacious novel of socialism is at once an elegy and an indictment, a sinuous moral thriller and an intellectual slugfest. Wounded during World War II, Mike Lovett is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. But when Lovett rents a room in Brooklyn, he finds that his housemates have secrets of their own: one betrays a husband no one ever sees; another may have been a Communist executioner.

Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or. It is a place for starlets and would-be starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this blistering classic of 1950s Hollywood, Desert D'Or is a moral proving ground, where men and women discover what they really want - and how far they are willing to go to get it.

Estate 1944. A Newark imperversa una spaventosa epidemia di polio che minaccia di menomazione e perfino di morte i figli della cittadina del New Jersey. Bucky Cantor, l'animatore ventitreenne di un campo giochi della città, combatte la sua guerra privata contro la malattia nel tentativo di opporsi alla catastrofe. In che modo un individuo può resistere alla forza degli eventi?

Der Polizeipsychologe Cyrus Haven ermittelt in seinem zweiten Fall. Evie Cormacs Leben ist eine Lüge. Seit man sie aus den Fängen eines angeblichen Entführers rettete, verbirgt sie verzweifelt ihre wahre Identität und Geschichte. Denn wer immer die Wahrheit ahnte, musste sterben. Einer ist dennoch entschlossen, ihr zu helfen: Cyrus Haven, Psychologe, polizeilicher Berater und Evies engster Freund. Als er bei Ermittlungen zum Mord an einem Detective auf Hinweise zu ihrer Vergangenheit stößt, will er endlich Licht ins Dunkel bringen.

Die erfolgreiche Krimireihe geht weiter: Der Polizeipsychologe Cyrus Haven ermittelt in seinem zweiten Fall. Evie Cormacs Leben ist eine Lüge. Seit man sie aus den Fängen eines angeblichen Entführers rettete, verbirgt sie verzweifelt ihre wahre Identität und Geschichte. Denn wer immer die Wahrheit ahnte, musste sterben. Einer ist dennoch entschlossen, ihr zu helfen: Cyrus Haven, Psychologe, polizeilicher Berater und Evies engster Freund. Als er bei Ermittlungen zum Mord an einem Detective auf Hinweise zu ihrer Vergangenheit stößt, will er endlich Licht ins Dunkel bringen.

Tobias Butler has been sitting on death row since being sentenced for a gruesome murder in 2007. Bored out of his mind, he decides to apply to the online pen pal program in 2012. It's a pleasant distraction - nothing more, nothing less - for three years, until he's contacted by a beautiful, smart young lawyer named Jess. She's convinced he's innocent and wants to see him freed. As they organize their attack on the judicial system, he wonders how she plans to get his conviction overturned - because he's guilty, and he knows it.

Meet Mattie Rigsby, 78, who keeps a clean house and bakes the best pound cake in Listre, North Carolina. Her children grown, she lives a comfortable and independent life. Her orderly days are about to be disrupted, however, by a stray. Unkempt and unloved, teenaged and delinquent, Wesley Benfield just might need a piece of her apple pie and a verse or two of "Walking Across Egypt", her favorite hymn.

Young beautiful women are disappearing. Different types, with different backgrounds, most with a lot of debt, few friends, and no close family to speak of. Gone. Someone is collecting trophies. Only one person can see it. Special Agent Emma Kane. Kane knows she'll need help on this ordeal. But the only man who can help her, famed profiler Jacob Thorne, is no longer speaking to her. The clock is ticking and Kane herself is now a target of whoever is doing this.